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Eating People is Wrong, And Other Essays on Famine, Its Past, and Its Future, by Cormac Ó Gráda
Liz Young discovers how failures in governance exacerbated the severity of historical famines
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This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things: Mapping the Relationship Between Online Trolling and Mainstream Culture, by Whitney Phillips
Tara Brabazon on an ethnographical study of the internet users who ‘swarm’ in order to cause maximum pain
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The Globalization of Inequality, by François Bourguignon
A tax rate of 67.5% is part of an economist’s plan to stem excessive inequality, finds Danny Dorling
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The Alvarez Generation: Thom Gunn, Geoffrey Hill, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and Peter Porter, by William Wootten
Richard Larschan on an examination of the conflicting ‘emotional styles’ of two camps of poets of the 1950s and 1960s
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The Variety of Values: Essays on Morality, Meaning, and Love, by Susan Wolf
Jane O’Grady on a collection that stresses the importance of creativity, beauty and self-fulfilment
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After Django: Making Jazz in Postwar France, by Tom Perchard
Les Gofton on a compelling study of a musical subculture
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The First World War, by A. W. Purdue
An overview of the action in Europe also examines present-day attitudes towards the conflict, says Niamh Gallagher
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The Happiness Industry: How the Government and Big Business Sold Us Well-Being, by William Davies
Kathryn Ecclestone on a study examining the underside of the new fixation on inner feelings
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Gladstone’s Library: a retreat for readers and writers
The vibrant residential library founded on the bequest of the former prime minister can be both productive and restorative, finds Emma Rees
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Experts on election rules to prevent hung Parliament hiccups
Academics working with the media and government discuss current misconceptions
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Arizona State’s Mooc to offer enough credit to complete first year
University is pairing with edX in a move that has been described as ‘good for nobody’
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Inexcusable sexism calls for action
The sexist nature of the peer review comments (suggesting that a paper written by two female researchers ought to include at least one male author to make sure that the data are interpreted correctly...
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Universities are mismanaging performance
The misapplication of private sector HR techniques harms individuals without raising performance, says Rob Briner
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Political parties think universities are too toxic to touch, says provost
UCL’s Michael Arthur discusses fears for lack of long-term financial support and of a British exit from the EU