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The Alzheimer Conundrum: Entanglements of Dementia and Aging, by Margaret Lock
When is a disease not a disease? asks Rose Anne Kenny
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George Orwell: English Rebel, by Robert Colls
Sheila Rowbotham on a great writer whose contrary aspects are impossible to sum up
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The Book of Common Prayer: A Biography, by Alan Jacobs
Willy Maley on one of the most important works in the English language
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Myth, Memory, Trauma: Rethinking the Stalinist Past in the Soviet Union, 1953-70, by Polly Jones
Lara Cook on coping with the man of steel’s legacy
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Four Meditations on Happiness, by Michael Hampe
What makes us happy?, asks John Shand
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Ecovillages: Lessons for Sustainable Community, by Karen T. Litfin
Reconnecting to the land grounds us, says Steffen Böhm
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Serendipitous scholarship
Evidence is vital, but don’t reject intuition, Felipe Fernández-Armesto says
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USS’ largest investments in companies, 2013
The Universities Superannuation Scheme has more than £466 million invested in banking giant HSBC, according to data from the pension scheme’s latest financial report
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Romanians and Bulgarians ‘pulled’ off courses after funding freeze
Student Loans Company payments suspended until proof given to support residence claim
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Analysis: the subjects favoured and forsaken by students over 15 years
How has 16 years of growth in enrolment affected the fortunes of different disciplines?
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Freewomen and Supermen: Edwardian Radicals and Literary Modernism, by Anne Fernihough
Sandeep Parmar is tantalised by the notion of the political in Modernism
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Germany pledges to increase foreign students by 25 per cent
Coalition government promises to internationalise higher education
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16 January 2014
Thought leaders - The subjects students have favoured and forsaken over 15 years
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‘Lighter social science regulation requires integrity’
Suggested changes to ‘common rule’ raise issues on research with human subjects