It’s time for academic access all areas
Stop decrying the signal-to-noise ratio in online scholarly resources, says Tara Brabazon, and give open-source web journals your full support
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The great ‘dumbing down’ debate
If you are a UK academic, please give us your views on whether standards really are slipping...
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Filtering tips
Applications from would-be students are increasingly less likely to be seen by an academic as universities turn to new ways to sieve the burgeoning number of applications, writes Rebecca Attwood,...
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Did Daddy do it?
Stiff competition for places in the US has led potential students to enlist the help of parents and consultants to give their application an edge. Jon Marcus looks at how institutions are trying to...
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Grappling with the digital divide
Students are increasingly 'transliterate', communicating across a range of technologies. Can academics keep up? Hannah Fearn asks
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The personality behind power
Tom Palaima admires a new take on Caesar - the man, the general and the daring politician
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The Sistine Secrets - Unlocking the Codes in Michelangelo's Defiant Masterpiece
Profusely illustrated with monochrome photographs on virtually every page, and with 25 colour plates, this is a work of ingenious, provocative scholarship based on hitherto unused sources: Talmudic...
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Cézanne's Bathers: Biography and the Erotics of Paint
D'Souza's fascinating study of what Cézanne did to the female nude on the cusp of the modernist century is a book about reading readings. It is a rigorous attempt to pierce, by critical reading, what...
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Pure gold from the mad men
Isabelle Szmigin enjoys a romp through famous advertising slogans from the 1960s to the 1990s
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Always On: Language in an Online and Mobile World
The social impact of new media and technology is often the focus of controversy and debate. So what is the consequence of the internet and the mobile telephone on our way of life? Some suggest that...
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The Prisoners' Dilemma: Political Economy and Punishment in Contemporary Democracies
Many critical observers would agree that democracies are experiencing the growth of a "culture of control", that they are creating "exclusive societies" and that they are multiplying attempts to "...
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Top 10 Academic Bestsellers: Blackwell, York
1. Prosperity and Violence: The Political Economy of Development by Robert H. Bates. W.W. Norton, £15.99. ISBN 97803939740102. Politics in the Developing World, Second Edition edited by Peter Burnell...
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Sharing the World
Reading a really bad translation is a kind of guessing game. At every problematic word or phrase, the reader is obliged to make an intelligent guess at what this might have been in the language of...
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Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction
Niall Ferguson, in his book and Channel 4 series The War of the World (2006), argues that the turbulent history of the 20th century may be largely interpreted as the fallout of various countries'...
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ART HISTORY- Art and Communication in the Reign of Henry VIIIBy Tatiana C. String, lecturer in the history of art, University of Bristol. Ashgate, £50.00. ISBN 9780754663058Through in-depth analysis...