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Eyes Wide Open: How To Make Smart Decisions In A Confusing World, by Noreena Hertz
Omar Malik concurs with the considered advice on decision-making but seeks more understanding about the process
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Sino-Japanese Relations After the Cold War: Two Tigers Sharing a Mountain, by Michael Yahuda
Jonathan Mirsky on the politics and economics of the relationship between rapidly developing China and stagnating Japan
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The Curve: From Freeloaders into Superfans: The Future of Business, by Nicholas Lovell
Finola Kerrigan is not convinced by a proposed new way of doing business
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Down to the Sea in Ships: Of Ageless Oceans and Modern Men, by Horatio Clare
Philip Hoare on the global market’s manifest destiny
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50 Great Myths About Atheism, by Russell Blackford and Udo Schüklenk
Martin Cohen on a mishmash of well-intentioned ideas
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A Union Forever: The Irish Question and U.S. Foreign Relations in the Victorian Age, by David Sim
It was Civil War not Fenianism that prompted Anglo-American tensions, argues Donald M. MacRaild
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Reputational damage
The reckless pursuit of rank threatens the academy’s future, argues Roger Brown
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Informative stand-up guys
My claim that the lecture remains justifiably at the heart of university education is rejected by Graham Gibbs in his rather condescending appeal to authority, in which he compares me (along with...
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Ivor Crewe on why Whitehall blows it again and again
New head of Academy of Social Sciences probed government mistakes and found no shortage of data
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Anglo-Israeli allies’ regenerative properties
Scientific share options flourish despite calls for boycott
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David Willetts on the case for expansion
We’ll make the principles of Robbins a 21st-century reality, minister promises
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Already a testing process, entry may get even more so
Oxbridge pair predict more use of assessments of potential in admissions
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Universities dig deep to keep scholarships alive
A number of universities have decided to use their own funds to replace state scholarship money that was axed last year
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Headaches for Uclan over foreign campuses
Thailand, Cyprus and Sri Lanka initiatives bring fiscal losses and criticism