History round-up
The Second World WarAuthor: A.W. PurdueEdition: SecondPublisher: Palgrave MacmillanPages: 240Price: £60.00 and £19.99ISBN: 97802309353 and 9360One of the most concise yet comprehensive accounts of...
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Inside Higher Ed: The Lure of the City
By Kevin Kiley, for Inside Higher Ed
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Biotechnology Strategy and action plan - Council conclusions (Extracted from Council/Commission press releases on the Competitiveness Council of 26 November)
Brussels, th November 2002 The Council adopted conclusions to the Commission's Communication and Action plan on life sciences and biotechnology ( COM/2002/ ). Council conclusions provide a roadmap...
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Ancient Chinese Thought, Modern Chinese Power
A call for political morality reveals top-level debates often missed outside China, writes Jonathan Fenby
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The War of the Sexes: How Conflict and Cooperation have Shaped Men and Women from Prehistory to the Present
Women are born to demand their share - just ask the hunter-gatherers, argues Camilla Power
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Campus round-up
Goldsmiths/Edinburgh/HertfordshireProphet margin vanishesAn experiment that supposedly proved the existence of psychic powers has been challenged by a group of British psychologists. Academics at...
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UCU in turmoil as its Left wing looks to make bid for control
Executive is split over support for fees protest, while officers threaten to strike, John Morgan writes
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Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World
Until the 19th century, the average person consumed $3 per day (in today's prices). There were small blips for ancient Rome, the early medieval Arab world and late medieval Europe, but otherwise the...
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Life Sciences and Biotechnology - a Strategy for Europe: Progress Report and Future Orientations (Extracted from: Provisional Minutes of the 13 May Competitiveness Council)
Brussels, 14 May 2003 The Council took note of information given by Commissioner Liikanen in his introduction to the Commission's communication "Life sciences and biotechnology - a strategy for...
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Campus round-up
Oxford/ImperialEyes are the prizeThe first gene therapy for choroideraemia - a degenerative disease that causes incurable blindness - has been carried out as part of a trial involving two...
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Creativity in a rural idyll will 'benefit from global focus'
Bath Spa's new vice-chancellor plans to expand through internationalisation. Simon Baker reports
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Mr Erkki Liikanen: "Life Sciences and Biotechnology - a Strategy for Europe" EU Presidency Conference on Biotechnology, Copenhagen, 21 October 2002
Copenhagen, 21 October 2002 Ladies and Gentlemen: Biotechnology will be the next wave of technological revolution. Like every powerful new technology, some of its applications raise genuine concerns...
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Chemistry roundup
Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics for EngineersAuthors: S. Kjelstrup, D. Bedeaux, E. Johannessen and J. GrossEdition: FirstPublisher: World Scientific PressPages: 2Price: £42.00ISBN 9789814322157The...
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Research intelligence: Feeding of the nine billion needs science, not miracles
A collaborative strategy will prioritise research into how to feed an expanding population. Neha Popat reports
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UK offers openness and quality assurance, but access remains a problem
A wide-ranging analysis that attempts to measure and rank aspects of national higher education systems suggests that the UK academy is one of the most "open" in the world and has among the best...