Finns, they are a-changin'
Tertiary education in Finland is highly regarded worldwide, but Ed Dutton fears next year's legislative changes may not be an improvement
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Spaces of selfhood
John D. Brewer reflects on the experiences that led him into sociology and drove his research interests over the following four decades
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Women's Human Rights: Seeking Gender Justice in a Globalising Age
Taking up the thorny issue of transnational feminist advocacy in the context of universal human rights protection, with all its visible failures, Niamh Reilly presents it as a case study in this well...
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The Canon: Unmasking Medicine. By Ian Kennedy
Unmasking Medicine was published in 1981 following Ian Kennedy's Reith lectures. Its ideas were intended for, and reached, a wide audience. His central premise was that medicine had been...
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No Small Matter: Science on the Nanoscale
Andrew Briggs finds much to praise in an enlightening introduction to nanoscience
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'Tinkers': Synge and the Cultural History of the Irish Traveller
In the age of The X Factor, it is difficult to assess someone else's work without slipping into the Simon Cowell syndrome. For a literary critic, it feels as though reading for review has become a...
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Book of the week: The Case for Books: Past, Present, and Future
Electronification won't kill off books entirely, discovers Andreas Hess
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Those Who Work, Those Who Don't: Poverty, Morality, and Family in Rural America
At last a work that unpacks the reality of US rural poverty, writes Rebekah Peeples Massengill
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Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human
It's not often that you find fashionable chefs such as Moro's Samuel Clark or Nigella Lawson endorsing the latest book on human evolution, but then this is an unusual and compelling read. Richard...
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Published this week
? = Review forthcomingBUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT- International Differences in the Business Practices and Productivity of FirmsEdited by Richard Freeman, Herbert Ascherman chair in economics, Harvard...
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Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression
A broadbrush approach to 1930s US culture sweeps too far and wide, says Susan Currell
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Regulating Sex For Sale: Prostitution Policy Reform in the UK
It is timely that Jo Phoenix's edited collection, Regulating Sex For Sale: Prostitution Policy Reform in the UK, should have made its way into print just after the Policing and Crime Act 2009 became...
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The Delight of Art: Giorgio Vasari and the Traditions of Humanist Discourse
This is a book about the delight of art and the art of delight. It traffics in "imaginancies", to use the term David Cast borrows from Inigo Jones after Baldassare Castiglione (appropriation being an...
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Private income does not equal tyranny 1
It is certainly true that there is a "Global revolution" in private provision (26 November), notably in Central and Eastern Europe. As someone who has planned, managed and is now chairing the...
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Private income does not equal tyranny 2
A critical component of UK government policy towards private providers of higher education must be to ensure that boards of directors (and the shareholders who appoint them) have no say in academic...