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The week in higher education – 2 July 2015
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the national press
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From lab gigs to headliners
It’s a long way to the top if you want to make it as a PI, but there are many positives on the path to that big break
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The News From Waterloo: The Race to Tell Britain of Wellington’s Victory, by Brian Cathcart
Frolics abound in a tale of how the 1815 triumph hit the front pages, writes Sharon Wheeler
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Can free thinking continue amid authoritarian culture?
With Hungary accused of ‘undermining democratic values’, Malcolm Gillies considers to what extent universities with a liberal mission can flourish in ‘illiberal’ societies
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Achebe and Friends at Umuahia: The Making of a Literary Elite, by Terri Ochiagha
Willy Maley on an ‘Eton of the East’ in Nigeria that inadvertently inspired a generation of writers
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The Story of Science: From the Writings of Aristotle to the Big Bang Theory, by Susan Wise Bauer
Alison Stokes on the literature that has tried to make complex explanations of the natural world accessible to laymen
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How the French Think: An Affectionate Portrait of an Intellectual People, by Sudhir Hazareesingh
Martin Cohen is unimpressed by an attempt to generalise about the philosophical inclinations of an entire nation
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Swift and Others, by Claude Rawson
A collection of erudite essays examines the impact of the great tiger of English letters on other writers, learns Richard J. Larschan
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The End of Cinema? A Medium in Crisis in the Digital Age, by André Gaudreault and Philippe Marion
The advent of sound, of TV, of digital – the doomsayers have always pronounced on the demise of the flicks, Philip Kemp discovers
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The Guardians: The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire, by Susan Pedersen
Niamh Gallagher on a body that, in chipping away at imperial rule, shaped the modern world
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What are you reading? – 2 July 2015
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles, directed by Chuck Workman
Having entered Hollywood a wunderkind, Orson Welles could never escape his own myth or his self-destructive tendencies, says Philip Kemp