Blind sides
Academics aren't perfect. They may be reluctant to scrutinise their teaching practices, but despite their marginalised status across much of the world, they are dedicated and committed. Tara Brabazon...
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It's the faculty, stupid!
Officials must not forget that staff are responsible for a university's success, says Philip G. Altbach
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Scramble for staff
As many US universities stop hiring or cut posts in the downturn, others see a chance to snap up the best and the brightest - particularly those with their own grants. Jon Marcus reports
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How Professors Think
Fred Inglis searches the academy for signs of intelligent life - or clear diction, at a pinch
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Living up to Death
The content of this book falls short, sadly, of its promising title. The gathered unfinished fragments of man meditating on his own death might have been moving and suffused with insight and...
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The Canon: Lives of the Artists By Giorgio Vasari
Vasari's Lives - to give them their full dignity, The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects - is currently available in at least four paperback editions: Dover Books, Modern...
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Out of the ballpark
Anthropologist Thomas Carter's passion for baseball led him to explore the game's special significance for Cuba in The Quality of Home Runs. He gives Matthew Reisz the rundown
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Book of the week: Naming Infinity
Tony Mann celebrates a book that emphasises the human factor
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The week in books
South Africa's Brave New World: The Beloved Country since the End of Apartheid by R.W. Johnson, emeritus fellow, Magdalen College, Oxford. Allen Lane, £25.00, ISBN 9780713995381"For Johnson all (...
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The Romantic Economist
Economists need to be embedded in the culture of society to explain how it works, says Natalie Gold
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Abraham Lincoln in the Post-Heroic Era: History and Memory in Late Twentieth-Century America
This is the second volume of Barry Schwartz's study of how Americans' memory of their greatest president continually transforms. The first volume, Abraham Lincoln and the Forge of National Memory (...
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Berlin in the Twentieth Century: A Cultural Topography
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 - an event whose 20th anniversary is now imminent - the history and culture of the German capital have triggered lively interest at home and abroad...
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Published this week
? = Review forthcomingBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES- Forms of Becoming: The Evolutionary Biology of DevelopmentBy Alessandro Minelli, professor of zoology, University of Padova. Princeton University Press, £16...
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Top 10 academic bestsellers: Blackwell, Canterbury
1 Blackstone’s Statutes on Contract, Tort and Restitution 2008-2009, Revised Edition edited by Francis RoseOxford University Press, £14.99ISBN 97801992381322 Nature and Art by Elizabeth Inchbald,...
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Waterboarding allegations denied
Claims that a Poppleton University lecturer was subjected to "waterboarding" after his recent submission to the Innovation, Universities, Science and Skills Committee inquiry into higher education...