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Technology and Social PowerAuthor: Graeme KirkpatrickEdition: FirstPublisher: Palgrave MacmillanPages: 192Price: £55.00 and £19.99ISBN 9781403947284 and 7307This book clarifies the place of...
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Hot papers in microbiology, 2006-2008
Data provided by Thomson Reuters from its Essential Science Indicators
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Practical knowledge
Although its candidates often lead their fields, the professional doctorate still attracts disdain, and a lack of standardisation does not help. John Gill writes
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This involves what exactly?
Amid the marketing puffery and opaque jargon, many prospectuses fail to explain what a course is really about, students complain. Matthew Reisz looks over the good, the bad and the flannel
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26 February 2009
Absolute value - Denham concentrates minds and budgets
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Rethinking the relationship between feeling and typing
Sainsbury’s is filled with surprises. Jamie Oliver’s visage smiles from most aisles. He is meant to inspire us to care, cook and consume. I must be missing something. From my perspective, he is about...
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Bullied Blogger: Work is dominating my life
16 February: After meeting with Colin Horrocks from the union I am presented with a terrible dilemma. What should I do? He seems to think that I have a case for a grievance or that I should opt for...
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Lord Dearing dies
The man who helped shape the modern higher education landscape has passed away. John Gill reports
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Sara Baartman and The Hottentot Venus: A Ghost Story and a Biography
Kaila Adia Story lauds this powerful effort to reclaim the history of a woman abused by European society
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Against and for CBT: Towards a Constructive Dialogue?
It would be difficult for anyone outside the therapy professions to get their head around this book without knowing something of the politico-economic background that generated it. For at least the...
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Liberation: The Bitter Road to Freedom, Europe 1945-1950
William Hitchcock's aim is to depict the human face of war and liberation in Europe. His subtitle refers to the misery suffered by civilians who discovered during liberation that the Allies'...
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Book of the week: 13 Things That Don't Make Sense
This study suggests that science has lost its way, says Robert Matthews
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The week in books
Maurice Bowra: A Life by Leslie Mitchell, emeritus fellow in modern history, University College, Oxford Oxford University Press, £25.00, ISBN 9780199295845"(Bowra's) attitudes to science and...
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Backstage at the Revolution
Brian Vick praises a study that explains how a bastion of opulence outlasted the sans-culottes
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The Persistence of the Classical: Essays on Architecture presented to David Watkin
This beautiful book is a tribute to a distinguished architectural historian on the occasion of his retirement from the University of Cambridge, and includes a useful bibliography of David Watkin's...