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ARTS AND DESIGN- Architecture by Birds and Insects: A Natural ArtBy Peggy Macnamara, associate professor, School of the Art Institute of ChicagoUniversity of Chicago Press, £13.00ISBN 9780226500973A...
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From where I sit: China's media world is too small
China is becoming increasingly worried about the rising number of students taking journalism and communications courses when it is impossible for all the graduates to find work in a strictly...
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Poppleton students only 'marginally' less satisfied than before
Our Director of Corporate Affairs, Jamie Targett, was quick to find reassurance in the news from the 2008 National Student Survey that student satisfaction at Poppleton had decreased by only 4 per...
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Don't knock knowledge
Kevin Fong says the experiments at Cern represent science at its finest
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Leader: A case of considered judgment
Here's a shock: academics know how to assess work and reach mostly the same conclusions about what mark is meritedWhen we decided to conduct our Big Marking Experiment, we set out with only one...
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Gail Braybon, 1952-2008
Gail Braybon, the pioneering feminist historian of the Great War, has died.Born in Southampton in 1952, Ms Braybon attended Southampton School for Girls and studied history at the University of...
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Plan for £29m Oxford book depository shelved
The University of Oxford's plans for a £29 million book storage facility, which the university has argued is essential to protect the future of the Bodleian library, have been killed off by the...
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A path toward major change
Literary Theory: A ReintroductionAuthor: David AyersEdition: FirstPublisher: Wiley-BlackwellPages: 256Price: £12.99ISBN 9781405136013A quarter of a century ago Terry Eagleton wrote Literary Theory:...
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Literature
LITERARY THEORY: AN INTRODUCTIONAuthor: Terry EagletonEdition: AnniversaryPublisher: Wiley-BlackwellPages: 248Price: £16.99ISBN 9781405179218Criticism dates, art doesn't - but that doesn't mean we...
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Traditional canon, with critical views
Key Concepts in Renaissance LiteratureAuthor: Malcolm HebronEdition: FirstPublisher: Palgrave MacmillanPages: 304Price: £13.99ISBN 9780230507678This is an immensely readable reference book. The text...
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Literature
RENAISSANCE DRAMAAuthor: Sandra ClarkEdition: FirstPublisher: PolityPages: 232Price: £50.00 and £16.99ISBN 9780745633107 and 3114Sandra Clark rejects a Shakespeare-centred approach in this...
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Lasting words in a time of upheaval
Twentieth-Century Irish LiteratureAuthor: Aaron KellyEdition: FirstPublisher: Palgrave MacmillanPages: 216Price: £45.00 and £14.99ISBN 9780230517189 and 7196Ireland's literary output during the 20th...
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Phoenix-like, old ways are transformed
Research Methods for Cultural StudiesEditor: Michael PickeringEdition: FirstPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPages: 256Price: £55.00 and £17.99ISBN 9780748625772 and 5789Research Methods for...
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Lights, camera, action - but no illumination of flattering angles
A Short History of FilmAuthors: Wheeler Winston Dixon and Gwendolyn Audrey FosterEdition: FirstPublisher: I.B. TaurisPages: 492Price: £42.00 and £14.99ISBN 9781845118006 and 8013Six film stills adorn...
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Cultural, media and gender studies
KEY CONCEPTS IN CULTURAL STUDIESAuthor: Maja MikulaEdition: FirstPublisher: Palgrave MacmillanPages: 256Price: £13.99ISBN 9780230006461Organised alphabetically, this resource provides a selection of...