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Rich beware: Robin Hood rises again
Courses on beneficent outlaw flourish in hard times
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Accolades flow for innovation and excellence
Teesside rewarded with top prize in 2009 sector awards
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THE Awards 2009: winners announced
The Times Higher Education Awards are now in their fifth year and are firmly established in the world of higher education. Once again, the amazing display of talent in UK higher education astounded...
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Book of the week: Nature's Ghosts
Jules Pretty discusses humanity's tardy conservation efforts
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Organising Poetry
Christoph Bode admires the scholarship but finds no space for novelty in this Romantic study
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Incest and Influence: The Private Life of Bourgeois England
Adam Kuper's thesis is that "marriage within the family - between cousins or between in-laws - was a characteristic strategy of the new bourgeoisie, which had a great deal to do with the success of...
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The Canon: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects By Mary Wollstonecraft
In 1792, Mary Wollstonecraft articulated an idea that students now write about with (perhaps misjudged) ease: society constructs gender. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman discussed the many ways...
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Judas: A Biography
A study of Jesus' traitor reveals the persistence of evil over the centuries, writes Deborah D. Rogers
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Space Travel and Culture: From Apollo to Space Tourism
Many books have been written about the manned exploration of space across its 50-year history and from all manner of perspectives: autobiographical, political, technological. In this 40th anniversary...
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Medieval Film
Anke Bernau and Bettina Bildhauer's edited collection of essays, Medieval Film, covers a wide range of topics related to the way in which the Middle Ages are portrayed on film, simplified and...
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King's College London - Collective action
An extinct marsupial known as the Tasmanian wolf, a lizard with a light-sensing "third eye" and the stem of a tree fern are among the star exhibits in a new museum. The Museum of Life Sciences at...
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University of Gloucestershire - Shrink to fit
A second campus is to be closed by the University of Gloucestershire following its decision to put its site in east London up for sale. Patricia Broadfoot, vice-chancellor of the institution,...
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Hull/Leeds/Sheffield/York universities - Northern nous
A £50 million virtual research centre focusing on low-carbon technologies and the impact of climate change is to be established as a joint initiative between a group of universities in Yorkshire and...
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University of Edinburgh - Put that carbon away
Researchers have called on the Scottish Government and industry leaders to invest more in carbon capture and storage technology. Scientists at the University of Edinburgh claim that the UK could lead...