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We must rev up our relationship with India
The UK has to strengthen ties with Asia if it is to reverse the decline in international students, says Liam Byrne
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Etty Hillesum: an intellectual woman ahead of her time
Mary Evans on the insights into persecution, knowledge and sexuality of a Dutch Jewish writer killed in Auschwitz
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Janet Beer, Clare Debenham, Rupa Huq, Carla Jardim and Peter J. Smith...
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Learning Trajectories, Violence and Empowerment Amongst Adult Basic Skills Learners, by Vicky Duckworth
John Field is captivated by personal battles against educational disadvantage and illiteracy in marginalised communities
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The Dream of the Great American Novel, by Lawrence Buell
Peter Messent redefines the concept with close readings and illuminating insights
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Franco鈥檚 Crypt: Spanish Culture and Memory Since 1936, by Jeremy Treglown
Mercedes Camino on a cultural analysis spanning seven decades
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Pain and Retribution: A Short History of British Prisons, 1066 to the Present, by David Wilson
A millennium of jails, their inmates and those in charge makes riveting reading for Yvonne Jewkes
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Paper Knowledge: Toward a Media History of Documents, by Lisa Gitelman
Colin Higgins on a history of printed materials that have uses but no readers
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The Tell: The Little Clues That Reveal Big Truths About Who We Are, by Matthew Hertenstein
Steven Schwartz on using physical attributes to predict people鈥檚 personalities and behaviours
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Records Ruin the Landscape: John Cage, the Sixties, and Sound Recording, by David Grubbs
David Revill tunes in to an ambivalence about capturing live musical performances
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The Oxford Map Companion: One Hundred Sources in World History, by Patricia Seed
Robert Mayhew is delighted to follow a determinedly non-Eurocentric cartographic collection through the ages
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Life Interrupted: Trafficking into Forced Labor in the United States, by Denise Brennan
Lee Maril on how immigration policies prolong the misery of the exploited
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Forever blowing bubbles
鈥淲ith some people, it鈥檚 moan, moan, moan.鈥漈hat was how Professor D.鈥塛. Stout of our Department of Forensic Murder responded to the news from the 糖心Vlog Best University Workplace...
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Sizing up a colossus
An eccentric approach helped build the Oxford University Press empire, argues Felipe Fern谩ndez-Armesto