First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is by an author who, like Wilkie Collins, wrote what was termed "sensation novels": "Faint streaks of crimson...
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A symphony of the arts in high notes and banknotes
The Culture of the Europeans
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Eaten away by the acids of modernity
The Cambridge History of Christianity, Volume Eight, World Christianities c.1815-c.1914 - Volume Nine World Christianities c.1914-c.2000
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Servility buried in the psyche
Jewish Slavery in Antiquity
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Truths in the undergrowth
A Dictionary of Jewish-Christian Relations
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FA is no match for the divine
The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Studies
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Right time and place for a new lease of life
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
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Princelings, plutocracy and peregrinations
Academic Charisma and the Origins of the Research University
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Conservative clerics committed to progress
Protestant Theology and the Making of the Modern German University
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Crystallise learning in a goggle-eyed way
It may conjure up visions of awe-struck 1950s cinema audiences decked out in white cardboard spectacles flinching from images looming out of the screen, but 3-D technology has been embraced in the...
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Plagiarists face clampdown
More cases of academic fraud come to light as institutions embrace zero-tolerance culture, reports Phil Baty Twenty-five UK academics have been found guilty of research misconduct in the past three...
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'I think there is leadership potential in us but not in our chromosomes'
Anne Sibbald has been appointed head of organisational development at Glasgow Caledonian University Anne Sibbald, who has become head of organisational development at Glasgow Caledonian University,...
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On the move...
* Randal Richards , director of research and innovation at the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, has been appointed interim chief executive. * Author, dramatist, musician and nurse...
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Hire more from abroad, UK told
Asian rival in London is latest wake-up call for UK about harsh realities of globalisation, writes Tony Tysome More academic jobs in the UK should go to overseas candidates to ensure that British...