The week in higher education – 10 November 2016
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Freud: In His Time and Ours, by Élisabeth Roudinesco
Book of the week: New sources yield fresh insights and oversights by the father of psychoanalysis, says Janet Sayers
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Laurie Taylor – 10 November 2016
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Amatory Pleasures: Explorations in Eighteenth-Century Sexual Culture, by Julie Peakman
Karen Harvey on a cultural history of sexuality that attempts to put real people centre stage
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The Wisdom of Frugality: Why Less is More – More or Less, by Emrys Westacott
Martin Cohen on the philosophical implications of living the simple life – and owning a homemade toilet-brush holder
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Books interview: Chris Knight
The radical anthropologist and author of Decoding Chomsky traces his interest in animal behaviour, tribal customs and language back to Doctor Dolittle via Tolstoy, Engels and Marx
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What are you reading? – 10 November 2016
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Uberworked and Underpaid: How Workers are Disrupting the Digital Economy, by Trebor Scholz
Cheap taxis come at a price but remodelling the online marketplace is an option, says Kylie Jarrett
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The Last Rabbi: Joseph Soloveitchik and Talmudic Tradition, by William Kolbrener
A study offers a new perspective on one of the most important yet elusive Jewish thinkers of the past century
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Brexodus: the world’s highly skilled have options other than the UK
It’s not just EU nationals that universities should worry about losing, says Timothy Devinney, and a shrinking pound won’t help
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Teaching quality: does it come in bulk?
Paul Ashwin takes aim at ‘common sense’ arguments about the link between contact hours and pedagogic excellence
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Students and scholars alike are in precarious positions
What links the anxious, fearful undergraduate and the anxious, fearful academic? Pervasive precarity, argues Matthew Vernon
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Not here to court populism
I am puzzled by the suggestion that the fact that academics are out of step with populist opinion indicates that universities need to “de-polarise” by moving in a more “moderate” direction (“The...