Cleaning up the act
Academic fraud in Britain is endemic, but universities continue to argue the case for self-regulation. America and Denmark have tougher regimes in place, so should we follow their lead? asks Tariq...
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Redrawing the big picture
Twenty years ago, Paul Kennedy provoked intense debate with his claims about the decline of US power. Huw Richards meets a man still unafraid of tackling the grand strategies of empire and war
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28 August 2008
Unmasking academic fraud - Self-regulation is not working for UK universities. Do we need tougher measures?
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Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality
Lynne Segal on a study of sex behind bars that exposes enduring fault-lines in modern thinking
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Red Land, Red Power: Grounding Knowledge in the American Indian Novel
Most North Americans are aware of the cowboy-Indian images promoted by Hollywood movies. Few are aware of their 19th-century connection to racist dime-store novels popular in the heyday of westward...
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Top 10 Academic Bestsellers: Blackwell, Glamorgan
1. Time, Policy, Management: Governing with the Past by Christopher Pollitt Oxford University Press, £25.00 ISBN 97801992377222. The Oxford Handbook of Inter-Organizational Relations edited by Steve...
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Creating Prehistory: Druids, Ley Hunters and Archaeologists in Pre-War Britain
Archaeologists must remain sceptical of theories not backed by data, says Margarita Diaz-Andreu
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Cosmic Imagery: Key Images in the History of Science
John Barrow, a cosmologist at the University of Cambridge and author of many highly acclaimed books, has given us a richly illustrated volume. It is a celebration of the central role visual images...
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Europe: The State of the Union
From time to time, my students ask me whether I am for or against the European Union. In future, I may just point them in the direction of Anand Menon's new book.Menon's mission is to persuade us to...
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Book of the Week: Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software
John Gilbey relives the heady days of IT upheaval
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The week in books
The Last Amateurs: To Hell and Back with the Cambridge Boat Race Crew by Mark de Rond, reader in strategy and organisation, University of Cambridge. Icon Books, £17.99, ISBN 9781848310155"There is a...
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Published this week
(J) = Review forthcomingARCHITECTURE- (J) The Skyscraper and the City: The Woolworth Building and the Making of Modern New YorkBy Gail Fenske. University of Chicago Press, £34.00. ISBN...
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First Impressions competition: 21 August 2008
This week’s competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novel addressing post-civil-war American Black identity:"Psychics can see the color of time it's...
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Personal Development Office
Hello Everybody, Jennifer Doubleday here!I'm saying who I am because my tutor on this residential Personal Development Weekend says that knowing who you are is the first step on the path to self-...
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Offers we can't refuse
Sally Feldman on the deals, desperation and bottom-line realities of clearing