After seven years of decline, participation rate in Scotland rises
University and college participation in Scotland is on the rise after seven years of decline.
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Book of the Week: 44 Letters from the Liquid Modern World
Les Gofton hitches a very enjoyable ride with a silver surfer heading towards the future
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Turned Out Nice: How the British Isles will Change as the World Heats Up
Steven Yearley is beguiled by smart and provocative essays that herald the arrival of profound change
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Hitch-22: A Memoir
This book has been reviewed absolutely everywhere; mostly, it seems, by Pharisees at pains to express their gratitude that they in no way resemble the great Christopher Hitchens. Indeed, The Guardian...
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The Canon: Centuries of Childhood: A Social History of Family Life by Philippe Ariès
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Philippe Ariès' L'Enfant et la Vie Familiale sous l'Ancien Régime, translated into English two years later by Robert Baldick as Centuries of...
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No Dig, No Fly, No Go: How Maps Restrict and Control
Do maps themselves contribute to the imposition and construction of social controls, asks Joni Seager
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The Child in Film: Tears, Fears and Fairy Tales
Interest in the child in film has grown in recent years, with texts such as Vicky Lebeau's Childhood and Cinema (2008) and Emma Wilson's Cinema's Missing Children (2003) offering insight into this...
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Mothers and Meaning on the Early Modern English Stage
Is that a manual?" the librarian asked when I presented him with Janet Adelman's Suffocating Mothers, her celebrated study of Shakespeare's depiction of the mother. As a casual line from a stranger,...
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Nimo's War, Emma's War: Making Feminist Sense of the Iraq War
Carrie Rentschler on an astute look at the price paid by Iraqi and US women in a time of conflict
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From Utopia to Apocalypse: Science Fiction and the Politics of Catastrophe
Call me old-fashioned, naive even, but science fiction has always appealed to me principally as a form of escapism. A means of envisaging a world - an Isaac Asimov/Arthur C. Clarke kind of a world -...
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Mountbatten: Apprentice War Lord 1900-1943
He had it all: royal blood, good looks, an immensely rich if unfaithful wife, who provided him with a mansion in Park Lane, and close friendships with film stars. He also had charm by the bucketful....
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Spas, Wells, and Pleasure-Gardens of London
Drunken, bawdy, creative - English character owes much to 18th-century pleasures, says Timothy Mowl
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The Ecological Thought
About 15 years ago, the poet Gary Snyder published an article titled "Is Nature Real?". In it he made a heartfelt complaint: "I'm getting grumpy about the slippery arguments being put forth by high-...
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Play it Again: Cover Songs in Popular Music
These numbers describe the respective cover versions I own of the Arctic Monkeys' I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor, Blue Oyster Cult's Don't Fear the Reaper, Ian and Sylvia's Four Strong Winds...
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ARTS AND DESIGN- Anarchism and the Advent of Paris Dada: Art and Criticism, 1914-1924By Theresa Papanikolas, curator of European and American art, Honolulu Academy of ArtsAshgate, £55.00ISBN...