Sex: Vice and Love from Antiquity to Modernity
Few people talk straight when it comes to sex - even otherwise very straight people tend to become coy, facetious, sanctimonious or simply silent. This book examines the role played by Greece and...
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The Canon: Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
"Problem-posing education is revolutionary futurity. Hence it is prophetic (and, as such, hopeful)." So wrote Brazilian educator Paulo Freire in Pedagogy of the Oppressed (1968), one of the 20th...
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To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World
A detailed and informed social critique of Christianity in the US today fascinates Keith Ward
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Attlee: A Life in Politics
A biographer of Clement Attlee faces the problem that his subject may, as Nicklaus Thomas-Symonds concedes, have had "no significant personality at all". Most contemporaries seem to have agreed that...
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The Political Power of Bad Ideas: Networks, Institutions, and the Global Prohibition Wave
The back cover of Mark Lawrence Schrad's book describes it as a tour de force. Drawing on research in three different languages (Russian, Swedish and English), with 65 pages of footnotes, it merits...
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The People's University: A History of the California State University
The UK could learn lessons from a fascinating history of California's universities, finds Alan Ryan
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Personal Connections in the Digital Age
Everyone has an opinion about the impact that new information and communication technologies (ICT) have on our lives, and anecdotes abound about the things they have done to us and our relationships...
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Published This Week
ART AND DESIGN- Francesca Woodman and the Kantian SublimeBy Claire Raymond, faculty member in the department of sociology, University of Virginia. Ashgate, £50.00. ISBN 9780754663447In her feminist...
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News in brief
United StatesBiden vamps research cashUS vice-president Joe Biden has held a meeting with university leaders at the White House to draw attention to the $18 billion (£11.5 billion) in federal...
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Sex and blogs and shock 'n' tell journalism
Taboos are tumbling as the modern student press becomes increasingly X-rated. Kaite Welsh reports
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Grant Winners
THE LEVERHULME TRUSTRESEARCH PROJECT GRANTSBasic sciencesAward winner: Hui LuInstitution: University of ManchesterValue: £157,487Towards an understanding of weak and transient protein-protein...
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Blogconfidential: Playing away
Each week, Dr Margot Feelbetter poses a dilemma and offers advice for readers to respond to online. This week: Playing away
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Appointments
University of HullGraham ScottAn Ed Wood Teaching Award from the Higher Education Academy has made Graham Scott unashamedly proud. "People say that awards aren't important, but they are," said the...
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Top UK Institutions in ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS
Top UK Institutions in ECONOMICS AND BUSINESSData provided by Thomson Reuters from its Essential Science Indicators, January 2000-June 2010UK rankWorld rank InstitutionPapersCitationsCites/...
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Face of higher education to change for ever in 15 years
Authors argue growing numbers and tight budgets will create university 'tiers'. John Morgan reports