About Faces: Physiognomy in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Alan Collins on a Victorian pseudo-science that addressed fears of the anonymous urban 'other'
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A World by Itself: A History of the British Isles
In his 1942 essay "The Rediscovery of Europe", George Orwell gave a tongue-in-cheek assessment of historical periodisation in schoolboy history: "Think of history as a sort of long scroll with thick...
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The Canon: Ways of Seeing. By John Berger
In the early 1970s, John Berger almost single-handedly changed the face of art history with this work and the four-part BBC TV series that accompanied it. The book continues to be influential, and...
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Shoestring theories
Is intelligent life on our pale blue dot a one-off freak of nature, or is the cosmos teeming with it? Theoretical physicist Paul Davies' cosmic search aims to find out - and it won't cost the earth....
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Nine Wartime Lives: Mass-Observation and the Making of the Modern Self
Hester Vaizey is fascinated by the revelations of diaries from a wartime Mass-Observation project
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Animalkind: What We Owe to Animals
Philosopher Jean Kazez takes as this book's starting point the difficult, highly relevant, and often avoided question: "How should we treat animals?" She approaches the question from different angles...
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Overlooking the Visual: Demystifying the Art of Design
Landscape architect and educator Kathryn Moore identifies a malaise in thinking about the design process, which she attributes to the traditional rationalist world view that sees designing as part of...
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BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT STUDY- Management Theory in ActionBy Eric H. Kessler, senior professor of management, Pace University. Palgrave Macmillan, £58.50. ISBN 9780230607583Drawing on the accounts of...
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Our world-leading creativity is at risk
In your report on the Budget, "Chancellor's pre-hustings STEM largesse steals the Conservatives' thunder" (1 April), you refer to criticism of the government's decision to restrict additional...
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Buster and the bunker 1
"One step beyond the pale" (Leader, 8 April) overlooks the fact that the relationship between universities, the state and what we now call "business" has always been complex.Characterising the...
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Buster and the bunker 2
I hope that the Higher Education Funding Council for England will take up the challenge posed by "One step beyond the pale" and find out what terms such as "business awareness" and "right skills"...
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Buster and the bunker 3
Your editorial attributes the opening words of Madness' 1979 hit One Step Beyond to Prince Buster. In one sense this is true, but it's worth pointing out that the phrase "Don't watch that, watch this...
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Buster and the bunker 4
At last, an editorial from Times Higher Education that dares to tell the world what the rest of us have been thinking about recent government policy. It even uses the word "nonsense"! Well done. That...
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Contagious insights 1
I thoroughly enjoyed reading Stephen Mumford's "Dispositions to lawlessness" (8 April), the latest addition to THE's "My Eureka Moment" series. Not only does it provide an excellent example of...
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Contagious insights 2
Can metaphysics succeed where physics has failed? Stephen Mumford is likely to have a hard time explaining by means of metaphysics how scientifically observed "regularities are produced".Isaac Newton...