What's Luck Got to Do with It? The History, Mathematics, and Psychology of the Gambler's Illusion
What makes Exchequers, poker players and other punters go for broke? Chris Howls gets a tip sheet
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The Kurdish Conflict: International Humanitarian Law and Post-Conflict Mechanisms
The world's 40 million or so Kurds are routinely referred to as "the largest group of stateless people in the world". Their homeland straddles one of the most explosive geopolitical regions - the...
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Popular Ghosts: The Haunted Spaces of Everyday Culture
Ever considered the link between Lenin and cyborgs? Or the "haunting tourism" associated with prisons as haunted houses? Then this is a book for you. With its premise that the ghost is part of our "...
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Bullfighting: A Troubled History
Felipe Fernández-Armesto laments an 'ignorant' attack on a threatened but precious fighting tradition
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Spinoza and the Specters of Modernity: The Hidden Enlightenment of Diversity from Spinoza to Freud
Spinoza's metaphysical and political thought has always fascinated his readers. His Ethics has been interpreted in countless different ways and, since his death in 1677, Spinozism has been associated...
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Global Journalism Ethics
A lifetime's exposure to human suffering in locations as diverse as Finland and Vietnam persuaded Martha Gelhorn that journalism could not make the world good. The reporter's job, she concluded, was...
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BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT STUDIES- The Future of Decision Making: How Revolutionary Software Can Improve the Ability to DecideBy Roger C. Schank, executive director and founder, Engines for Education...
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Drones? No - students are the bee's knees
It is both inaccurate and uncharitable to suggest that today's undergraduates are "deferring responsibility and delaying maturity" ("No creative buzz from the drones", 2 September).The Council of...
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Unfinished business
The desirability of the relationship between undergraduate education and the national economy has been acknowledged in the UK since at least the 1963 Robbins report. It is often forgotten that the...
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The Stepford academy 1
"Just a few rotten apples?" (2 September) accurately and fully addresses the three major issues frequently associated with US for-profit institutions of "higher learning": academic integrity; student...
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The Stepford academy 2
At the risk of sending Times Higher Education's readership to sleep in the calm before the new academic year's storm, I would like to urge that fundamental changes to the way that universities are...
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Contemporary observations
I am always pleased to see evidence of Mass Observation's (MO) enduring appeal, not only as a historical resource, but also as an inspiration for new research ("Researchers aim to capture a day in...
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Public-private balance
There is clear concern in the views expressed by Lord Baker ("The Queen's shilling is no sovereign remedy for a world-class sector", 9 September). Universities need both state support and autonomy:...
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Break this cosy cartel
It is hard to understand what Paul Benneworth thinks a functioning higher education market should look like ("Higher fees could be the undoing of England's universities", 2 September). He clearly...
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Stakhanov lives
My highly esteemed, Stakhanovite but far too modest colleague Adrian Furnham fails to point out that his production in 2009 of 30 papers and three books represents one of his lean years ("For love or...