Parallel lives
An academic and his undergraduate son at the same university offer different perspectives on an issue. This month: the season of goodwill The father Just occasionally, something your offspring says...
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Kingsley's other Lucky Jim
It is little known that the unspinnable Amis rejoiced in the 007 genre, says Brian Morton Nowadays, not even those involved in making James Bond movies balk at references to the series as a "...
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V-cs outline three-year funding demands Vice-chancellors are calling for university funding levels to be maintained in order to plug the funding gap in teaching and infrastructure, a submission to...
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Latest research news
More brain used to recognise faces Brain cells that are selectively tuned to identify gender and ethnicity have been found by scientists in an area not previously thought to be associated with the...
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University offers cut-price courses for top students A university is seeking high-flyers by offering a Β£2,000-a-year discount in top-up fees to students with three grade As at A-level. The offer, by...
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Iran students denounce Holocaust denial Dozens of Iranian students burnt pictures of President Ahmadinejad and chanted βDeath to the dictatorβ as he gave a speech at a university in Tehran yesterday...
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Language barrier blocks British graduates British graduates are missing out on top business jobs because of their lack of language skills, an academic has warned ahead of a review of the Government's...
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Hannibal and the chick dick
Twentieth-Century Crime Fiction
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is by an author who, like Wilkie Collins, wrote what was termed "sensation novels": "Faint streaks of crimson...
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A symphony of the arts in high notes and banknotes
The Culture of the Europeans
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Eaten away by the acids of modernity
The Cambridge History of Christianity, Volume Eight, World Christianities c.1815-c.1914 - Volume Nine World Christianities c.1914-c.2000
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Servility buried in the psyche
Jewish Slavery in Antiquity
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Truths in the undergrowth
A Dictionary of Jewish-Christian Relations
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FA is no match for the divine
The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Studies