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By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed
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Aquaculture cuts at Stirling net one-day walkout
Lecturers at the University of Stirling are due to strike on 26 April in a dispute over job losses.
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Spin cycle: 11 research-intensives foster over half of spin-outs in past decade
A group of 11 universities has produced more than half of all the spin-off companies to have been launched by higher education institutions in the past 10 years, according to new figures.
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What’s the worst that could happen? AUA mulls post-Browne sector
A nightmarish vision of the worst that the future could hold for English universities was set out at the Association of University Administrators conference at the University of Nottingham this week.
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Border Agency suspends Glasgow Caledonian’s Tier 4 licence
Glasgow Caledonian University has had its licence to sponsor foreign students temporarily suspended by the UK Border Agency.
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Britain's War Machine: Weapons, Resources and Experts in the Second World War
Graham Farmelo is impressed by a fresh look at the UK's performance in a much-debated conflict
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Sold on Language: How Advertisers Talk to You and What This Says about You
Beneath some Mad men poppycock, Geoffrey K. Pullum spies a smart survey of linguistics in action
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Persecution, Plague and Fire: Fugitive Histories of the Stage in Early Modern England
In spite of the populism of the title, this is a difficult though forceful book. The Foucauldian "fugitive" of the subtitle gives the game away, for this is a reading of early modern theatre in the...
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The Tribal Imagination: Civilization and the Savage Mind
In the most heartfelt and important chapter of this book, Robin Fox laments the loss of Lewis Henry Morgan's vision, the "high mandate" to explore the universal history of humankind. For Fox, Morgan'...
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Here on Earth: A New Beginning
Jon Turney on a book that grapples with planetary issues but fails to justify its own subtext
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Decorating the 'Godly' Household: Religious Art in Post-Reformation Britain
One of the pleasant fictions of the book business is the pretence that we pick books up, start reading at the beginning and work our way through to the end. But really we all do the same thing: first...
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Awakening Islam: The Politics of Religious Dissent in Contemporary Saudi Arabia
The surge in Arab revolutions since January has surprised many scholars and policymakers for one reason: it is not currently being orchestrated by the much-studied Islamists. Since the 1970s, Western...
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Searching for Utopia: The History of an Idea
Wonderful illustrations don't make up for a failure to get to grip with ideal worlds, Fred Inglis finds
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Darwinism and the Divine: Evolutionary Thought and Natural Theology
In my student days, we spoke admiringly of the "strong readings" that Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida made of past thinkers: readings that to ordinary readers looked like wilful misreadings, if...
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Mission to China: Matteo Ricci and the Jesuit Encounter with the East
University of Cambridge historian Mary Laven, whose new book makes compelling reading, acknowledges that Matteo Ricci's story has been told before from a wide range of perspectives. So what more can...