Book of the week: Freefall: Free Markets and the Sinking of the Global Economy
Arrogance and avarice caused the crash, and they're still going strong, learns Michelle Baddeley
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How Many Friends Does One Person Need? Dunbar's Number and Other Evolutionary Quirks
An evolutionary anthropologist's theory needs further developing, says Steven Rose
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Cinema Wars: Hollywood Film and Politics in the Bush-Cheney Era
Douglas Kellner came of age at Columbia University during the student demonstrations of 1968, and his work has a political drive that continually harks back to the protest ethic of that period. His...
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The Canon: Mythologies. By Roland Barthes
Why is the Church like margarine?This sounds like the beginning of a bad joke, but is actually one of the questions addressed in Roland Barthes' Mythologies, which first appeared in 1957. Inspired by...
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The Domestication of Genius: Biography and the Romantic Poet
The obsession with the private lives of the famous is not a new phenomenon, writes Sharon Ruston
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Hold On to Your Dreams: Arthur Russell and the Downtown Music Scene, 1973-1992
Despite numerous efforts by scholars over recent years to reassess approaches to the popular music canon, it would seem that most publishing houses (university presses included) have felt...
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American Experimental Poetry and Democratic Thought
How do ideas travel across cultures? The locks of Washington DC's canal, a park ranger will proudly tell you, were designed by Leonardo da Vinci; Thomas Jefferson developed his tastes in wine, and...
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Published this week
BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS- Strategy by Design: A Process of Strategy InnovationBy James Carlopio, associate professor of management, Bond University, Australia. Palgrave Macmillan, £48.50. ISBN...
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Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age
Ursula Martin discovers much about an IT pioneer's work, but too little about her personality
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Labours Lost: Domestic Service and the Making of Modern England
Our most likely modern experience of live-in servants is with the nanny, subject of countless horror stories at dinner parties. Working and living in someone else's home puts both employee and...
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There's Something About Gödel: The Complete Guide to the Incompleteness Theorem
There is a story that in 1930 the great mathematician John von Neumann emerged from a seminar delivered by Kurt Gödel saying: "It's all over." Gödel had just proved the two theorems about the logical...
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Odds and quads
When General Charles Gordon was sent to evacuate Egyptian troops from Sudan in the face of a revolt in 1884, he decided instead to march to Khartoum and go on the offensive.Since the British...
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Podcasts: enhancing or replacing normal lectures?
Online lectures are no substitute for face-to-face contact, argues UCU. Melanie Newman reports
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'Academic individualism' to be reined in at the IoE
Review recommends behaviour change at all levels of the institute. Melanie Newman writes
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Jargon poses no real threat, finds new study
The academy has long fretted over the use of government buzzwords and business jargon when discussing the rarefied world of higher education.But it seems they can now stop worrying about the effect...