MP3: The Meaning of a Format
Sound compression and mobile audio storage are changing how we listen, finds Hillegonda Rietveld
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Rome: An Empire's Story
An illuminating guide maps out a fast-track course to a dazzling imperial overview for Ronald Mellor
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Hollywood 1938: Motion Pictures' Greatest Year
Superlatives are immediately suspect, and "greatest" more than most, so the subtitle of Catherine Jurca's book is likely to arouse critical misgivings. But it is soon apparent that the phrase doesn't...
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The Woman Reader
This ambitious book maps out the relatively undeveloped field of women's reading habits across time and cultures, all in fewer than 350 pages. It is not an easy task, but Belinda Jack accomplishes it...
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Sinners? Scroungers? Saints? Unmarried Motherhood in Twentieth-Century England
The absence of the didactic from this study of lone parents makes it all the stronger, says Mary Evans
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Bioethics: All that Matters
The title of this book implies that it will provide an introduction to "all that matters" in bioethics, but anyone who buys it believing that it offers an overview of the modern discipline will be...
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Shakespeare's Shrine: The Bard's Birthplace and the Invention of Stratford-upon-Avon
Earlier this year, Times Higher Education reported on a visit to Japan by Dominic Shellard, who went accompanied by a Shakespeare First Folio. The volume had been borrowed from the British Library at...
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News in brief
United StatesFor-profits lose California goldMost for-profit institutions in California have lost their eligibility for the state's needs-based financial aid programme. In a measure that was expected...
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Close-up on a world with too few sporting chances
Film shows 'wide-eyed' Soas football side meeting Middle Eastern realities. David Matthews reports
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Chile rescinds accreditation of Apollo for-profit
Chile's only university owned by the global arm of US for-profit education giant Apollo Group has had its accreditation withdrawn.On 18 July, following an unsuccessful appeal, Chile's National...
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Grant winners
NATIONAL CENTRE FOR THE REPLACEMENT, REFINEMENT AND REDUCTION OF ANIMALS IN RESEARCH - NC3RsProject Grants• Award winner: Wendy Barclay• Institution: Imperial College London• Value: £397,...
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The only way was up
Flawed policy levers forced Salford to charge £9K fees to retain its widening participation aims, Martin Hall argues
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They've invited me to present my papers, and this time it's personal
The examiner examined: Martin Cortazzi on the day a UK university asked him, rather apologetically, to show them his passport
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From here to posterity
Queen Mary can best serve its local community via the pursuit of global excellence, Simon Gaskell tells critics of recent 'restructures'