Patent Failure: How Judges, Bureaucrats and Lawyers Put Innovators at Risk
Fiona Reid dissects an analysis that aims to move patent policy beyond faith and towards evidence
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Klezmer America: Jewishness, Ethnicity, Modernity
Jonathan Freedman's outstanding previous book revealed how American Jews entered the cultural mainstream in the 1950s and 1960s and, in so doing, began to transform what had previously marginalised...
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Ezra Pound's Chinese Friends: Stories in Letters
Ezra Pound's fascination with Chinese literature, history and culture spanned pretty much his whole poetic career. Even before late 1913 when he received - in the papers of the late Ernest Fenollosa...
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The Book of the Week: Hitler's Empire: Nazi Rule in Occupied Europe
Benjamin Ziemann on Nazi lust for Lebensraum
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The Week in Books
Last Witnesses: The Muggletonian History, 1652-1979 by William Lamont, emeritus professor of history, University of Sussex. Ashgate, £55.00, ISBN 9780754655329"I don't think that verticality can...
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Quality Improvement in Adult Vocational Education and Training: Transforming Skills for the Global Economy
Geoffrey Alderman regrets the omissions in an insiders' tale of the Adult Learning Inspectorate
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On Eloquence
Eloquence does not kill people," Denis Donoghue announces in the opening pages of this paradoxically meditative polemic, which will be of particular interest to those interested in formalist...
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Does Ethics Have a Chance in a World of Consumers?
How on earth does Zygmunt Bauman do it? He published 15 or 16 books in Poland before he was chucked out in an anti-Semitic purge soon after the brief hopes of 1968. Since 1971, a book a year, and now...
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Top 10 Academic Bestsellers: Blackwell, Salford
1. Social Work Practice by Veronica Coulshed and Joan Orme Macmillan, £17.99 ISBN 97814039215502. Social Work Practice: Assessment, Planning, Intervention and Review by Jonathan Parker and Greta...
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Guesstimation: Solving the World's Problems on the Back of a Cocktail Napkin
While Tony Mann risks buying ice-cream that might melt, others puzzle over fridge insurance and health
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Henry Kissinger and the American Century
The West," wrote Henry Kissinger in 1965, "requires nothing so much as men able to create their own reality." Within a decade, the Harvard academic would have done just that, recasting himself as the...
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Making Waves: New Cinemas of the 1960s
As we commemorate the 40th anniversary of the events of 1968, it is perhaps only appropriate that a new book has come out on the revolutionary cinema of that decade. As the author, Geoffrey Nowell-...
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ECONOMICS- When I'm Sixty-Four: The Plot against Pensions and the Plan to Save ThemBy Teresa Ghilarducci, Schwartz chair in economic policy and director of SCEPA, New School for Social Research....
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Successful seminars
Ensuring that seminar attendance is high and debate is productive
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Working abroad
If the idea of a foreign placement appeals, you may wish to investigate programmes that give you a taste of work abroad before you take the plunge