Being a Pilgrim: Art and Ritual on the Medieval Routes to Santiago
Paula Gerson is transported to Galicia by this guide to the route to Saint James' remains
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The Fighting Tudors
You cannot put a good man down! This appears to be David Loades' third book on the Tudors to have been published in 2009, and in total he must soon be approaching his half century, which should...
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Genocide before the Holocaust
The word "genocide" was coined by the Polish-born Jewish lawyer Raphael Lemkin in 1943. Taking its roots from Greek and Latin, it describes the targeted and intentional killing or destruction of a...
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Published this week
? = Review forthcomingGEOGRAPHY AND ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES- Discourse Dynamics in Participatory Planning: Opening the Bureaucracy to StrangersBy Diana MacCallum, lecturer, Griffith School of the...
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Trotsky: A Biography
Willy Maley enjoys the complexities, but not the cack-handed certainties, of this magisterial tome
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Do the maths to solve pensions time-bomb 1
Your article on final-salary pensions does not inspire confidence in those undertaking the Universities Superannuation Scheme review.First, an 8 per cent technical deficit is trivial; stock market...
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Do the maths to solve pensions time-bomb 2
Regretfully, many staff in higher education have already witnessed the end of final-salary pension schemes ("Warning sounded on final-salary pensions", 7 January).Institutions such as the...
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Do the maths to solve pensions time-bomb 3
It is important to clarify a number of points as the predictable scaremongering about the USS pension scheme appears to be increasing. First, such scaremongering is unhelpful. The University and...
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Longer odds for Palestine
Bahram Bekhradnia's account of his experiences as an observer of Palestinian universities,"Battered but unbowed" (31 December), concludes by acknowledging the "extraordinary determination" of those...
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Paradoxical petard
Your reports on the challenges to business schools and their curriculums to become more ethically and critically minded highlight the way in which the nature of management theory has been...
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Not abolished, improved
Whatever the overall merits of your glum piece on the future of the humanities, "The core connection" (7 January), it is certainly wrong about one thing. It is untrue that the Arts and Humanities...
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Confederacy of dunces
Kevin Sharpe ("La Triviata: public discourse is trapped in a downward spiral", 7 January) is dead right: the interests and mentality of today's students offer a clear reflection of the anti-thinking...
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Apples and oranges
With reference to your article "Union 'incensed' by staff research profiles" (7 January), the University of Leeds is exploring the feasibility of developing sets of metrics that describe academic...
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The language trap
Duncan Shaw is mistaken (Letters, 7 January): in my letter of 17 December, I did not call on university teachers to pay more attention to Luce Irigaray. Rather, I said that I had drawn on her work....
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Picture perfect
I was perplexed to see a photograph of a juggler appearing to set fire to his genitals in THE ("A fine balance - but not all can manage it", 31 December). Then I read the attached article concerning...