What are you reading? – 18 April 2019
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
Unconditional offers harm A-level performance, but contextual offers do not – and they better target social mobility, says John Law
Tudor shades of emotional grey, China's 'overquota' generation, pithy philosophy and 1930s London's electric dreams: unmissable scholarly books
Ever since the tragedy caused by hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2008, the world has had its doubts about the longevity of "The City that Care Forgot". Long associated with carefree music and fleshly...
Could robots offer our ageing populations care in their dotage, even love? Can machines genuinely become social beings? Will androids one day dream of electric sheep? Kathleen Richardson examines the...
That Sweet Enemy - The Almost Impossible Ally - Instructions for British Servicemen in France 1944
Outraged by Lancaster's links with an arms firm and the prosecution of activists, academics went on a word offensive. Adam James explains In January, a peeved vice-chancellor e-mailed Bill Rammell,...
Famous First Bubbles
The number of Taiwanese students at university in Britain has soared over the past ten years. In 1986, only 167 were studying here. This year there are more than 12,000. The explosion reflects the...
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