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Amity University seeks site in London for 5,000-student campus
Indian private university searches for site as it signals an interest in partnerships with UK institutions
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Wikimania: student medics get credit for webside manner
Conference hears from academics about the benefits of building Wikipedia into higher education teaching and learning
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The price of life in an academic Eden
Human serpents are lurking in the undergrowth at every university, says Felipe Fernández-Armesto
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A World Without Jews: The Nazi Imagination from Persecution to Genocide, by Alon Confino
An analysis of anti-Semitic ideology illuminates a number of its contradictions, says Roger Morgan
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School for Cool: The Academic Jazz Program and the Paradox of Institutionalized Creativity, by Eitan Y. Wilf
Does formal teaching of jazz contradict the improvisation that is at its core? Trevor Herbert examines the evidence
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Why Can’t They Get Along? A Conversation between a Muslim, a Jew and a Christian, by Dawoud El-Alami, Dan Cohn-Sherbok and George D. Chryssides
Three different religious standpoints are not merely distinct but incompatible, says Robert A. Segal
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The Blair Supremacy: A Study in the Politics of Labour’s Party Management, by Lewis Minkin
Ivor Gaber lauds an analysis of the New Labour hierarchy and its culture of command and control
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Cumin, Camels, and Caravans: A Spice Odyssey, by Gary Paul Nabhan
Richard Wilk on a spicy mix of autobiography, food history and travel
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Flight Ways: Life and Loss at the Edge of Extinction, by Thom van Dooren
A compelling effort to inspire ethical concern for endangered species is marred only by jargon-laden interludes, finds Wenfei Tong
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The Bubble Economy: Is Sustainable Growth Possible?, by Robert U. Ayres
Howard Davies seeks a coherent link between the economic crisis and the economics of energy
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Pranksters: Making Mischief in the Modern World, by Kembrew McLeod
An enjoyable assortment of media hoaxes that would benefit from some theoretical analysis, says Chris Knight
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America Inc? Innovation and Enterprise in the National Security State, by Linda Weiss
Jörg Michael Dostal on how the NSS has enabled the US to attain technological leadership to serve its geopolitical objectives
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No sex please – we’re monetarists
Suggestions that economists at our university might have been among those who, according to an article in the journal Research Policy, offered or accepted sex in order to secure co-authorship credits...