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The Way of Science: Finding Truth and Meaning in a Scientific Worldview, by Dennis R. Trumble
Andrew Briggs on an effort to cast down faith-based reasoning
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Take a Closer Look, by Daniel Arasse
K.E. Gover on a delightful guide to seeing art with new eyes
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Against World Literature: On the Politics of Untranslatability, by Emily Apter
Danielle Sands on a call for broader, more creative and politically engaged modes of thought
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Teardown: Memoir of a Vanishing City, by Gordon Young
Sherry Lee Linkon on a ācommunity of memoryā fighting for a place called home
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Natureās Noblemen: Transatlantic Masculinities and the Nineteenth-Century American West, by Monica Rico
Peter Messent on why upper-class men felt at home on the frontier
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A Most Masculine State: Gender, Politics, and Religion in Saudi Arabia, by Madawi Al-Rasheed
Pernille Arenfeldt on a fine counterargument to reductionist claims about women and Islam
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Turbulent and Mighty Continent: What Future for Europe?, by Anthony Giddens
Roger Morgan on a peerās review of Brusselsā weaknesses
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Rigged results
The BUAV welcomes public discussion about animal experiments (āAnimal research under the microscopeā, 17 October). However, the fundamental flaw in universities hosting the Big Animal Research Debate...
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Sheffieldās Furnace Park forges scholarly collaboration
Brownfield reclamation unites academics, artists and community
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Pro v-c cited his unwritten book in study
Major report on selective education used āinappropriateā references
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Newtonian capitalism
Nicholas Tillās lament for the North Norfolk coastline and for pastoral sentiment in opera isĀ well taken (āElegy in a country churchyardā, 24 October). The lonely coast at Cley isĀ ever more heavily...
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Private college hit by ārestraining orderā and fine
Canada branch of London School of Business and Finance labelled an āunlicensed private career collegeā and told to halt teaching
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How the vampire got his teeth
On Halloween, Richard Sugg reveals how early stories of death from paralysing nightmares morphed into tales of vampires
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Legal appeals not the answer for students
Daniel Sokol makes a number of useful observations on university appeals (āStudents have a right to redress, so give them a fair hearingā, Opinion, 24 October). Like Sokol and others before him, the...