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The week in higher education – 24 March 2016
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Bourdieu: The Next Generation – The Development of Bourdieu’s Intellectual Heritage in Contemporary UK Sociology, edited by Jenny Thatcher, Nicola Ingram, Ciaran Burke and Jessie Abrahams
A study group’s essays on Bourdieu apply his concepts to novel situations, says Laurie Taylor
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Sex Museums: The Politics and Performance of Display, by Jennifer Tyburczy
All choices about what to exhibit or not make statements about sexuality, finds Lesley Hall
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The Age of Genius: The Seventeenth Century and the Birth of the Modern Mind, by A. C. Grayling
An account of the vanquishing of superstition and magic makes some imprudent leaps, says Biancamaria Fontana
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New and noteworthy – 24 March 2016
Xenophobia new and old, questionable inflections, Paris' jazz diasporas and life on the skin of the Earth: must-read scholarly titles
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Royal Tourists, Colonial Subjects, and the Making of a British World, 1860-1911, by Charles V. Reed
Pomp and circulation throughout the Empire linked monarch and subjects, Donald MacRaild writes
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Overseas student number falls ‘significant risk’ to sector
Hefce and Home Office figures show further declines in new overseas entrants and Indian student visas
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The Society of Genes, by Itai Yanai and Martin Lercher
It’s not all selfishness: Charalambos Kyriacou on how genes cooperate and combine forces to preserve their DNA dynasties
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What are you reading? – 24 March 2016
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Elaine Showalter on Julia Ward Howe, a poet against all the odds of her era
Book of the week: For the poet told to lay down her pen on becoming a wife, writing was freedom, finds Catherine Clinton
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Campus sport is about more than winning or losing
Ahead of the Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race, Lincoln Allison ponders the decline of sport at university, and the value of such pursuits
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Geography’s place in the world
Is the subject’s amalgam of a wide range of subject matter and methodologies a strength or a weakness? Five scholars have their say
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Laurie Taylor – 24 March 2016
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