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Public School Literature, Civic Education and the Politics of Male Adolescence
Shelley King finds that some things stay the same in an analysis of schooldays then and now
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A Pinnacle of Feeling: American Literature and Presidential Government
Television drama generates the best US presidents. Jed Bartlett (The West Wing) and David Palmer (24) offered a morally righteous alternative to Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. A Pinnacle of Feeling...
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Top 10 Academic Bestsellers: Blackwell, London WC2
1. Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness by Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein Penguin, £9.99 ISBN 97801410400112. The Logic of Life: Uncovering the New Economics of...
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Book of the week: Wars, Guns and Votes
Joanna Lewis gets to grip with the workings of African democracies
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The week in books
Sisters of Sinai: How Two Lady Adventurers Found the Hidden Gospels by Janet Soskice, university reader in philosophical theology and fellow, Jesus College, Cambridge. Chatto and Windus, £18.99, ISBN...
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Star Trek
A work of science-fiction trivia transports Gary Day to a place lacking in intellectual atmosphere
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Bringing Down the House: The Crisis in Britain's Regional Theatres
This is a book about the history of the Arts Council and an assessment of regional theatre in Britain. Its subject is that much-visited battleground where funding bodies and artists meet to nervously...
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Islam and Peacemaking in the Middle East
Samuel Huntington's thesis of a "clash of civilisations", formulated as the Cold War ended, has proved to be one of the most influential ideas in international-relations theory. Among political...
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Published this week
ART AND DESIGN- Louis H. Sullivan and a 19th-Century Poetics of Naturalized ArchitectureBy Lauren S. Weingarden, associate professor of art history, Florida State University. Ashgate, £65.00. ISBN...
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Peace process
Sociology is shifting from studies of class to forgiveness, and John Brewer, the next president of the BSA, is in the vanguard
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Appointments
Petra Wend is to become the next principal of Queen Margaret University when Anthony Cohen retires at the end of the academic year. Currently deputy vice-chancellor (academic) and deputy chief...
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University of Leeds - Leading by example
The vice-chancellor of the University of Leeds and his senior management team have pledged not to accept a pay rise this year. In his "Leader column" on the university's website, Michael Arthur...
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Leeds Metropolitan University - Settlement in race claim
Leeds Metropolitan University has settled a race discrimination claim with John Samuel, a lecturer and business development manager at Leeds Met Africa, the university's network for supporting...
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University of Cambridge - Brought to book
Cambridge University Press (CUP) is planning to cut more than 150 jobs. The union Unite is protesting the move, describing CUP's decision to cut the jobs in its printing division and publishing...