From today's UK papers
Higher education spin-offs push Britain up entrepreneurial league Spin-off companies created from higher education institutions have risen sharply in number, challenging the view that British...
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From Marx to mass market
Sociology was young when Margo Russell came to it. Over her career, it went from a tool for social change to a much-derided Mickey Mouse subject - but its value remains. I came to sociology before it...
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Henry V leads businessmen unto the breach
A CEO in search of excellence should avoid the insipid management books in airport bookstores and turn to Shakespeare - so Richard Olivier believes. Huw Richards reports. " We few, we happy few, we...
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novel whose title comes from the first speech in Milton's Samson Agonistes: "The snapshots had...
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Chilly tale of ale fad
The Little Ice Age
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To: Dictators, Re: Torture
Brendan O'Leary on 40 years of Amnesty International campaigning. Amnesty International turned 40 this year. The organisation, especially in comparison with most internationalist non-governmental...
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Change that shrinks a planet
World History - From Dawn to Decadence, 1500 to the Present
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Bid farewell to utopia, it won't get you anywhere
Something New Under the Sun
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May old divisions be forgot
The New Penguin History of Scotland
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Don't even think about it...
Imagining the King's Death - The Politics of Regicide in England, 1760-1850
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Monty: as sexy as a penguin
The Full Monty
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Past insight illuminating our present
The Essential Edmund Leach
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The Trini Trinity is found on de line
The Internet