Beyond the league of gentlemen
Matthew Reisz charts learned societies' evolution from a world of armchairs and empire to inclusive, forward-thinking advocates for their disciplines
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4 December 2008
Doctor do little? - How the push to complete quickly is pulling PhD candidates away from original research
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‘University degree won’t get you a good job,’ v-c doesn’t warn
Deian Hopkin is stung by his treatment at the hands of the national press
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Don't panic - help is at hand
The Algorithm Design ManualAuthor: Steven S. SkienaEdition: SecondPublisher: Springer-VerlagPages: 736Price: £35.00ISBN 9781848000698Many people get a feeling of satisfaction when they solve a...
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Principles of Mobile Computing and Communications
Principles of Mobile Computing and CommunicationsAuthor: Mazliza OthmanEdition: FirstPublisher: Taylor & Francis/AuerbachPages: 280Price: £44.99ISBN 9781420061581When you travel with your laptop...
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How to Think about Algorithms
How to Think about AlgorithmsAuthor: Jeff EdmondsEdition: FirstPublisher: Cambridge University PressPages: 472Price: £50.00 and £19.99ISBN 9780521849319 and 614108Reading this is like sitting at the...
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A bridge from theory into the real world
Software Engineering: Principles and PracticeAuthor: Hans van VlietEdition: ThirdPublisher: WileyPages: 740Price: £34.99ISBN 9780470031469Textbook writers tend to be experts in their field, and this...
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Computer Science Round-up
Modeling with Data: Tools and Techniques for Scientific ComputingAuthor: Ben KlemensEdition: FirstPublisher: Princeton University PressPages: 470Price: £40.95ISBN 9780691133140Explaining how to...
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Book of the week: Salsa Dancing into the Social Sciences
The methodologically bewildered find their groove, says Leslie Gofton
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The week in books
Passionate Uprisings: Iran's Sexual Revolution by Pardis Mahdavi, assistant professor of anthropology, Pomona College. Stanford University Press, £23.95, ISBN 9780804758567"Mahdavi has charted a...
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Rainbow nation remains divided
Despite the advent of democracy, citizenship entitlement is still unclear, writes Saul Dubow
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Superstition: Belief in the Age of Science
In 2000, Robert Park, a veteran physicist at the University of Maryland, published the best-selling Voodoo Science. There he exposed the gullibility of not only the public but also the US Congress to...
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What's Happening to Public Higher Education? The Shifting Financial Burden
A financially induced crisis is developing in America's public universities, if we believe this book edited by Ronald Ehrenberg, distinguished Cornell University economist. We are told that stagnant...
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Published this week
BIOLOGICAL SCIENCESWitness to ExtinctionBy Samuel Turvey, research fellow, Institute of Zoology, University of CambridgeOxford University Press, £16.99ISBN 9780199549474In relating the plight of the...
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Love unbridled is a volcano
Lynne Segal enjoys a race through two and half millennia of sexual matters in Europe