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Sales of the century
Privatisation and Popular Capitalism
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Testimony to the demise of recovery
Paying For Inequality
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The faithful dispersed
Islam, Globalisation and Postmodernity
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The life and times of black gold
The Political Economy of International Oil
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The politics of fair exchange
Democracy and International Trade
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Unreliable recovery vehicles
Unchained Memories
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from an author who was born in El Quds: "If the knowledge of Orientalism has any meaning, it is in being a reminder of the seductive degradation of knowledge, of any...
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Speaking Volumes: New Society (1962-87)
Simon Frith on New Society (1962-87). When New Society was launched (as the social sciences' own New Scientist) on October 4, 1962, I was still at school. I bought the magazine every week and read it...
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Simon Cooke, who is researching the work of Wilkie Collins for a PhD at the University of Exeter, seeks a copy of Collins's I Say No, along with illustrated copies of any of the other novels. If...
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Honorary degrees
UNIVERSITY OF EAST LONDON: Doctor of Arts: Michael Young, director of the Centre for Community Studies and trustee of Dartington Hall (1942-92); Harold Pinter, playwright. Doctor of Design: Cedric...
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Grants
UNIVERSITY OF SURREY: Research grants Dr B. Weiss, Pounds 100,161 from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (gratings and amplifiers fabricated in planar Si02 structures using ion...
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Events
CAFAS: The Council for Academic Freedom and Standards will hold a meeting tomorrow, Saturday, January 28 in room MB307 at Birkbeck College, Malet Street, WC1 (nearest tube: Goodge Street). The...
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Chairs
UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN: David Alexander, senior lecturer, now has a personal chair in mental health (psychotherapy). UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON: Personal chairs have been conferred on: Pat Hendra (...
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Writer's past retreat
(Photograph) - Writer's past retreat: playwright Harold Pinter has received an honorary degree from the University of East London. He is pictured here outside his Worthing home in 1965.