University of Reading and Imperial College London
Sir Brian Hoskins, a Royal Society research professor is among the first five members of the independent Committee on Climate Change being set up by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural...
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Cults of personality and the name game
The Great Leader is all smiles on the website – Gloria Monday suspects that a rebranding is in the offing
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Preventing illegal working: new rules
Changes to the rules on preventing illegal working were brought in with effect from 29 February 2008. These changes are part of the Government’s overhaul of the UK immigration system and a crackdown...
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Peer observation
A practice that involves developing and sharing teaching methods and styles that will benefit both the observer and the observed.
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Correction
We incorrectly referred to University College Plymouth St Mark & St John as simply University College Plymouth ("'Academic hub' to focus on creative skills training", 28 February). Our apologies.
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First Impressions competition: March 13 2008
This week’s competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a Pulitzer Prize-winning celebration of the human spirit:"In Haddam, summer floats over tree-softened...
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The Book of the Week: Beyond the Hoax: Science, Philosophy and Culture
Robert Matthews on a parody with a purpose
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The Week in Books
The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict by Joseph Stiglitz, chair, management board, Brooks World Poverty Institute, University of Manchester, and Linda Bilmes, lecturer in...
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What We Say Goes: Conversations on US Power in a Changing World
Neil Smith on Noam Chomsky's meticulous dissection of the rhetoric of the American empire
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Keynes: Life and Times
It is hardly controversial to claim that John Maynard Keynes was the most influential economist of the 20th century. There are also strong grounds for seeing him as one of the century's most...
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The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, From Edison to Google
In The Big Switch, Nicholas Carr provides clear and insightful accounts of leading technological initiatives and business models to convey his vision of how the Edisons of the digital age are...
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Top 10 Academic Bestsellers: Blackwell, Leeds
1. The Maudsley Prescribing Guidelines, Ninth Edition by David Taylor, Carol Paton and Robert KerwinRoutledge, £25.00. ISBN 97804154241652. Internet Marketing: Strategy, Implementation and Practice,...
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A Writer's People: Ways of Looking and Feeling
V.S. Naipaul's keen, ruthless eye confirms that great writers make stern critics, says Radhakrishnan Nayar
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Fiction and the Weave of Life
This engaging and admirably clear contribution to the philosophy of literature attempts to rehabilitate what the author terms "literary humanism" - the unfashionable but intuitively appealing view...
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Beyond UFOs: The Search for Extraterrestrial Life and its Astonishing Implications for Our Future
The title and preface of this book led me to believe that I was about to read about UFO sightings, alien abduction and an anecdotal story of why Jeffrey Bennett believes in aliens. Instead, I soon...