‘Rationing’ fear as UK students fail to secure places
Record numbers of students have missed out on university places, new figures show.
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‘Academically adrift’? Authors question learning standards in US academy
What do undergraduates learn in four years’ study at American universities? In an alarming number of cases, absolutely nothing, according to a still-unreleased book that is causing a firestorm in the...
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Plain Ugly: The Unattractive Body in Early Modern Culture
Naomi Baker's handsome volume is a warts-and-all account of an overlooked feature of Renaissance studies: facial discrimination. Plain Ugly sounds like it should, by rights, come in a plain wrapper....
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Sport and the Military: The British Armed Forces 1880-1960
George Orwell once suggested that sport was war minus the shooting. In contemporary times, media reports frequently use militaristic language to describe sporting contests, and we often see reference...
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Selected: Why Some People Lead, Why Others Follow, and Why it Matters
Glynis M. Breakwell is engaged but not converted by this social evolutionary analysis of leadership
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Local Attachments: The Province of Poetry
During the latter part of the 20th century and the early 21st century, Romantic studies as a subject has increasingly shifted its focus away from Nature, with a capital "N", towards place, with a...
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Image Wars: Promoting Kings and Commonwealths in England, 1603-1660
At a time when our present Queen has recently opened a Facebook page, studying the image-making and "spin" strategies of past British monarchs seems to have added topicality. Kevin Sharpe's new and...
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The Firm: The Inside Story of the Stasi
Gareth Dale is intrigued by an account of small-town life in the secret police
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Soap, Science, and Flat-Screen TVs: A History of Liquid Crystals
David Dunmur and Tim Sluckin provide an inside view of the science of the liquid crystals that are responsible for the displays that have not only become our windows into the digital world, but have...
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Coleridge's Play of Mind
Playfulness and Samuel Taylor Coleridge? The two are not generally associated. After all, Thomas Carlyle compared Coleridge with "a hundred horse-power engine stuck in the mud and with the boiler...
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The Death Marches: The Final Phase of Nazi Genocide
Richard J. Evans lauds a masterly account of deadly evacuations in the last months of the Third Reich
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The Star-Crossed Stone: The Secret Life, Myths, and History of a Fascinating Fossil
Paul Taylor digs up the folklore and the symbolic significance of sea urchin skeletons
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Pick-and-mix Piano Man
Malcolm Gillies analyses the rapid rise of James Rhodes, and asks how much is hype and how much is talent
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Diary
NottinghamRoman Sexuality: Images, Myths and MeaningsWhat are we to make of the range of sexual images to be found in Roman art and archaeology? This exhibition at the Weston Gallery - part of the...
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The Pick - The off-kilter eye of the artist
Gabriel OrozcoTate Britain, London, until 25 AprilWhen Gabriel Orozco was a child, he thought that squashing a car might make it more aerodynamic and fast-moving. In 1993, he got a chance to put his...