Handle with care
League tables occupy the minds of vice-chancellors, politicians, academics and students, but Ellen Hazelkorn advises them not to draw hasty conclusions
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The UK plc roadshow
Shadowing the speed-dating expats who recruit for British universities, Caroline Knowles finds that their hypermobile lives parallel those of the students they pursue
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Book of the week: When a Billion Chinese Jump: How China will Save Mankind - or Destroy it
Kerry Brown on a sobering snapshot of a ravenous giant whose new prosperity could bring global tragedy
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The Secret World of Doing Nothing
Fred Inglis searches for insights but ends up bored by personal accounts of the absence of activity
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Dreamers of a New Day: Women Who Invented the Twentieth Century
Dreamers of a New Day: Women Who Invented the Twentieth Century. By Sheila Rowbotham. Verso, 312pp, £17.99. ISBN 9781844676132. Published 3 May 2010For 30 years, Sheila Rowbotham has been at the...
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The Canon: A Biographical Dictionary of Film by David Thomson
When A Biographical Dictionary of Film was first published in 1975, critical reaction ranged from delight to outrage, often within the same review. Describing it in Sight and Sound as "the sort of...
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Games of Empire: Global Capitalism and Video Games
Steve Redhead on an uneasy mix of gaming-culture study and European academic discourse
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British Cinema and Middlebrow Culture in the Interwar Years
"The People in between/Looked underdone and harassed/And out of place and mean,/And horribly embarrassed." Lawrence Napper doesn't actually quote Hilaire Belloc's poem The Garden Party. But he well...
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Justice in Blue and Gray: A Legal History of the Civil War
It is said that you can't judge a book by its cover, and for many who pick up Stephen Neff's Justice in Blue and Gray, that axiom will be challenged. With its blue-gray metallic background and its...
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Shakespeare and Wales: From the Marches to the Assembly
Stewart Mottram delights in Shakespearean scholarship that finally gives Wales its due
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The Songs of Blind Folk: African American Musicians and the Cultures of Blindness
From the title on - with its echo of W.E.B. Du Bois' founding text of African-American consciousness, The Souls of Black Folk - this book explores the relation between race, disability and popular...
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Sustainability at Universities - Opportunities, Challenges and Trends
Sustainability at universities generally falls into three categories. First, there is research on sustainability. In Britain, a reservoir of funding is ready to be tapped by directing research...
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Obliquity: Why Our Goals Are Best Achieved Indirectly
The flaws are the most interesting part of an economist's valuable thesis, says Omar Malik
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Great Books, Bad Arguments: Republic, Leviathan, and The Communist Manifesto
Garry Runciman prefaces his book with an apology for the title, which he says may make it appear "unserious". The title is certainly provocative, and the book slim, so in compensation he packs it...
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Atomic Obsession: Nuclear Alarmism from Hiroshima to Al-Qaeda
The recent news that presidents Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev signed a new US-Russia nuclear arms treaty produced widespread sighs of relief. But wait - read John Mueller's book before breaking...