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What are you reading? 鈥 6 June 2019
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Try the workplace before finishing degree, urges bank president
David聽McKay hopes AI聽might help universities select students with vital 鈥榮oft skills鈥
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The Bookshop of the World: Making and Trading Books in the Dutch Golden Age, by Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen
Ben Higgins enjoys a richly detailed account of the 17th-century Europe鈥檚 鈥榤ost important centre of print鈥
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Book of Beasts: The Bestiary in the Medieval World, edited by Elizabeth Morrison with Larisa Grollemond
Sarah Peverley thrills to a lavish overview of the strange world of bestiaries
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IBM: The Rise and Fall and Reinvention of a Global Icon, by James W. Cortada
Book of the week: Christopher Phelps assesses a bold but flawed history of one of America鈥檚 great corporations
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Letters 鈥 6 June 2019
Working-class scholars feel the bite of class In his opinion article 鈥淐lass is no聽barrier鈥 (30 May), Thomas Boysen Anker describes his path from a working-class background into academia and argues...
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Universities are the aces in the political pack
Higher education聽is often cast as politically insignificant, but look closer and it is frequently a chip in the highest-stakes game around
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Books interview: Jonathan Aldred
The author of聽Licence to be Bad聽on his enduring fascination of how things work and how no one understands what money is
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The Hum of the World: A Philosophy of Listening, by Lawrence Kramer
John Shand wrestles with a difficult but intriguing account of the background noise that聽sets the stage for sound
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Finding Our Place in the Universe: How We Discovered Laniakea 鈥 the Milky Way鈥檚 糖心Vlog, by H茅l猫ne Courtois
Cait MacPhee enjoys a fascinating tour of our not-too-local neighbourhood
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Interview with Bill Palmer
The conservator of threatened language explains why two people are as important as 2 billion, from a linguistics point of view
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Talbot D鈥橝lemberte, 1933-2019
Former president who won an 鈥楨mmy鈥 for his work to open US courtrooms to television cameras remembered
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Australian universities cap international student numbers
Administrations ease back on foreign fee splurge to avoid financial overexposure and to protect student experience
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Ex-ministers warn Treasury will not make up funding if fees cut
Augar review鈥檚 call to replace lost income 鈥榥ot credible鈥, says Lord Willetts, while Jo Johnson warns that any such funding stream could be 鈥榮lush fund鈥 for ministerial projects