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The role of the corporate capitalist machine in the election of America’s first black President does not promise a more ‘liberal’ society, but other forces unleashed in the campaign just might, says...
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Student union calls for end to Tel Aviv centenary lectures
Motion demands Soas cancel series in light of Israeli military action in Gaza. Melanie Newman reports
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The support troops are getting flak
Social scientists deployed in war zones to engage with civilians and advise US military commanders are under fire from their peers, writes Jon Marcus
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Happy to be here
Times Higher Education's annual Student Experience Survey highlights a host of institutions bent on making the university experience first rate in every way. Rebecca Attwood reports
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Making Empire: Colonial Encounters and the Creation of Imperial Rule in Nineteenth-Century Africa
For Africanists, two perplexing questions have regularly surfaced over the years. Why has Africa remained so poor, and whatever happened to Richard Price? Now at least the second has been answered....
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Excrement in the Late Middle Ages: Sacred Filth and Chaucer's Fecopoetics
In York's Jorvik Viking Centre, snug in the ostentation of its own display case, is a supercilious and eye-wateringly huge human turd. Nestling in its celebrity status, this magnificent stool squats...
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Peripheral Visions: Publics, Power, and Performance in Yemen
Laleh Khalili is compelled to heap praise on a thought-provoking piece of writing
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The State of the Novel: Britain and Beyond
The title of Dominic Head's book is a trifle misleading. At a time when projects such as Franco Moretti's massive six-volume work are setting new benchmarks in extending our temporal and spatial...
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Published this week
(?) = Review forthcomingARTS AND DESIGN- Dances with Darwin, 1875-1910: Vernacular Modernity in FranceBy Rae Beth Gordon, professor of French and comparative literature, University of Connecticut....
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Henry: Virtuous Prince
Peter Gwyn finds little evidence and much speculation in David Starkey's latest offering
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Trucking Country: The Road to America's Wal-Mart Economy By Shane Hamilton
Trucking Country offers a finely crafted mix of cultural identity, regional tradition, economic history, legislative politics, political argument and policy transformation. Shane Hamilton uses the...
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Top 10 Academic Bestsellers: Blackwell, Sheffield
1. Textbook on Land Law, Twelfth Edition by Judith Ann Mackenzie and Mary Phillips. Oxford University Press, £.99. ISBN 97801995409902. Development through the Lifespan, Fourth International Edition...
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Academic Writing and Plagiarism: A Linguistic Analysis
Kim Louise Walden examines the case for a less judgmental approach to student 'misconduct'
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The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield, Volume 5, 1922
Katherine Mansfield had beauty, talent and courage, but was deeply disappointed by family and friends who left her bitter, frightened and alone. Her wealthy father would not pay for her expensive...
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The Atomic Bomb and the Origins of the Cold War
The 2010 Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference will mark the latest attempt to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons. For some it will be a chance to breathe new life into pursuing the abolition...