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Beanbags, postbags and a new perspective
Tara Brabazon offers her students funky furniture and an opportunity to find out what their international peers are up to
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Top nations in economics and business based on impact
Data provided by Thomson Reuters from its Essential Science Indicators database, 1 January 1998-30 June 2008
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Unwelcome complements
Scientists say degree courses in complementary therapies and alternative medicine are 'baloney' and 'mumbo-jumbo'. CAM academics disagree passionately. Zoe Corbyn checks out the fray
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Big bang theories
Sex is researched across many disciplines, but there are no certificated courses in sexology in the UK. Matthew Reisz considers some of the scientists who are focusing on sexual functioning and...
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Feeding a fine hunger
Whatever their social and cultural backgrounds, students will flourish if we take them seriously and impart a love of our subject, says Frank Furedi
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30 October 2008
Sore points - Does complementary and alternative medicine have a place in the academy?
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THE Awards 2008: winners announced
Choosing the 18 winners from the shortlisted entries has been extremely difficult and they can rightly be proud of their success: each represents excellence in their field and we congratulate them...
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New routes from past to present
A.W. Purdue on ten years of adroit scholarship that helped to revitalise a discipline in Britain
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The Modern Interior
The visual reticence of this little book, 20 x 15 cm, with a grey cover showing a black-and-white photograph, undersells the expansiveness, diversity and materiality of its subject. The title is...
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American Power and the Prospects for International Order
There often seems to be little common ground between the hyper-realist, often hawkish style of analysis associated with Robert Kagan, and the hyper-critical type of the Chomskyan variety that regards...
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Book of the week: William Hazlitt: The First Modern Man
Drummond Bone does not warm to a harsh critic but enjoys his cut-throat literary world
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The week in books
The Decline and Fall of the British Empire by Piers Brendon, fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge. Vintage Press, £9.99, ISBN 9780712668460"The true symbol of the British Empire is the moustache,...
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Reformation: is it still relevant?
Charlotte Methuen on Early Protestantism's continuing influence on modern-day culture
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Defiant Publics: The Unprecedented Reach of the Global Citizen
Daniel Drache, professor of political science at York University in Toronto, describes recent developments in activism connected to the internet and communications revolution in a book that new...