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Defying Decrepitude: A Personal Memoir by Alan Peacock
James Stevens Curl enjoys the wry company of a kindred spirit
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Ubiquitous Listening: Affect, Attention, and Distributed Subjectivity by Anahid Kassabian
We can’t hear ourselves think over all this music, warns David Revill
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Word by Word: Emancipation and the Act of Writing by Christopher Hager
Richard Follett on slavery and the power of literacy
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Campus round-up - 4 July 2013
Source: AlamyFat is a timely issueScientists studying an exotic fish have made a key discovery about the protective coating for nerve fibres that, in humans, is vital for everyday activities such as...
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Research is a drag for ‘Council House Movie Star’
Edge Hill scholar turns a queer eye on ageing
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Concentrate cash, dilute impact, scientists warn
Canadian researchers call for volte-face on global funding trend
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Odds and quads - 4 July 2013
American poet Peter Orlovsky (1933-2010), the partner of Allen Ginsberg for more than 40 years, was himself a major Beat Generation figure
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Critical angles
I am sure that lots of academics are asked to comment on book proposals for publishers from time to time – but what are the ethics of this process? For me, naturally one hates to do somebody else’s...
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Classical economics and finished symphonies
Music schools and graduates read financial notices and strike fresh notes
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News in brief - 4 July 2013
United StatesSTEM cell aims to raise standardsAn organisation representing 62 elite US universities has selected eight members to serve as project sites for a five-year initiative aimed at improving...
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Maurice Hutt, 1928-2013
A leading historian of revolutionary France who helped to create the University of Sussex has died
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THE Scholarly Web - 4 July 2013
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Spending review’s winners and losers
Andy Westwood on the shift from ‘human’ to ‘intellectual’ capital
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Working time directive: less is more
Limiting hours would lift the burden on women, says Sally Feldman