Would You Eat your Cat? Key Ethical Conundrums and What They Tell You about Yourself
Simon Blackburn wonders why some moral questions are so tantalisingly difficult to answer
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Churchill's Children: The Evacuee Experience in Wartime Britain
Do we need another book on the evacuation of children in Britain during the Second World War? John Welshman asks this question of himself in the opening of this compelling narrative account of the...
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The Canon: The Language of the Third Reich by Victor Klemperer
Victor Klemperer's vital contribution to academia doesn't take the form of an influential theory, or a path-breaking conceptual framework, or even a scholarly mastery of his field (although he was an...
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Predicting the Unpredictable: The Tumultuous Science of Earthquake Prediction
Seismologist Ian Main on why more lives are saved by preparation than prognostication
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Peace Processes: A Sociological Approach
John Brewer's Peace Processes: A Sociological Approach stands out for two reasons: first because it is written in an accessible, reader-friendly manner - a sign, I always think, of the author's self-...
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London: A History
We are all, at least partly, Londoners. As far back as the 18th century, a surprisingly large proportion of England's population had lived for a while in London.Contemporaries commented on the number...
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Secrecy and Silence in the Research Process: Feminist Reflections
Hilary Rose hails powerfully unflinching reflections on the researcher's obligations to her subjects
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Victorian Vogue: British Novels on Screen
Nothing out-gays the heritage film. From a perspective that simultaneously addresses Victorian and 20th-century issues and anxieties, Dianne Sadoff analyses the heritage film in its many iterations,...
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ARTS AND DESIGNWhere Music Helps: Community Music Therapy in Action and ReflectionBy Brynjulf Stige, professor in music therapy, University of Bergen; Gary Ansdell, director of education, Nordoff-...
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Full speed ahead for new degrees to suit business
Tailor-made courses to fill local skills gaps will also bring in much-needed cash. Hannah Fearn reports
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Odds and quads
This "lay figure", or life-sized artist's model, belonged to Walter Sickert (1860-1942), the English Post-Impressionist whose images of drab female nudes and murdered prostitutes have led to claims...
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Top payout for 'substandard' handling of case
The UK student complaints body has awarded its highest-ever compensation payment, owing to a university's "substandard" handling of a case in which a PhD candidate became embroiled in a legal battle...
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News in brief
United StatesThe borrowersHard-up public universities in a US state will be able to borrow millions of dollars to stay open and pay staff. Pat Quinn, governor of Illinois, has signed into law a...
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Suffer the children: academy eats up spending
Paper identifies growing share for universities at expense of primary education. John Morgan writes
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Pledge to exempt Oz elite from new standards body
The Australian opposition is proposing to exempt the country's elite Group of Eight (Go8) universities from the country's new quality and standards agency for the higher education sector.The...