Kristallnacht 1938
Richard J. Evans finds a crystal-clear picture of the Night of Broken Glass bolstered by trial records
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ECONOMICS- Bonfire of Illusions: The Twin Crises of the Liberal WorldBy Alex Callinicos, professor of European studies, King's College London. Polity, £45.00 and £14.99. ISBN 9780745648750 and 8767By...
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Teaching Information Literacy for Inquiry-Based Learning
Information professionals in higher education spend a considerable amount of time teaching information literacy, either through group sessions or more often one-to-one at the enquiry desk in...
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The Making of Modern Science: Science, Technology, Medicine and Modernity: 1789-1914
The explosive growth of science means that each successive century gets harder to sum up. There is no decent single-volume survey of 20th-century science, although at least one intrepid author is at...
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Vesuvius: A Biography
Lucia Gurioli feels the heat in these eyewitness accounts of Italy's famous volcano
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Childhood, Well-Being and a Therapeutic Ethos
When considering the winners and losers of modernity it is tempting to see children as most definitely in the former camp. They not only enjoy unprecedented levels of legal protection but have reams...
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Plagiarism probe sees UK scholar quit Belgian post
A British academic has resigned from his post at a Belgian university after being accused of plagiarising the PhD thesis of a member of the Finnish Parliament.Martin Stone, a professor of philosophy...
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Tony, George and Adolf's fighting talk
Scholar addresses rhetoric's deadly role in turning 'jaw-jaw' into 'war-war'. Matthew Reisz reports
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Social scientists aim to save 'fragile flower' from retrenchment frost
Academics prepare to defend the discipline from the pruning scissors. Matthew Reisz reports
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Grant winners
EUROPEAN RESEARCH COUNCILAbout EUR515 million (£465.5 million) has been awarded by the ERC to the winners of its second Advanced Grants competition. The awards, worth up to EUR3.5 million apiece, are...
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Blog Confidential: Onward, Christian bias
Each week, Dr Margot Feelbetter poses a dilemma and offers advice for readers to respond to online
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Appointments
University of NorthamptonNick PetfordNick Petford is to take over as vice-chancellor of the University of Northampton when Ann Tate retires after eight years in charge. Professor Petford, pro vice-...
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Tear a strip off sweatshops
Full-frontal nudity hit campuses in the UK, the US and Canada as students stripped to protest against sweatshop manufacturing. Mark Rogers, a PhD student at Durham University, was among those to...
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Anglia Ruskin University - Finders, keepers?
A law lecturer has published a paper examining whether "freegans" - people who help themselves to things other people have thrown away - are guilty of theft. The study, by Sean Thomas, senior...
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East Anglia/Royal Holloway - Twitter blurs media boundaries
Academics have analysed the use of Twitter during British National Party leader Nick Griffin's appearance on the BBC One show Question Time. Nick Anstead, lecturer in politics at the University of...