Swerve theory for herds
Re academic freedom (THES, July 21, 28, August 11): in evaluating a work of social or political theory one may choose to examine its coherence or, alternatively, its "relevance". British academics...
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Trauma of the 3am bid for a university place
There must be a better entrance system, says concerned parent Brian Everett. I am a parent of a teenager whose results came yesterday. For many A-level students August 17 will have brought good news...
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It's a conspiracy of sniggers
I see you have decided once again to entertain readers with the "amusing" exam howlers certain academics seem to regard it as their duty to collect. However, given that many errors are due to the...
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A library of slim volumes with a broad scope
Andrew Marvell - Joseph Conrad - Doris Lessing - William Hazlitt. Introduction by Michael Foot - John Clare - William Golding - Ian McEwan - Walter Pater - Angela Carter - The Sensation Novel - John...
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A motor to defy the mechanic
The Engine of Reason, The Seat of the Soul - Journey to the Centers of the Mind
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A prince not yet the king
New Essays on Hamlet
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A Short History of the Universe, by JosephSilk, W. H. Freeman
(Photograph) - A supernova, the violent outburst caused by the gravitational collapse of a massive star, erupts in July 1987 near the Tarantula nebula. Taken from A Short History of the Universe, by...
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Buddy, can you spare a rhyme?
The Columbia History of American Poetry
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Ideas from thinking ash
How Things Are
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Inside and out
The Mind and Its World - Modern Philosophy of Mind
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The coffee-cup universe
The Universe Explained
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The fallen mighty
The Lost Prime Minister
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Promotions
UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM Readerships: Stuart Abell, in electronic and magnetic materials; John Fender, in macroeconomics; Colin Greaves, inorganic chemistry; Michael Grimmitt, religion in education;...
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Honorary degrees
UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS DLitt: Alan Bowness, director of the Tate Gallery (1980-88) and former director of the Henry Moore Foundation; Stuart Hall, professor of sociology at the Open University. DMus:...
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Grants
UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL Research Grants Dr M. Carroll, Pounds 55,419 from the Natural Environment Research Council (experimental study of the role of carbon dioxide in magmatic systems); Dr A. Leyshoon...