Unlimited Intimacy: Reflections on the Subculture of Barebacking
A study of a homosexual subculture will provoke debate from all quarters, discovers Ken Plummer
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Why the Humanities Matter: A Commonsense Approach
Any book that defends the humanities is to be welcomed. The threat to their existence is not just from the politicians who want to make them more business-facing but from those within their own ranks...
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The Pluto Files
Dale E. Gary enjoys reading about the surprising public outcry that followed Pluto's demotion
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The Fenian Problem: Insurgency and Terrorism in a Liberal State, 1858-1874
The modern history of the "Irish Question" begins with Fenianism, a mid-Victorian organisation that developed and adapted the strategies of militant nationalist activity that would become commonplace...
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Magic Flutes and Enchanted Forests: The Supernatural in Eighteenth-Century Musical Theater
In the past two decades, musicologists have realised the importance of putting an operatic work in a historical, cultural, theatrical and literary context. For the most part, the research of opera...
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Becoming Batman
Adam Rutherford finds little intellectual punch in an analysis of impossibly muscly men in tights
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BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT- The Management of Everyday LifeEdited by Philip Hancock, senior lecturer in organisation studies, University of Warwick, and Melissa Tyler, senior lecturer in organisation...
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Self-help the only way to speak in tongues 1
Your report on the dearth of foreign-language skills among British graduates emphasises one of the problems that has beset the long-running debate about the decline of such skills in higher education...
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Self-help the only way to speak in tongues 2
While it is essential that more school pupils choose one or two languages at GCSE level, UCL's decision to stand alone in making a C grade in a foreign-language GCSE an entry requirement is perhaps...
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Self-help the only way to speak in tongues 3
Your excellent critique of the marginalisation of languages in British education nevertheless fails to stress their full importance for research, especially in the humanities. Researchers need...
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Feedback cutback
It is that time of year again when those of us with pending funding applications make the trip to the office post room a little more often. I have been waiting on several responses, in common with...
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Playing the race card
"In my opinion, the book is racist - or at least as close to racism as you can get in writing without breaking the law," Thomas Hegghammer writes in his review of my book The Mind of Jihad (11 June...
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Exhilarating, not the pits
Of the two academics you quote in "Sandpits bring out worst in infantilised researchers" (2 July), the first, Thomas Docherty, hasn't been to one; the second, an unnamed researcher, apparently hasn't...
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History is bunk
In "1588 and all that" (11 June), Felipe Fernandez-Armesto takes a pointless (if inoffensive) swipe at Ben Macintyre for stating that less than 50 per cent of under-34s know that "Sir Francis Drake...
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Total commitment
I would like to make it clear that the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council is committed to the agenda outlined by Lord Drayson regarding focusing research funding on areas of...