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(?) = 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...
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Book of the week: The Strangest Man
Jocelyn Bell Burnell finds much truth in the stories about a taciturn physicist
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The week in books
America: Empire of Liberty by David Reynolds, professor of international history and fellow, Christ's College, Cambridge. Allen Lane, £30.00, ISBN 9781846140563"Tracing the long dialectic between...
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In Reckless Hands: Skinner v Oklahoma and the Near-Triumph of American Eugenics
Susan Currell examines the story behind the legal battle against forced sterilisation of convicts
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Leeds Met v-c resigns
Simon Lee will leave at the end of the academic year. Melanie Newman reports
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From where I sit - Moving deckchairs on the Titanic
British academics contemplating the research assessment exercise over a glass of something strong would do well to consider the alternative: working in a university system that makes no attempt to...
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We shall not be moved!
Happiness is an academic job at Poppleton. That is the conclusion to be drawn from the recent joint report from the Universities and Colleges Employers Association and Universities UK on staff...
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Brooking the chasm
Sally Feldman urges partnerships with both Israel's and Palestine's academies
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Off Piste: The queue's the thing
National Theatre-going regular Rivka Isaacson finds compelling drama in the early morning cast of characters waiting to buy day tickets