Vice-chancellor leaves University of East London
Martin Everett, the vice-chancellor of the University of East London, has left the university. He resigned on 24 February after more than seven months on suspension.Professor Everett was suspended...
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No going back - V-C speaks
Our Vice-Chancellor has reacted angrily to the revelation in The Sunday Times that John Denham, the Universities Secretary, is about to ask former polytechnics to revert to their previous role rather...
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History, tragedy, farce
Felipe Fernández-Armesto finds his beloved Oxford changed, changed utterly
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Off Piste: Poets lorryate
What mad pursuit? Duncan Wu on a night of sublimity and terror among the roaring, soaring, brutally lyrical Monster Trucks
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Leader: A peerless and humble champion
Ron Dearing left school at 16, but his unstinting devotion to higher education's highest aims have left the UK sector a better place
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From where I sit - Write better to arrest book decline
The US has elected a President who glides effortlessly from reading books to surfing the internet, yet it remains no easier to imagine a sequel to "Books That Changed Our Minds", a 1939 symposium in...
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Michael Majerus, 1954-2009
Michael Majerus, world-renowned entomologist and advocate of evolutionary theory, has died.He was born in London on 13 February 1954 and educated at Merchant Taylors' School and Royal Holloway...
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Key texts in human geography
Editors: Phil Hubbard, Rob Kitchin and Gill ValentineEdition: FirstPublisher: SagePages: 256Price: £65.00 and £22.99ISBN 9781412922609 and 2616A book that will delight students on third-year history...
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An Introduction to Human Geography: Issues for the 21st Century
Editors: Peter Daniels, Michael Bradshaw, Denis Shaw and James SidawayEdition: ThirdPublisher: Pearson Prentice HallPages: 544Price: £31.99ISBN 9780132056847The third edition of this well-established...
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Urban Regeneration in the UK
Authors: Phil Jones and James EvansEdition: FirstPublisher: SagePages: 200Price: £65.00 and £22.99ISBN 9781412934909 and 4916The area of urban regeneration has long been popular with students from a...
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Living in the Environment: Principles, Connections and Solutions
Author: G. Tyler Miller Jr and Scott E. SpoolmanEdition: SixteenthPublisher: Brooks ColePages: 816Price: £44.99ISBN 9780495556725Living in the Environment is an excellent book that I would highly...
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Geography and environmental sciences round-up
The Essential EarthAuthors: Thomas H. Jordan and John GrotzingerEdition: FirstPublisher: W. H. FreemanPages: 384Price: £39.99ISBN 9781429204293This introduction to the basics of geology emphasises...
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Accounting: A Foundation
Author: Robert HodgeEdition: FirstPublisher: Cengage LearningPages: 512Price: £34.99ISBN 9781844808052When Bruce Wasserstein, the CEO of Lazard, was interviewed by Fortune magazine in October 2008,...
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Business and Management Round-up
A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book About Studying StrategyAuthors: Chris Carter, Stewart R. Clegg and Martin KornbergerEdition: FirstPublisher: SagePages: 176Price: £45.00 and...
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Marketing: A Brief Introduction
Authors: David Stokes and Wendy LomaxEdition: FirstPublisher: ThomsonPages: 416Price: £31.99ISBN 9781844805525The preface of Marketing: A Brief Introduction says it is a book that engages with the...