A World of Excesses: Online Games and Excessive Playing, by Faltin Karlsen
Daria Kuss is impressed with a series of interviews that shed light on the medicalisation of gaming problems

Daria Kuss is impressed with a series of interviews that shed light on the medicalisation of gaming problems

June Purvis is intrigued by an account of those who swam against the tide in an age of conformity and religious piety

Stina Lyon lauds a major theorist’s look at a global marketplace where everything’s for sale

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When it comes to plagiarism, the academy would rather see no evil, an anonymous professor warns

Christianity undermined Roman sexuality by giving it a spiritual dimension, finds Candida Moss

There are better uses for the internet than viewing clips of cats flushing toilets, says Tara Brabazon

Union surveys academy’s employment of casualised contracts. John Morgan reports

The University of East London faces a £600,000 loss from the collapse of an overseas examinations venture, the latest in a series of blows to the institution.University of East London Global...
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The Royal College of Science was one of three institutions that merged in 1907 to form Imperial College London. In 1955, it set up its own Motor Club to maintain a fire engine known as Jezebel as a ...

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