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Electricity, directed by Bryn Higgins
Agyness Deyn unflinchingly portrays a womanās experience of epilepsy in this unconventional fairy tale
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Cinema of the Dark Side: Atrocity and the Ethics of Film Spectatorship, by Shohini Chaudhuri
Film-makers are challenging mainstream media depictions of state terror, finds Linnie Blake
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The Winter of Discontent: Myth, Memory, and History, by Tara Martin LĆ³pez
Clare Griffiths on the things that were remembered and the things that were forgotten about the crisis
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The Visitor: AndrƩ Palmeiro and the Jesuits in Asia, by Liam Matthew Brockey
Ana Carolina Hosne on a 17th-century figure who had āimperial ambitionsā for the Society of Jesus
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The Myth of Race: The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea, by Robert Wald Sussman
Racial structure is cemented by theories on the fixed nature of the āotherā, finds Yolanda T. Moses
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From Dust to Life: The Origin and Evolution of our Solar System, by John Chambers and Jacqueline Mitton
Cait MacPhee on an examination of current theories about our history
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The Republic of Imagination: A Case for Fiction, by Azar Nafisi
Shahidha Bari on a collection of essays concentrating on four American writers
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Loving Literature: A Cultural History, by Deidre Shauna Lynch
Untangling our emotional commitment to books is a complicated affair, says Deborah Rogers
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The Icon Curtain: The Cold Warās Quiet Border, by Yulia Komska
Hester Vaizey on the political and religious divisions across a lesser known part of the Iron Curtain
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Common People: The History of an English Family, by Alison Light
Clare Griffiths on a fresh perspective of social and public history through the authorās personal investigation of her own genealogy
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Warwick academics ātreated like City tradersā with financial targets
UCU official attacks redundancy criteria at the university amid calls to reverse ādangerousā process
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Time to test private colleges' efficiency
Andrew McGettigan considers the findings of the National Audit Officeās investigation into alternative providers
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Poppleton college slammed
Poppletonās leading private for-profit higher education college, the Great British College of Business, Computing, Technology and Management, has been āshamedā in a new report from the governmentās...
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Coherent higher education policy? Far from it
Despite the introduction of postgraduate loans, the governmentās education funding aims remain a puzzle, says Nigel Carrington