How Enemies Become Friends: The Sources of Stable Peace
Andrew Gamble finds hope in a persuasive analysis of how nations once in conflict can become allies
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Making Waste: Leftovers and the Eighteenth-Century Imagination
The contemplation of the horrid or sordid or disgusting, by an artist, is the necessary and negative aspect of the impulse toward the pursuit of beauty." Thus T.S. Eliot insists on the symbiosis...
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Saltaire: The Making of a Model Town
Saltaire's founder, the reticent Sir Titus Salt (1803-76), in one of his rare utterances, is supposed to have observed that "drink and lust" were at the bottom of it all. His few sagacities were...
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? = Review forthcomingBUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT STUDIES- One Company, Diverse WorkplacesBy Marta Kahancova, visiting assistant professor in the department of political science, Central European...
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Glasgow Caledonian University - The loan ranger strikes again
Microbanking pioneer and Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus is one step closer to realising his vision for a social bank to serve the citizens of Glasgow. The economist met with John Swinney, Scottish...
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London Metropolitan University - Fat is a class issue
Research shows that children of lower-income families are nearly twice as likely to be overweight as those from higher-income homes. The London Metropolitan University study compares the weight,...
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University of Hull - A question of ethics
A Centre for Organisational Ethics has opened as part of a reorganisation of a business school's research centres. The centre at Hull University Business School will investigate topics such as...
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University of Birmingham - Romancing the stones
The world's largest virtual exploration is being led by archaeologists at Stonehenge. The Stonehenge Hidden Landscapes Project, led by the University of Birmingham, will use the latest geophysical-...
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Nottingham Trent University - Eurobachelor boys and girls
The inaugural cohort of UK chemistry students sitting Eurobachelor degrees will graduate from Nottingham Trent University this summer. It became the first UK university to be permitted to award the...
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University of Worcester - Writing all wrong
A return to creative writing is needed in England's primary schools, according to a teaching handbook produced by two academics. Robyn Cox and Julie Maclusky, lecturers at the University of Worcester...
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University of Nottingham - Fuelling the future
Work has begun on the construction of a £6.5 million research facility for bioenergy and biofuels, brewing technology and food and drink processing. The Bioenergy Centre at the University of...
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Coventry University - Legal game's afoot
A law course is being launched to meet the challenge of the growing commercialisation of sport. Coventry University's Centre for the International Business of Sport will run a postgraduate...
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University of Surrey - Itsy-bitsy teeny-weeny test tubes
Scientists have created what is likely to be the world's smallest chemistry set using nanotubes with a diameter about 10,000 times smaller than a human hair. The researchers at the University of...
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University of East Anglia - High energy
A group of young Saudi Arabian women will be climbing high wires and traversing cliff tops as part of an international summer school. The school, run by the University of East Anglia, has been...
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University of Southampton - Rocking the boat
A university has joined forces with the Royal National Lifeboat Institution in a bid to help cut the cost of building and maintaining its fleet of about 300 lifesaving vessels. The RNLI and the...