The Garden and the Fire: Heaven and Hell in Islamic Culture
A study of paradise and perdition in the Koran and other sources is recommended by Youssef Choueiri
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Passing the Plate: Why American Christians Don't Give Away More Money
There are at least two ways of doing social science. The traditional way is to observe a phenomenon, often a problem or a puzzle, and then explain it. For example, why are divorce rates in society X...
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Ad Women: How They Impact What We Need, Want and Buy
Despite its title, Ad Women is more a history of the development of US consumer culture viewed through a female lens. Throughout there is a tension between the feminine and the feminist, which is...
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Closed Minds? Politics and Ideology in American Universities
A study of top US institutions fails to see the bigger picture, says Linda M. Perkins
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Living with Enza: The Forgotten Story of Britain and the Great Flu Pandemic of 1918
The rise in flu cases registered in the UK just before Christmas saw infection rates reach an eight-year peak, duly dubbed a "crisis" by some newspapers.This wave of illness affected 60, 70 or...
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Civic War and the Corruption of the Citizen
Peter Meyers' search for the answer to the question of when the war against terrorism began represents a noble attempt to engage with the confusing state of contemporary international relations.As...
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From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession
Business schools should reassert their intellectual status not focus on revenue, says Malcolm Gillies
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?= Review forthcomingBIOLOGICAL SCIENCESDarwin Studies: A Theorist and his Theories in their ContextsBy M.J.S. Hodge, senior fellow in history and philosophy of science, University of LeedsAshgate, £...
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From where I sit - The rise of the manager class
The increasing bureaucratisation and the ascendancy of managerialism in mainland China's universities has been a worry for some time, but now a scholar has produced data to show that the concerns are...
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No ultimatum for our Vice-Chancellor
Shock was expressed this week at the news that our Vice-Chancellor was one of the few higher education executives in the country not currently facing an ultimatum from their Board of Governors.In an...
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Return to an age of reason
Kevin Fong welcomes Obama's promise to restore the importance of science
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Off Piste: Lifetime kicks
Cary Cooper reflects on the ups and downs, the friendships and rivalries, the knife-edge thrills and raw passion of years spent loving a tribal and beautiful game
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Leader: Short-term outlook, no blue skies
By forcing academics to do R&D for industry, ministers stifle the type of curiosity-driven work that delivers the biggest bangs
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Nigel Yates, 1944-2009
Nigel Yates, an internationally renowned ecclesiastical historian, has died.
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Modest revolt to save research from red tape
Research councils recently reminded us that they are required to demonstrate the impact of the research they fund. These bodies, our proxies for protecting the health and development of academic...