Europe: A Natural History, by Tim Flannery
Book of the week: the continent’s ecosystems have been shaped and reshaped by alien species, says Tom Cameron
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African Freedom: How Africa Responded to Independence, by Phyllis Taoua
Matt Graham on culture’s role in questioning and challenging postcolonial realities
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The Prism of Race: The Politics and Ideology of Affirmative Action in Brazil, by David Lehmann
Claudia Bueno Rocha Vidigal on the cultural and political forces that drove efforts to address discrimination in university admissions
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What are you reading? – 22 November 2018
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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The Invention of Sustainability: Nature and Destiny, c. 1500-1870, by Paul Warde
Clare Griffiths discovers a nuanced account of human ambitions to increase the earth’s yields
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The Importance of Elsewhere: The Globalist Human Tourist, by Randy Malamud
Travel can be a way to find aspects of oneself by immersion in elsewhere, finds Jeremy MacClancy
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New and noteworthy – 22 November 2018
When actors started to play to the people; a rainforest alive with aliens; the cultural artefacts of childbirth; and Africa’s golden age
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History man: interview with Tim Grady
Chester’s Tim Grady, recently shortlisted for the Cundill History Prize, is proof that smaller universities can produce researchers who compete with the elite. John Morgan writes
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Hunkering down: Japan’s higher education sector
Japan’s combined budgetary crunch and demographic squeeze has raised questions about the sustainability of its huge university sector. John Ross visits the country to investigate
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Are universities too cosy and cosseted?
Recent political interventions in university affairs are symptomatic of the perception that higher education institutions need a firm hand
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Letters – 22 November 2018
On meddling, merit and accountability The situation that Mark Steven describes in his opinion article “The political becomes personal when a grant is killed by a minister”, outlining how his personal...
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The week in higher education – 22 November 2018
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Interview with Boris Paton
After spending a century in and around academia, Ukraine’s chief scientist reflects on his father’s ‘genius’, Chernobyl and how scientists helped to win the Second World War
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Radical Irish gender plan ‘could be model for Europe’
Frustration with ‘snail’s pace’ progress across continent leads Irish government to back financial sanctions against universities that miss targets