The Economics of Inequality, by Thomas Piketty
The causes of and solutions to disparity in income are eclectic, says Victoria Bateman
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Teaching Online: A Guide to Theory, Research, and Practice, by Clare Howell Major
Digital learning may be the future, but the present is more uncertain, says Sandra Leaton Gray
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The Land of the Green Man: A Journey through the Supernatural Landscapes of the British Isles, by Carolyne Larrington
Laurence Coupe on the narratives that lead to re-enchantment with our natural environment
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Art, Psychoanalysis, and Adrian Stokes: A Biography, by Janet Sayers
A wealth of detail and revealing images bring a troubled critic into focus, says Sharon Kivland
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Paul Klee: The Visible and the Legible, by Annie Bourneuf
Tracey Warr extols a study demonstrating an artist’s deep engagement with the theories, practices and works of his peers
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Dispatches from Dystopia: Histories of Places Not Yet Forgotten, by Kate Brown
Howard Segal admires the travelogue of a self-confessed ‘professional disaster tourist’ covering a variety of global wastelands
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Culture, Capitals and Graduate Futures: Degrees of Class, by Ciaran Burke
Early experience of class has a large effect on the working lives of graduates, discovers Huw Morris
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What are you reading? – 3 September 2015
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Translation is a powerful teaching tool
Dale Salwak explains why he focuses on the people carrying out the translation process and their effects on the text we read
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Reproducing results: how big is the problem?
Paul Jump examines the many reasons for irreproducibility in science and efforts to tackle it
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Academics in the minority at more than two-thirds of UK universities
Analysis of Hesa data reveals the extent to which academics are outnumbered by support staff
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Kick-start learning by giving students a lecture ‘trailer’
Nicholas Morton is road-testing some unusual ways to get, and keep, students’ attention
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How US higher education takes care of its poor
The American system isn’t ideal but it beats the UK’s, says Felipe Fernández-Armesto