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The new Acas Code on Discipline and Grievance
In May we reported that the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service had issued for consultation a new Code of Practice on Discipline and Grievance. Acas has now issued what it hopes will be...
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Moving with the times
One happy childhood memory that I cherish is riding in a clunky old white Volvo with my much bigger big brother. I was eight. He was 23 and completing his sixth and final year of a medical degree. As...
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Top nations in materials science based on impact
Data provided by Thomson Reuters from its Essential Science Indicators database, 1 January 1998-31 August 2008
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The great divide
The discipline of anthropology has split firmly into two factions - social anthropologists and evolutionary anthropologists. Hannah Fearn asks whether or not the warring sides can be reconciled
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No awards for equity
Rather than helping poor students through their studies, universities may be using bursaries to give themselves a recruiting advantage, writes Rebecca Attwood
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Book of the Week: Honest Signals: How They Shape Our World
A 'nervous system for humanity'? John Gilbey finds a sting in the tale
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The week in books
Axis of Convenience: Moscow, Beijing and the New Geopolitics by Bobo Lo, head of the Russia and Eurasia Programme, Chatham House. Brookings Institution Press, £18.99, ISBN 9780815753407"Russia did...
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Fear, corruption and lies
David Cesarani on a historiographical landmark that probes Germany's crippled society of ruins
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Fighting for the Cross: Crusading to the Holy Land
In 1267, King Louis IX of France asked his old comrade and biographer John of Joinville to accompany him on another crusade to the East. More than 20 years before, Joinville had gone with Louis to...
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Illness
As a sociologist, not a philosopher, I must admit that I was slightly hesitant about reviewing this book. However, I am glad that I did. I can honestly say that this was one of the most profoundly...
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Ordinary heiress, extraordinary life: Patty's got a gun
Jill Radford is impressed by a study of the kidnap that gripped 1970s America - and the ensuing trial
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Playing with Planets
Gerard 't Hooft is a Nobel laureate (physics, 1999) who made important contributions to particle physics, most notably by refining the mathematical formulism of electroweak theory, an important step...
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Plowshares into Swords: From Zionism to Israel
Any history of the Middle East will have its politics. And it is good for historians to be self-conscious about their own slant, especially in such a contested area. But announcing a political...
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Mindboggling: Preliminaries to a Science of the Mind
Richard Gregory on an introduction to a way of interpreting communication and linguistics