Today's lesson: ordinary life
France's elite Sciences Po is launching a scheme to ensure that all its students have at least a brief experience of how less priviliged citizens live. Huw Richards reports. When Remi Drouin returned...
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It's more than a stand-up routine
The notion that teaching is little more than the skill to perform in a lecture theatre ignores the essence of the academic role: personal tutoring, Bruce Macfarlane argues. A few years ago I asked a...
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The latest engineering textbooks
Engineering Statistics Engineering Statistics Authors: Douglas C. Montgomery, George C. Runger and Norma Faris Hubele Edition: Fourth Publisher: Wiley Price: £34.95 ISBN 9780471735571 The Arizona...
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Laurie Taylor, Ruling the air waves
Life on Air
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It takes more than hugs to steer a righteous course through the new world order
Progressive Foreign Policy
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An apologist for madness, yet revered
Zhou Enlai
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Female voices that long went unheard
Medieval Women's Writing
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The jocks rule but honour is absent
Confessions of a Spoilsport
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The human condition in its many odd disguises
State of the Nation
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a classic, elegantly written work about a personal journey that explores the ethics, theology and...
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A soupcon of toxins
Death in the Pot
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A scientific amuse-gueule
Kitchen Mysteries
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The beauty of keeping hot and cold in the balance
Four Laws that Drive the Universe
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Bowling to the far left of the boundary
C. L. R. James
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Libraries dump 2m volumes
A rush to liberate space for e-learning suites is blamed for disposal of printed material. Rebecca Attwood reports. Universities dispose of more than 1.8 million books and journals a year, according...