Stock Market Efficiency, Insider Dealing and Market Abuse
A study of regulation finds that it mostly works, but the debate has moved on, says Ranald Michie
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Anglo-Jewry since 1066: Place, Locality and Memory
Two kinds of experiences have shaped Jewish histories: persecution and diaspora. The pre-eminent 20th-century American Jewish historian Salo Baron objected to the preoccupation with persecution,...
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Consuming History: Historians and Heritage in Contemporary Popular Culture
Since the 1990s, Jerome de Groot's hugely suggestive study contends, the popular appetite for and means of "consuming" history have boomed. This enfranchisement and participation has unsettled "...
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Packaging Terrorism: Co-opting the News for Politics and Profit
Charles Townshend examines some significant questions concerning the UK and US media
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Post-Neoliberalism in the Americas
Historians are likely to mark the end of the era of market fundamentalism at the moment in 2008 when the breakdown of the poorly regulated American financial system wreaked havoc upon economies from...
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Top 10 academic bestsellers, Blackwell, Brighton
1 Contemporary Strategy Analysis, Sixth Edition by Robert M. GrantWiley-Blackwell, £31.99ISBN 97814051630952 Management Accounting for Business, Third Edition by Colin DruryThomson Learning, £42....
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Idiocy: A Cultural History
Writers love a fool, as Penny L. Richards learns from a roll call of idiots across the centuries
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Paris from the Ground Up
According to Ecclesiastes xii, 12: "of making many books there is no end". On no subject is that more true than Paris - probably the most written-about city in the world. The question to be posed of...
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Recorded Music: Philosophical and Critical Reflections
It was John Philip Sousa, the American composer and band conductor, who in Appleton's Magazine in 1906 coined the term "canned music".Like so many of Sousa's utterances, it was grumpy and off-the-...
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ANTHROPOLOGY- Society of Others: Kinship and Mourning in a West Papuan PlaceBy Rupert Stasch, associate professor in anthropology, University of California, San Diego. University of California Press...
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Creative venture
Michael Harloe prepares for his retirement proud to have put Salford at the centre of a unique global media development
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Appointments
Edward Steers, a retired physicist at London Metropolitan University, has been awarded a DSc in recognition of a career in research spanning 50 years. The award was announced at a celebration...
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Lecturers talk of students' 'shocking' abuse
Study suggests that 'consumer attitude' may be fuelling harassment. Rebecca Attwood reports
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Tutors taunted: academics offer examples of 'upwards harassment' by students and consider possible motives
Verbal abuseOne academic recalled a student "coming in effing and blinding" and then saying: "You are so boring, fucking boring."Another cited a student whose behaviour was "verbally aggressive,...
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AHRC claims arts research outperforms science as spending review looms
Arts and humanities researchers are outperforming their colleagues in the sciences both in terms of their presence on the world stage and quality of their output, a report suggests.The study from the...