Migration in Irish History, 1607-2007
Author: Patrick Fitzgerald and Brian LambkinEdition: FirstPublisher: Palgrave MacmillanPages: 403Price: £18.99ISBN: 9780230222564The authors try to encapsulate an immense literature on emigration,...
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Book of the week: On Art and War and Terror
An interdisciplinary tour of conflict in all its shades and guises grips Robert Eaglestone
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BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT- Citizenship: A Reality Far from IdealEdited by Andrew Kakabadse, professor of international management development, Cranfield University, Nada Kakabadse, visiting professor...
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The Age of Reformation: The Tudor and Stewart Realms 1485-1603
Lucy Wooding admires an assured interweaving of Scottish and English history in the 16th century
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The Least Worst Place: How Guantánamo Became the World’s Most Notorious Prison
So how did Guantanamo become “the world’s most notorious prison”? Principally as a result of a Washington-created public-relations own goal. On 11 January 2002, the first group of 20 prisoners...
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The Canon: The Twenty Years’ Crisis: An Introduction to the Study of International Relations. By E. H. Carr
The bibliographies in today’s international relations texts rarely include anything published before about 1990, but there is one work still regularly listed and discussed that appeared as long ago...
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Sex, drugs and stats
Matthew Reisz meets reluctant Facebook darling Andy Field, the Harry Potter of the social sciences
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Schools say mea culpa as they cash in on MBAs
Applications rise as institutions vow to play their part in resolving the crisis. Hannah Fearn reports
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Grant winners
MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCILThe third phase of the National Prevention Research Initiative.Award winner: A. AndersonInstitution: University of DundeeValue: £1,167,436Bewel: the impact of a body weight...
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Southampton Solent University - Centre kicks off
A new national football research centre was due to be officially opened by Gerry Sutcliffe, the Minister for Sport, at Southampton Solent University on 16 September. The Lawrie McMenemy Centre for...
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University of Exeter - How rude
An online database developed by an international group of researchers, including staff at the University of Exeter, could help tourists in France to understand insults hurled their way by rude...
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London School of Economics - Spitting images
Drawings by some of the UK's leading political cartoonists have been unveiled at the London School of Economics. The works, most of which were published in the 1990s, include caricatures of...
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Roehampton University - Snapshot healing
The world's first international research project on phototherapy - therapy involving photographs - is being launched by Roehampton University. The project, funded by the European Commission-backed...
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Royal Holloway, University of London - Vet link formalised
The Veterinary Laboratories Agency (VLA) has signed a memorandum of understanding with Royal Holloway, University of London, formalising the collaboration between the two organisations. Adam Tickell...
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Teesside University - Research quintet
Five new research institutes have been launched at Teesside University. Graham Henderson, its vice-chancellor, promised that the additions would provide a "clearer focus" for research development at...