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Life in the Old Dons
Our more senior academics responded vigorously to last week's news in Times Higher Education that universities were not allowing dons over the age of 65 to remain in post.
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First Impressions competition: February 28 2008
This week’s competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a tale about fly-fishing:"Having harbored two sons in the waters of her womb, my mother considers...
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China Rising: Peace, Power and Order in East Asia
Steve Tsang hoped for more enlightenment on how China's ascent will shape our future
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Big ideas: The Essential Guide to the Latest Thinking
James Harkin suggests that big, serious-sounding ideas that are simple enough to be clearly expressed in several paragraphs are fashionable in the global market, as manifested by the spread of ideas-...
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Reading Joyce
Challenging the academic truism that the best criticism avoids subjectivity, David Pierce weaves into his argument a kind of diary about his own book's becoming and his experiences as a teacher,...
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Top 10 Academic Bestsellers: Blackwell, Oxford
1. Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Crosses the Line by Sudhir Venkatesh. Allen Lane, £18.99. ISBN 97807139999382. The New Cold War: How the Kremlin Menaces both Russia and the West by...
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The Secret Life of Poems: A Poetry Primer
Duncan Wu is beguiled as Tom Paulin coaxes hidden politics, pigswill and tears from well-known verse
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Jews and Europe in the Twenty-First Century: Thinking Jewish
In offering us the distilled essence of interviews he has conducted with prominent Jewish intellectuals, academics and parliamentarians in Western Europe, Nick Lambert presents us with two books in...
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The Business School and the Bottom Line
The Business School and the Bottom Line. By Ken Starkey and Nick Tiratsoo. Cambridge University Press 252pp, £25.00. ISBN 9780521865111. Published 16 August 2007I read this book while doing a circuit...
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The Book of the Week: Common Reading
Rónán McDonald lauds a fine British essayist
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The Week in Books
Arsenals of Folly: The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race by Richard Rhodes, affiliate of the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. Simon and Schuster, £20.00, ISBN...
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A New History of Anthropology
Jeremy MacClancy raises three cheers to a book that offers oft-neglected theories on the past
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The Re-Enchantment of Morality: Wisdom for a Troubled World
Richard Harries, now Lord Harries of Pentregarth, is well known as the long-serving former Bishop of Oxford and as a noted Christian apologist. His latest offering seeks to provide an introduction to...