No confidence in Leeds v-c as UCU members ballot for strike
Union claims proposed 10 per cent cut in academic staff would push Leeds to bottom of staff-student ratio table. John Morgan reports
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Telling Tales
History: fact or fiction? Ronald Hutton's early experience of discerning reality from fantasy has coloured his view of the subject since
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Learning to share
Free, immediate and permanently available research results for all - that's what the open-access campaigners want. Unsurprisingly, the subscription publishers disagree. Zoë Corbyn weighs up the...
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'Giving it away' a textbook argument
Matthew Reisz assesses what open access means for book authors
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The Emperor's New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth
A clear account of theories and possibilities but conclusions not so satisfactory, writes David Smail
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Newspeak in the 21st Century
Newspeak in the 21st Century is the latest publication from Media Lens, a campaign group that undertakes press monitoring from an anti-war, anti-corporate perspective. Tackling left-liberal UK...
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The Canon: The Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World
The Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World By Barrington Moore Jr.Britain, the US and France became rich and free, while Germany, Russia and...
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An inveterate activist
Although his days in the front line of humanitarian aid are past for James Orbinski, his passion for justice and human rights is undiminished, as Matthew Reisz discovers
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THE Book of the Week - Rich Democracies, Poor People: How Politics Explain Poverty
Fiona Taylor gives full marks to an expose of beggary amid plenty
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'Non-Lethal' Weapons
The development of military hardware that does not kill is proving elusive, as Russell Brown discovers
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Martyrs and Murderers: The Guise Family and the Making of Europe
This book began badly for me, with one of those imaginative reconstructions that some people enjoy; in this case of Francois de Lorraine, second Duke de Guise, setting out from his principal...
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The Dawn of Green: Manchester, Thirlmere, and Modern Environmentalism
Prior to picking up The Dawn of Green, I had been re-reading Edward Abbey's novel The Monkey Wrench Gang. First published in 1975, it concerns the activities of four misfits with a shared love of...
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The Provocative Joan Robinson: The Making of a Cambridge Economist
Housewife to acclaimed economist within a decade - not bad going, says Natalie Gold
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Martha Hill and the Making of American Dance
The "making of American dance" bit of the title likely brings to mind a certain Martha, and indeed the legendary Graham figures significantly in Janet Mansfield Soares' biography. Its subject,...
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Sexy Orchids Make Lousy Lovers and Other Unusual Relationships
"Gross," starts the preface to this curious collection on the strangeness of nature. Beetles that commit siblicide, toxic frogs, kleptoparasitism in birds, hallucinogenic plants, poisonous dragons,...