Computer science
Catering for varied tastes is a balance between giving people what they want and introducing them to new flavours. Harold Thimbleby enjoys the staples but craves something different
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Business and management
A booming field of study boasts a wealth of textbooks that get bigger and glossier as they vie for attention with online resources. Huw Morris performs a cost-benefit analysis on this year’s list
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Odds and quads
These miniature picture Bibles were created by two German sisters from Augsburg around 1690.
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Grant winners
Action Medical ResearchResearch Project GrantsAward winner: Peter TaylorInstitution: University College LondonValue: £114,845Bacterial meningitis in newborn babies: harnessing the body’s natural...
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Campus round-up
Creature comfortsAn animal-obsessed artist will step into character as “Mrs Panda Head” when she gives a live performance at a university show for aspiring artists. Mary Beth Quigley has created a...
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News in brief
AustraliaMedia students try to keep it realAn Australian university launched an investigation after it emerged that students had been assigned to plant fake stories in a rival institution’s student...
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American Umpire by Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman
Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman’s wholly engaging analysis of US history characterises the American republic’s role as that of an umpire in an evolving world order. This role involves not only a...
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Expect the unexpected
Kerstin Hoge probes a view of the mind that takes aim at Chomsky and evolutionary psychology
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Making Scientists: Six Principles for Effective College Teaching by Gregory Light and Marina Micari
As the authors recount in this useful book, the Gateway Science Workshops (GSWs) run by their institution, Northwestern University in the US, target first-year undergraduates with the aim of...
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Moral Crusades in an Age of Mistrust: The Jimmy Savile Scandal by Frank Furedi
Frank Furedi sets out to do two things in this book. First, he analyses the media circus that ensued after the 2012 airing of a BBC Newsnight report on allegations of sexual abuses committed by the...
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Revengers’ tragedy
Judith Rowbotham weighs up thought-provoking arguments for a retributive system of justice
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GI foe
Brutality is at the root of military life, even among America’s Greatest Generation, finds Fiona Reid
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Historical perspective
Today’s students are impoverished by a scant knowledge of culture and context, but the story of art should be a sine qua non of any well-rounded curriculum, argues Brian Sewell
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German retreat from fees territory
German states are scrapping tuition fees after less than 10 years. Frances Mechan-Schmidt reports