Off Piste - Lesser Spotted - Well, that's just the professors
Physicist Athene Donald's pleasure in people-watching may owe something to a childhood spent observing birds of all kinds as they soared over city heaths and icy coastal mudflats
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The week in higher education
• Two teenagers ruffled feathers at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills by bringing a legal challenge against this year's tuition-fee hike. Lawyers for Callum Hurley, from Peterborough...
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Time is the essence
Malcolm Gillies argues that to succeed, universities must be of the moment
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23 February 2012
Top-up credits - Open courseware and the challenge to traditional campus education
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Textbook guide - 23 February 2012
Subjects covered: Biosciences, Geography & environmental science, History, Literature, Medicine, Politics & international relationsSee the 23 February 2012 textbook guide
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A Global History of History
Author: Daniel WoolfEdition: FirstPublisher: Cambridge University PressPages: 596Price: £60.00 and £22.99ISBN: 9780521875752 and 699082The past decade has seen global history become part of the...
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History round-up
The Second World WarAuthor: A.W. PurdueEdition: SecondPublisher: Palgrave MacmillanPages: 240Price: £60.00 and £19.99ISBN: 97802309353 and 9360One of the most concise yet comprehensive accounts of...
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Student Review: A History of Modern Germany: 1800 to the Present
Author: Martin KitchenEdition: SecondPublisher: John Wiley & SonsPages: 440Price: £22.99 and £14.99ISBN: 9780470655818 and 9781444396898 (e-book)A History of Modern Germany: 1800 to the...
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Sexuality in Europe: A Twentieth-Century History
Author: Dagmar HerzogEdition: First Publisher Cambridge University PressPages: 238Price: £50.00 and £16.99ISBN: 9780521870962 and 1691437What is the purpose of sex? Is it an outlet for lust, simply a...
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Study Skills for Geography, Earth and Environmental Science Students
Author: Pauline KnealeEdition: ThirdPublisher: Hodder EducationPages: 320Price: £15.99ISBN: 9781444120967The third edition of this book (first published in 1999) has been extended from its original...
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Geography & Environmental Science round-up
Introduction to Restoration EcologyAuthors: Evelyn A. Howell, John A. Harrington and Stephen B. GlassEdition: FirstPublisher: Island PressPages: 568Price: £57.00ISBN: 9781597261890Written for upper-...
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Student Review: Roots and Research in Urban School Gardens
Author: Veronica GaylieEdition: FirstPublisher: Peter LangPages: 195Price: £75.40 and £19.70ISBN: 9781433115264 and 5257Like the gardens it explores, this textbook delivers. The aim is to examine the...
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Mechanisms of Life History Evolution: The Genetics and Physiology of Life History Traits and Trade-Offs
Editors: Thomas Flatt and Andreas HeylandEdition: FirstPublisher: Oxford University PressPages: 504Price: £80.00 and £45.00ISBN: 9780199568765 and 8772I was a PhD student when Mosaic - the first...
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Biosciences round-up
Introduction to General, Organic, and BiochemistryAuthors: Morris Hein, Scott Pattison and Susan ArenaEdition: TenthPublisher: John Wiley & SonsPages: 1,120Price: £151.00ISBN:...
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Student Review: Marine Ecology: Processes, Systems, and Impacts
Authors: Michel J. Kaiser et al.Edition: SecondPublisher: Oxford University PressPages: 528Price: £32.99ISBN: 97801992020At some point in their studies, most biology students will consider pursuing...