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
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'I'm leaving the sexiest job in higher education'
The RCA's departing chief tells Rebecca Attwood he's proud to have pushed creative arts to centre stage
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University College for the Creative Arts - New name, new title bestowed
Full university status has been bestowed on the University College for the Creative Arts. From September, the institution will be known simply as the University for the Creative Arts. Elaine Thomas,...
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University of Bolton - Sports injuries clinic to set pace
A new clinic for the treatment of sports and spinal injuries has been opened at the University of Bolton. The centre, which specialises in musculoskeletal injuries, sports science and massage, is run...