She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England before Elizabeth
Hester Vaizey hails a vivid portrayal of the queens who thwarted the constraints on their sex
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The Flooded Earth: Our Future in a World without Ice Caps
A chilling look at our possible destiny indicates the limits of human adaptability, says Barry Brook
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Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture
Few moments in 20th-century American popular music have been quite so maligned as the disco years. They are inevitably characterised as a tasteless age defined by testosterone-charged men strutting...
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The Canon: How War Came: The Immediate Origins of the Second World War, 1938-1939 by Donald Cameron Watt
My relationship with How War Came began in 1989. I was a wide-eyed history postgraduate at the University of Toronto. I enrolled in a course on the causes of the Second World War and our tutor told...
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Derrida: Profanations
Robert Eaglestone applauds an important but rather obscure interpretation of Derrida's work
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How to Teach Quantum Physics to Your Dog
If you have spent your life wondering how to understand one of the most counter-intuitive branches of science without going near the heavy mathematics, then this book may be for you. Armed with an...
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Karl Polanyi: The Limits of the Market
This is a long-overdue comprehensive analysis of the work of institutional economist and political commentator, Karl Polanyi. Gareth Dale's book strikes a helpful balance between, on the one hand, a...
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Field rankings for Russia
FIELD RANKINGS FOR RUSSIA Data provided by Thomson Reuters from its Essential Science Indicators, January 2000-June 2010 Field Papers CitationsCitations per paperWorld average % +/–...
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Blogconfidential: Room 101 here we come
Each week, Dr Margot Feelbetter poses a dilemma and offers advice for readers to respond to online. This week: Room 101 here we come
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Appointments
Robert Gordon UniversityFerdinand von ProndzynskiScotland is to get its first tweeting vice-chancellor with the appointment of Ferdinand von Prondzynski (@vonprond) at Robert Gordon University. The...
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ifs School of Finance - Banking on it
One of the few private providers in the UK to possess taught degree-awarding powers has launched its first full-time undergraduate programme. The BSc (Hons) in banking practice and management at the...
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University of East Anglia - Improving read
In an initiative to bridge cultural differences on campus, first-year students have been given a free copy of a novel previously shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. More than 5,000 copies of In the...
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University of the West of England - Are friends electronic?
A university has joined forces with a computer company to launch a degree that both organisations hope will boost graduate employability in the industry. As part of the collaboration between the...
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University Campus Suffolk - Every little helps
A grant scheme has been set up that allows local groups and individuals to bid for small pots of money from a university. The Community Grant Scheme run by University Campus Suffolk supports groups...
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Edge Hill University - Learning how to learn
An induction programme has been launched to help students develop their academic skills as they start university. The academic liaison team at Edge Hill University has developed the programme to show...