Hard and soft options
Funding for science or arts? It shouldn't be either/or, argues Malcolm Gillies
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Research intelligence: That's your reading sorted
OUP is launching bibliographies online to help steer researchers through the data jungle. Matthew Reisz writes
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Off Piste: Learning curveballs
Michael Bérubé on the life lessons to be found in uncompetitive sport - and a fiercely competitive son with Down's syndrome
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Leader: Just keep cool and carry on
Universities' lack of new-media savvy can leave reputations exposed, but popularity was never wholly within their control
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From where I sit: Confucian values
Asia-Pacific higher education is becoming a global force, but only some nations in the region have achieved or approached parity with Western Europe and North America.The truly spectacular success...
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Peter Denyer, 1953-2010
The man whose team pioneered the imaging-chip technology that put cameras in mobile phones has died.Peter Denyer was born in Sussex on April 1953 and studied electronics at Loughborough University....
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University of Oxford - Chapter and verse
Candidates bidding to become the professor of poetry at the University of Oxford have made their pitches for election in a series of online statements. The contenders, including Oxford alumnus and...
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Dead White Men and Other Important People: Sociology's Big Ideas
Authors: Ralph Fevre and Angus BancroftEdition: FirstPublisher: Palgrave MacmillanPages: 296Price: £14.99ISBN 9780230232464The authors fancy this book as the sociological equivalent of Sophie's World...
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Social sciences round-up
Knowledge-in-Practice in the Caring Professions: Multidisciplinary PerspectivesEditors: Heather D'Cruz, Struan Jacobs and Adrian SchooEdition: FirstPublisher: AshgatePages: 266Price: £60.00 and £19....
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Student review: Changing Theories: New Directions in Sociology
Authors: Black Hawk Hancock and Roberta GarnerEdition: FirstPublisher: University of Toronto PressPages: 256Price: £17.99ISBN 9780802096821When I tell people that I wish to specialise in social...
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Research Methods in Human-Computer Interaction
Authors: Jonathan Lazar, Jinjuan Heidi Feng and Harry HochheiserEdition: FirstPublisher: John Wiley and SonsPages: 446Price: £34.99ISBN 9780470723371Creation, innovation and discovery are the most...
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Student review: Introduction to Concurrency in Programming Languages
Authors: Matthew J. Sottile, Timothy G. Mattson and Craig E. RasmussenEdition: FirstPublisher: CRC Press/Taylor and FrancisPages: 344Price: £49.99ISBN 9781420072136With the advent of multicore...
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Computer sciences round-up
Introduction to Machine LearningAuthor: Ethem AlpaydinEdition: SecondPublisher: MIT PressPages: 584Price: £40.95ISBN 9780262012430Alpaydin seeks to provide a comprehensive textbook on machine...
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The Oxford Handbook of Corporate Social Responsibility
Editors: Andrew Crane, Abagail McWilliams, Dirk Matten, Jeremy Moon and Donald S. SiegelEdition: FirstPublisher: Oxford University PressPages: 608Price: £95.00 and £.50ISBN 9780199211593 and...