Shakespeare and Impure Aesthetics
Shakespeare has perennially been perceived as in need of rescue. In the 18th century, a squadron of editors, including Pope and Johnson, sought to rescue Shakespeare's drama from corruption on stage...
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The Trials of Academe: The New Era of Campus Litigation
Academic freedom is not a licence for sloppy or unprofessional behaviour, says David Palfreyman
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The Artist's Eyes: Vision and the History of Art
Alex Danchev on a clear-sighted, but narrowly focused, study
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? = Review forthcomingBUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT- The Library of Corporate ResponsibilitiesEdited by Tom D. Campbell, professorial fellow, Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, Charles Sturt...
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Why Hasn't Everything Already Disappeared?
John Armitage contemplates a meditation on our preoccupation with vanishings and reappearances
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Safer Sex in the City: The Experience and Management of Street Prostitution
This edited volume focuses on the violence experienced by street sex workers and examines how street prostitution could be managed to reduce the risk of violence, its two sections dealing with the...
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Losing the News: The Future of the News That Feeds Democracy
As newspaper owners around the world battle with the problem of trying to find a way of making news on the web pay, this should be a very timely book - and it almost is.Alex Jones brings a special...
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Always look on the bright side!
"Cuts! Bring them on." That was the defiant response of our thrusting Director of Corporate Affairs, Jamie Targett, to the swingeing reductions in university funding announced by Lord Mandelson.In a...
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The creative chaos theory
Tidiness and academic work just don't go together, believes Sally Feldman
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Research intelligence: In search of Chimerical Eve
A UCL fellowship has given a top scientist the freedom to research the origins of complex life. Rose Wilkinson reports
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A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Off Piste: Turntable revolution
For the young Robert Appelbaum, music was his guide, teaching him the language of life and leading him ever further away from the musicals of his parents to John Coltrane - and back
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Leader: Factor in the human equation
The liberal arts feel threatened by indifference and the impact agenda. Can we recognise their true worth before they are gone?
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From where I sit: Presidency politics
With more than 18,000 colleges in India, why did the decision to make one of them a university make the national headlines?For one, this decision pertains to Kolkata's Presidency College, which is...
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Obituary: Sir Hugh Lloyd-Jones, 1922-2009
A leading Classics scholar, known for his forceful views on Christians, socialists, many of his fellow academics and most aspects of the modern world, has died.Sir Hugh Lloyd-Jones was born on 21...