Scholar's tribute to The Who's album Quadrophenia
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Peter Fisher, 1955-2014
A leading figure in the development of geographical information science has died
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Appointments - 10 July 2014
The latest higher education appointments
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Far Afield: French Anthropology Between Science and Literature, by Vincent Debaene
Jeremy MacClancy on the evolving relations between two complementary disciplines in France in the first half of the 20th century
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Philosophy and Literature in Times of Crisis: Challenging our Infatuation with Numbers, by Michael Mack
Rachel Bowlby expects some numerical discussion but finds only hefty claims
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World in brief - 10 July 2014
United StatesIdaho arms campus safety officersIdaho State University has armed its public safety officers with guns for the first time in response to a new state law allowing people with 鈥渃oncealed-...
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Who gets crushed by the debt burden?
Alan Ryan considers the size and seriousness of the US student loans 鈥榗risis鈥
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Lacan: In Spite of Everything, by 脡lisabeth Roudinesco
Shahidha Bari on a deliberately 鈥榤arginal鈥 life of the grouchy great man of psychoanalysis
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Between Pagan and Christian, by Christopher P. Jones
Candida Moss on an analysis of paganism from Constantine onwards covering idolatry, sacrifice, godhead and conversion
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Van Gogh on Demand: China and the Readymade, by Winnie Won Yin Wong
Tracey Warr on a myth-busting examination of the mass production of oil paintings in Dafen village
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I used to know that
鈥淪tudents have forgotten more than half of what they learned in their A聽levels by their first week of university,鈥 reports the story 鈥淎聽levels? Forgotten long ago鈥 (News, 3聽July). Shall we treat this...
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Liverpool Biennial 2014
There鈥檚 much to enjoy at this year鈥檚 arts events, says Matthew Reisz, even if its central theme is a bit tenuous
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Graduate employment rates rise
Most higher education institutions had graduate employment levels between 90 and 95聽per cent, with 25 institutions having rates above 95聽per cent, the latest destination statistics for university-...
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From Oculus Rift to Facebook: finding money and data in the crowd
Crowdsourcing advocate Andy Hudson-Smith discusses the funding and social-media mining potential of mass appeals
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10 July 2014
Trial by ordeal - Academics on tackling the topics they found toughest to teach