THE podcast: 13 June 2013 issue review
Download the podcastThis week’s issue review looks at the number of women professors in UK universities, our ever-popular Books section, and the growing number of student complaints against higher...
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Hollywood madness
Davina Quinlivan detects a shift to more rounded representations of mental illness on screen
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Picasso and Truth: From Cubism to Guernica by T. J. Clark
Alex Danchev applauds a study of one of the 20th century’s greatest thinker-painters
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Handling complaints in the high fees age
As students grow keener to stand up for their rights over perceived wrongs, is the sector doing all it can to be consistent, fair and prompt when resolving disputes?
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The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South by Vijay Prashad
By whom, and for what reasons, has development throughout the “poorer nations” of the global South been thwarted in the post-colonial era? Vijay Prashad’s book offers an unambiguous answer to this...
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Roman Palmyra: Identity, Community, and State Formation by Andrew M. Smith II
When, before AD77, Pliny the Elder remarked that Palmyra “had its own fate” between the Roman and Parthian empires, what had been a remote oasis in the Syrian desert a century earlier was becoming a...
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Soaring dragon leaves neoliberals at a loss
Yongjin Zhang considers a meticulous effort to unwrap the riddle inside an Eastern enigma
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Liberty and Security by Conor Gearty
The argument that the “War on Terror” and counter-terrorist measures are a threat to civil liberties is not a new one. In the current climate of austerity, it is not surprising that the enjoyment of...
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The Invention of Craft by Glenn Adamson
Craft, in Glenn Adamson’s view, has continuously referred to a process or an activity rather than a discipline on its own. Adamson, head of research at the Victoria and Albert Museum, has written...
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We have lift-off
It’s not just hot air: balloons allow our historical imaginations to soar, Robert J. Mayhew discovers
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A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Abstract accuracy
Alex Danchev applauds a study of one of the 20th century’s greatest thinker-painters
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Obituary - Nabil Gindy
An expert in manufacturing technologies who went on to spearhead the research programme at the University of Nottingham’s Chinese campus has died.Nabil Gindy was born in Cairo, Egypt on 3 November...
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Awards and promotions
Queen’s University, CanadaSusan MummThe new dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario said she was “excited by the prospect of working at one of Canada’s...
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