Those Who Work, Those Who Don't: Poverty, Morality, and Family in Rural America
At last a work that unpacks the reality of US rural poverty, writes Rebekah Peeples Massengill
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Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human
It's not often that you find fashionable chefs such as Moro's Samuel Clark or Nigella Lawson endorsing the latest book on human evolution, but then this is an unusual and compelling read. Richard...
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? = Review forthcomingBUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT- International Differences in the Business Practices and Productivity of FirmsEdited by Richard Freeman, Herbert Ascherman chair in economics, Harvard...
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Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression
A broadbrush approach to 1930s US culture sweeps too far and wide, says Susan Currell
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Regulating Sex For Sale: Prostitution Policy Reform in the UK
It is timely that Jo Phoenix's edited collection, Regulating Sex For Sale: Prostitution Policy Reform in the UK, should have made its way into print just after the Policing and Crime Act 2009 became...
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The Delight of Art: Giorgio Vasari and the Traditions of Humanist Discourse
This is a book about the delight of art and the art of delight. It traffics in "imaginancies", to use the term David Cast borrows from Inigo Jones after Baldassare Castiglione (appropriation being an...
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Private income does not equal tyranny 1
It is certainly true that there is a "Global revolution" in private provision (26 November), notably in Central and Eastern Europe. As someone who has planned, managed and is now chairing the...
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Private income does not equal tyranny 2
A critical component of UK government policy towards private providers of higher education must be to ensure that boards of directors (and the shareholders who appoint them) have no say in academic...
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Evidence, not assertion 1
If Sally Hunt's article "The worst of all worlds" (3 December) and the University and College Union petition were my only sources of information about the research excellence framework, I'd want to...
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Evidence, not assertion 2
In the powerful revival of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at the Novello Theatre, one word between Brick and Big Daddy signals the turning point in the drama: "mendacity".Throughout the 3 December issue of...
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Evidence, not assertion 3
Dave Delpy "reminds us that research is ultimately about offering solutions to society's challenges" ("They're not unreasonable", 26 November). Odd, that; I've spent my research career thinking I was...
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Level doctoral field
Aldwyn Cooper intones the familiar - and boring - jeremiad that to suppose that "a first-class degree from one (institution) has the same value as from another ... is absurd" ("It's time to set fees...
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This is no corporate model
Some of the views expressed by commentators in your article on the University of Oxford/National Council for Graduate Entrepreneurship's Entrepreneurial University Leadership Programme constitute a...
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Support your support staff?
As a significant part of their workforce, universities employ two groups of people: administrators, who have a single-tier workload - administration; and academics, who have a workload consisting of...
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Facts, not fiction
I hardly think that John Nash was "immortalised in the Hollywood film A Beautiful Mind" ("Beautiful minds converge to inspire Nobel prizewinners of the future", 12 November). Rather, I think it is...