Michelangelo: The Artist, the Man, and His Times
Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) is perhaps best remembered by millions of cinema-goers as Charlton Heston, trading terribilita with Pope Julius II (Rex Harrison) in The Agony and the Ecstasy (...
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The Canon: Studies in Classic American Literature. By D.H. Lawrence
I took a course in D.H. Lawrence from the critic Marvin Mudrick when I was a 19-year-old undergraduate. We read the three great novels, all the stories and poems, a few travel books, and the...
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Diaghilev: A Life
Anne Hogan showers praise on a terrific study of a Russian colossus and true avant-gardist
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Kristallnacht 1938
Richard J. Evans finds a crystal-clear picture of the Night of Broken Glass bolstered by trial records
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ECONOMICS- Bonfire of Illusions: The Twin Crises of the Liberal WorldBy Alex Callinicos, professor of European studies, King's College London. Polity, £45.00 and £14.99. ISBN 9780745648750 and 8767By...
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Teaching Information Literacy for Inquiry-Based Learning
Information professionals in higher education spend a considerable amount of time teaching information literacy, either through group sessions or more often one-to-one at the enquiry desk in...
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The Making of Modern Science: Science, Technology, Medicine and Modernity: 1789-1914
The explosive growth of science means that each successive century gets harder to sum up. There is no decent single-volume survey of 20th-century science, although at least one intrepid author is at...
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Vesuvius: A Biography
Lucia Gurioli feels the heat in these eyewitness accounts of Italy's famous volcano
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Childhood, Well-Being and a Therapeutic Ethos
When considering the winners and losers of modernity it is tempting to see children as most definitely in the former camp. They not only enjoy unprecedented levels of legal protection but have reams...
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Noblesse oblige
The current brouhaha surrounding Lord Ashcroft and his non-domicile status should not be allowed to obscure the fact that he has made a valuable contribution to the field of education.The...
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Old as you feel
I feel I must write to say how depressing I found reading your latest Textbook Guide. The book entitled The 1960s: A Documentary Reader was classified under history. Am I really "history" at the age...
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Playground for the rich
James Stanfield has come up with an interesting idea that universities should be expected to raise money locally, rather than receive it from the Treasury (a "public subsidy", as he calls it) ("...
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Unto the breach
Your article "Bournemouth academic's constructive dismissal claim upheld" (www.timeshighereducation.co.uk, 26 February) has generated a great deal of comment.Several of the views expressed dwell on...
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Self, interested
Harry Collins describes one of his eureka moments as the only time in his career when "I have run out into the corridor whooping (fully clothed, I should add)". His excitement was generated by...
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Customer model is a question of priorities
Neal Curtis' article, "'Customer' isn't always right: market model could lead to disaster" (4 March), strikes me as a quaintly hysterical response to the need for universities to accept that they...