Employment in Schools - A Legal Guide
A handbook addressing legal and practical issues arising from employment of school staff, revised in light of the Education Act 2002, the Employment Rights Act 2002 and changes to discrimination law....
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Matrimonial Costs
This book, updated in light of recent developments, explains rules and procedure relating to costs in all matrimonial proceedings including divorce, ancillary relief cases and Children Act...
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The Philosophy of the Social Sciences
"The philosophy of the social sciences" can refer to either a philosophical argument for something called "social sciences", which may or may not yet exist, or the philosophical foundations of what...
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Social Problems
In the 20th century, a good way to prove that "society" exists in the sense Margaret Thatcher notoriously denied was to claim it had "problems". Thus, many sociology textbooks had "social problems"...
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Classical Sociological Theory
George Ritzer is the best-selling author of sociological theory books in the US, but he is definitely not America's answer to Anthony Giddens. Giddens came to sociology from philosophy, Ritzer from...
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28 February 2008
IP - The battle for Intellectual Property
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Student retention
If you don’t want to lose students, recruit honestly and be sure freshers know what to expect, and what support is available, right from the start
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First Impressions competition: February 21 2008
This week’s competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a classic Christian allegory:“As I walk'd through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain...
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The book of the week: Finding Moonshine
Timothy Gowers devours a dram of pure pleasure
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The week in books
How Fiction Works by James Wood, professor of the practice of literary criticism, Harvard University. Cape, £12.99, ISBN 9780224079839"Wood's roots are deep in English religious non-conformity. He...
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A patently provocative tale
Howard Davies on a saucily titled attack on state funding for research and intellectual property rights
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Queer Attachments: The Cultural Politics of Shame
How to deal with shame? I was a little homosexual "queer boy" in the 1950s and 1960s, and started my coming-out journey in 1966 - to family, friends, colleagues, students and ultimately in the...
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The Journalistic Imagination: Literary Journalists from Defoe to Capote and Carter
Cyril Connolly said that you read journalism once and literature twice. The one is of the moment, the other for all time. But try telling that to Richard Keeble and Sharon Wheeler, editors of The...
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Top 10 Academic Bestsellers: Blackwell, Holborn
1. The Future of Management by Gary Hamel and Bill Breen. Harvard Business School Press, £15.99. ISBN 97814221025032. All the Right Moves: A Guide to Crafting Breakthrough Strategy by Constantinos C...