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Harvard president Drew Gilpin Faust hymns the restless quest for wisdom that defines higher education's highest goals
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Fantastic voyager
Sir Terry Pratchett is one of the world's most successful authors. He talks to John Gilbey about auto-didacticism, the tyranny of higher education and whether writers are born, not made
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Book of the Week: Science vs. Religion: What Scientists Really Think
A godless Universe? Not among the US' elite natural philosophers, as Andrew Briggs discovers
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Higher Education and the American Dream: Success and its Discontents
In abandoning their students and missions, US universities lost public trust, Jon Nixon discovers
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Multiculturalism: Some Inconvenient Truths
Has Britain succeeded in integrating its African and Asian immigrants (Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims) into the larger society? Have its policies of integration resulted in a just and egalitarian society...
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The Canon: The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller by Carlo Ginzburg
The year 1976 was a big one for me. I was living in Rome, finishing research on my first major book and commencing its writing. I was committing myself to a lifetime devotion to Italy, a strange...
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Dan the don in real life
Behavioural economist Dan Ariely draws on his own life experiences to show just how personal social science can be, as Matthew Reisz discovers
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What's Luck Got to Do with It? The History, Mathematics, and Psychology of the Gambler's Illusion
What makes Exchequers, poker players and other punters go for broke? Chris Howls gets a tip sheet
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The Kurdish Conflict: International Humanitarian Law and Post-Conflict Mechanisms
The world's 40 million or so Kurds are routinely referred to as "the largest group of stateless people in the world". Their homeland straddles one of the most explosive geopolitical regions - the...
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Popular Ghosts: The Haunted Spaces of Everyday Culture
Ever considered the link between Lenin and cyborgs? Or the "haunting tourism" associated with prisons as haunted houses? Then this is a book for you. With its premise that the ghost is part of our "...
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Bullfighting: A Troubled History
Felipe Fernández-Armesto laments an 'ignorant' attack on a threatened but precious fighting tradition
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Spinoza and the Specters of Modernity: The Hidden Enlightenment of Diversity from Spinoza to Freud
Spinoza's metaphysical and political thought has always fascinated his readers. His Ethics has been interpreted in countless different ways and, since his death in 1677, Spinozism has been associated...
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Global Journalism Ethics
A lifetime's exposure to human suffering in locations as diverse as Finland and Vietnam persuaded Martha Gelhorn that journalism could not make the world good. The reporter's job, she concluded, was...
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BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT STUDIES- The Future of Decision Making: How Revolutionary Software Can Improve the Ability to DecideBy Roger C. Schank, executive director and founder, Engines for Education...
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Drones? No - students are the bee's knees
It is both inaccurate and uncharitable to suggest that today's undergraduates are "deferring responsibility and delaying maturity" ("No creative buzz from the drones", 2 September).The Council of...