13 March 2008
Never had it so good? - A survey of academic pay
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I am often asked to act as referee for colleagues wishing to move on or for students. Does this put me at risk of legal action?
The provision of references for students and employees (both past and present) is common practice in the higher education sector.
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STFC puts Merlin radio-telescope network on cuts list
The Science and Technology Facilities Council has released a draft list of research projects and facilities that its science committees are resigned to seeing cut.As part of the latest efforts by the...
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THE WINNERS 2008
Choosing the 18 winners from the shortlisted entries has been extremely difficult and they can rightly be proud of their success: each represents excellence in their field and we congratulate them...
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First Impressions competition: March 06 2008
This week’s competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a roman à clef:"It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn...
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In thrall and on call
We’re enslaved by Crazy Frog capitalism – and the mobile phone is the symbol of our bondage, argues Tara Brabazon
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Queen of the Wits: A Life of Laetitia Pilkington
Helen Wilcox is transfixed by the rolling and rollicking life of a saucy Grub Street manipulator
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The Cult Film Reader
In the academic study of popular culture the margins have a tendency quickly to become the mainstream, and nowhere more so than in the analysis of cinema. As Ernest Mathijs and Xavier Mendik's The...
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Shakespeare's Double Helix
No doubt many scientists would regard references to Shakespeare in a lab report with a mixture of amusement and scepticism," avers Henry S. Turner, precisely (if unfortunately) anticipating his own...
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Top 10 Academic Bestsellers: Blackwell, Manchester
1. Advanced Macroeconomics by David RomerMcGraw-Hill, £43.99. ISBN 97800728773042. Q&A European Union Law 2007/08 by Mike CuthbertTaylor & Francis, £13.99. ISBN 97818594196563. International...
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The Wonderful and Surprising History of Sweeney Todd: The Life and Times of an Urban Legend
Kamilla Elliott devours many slices of a pie that has fascinated collectors and academics alike
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When Prayer Fails: Faith Healing, Children and the Law
This book will do much to confirm the beliefs of those of a convinced antireligious persuasion. Every chapter is full of gruesome stories of children dying, often in great pain, as a result of...
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The Red Queen Among Organizations: How Competitiveness Evolves
It takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place," says the Red Queen in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass, a fitting metaphor for this book about organisational competition,...
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Published this week
J = Review forthcomingART AND DESIGN- Holy MotherhoodBy Elizabeth L'Estrange, post-doctoral researcher in history of art, University of LiegeManchester University Press, £60.00. ISBN...
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The Book of the Week: The Craftsman
Keith Tester goes in search of a 'more humane material life'