Top 10 Academic Bestsellers: Blackwell, London WC2
1. The Logic of Life: Uncovering the New Economics of Everything by Tim Harford. Little, Brown Book Group, £18.99. ISBN 978031605642. Longman Pocket English Dictionary. Longman, £9.40. ISBN...
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French Laughter: Literary Humour From Diderot to Tournier
Christie Davies admires a playful look at the sly, carnal and punning humour of France
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The Dismal Science: How Thinking Like an Economist Undermines Community
The separation of professions," wrote Adam Ferguson, friend to Adam Smith and the father of sociology, in 1767, "seems to promise improvement of skill, and is actually the cause why the productions...
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Experiments in Ethics
Philosophy in the 20th century conceived of itself as distinct from empirical disciplines. Kwame Anthony Appiah's project is to bring economics, psychology and philosophy back together; to...
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The Fat Jesus: Feminist Explorations in Boundaries and Transgressions
Rachel Muers on a work about the vital religious issues played out in women’s relationship to food
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The Excursion by William Wordsworth
I shed tears because I couldn’t praise it as I wanted.” Hazlitt’s sad comment on Wordsworth’s Excursion stands as the epitaph to a great poem that readers have often found hard to like. For...
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ArtThe Pacific Arts of Polynesia and MicronesiaBy Adrienne L. Kaeppler, curator of oceanic ethnology, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DCOxford University Press, £12.99ISBN 9780192842381 Featuring...
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First Impressions competition: March 27 2008
This week’s competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a feminist treatment of American slavery:“I was born a slave; but I never knew it until six years of...
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Scottish super-university mooted
Task force considers reforms including mergers and abolishing SFC. Tariq Tahir reportsReforms aimed at creating one Scottish university that ranks among the world's top 20 institutions, and mergers...
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Student loans 'subsidise' top earners as low paid struggle
LSE economist urges review of funding system and a higher fees cap, says Rebecca Attwood
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HEA looks to raise bar and boost profile
Academy's chair tells Rebecca Attwood of five-year plan to help deliver 'highest quality learning'
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Site for scurrilous innuendo causes pain on US campuses
Universities struggle to halt gossip that humiliates students and academics alike, writes John Gill
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Use overseas arms to fund mission, expert says
Every UK university should consider opening outposts abroad or expanding online course provision to overseas students to help secure their futures.That is the view of Kelvin Everest, director of...
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UK sees 24% rise in Indian students
And total numbers of students from non-EU countries up by 7 per cent. John Gill reports
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Overseas Briefing
INDIAUNIVERSITIES 'LACK HIGH STANDARDS'Only 30 per cent of Indian universities offer "high quality" education, according to a report by India's parliamentary estimates committee. It says: "It was...