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Play the low-down campus cowboy blues for me
Country music is ethnography with a banjo, and Tara Brabazon discovers that it is as relevant to university life and Friday-night Eastbourne as it is to Appalachia
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Hot papers in psychiatry and psychology 2006-2008
Data provided by Thomson Reuters from its Essential Science Indicators database
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Dress codes and religious discrimination in educational institutions
There have been a number of recent cases in which individuals have challenged organisations’ dress codes on the ground that the code prevents them from wearing items that they consider to be...
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Behind the scenes at the academy
A letter to this publication criticising the National Student Survey led to the abrupt departure of a senior official from the organisation presiding over teaching and learning in the UK and a storm...
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The great, the good and the ugly
Astronauts, actors, controversial politicians and a Muppet are among those to have landed an honorary degree. So is it all a populist stunt or is there a credible rationale for such awards? asks...
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Putting down the big stick
Joseph S. Nye is part of a long line of US academics who have helped shape foreign policy. A former Clinton adviser, now in the Obama camp, he tells Huw Richards how America can restore its tattered...
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7 August 2008
Whose hand runs the show? - What the Lee Harvey affair reveals about the Higher Education Academy
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An argument for engagement
Howard Davies on a call for the citizenry to increase their level of involvement in democracy
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Physicists on Wall Street - and Other Essays on Science, Politics, Language and Literature
Jeremy Bernstein has had a fine dual career as theoretical physicist and writer. Combining the two, his efforts to take readers inside the minds of other physicists have offered insight into some of...
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The Last Cigarette
What does it take to be a successful diarist? The number-one quality is probably honesty, something Simon Gray has in spades, especially in situations that reflect badly on him. Take, for instance,...
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Top 10 Academic Bestsellers: Blackwell, Portsmouth
1. Blackstone's Statutes on Employment Law 2007-2008 edited by Richard Kidner Oxford University Press, £16.99 ISBN 97801992117152. An Experiential Approach to Organization Development by Donald Brown...
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The credo of rational stupidity
But Huw Dixon refuses to economise on brain effort and remains sceptical of the mysteries of price tags
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Think On My Words: Exploring Shakespeare's Language
The recent proliferation of popular biographies of Shakespeare, including that by Bill Bryson, is evidence that the market for books on the Bard is as buoyant as ever: the recent fame of Lynne Truss...
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Art in an Age of Civil Struggle, 1848-1871: A Social History of Modern Art, Volume 4
In the early 1970s, the publication of Albert Boime's The Academy and French Painting in the Nineteenth Century, Linda Nochlin's Realism and T.J. Clark's investigation of art and politics in France...