The week in books
How We Live and Why We Die: The Secret Lives of Cells by Lewis Wolpert, professor of biology as applied to medicine, department of anatomy and developmental biology, University College London. Faber...
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Al-Qaeda Goes to College
Anthony Glees says this book fails to consider the threat to academia posed by terrorism's side effects
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Foul Bodies: Cleanliness in Early America
Foul Bodies: Cleanliness in Early America. By Kathleen M. Brown. Yale University Press, 448pp, £25.00. ISBN 9780300106183. Published 3 February 2009
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Top 10 academic bestsellers: Blackwell, London WC1
1. A Sense of Urgency by John P. Kotter Harvard Business School Publishing, £14.99 ISBN 97814221797102. Tort Law, Second Edition by Emily Finch and Stefan Fafinski Pearson Education, £10.99 ISBN...
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Splendors and Miseries of the Brain: Love, Creativity, and the Quest for Human Happiness
Prashanth A K admires the exuberance of this ambitious study, but not its central thesis
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Published this week
? = Review forthcomingART AND DESIGN- Style and Function in Roman Decoration: Living with Objects and InteriorsBy Ellen Swift, head of classical and archaeological studies, University of Kent....
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Administrators to 'tour' campus
A bold new move to break down the "iron curtain" between academics and administrators was announced last week by our Director of Corporate Affairs, Jamie Targett.Targett said that he was "in positive...
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Removing the heads won't stem the rot
Universities - bastions of truth - should be speaking out and challenging the practices that are contributing to the moral bankruptcy of our society. Their role should be one of critics of society...
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Old fellows still functional
Ageism would be the exclusion of people from election to the British Academy after a certain age ("Out-of-touch academy is unfit for grant role, says former fellow", 16 April). In fields such as...
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Not radical or rational 1
John Milbank is quoted as saying that "by supporting the total disjuncture of sex and procreation, the Left is really supporting a new mode of fascism" ("Lazarus-style comeback", 16 April).Two things...
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Not radical or rational 2
Radical orthodoxy is more Dracula than Lazarus. It's reactionary romanticism in fancy dress: the undead dolled up with postmodern tosh. Your profile included John Milbank's inane remarks about social...
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Not all impact is financial 1
The story "V-c casts doubt on humanities funding" (16 April) reports on University of Exeter vice-chancellor Steve Smith's criticism of researchers in the humanities and social sciences for their...
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Not all impact is financial 2
It is a great pity, but hardly surprising, to see the leader-elect of university leaders publicly subscribing to the continued prostitution of the academy. Steve Smith continues, too, that other...
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Roots need firmer footing
Andrew Chanerley commits a logical error that underlines the reason why a "return to Christian roots" (Letters, 9 April) would be an outrageous and completely unacceptable academic development in...
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State should not call shots
I wonder whether Geoffrey Alderman (Letters, 16 April) missed my point. What I fear is the accreditation of courses by the state using academics as its instruments. That is what you get in many parts...