Book of the week: When a Billion Chinese Jump: How China will Save Mankind - or Destroy it
Kerry Brown on a sobering snapshot of a ravenous giant whose new prosperity could bring global tragedy

Kerry Brown on a sobering snapshot of a ravenous giant whose new prosperity could bring global tragedy
Author: Christiane Harzi and Dirk Hoerder with Donna GabacciaEdition: FirstPublisher: Polity PressPages: 181Price: £55.00 and £13.99ISBN: 9780745643366This short book aims to provide a comprehensive...
Modernist Literature 1890-1950: Texts, Contexts, Connections (York Notes Companions)Author: Gary DayEdition: FirstPublisher: Pearson EducationPages: 352Price: £10.99ISBN 9781408204764Via a...
Mike Petterson's geological expertise has seen him travel the world, but perhaps his greatest eureka moments have come in Afghanistan, amid his efforts to help rebuild a shattered country
ARTS AND DESIGNFado and the Place of Longing: Loss, Memory and the CityBy Richard Elliott, teacher, International Centre for Music Studies, Newcastle University. Ashgate, £55.00. ISBN...
Driven by its stated mission to pursue internationalisation via a socially progressive path, the Bolivarian Alliance of the Americas (Alba) is quietly expanding its alternative vision of higher...
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Author: Paul De GrauweEdition: EighthPublisher: Oxford University PressPages: 304Price: £35.99ISBN 9780199563234The euro, the principal focus of this book, is one of the greatest economic experiments...
University of HuddersfieldBarbara ConwayA former community pharmacist, Barbara Conway, is to use her years of expertise to set up new courses for pharmacy students in Huddersfield.She joins the...
ENGINEERINGBecoming an Engineer in Public Universities: Pathways for Women and MinoritiesEdited by Kathryn M. Borman, professor of anthropology, University of South Florida; Rhoda H. Halperin,...
Newcastle UniversityBabies of obese at more riskWomen who are obese during early pregnancy are at increased risk of their baby dying, according to researchers. Scientists at Newcastle University...
? = Review forthcomingEDUCATION- ÌÇÐÄVlog in Asia/Pacific: Quality and the Public GoodEdited by Terance W. Bigalke, director of education, East-West Centre in Honolulu, and Deane E. Neubauer...
Newcastle/NorthumbriaStudent forum aims to aid cityTwo universities and a college have joined forces to create a new city-wide student forum. The initiative brings together Newcastle University,...
University research generates ideas and keeps the country competitive - so we must protect its funding, argues Paul Wellings
Shadowing the speed-dating expats who recruit for British universities, Caroline Knowles finds that their hypermobile lives parallel those of the students they pursue