'Core values', not pay, drive the Sydney dispute
Strikers are fighting ‘charter for managerial radicalism’, says academic
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Eat, play, learn
The highlight of the school year in France near the Pyrenees is Carnival Day, when the children from five or six village schools parade through the streets in special handmade costumes while their...
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All-terrain scholars pursue fluency in different cultures
Forum discusses efforts to increase mobility of Europe’s academics
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THE Scholarly Web - 11 April 2013
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Appointments - 11 April 2013
University of WarwickRobert HarrisonThe newly appointed professor of innovative manufacturing at WMG, the University of Warwick’s manufacturing group, said his first priority since taking up the post...
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Robert Beers, 1946-2013
An award-winning television correspondent and producer-turned-academic has died
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Hepi’s Bahram Bekhradnia on speaking truth to power
Clear sight essential, thick skin an advantage: Hepi’s outgoing director looks back on 11 years of scrutiny on the sector’s behalf. John Morgan writes
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Who’s the Pest? brings the insect world into close focus
Entomologist James Logan takes part in a Wellcome Collection series in celebration of the insect kingdom
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Roger Brown, Jim Butcher, Tina Haux, Hillegonda Rietveld and Sharon Wheeler...
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Orgasmology by Annamarie Jagose
A study of la petite mort focuses on cultural views not sociological explorations, finds Sally R. Munt
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America’s Assembly Line by David E. Nye
Howard Segal pieces together the fascinating history of a key innovation in US manufacturing
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Prospero’s Son: Life, Books, Love, and Theater by Seth Lerer
Christopher Innes applauds a memoir of tempestuous father-son relationships framed by elements of literature and performance
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The Great Indian Phone Book: How Cheap Mobile Phones Change Business, Politics and Daily Life by Robin Jeffrey and Assa Doron
Jyothsna Latha Belliappa on technology’s transformative effects
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Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time by Ira Katznelson
Christopher Phelps on a dazzling new look at the US response to the Depression
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Paleofantasy: What Evolution Really Tells Us about Sex, Diet and How We Live by Marlene Zuk
Camilla Power enjoys a demolition of prelapsarian pseudoscience