Ancestral Roots: Modern Living and Human Evolution
To lose our negative evolutionary baggage we have to go back to our roots, discovers Alan Bilsborough
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Dark Side of the Tune: Popular Music and Violence
In my final year as an undergraduate, I remember discussing with a friend my plan to pursue PhD research in the sociology of metal music. With a contemptuous look on his face, he said "you shouldn't...
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The Unmaking of the Middle East: A History of Western Disorder in Arab Lands
This outstanding, thoroughly researched and vividly written book focuses on the last two centuries of Western involvement in the Middle East. The topic is not new, and the market for books on the...
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Published this week
? = review forthcomingART AND DESIGN- Art and Design at Brighton 1859-2009: From Arts and Manufactures to the Creative and Cultural IndustriesEdited by Philippa Lyon, research fellow in the Centre...
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From where I sit - Humanities wither on the vine
Every new year brings reports on the state of the humanities in higher education, so brace yourself anew. On 7 January, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences released its "Humanities Indicators"....
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V-C's triumphant visit to 'pocket of excellence'
Yesterday morning, our Vice-Chancellor braved the heavy rain and buffeting wind to lead a group of interested journalists across the campus to view the now-famous Poppleton "pocket of excellence"....
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Ronald Hepburn, 1927-2008
Ronald Hepburn, a pioneer in the field of philosophical aesthetics, has died.He was born in Aberdeen on 16 March 19 and educated at Aberdeen Grammar School. After serving with the Royal Marines and...
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University of Oxford - Guide to spinning ideas into gold
Expert advice to help academics set up a spin-off company is offered in a new book by a professor and businessman. The guide, Spin-outs: Creating Businesses from University Intellectual Property, was...
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Virtues hidden in flawed project
While Michael Worton and the European Science Foundation (ESF) talk until they are "blue in the face" to convince us of the virtues of the European Reference Index for the Humanities (ERIH), they are...
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The power of cultural appeal 1
While English-language universities on the Continent represent additional competition for British universities and private educators of international students, these offshore programmes ignore one of...
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The power of cultural appeal 2
Your recent article about student experience fails to acknowledge one of the largest student groups in UK higher education, namely part-time students ("Happy to be here", 15 January).With more than...
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Not such a bad habit
When it comes to Cardinal Newman, Gary Day gives us neither "knowledge" nor "information" ("Get wise to the product", 22 January).Newman didn't coin the expression "knowledge for its own sake" and...
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Pay talks not lectures
Jocelyn Prudence's latest attack on the University and College Union simply must be responded to (Letters, 22 January). It has taken the Universities and Colleges Employers Association ten months to...
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Profits of industry funding
So the same tired old arguments are being raised about the industrial funding of research into novel pharmaceuticals at universities as were common when, working for what was Department of Trade and...
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Unfair dismissal 1
In his recent review of the fifth volume of The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield (Books, 15 January), Jeffrey Meyers deplores what he calls "the atrocious editing of this volume". Isn't this...