Children of the revolution
The Sixties generation of academics are approaching retirement, so what better time to consider that contentious era's legacy, writes Matthew Reisz
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Comic-strip hero
Graduate student Jorge Cham decided to look on the bright side of his experiences and created a comic that is entertaining millions, writes Jon Marcus
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Managers, take a bow
The inaugural Times Higher Education Leadership and Management Awards, run in association with the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education, will recognise and reward business and management. The...
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12 February 2009
Battle for the blue skies - Scientists fight back against ‘barrages of control’ on unfettered research
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An introduction to employment tribunals
Few people, whether employees or representatives of an employer, will look forward to giving evidence at an employment tribunal. Although the tribunal system has been in existence since the 1960s (...
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Moving stories
Many academics have lived the migrant experience – heading into the unknown, feeling the chill of xenophobia and the vagaries of state power but also finding rewards. Tara Brabazon considers the...
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Bullied Blogger: An email fightback
2 February: I don’t sleep through the night any more because I dread going into work each day. There is tension between my partner and I, and I find it hard to concentrate. My workload seems...
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Fees, not bullying, led to my exit, says Lee
Leeds Met v-c denies university claims about concerns over his management approach, reports Melanie Newman
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Sans-Culottes: An Eighteenth-Century Emblem in the French Revolution
A brave attempt to reframe a time of great upheaval in France falls short, says Lynn Hunt
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Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet: How Scarce Energy Is Creating a New World Order
The dust jacket of this book proclaims that "the price of oil has doubled in less than two years. And it is still rising". Not now it isn't.In early 2008, US investment bank Goldman Sachs, at that...
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Top 10 academic bestsellers: Blackwell, Oxford
1. Corporate Finance by Jonathan Berk and Peter DeMarzo. Prentice Hall, £52.36. ISBN 97814082150362. Macroeconomics: Imperfections, Institutions and Policies by Wendy Carlin and David Soskice. Oxford...
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Economic Gangsters: Corruption, Violence, and the Poverty of Nations
Susanne Karstedt admires a model of how to use data analysis and original research creatively
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The Household: Informal Order around the Hearth
The big question this book asks is: how does a leaky roof get fixed? It isn't trivial or ironic at all that Robert C. Ellickson, a professor of law at Yale University, hints that the failures of most...
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The Art and Architecture of Mantua: Eight Centuries of Patronage and Collecting
Unlimited wealth and refined taste transformed Mantua - a provincial town between three lakes, halfway from Venice to Milan - into one of the artistic and cultural centres of Europe. The Gonzagas, a...
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Book of the week: The Inheritance of Rome
Power, Tom Palaima learns, was easily gained but damned hard to keep