Low on big ideas and rhetoric, Labour must tackle class inequality
As the party's conference looms, Mary Evans asserts that keeping its earlier pledges on education would help to combat societal divisions
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Andreas Papandreou: The Making of a Greek Democrat and Political Maverick
Takis Pappas applauds this skilfully interwoven story of Greece's most controversial prime minister
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Shelley and Vitality
Percy Bysshe Shelley, one of those dead, white, male Romantic poets, has had a wonderfully shifting reputation. Since his death in 1822, Shelley has been an angel, a devil, a radical, an idealist, a...
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Travelling in Different Skins: Gender Identity in European Women's Oriental Travelogues, 1850-1950
How identity is constructed and performed has recently become a key concern in both gender and post-colonial studies. Travelling in Different Skins explores this interesting issue by focusing on the...
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Difficult Mothers: Understanding and Overcoming Their Power
Long-term misery caused by problematic maternal behaviour gives Janine Spencer pause for thought
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Beauty and the Beast
You read this book agog, as a Colombian "cosmic surgeon" - in Michael Taussig's words - presents breast implants for inspection: the 350cc Colombian megaboob weighs in alongside the 80cc Brazilian...
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The Life of a Leaf
The Life of a Leaf - what a great little title. As an evangelical botanist, I really wanted to like this book, and to be fair, throughout its pages I found myself becoming increasingly fond of Steven...
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Breeding leaders
A handful of universities have produced more than their share of vice-chancellors. Jack Grove looks at how these centres have nurtured talented leaders
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Opaque? Moi?
Professor Gordon Lapping, of our Department of Media and Cultural Studies, has defended the journal that he currently edits against suggestions that it lacks academic credibility.He told The...
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Open not shut case (1 of 2)
I disagree with your interpretation of Moving towards an Open Access Future: The Role of Academic Libraries ("Working on borrowed time?", News, 13 September). The report does indeed indicate changes...
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Open not shut case (2 of 2)
"Working on borrowed time?" gives a misleading view of the future of academic libraries. It falls into the trap of implying that libraries are only buildings that contain books and librarians are...
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Peer-to-peer criticism
In "Peer pressure" (Opinions, 13 September), Stephen Mumford points out some of the flaws of the peer review system used by most academic journals and argues for greater transparency in the process....
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Practical inspiration (1 of 2)
Your article "The richly creative will repay support, says CIHE head" (News, 20 September) rightly stresses the need for interdisciplinary research and links between the arts and engineering. I spent...
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Practical inspiration (2 of 2)
Chris Ormell's "Ends and meanings" (Letters, 20 September) on Martin Willis' "Curiosity knows no bounds" (Features, 13 September) proposes science as an activity that tries to uncover the causes of...
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Full disclosure
If more undergraduate applicants are to feel confident that they will get value for money ("No one is escaping the mire", Leader, 20 September), universities should provide more detailed information...