Anonymity: A Secret History of English Literature
Defoe, Pope, Eliot, Bronte: Duncan Wu on the literary lights with a weakness for pseudonyms.
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Germany: The Long Road West. Volume II: 1933-1990
Historians often have to tread a fine line. On the one hand, there is the ideal of historical objectivity and unbiased research, however fractured this admittedly unattainable goal may appear to...
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Top 10 Academic Bestsellers: Blackwell, Sheffield
1. Integrated Dental Treatment Planning: A Case-Based Approach by Elizabeth J. Kay, Ann C. Shearer, Andrea M. Bridgman and Gerald M. Humphris. Oxford University Press, £25.99 ISBN 9780198528890.2....
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Romance in the Ivory Tower: The Rights and Liberty of Conscience
Sex in the academy dates back to Socrates, but universities today still struggle to deal with the issue. Alan Ryan considers the conundrum of student-staff relationships.
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Shakespeare in Parts
Academic Shakespeare is shattered. In place of the assumptions of transcendent greatness, universality and entirety, iconoclastic Shakespeare rejects canonical status, eschews ideas of organic...
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Book of the Week: Torture and Democracy
Alex Danchev tackles an unsettling subject
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The week in books
John Milton: Poet, Pamphleteer and Patriot by Anna Beer, Bloomsbury, £20.00, ISBN 9780747584254."Anna Beer's (lecturer in literature and a fellow of Kellogg College, Oxford) biography is scholarly,...
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First Impressions competition: 17 January 2008
This week’s competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a sea-faring voyage of self-discovery:"Of all the things that drive men to sea, the most common...
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This Is Your Brain on Music: Understanding a Human Obsession
Daniel Levitin’s This Is Your Brain on Music was written for the general reader, and it is to his credit that many parts of this book are interesting and stimulating. I can see how it might help to...
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Published this week
Anthropology• At Home in the Chinese Diaspora: Memories, Identities and Belongings By Khun Eng Kuah-Pearce, associate professor, head of the department of sociology and honorary academic director of...
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Those who mean business can boost their bottom line
The Technology Strategy Board has £1bn to invest in industry-focused R&D, writes Zoe Corbyn.
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Grant winners
The Wellcome TrustAwards made for new clinical and joint basic/clinical PhD programmes as part of a £40 million investment in postgraduate biomedical research training, and designed for clinicians...
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An arresting job
Sue Palmer is keen to work on improving police communications skills and to dispel the view that they are all 'thickies'.
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Appointments
The University of Teesside's Janice Webster has been named one of the UK's most enterprising academics. The accolade was awarded by UPBEAT, a project funded by the Higher Education Funding Council...
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Researchers' web use could make libraries redundant
Study says university collections are not meeting the needs of the Google generation, writes John Gill