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Return from the Natives: How Margaret Mead Won the Second World War and Lost the Cold War by Peter Mandler
Chris Knight on an anthropologist whose theories were embraced then shunned by the US military
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The Political Worlds of Women: Gender and Politics in Nineteenth Century Britain by Sarah Richardson
Susan Hogan on a challenge to analyses of 19th-century politics that marginalise the role of women
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The Second Arab Awakening: Revolution, Democracy, and the Islamist Challenge from Tunis to Damascus by Adeed Dawisha
Christina Hellmich on the complex dynamics reshaping the Arab world
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The Devil Within: Possession and Exorcism in the Christian West by Brian P. Levack
Alec Ryrie on a persuasive account of demoniacs and how society perceived and dealt with them
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Lone Wolf Terrorism: Understanding the Growing Threat by Jeffrey D. Simon
Matthew Feldman on the expanding threat to society from unpredictable individuals
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Alexander Wilson: The Scot who founded American Ornithology by Edward H. Burtt, Jr and William E. Davis, Jr
Tim Birkhead on the first comprehensive documenter of North American birds
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Panorama put LSE 'bystanders' at risk
Tim Luckhurst is incorrect to claim that the London School of Economics鈥 stance on the BBC Panorama programme 鈥淣orth Korea Undercover鈥 was based on a 鈥渞everence for bureaucracy鈥 or 鈥渨ounded pride鈥 (鈥...
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Just can't get the staff
Further to the article 鈥淐redibility of credibility interviews for foreign students called into question鈥 (News, 18 April): border officers鈥 judgement is not the only cause for concern.Since...
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No purse, no strings
Universities should pay the closest attention to the debate under way within the Higher Education Funding Council for England (鈥淗efce treads warily amid dated legal framework鈥, News, 25 April). The...
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Harsh interrogation
In the viva, the student is vulnerable, the least powerful member in the room, and for this reason the process should be more open and subject to scrutiny (鈥淲him and rigour鈥, 25 April).My own...
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'Working-class' law suits
The stubborn narrative about the 鈥渂est鈥 universities remains pervasive in the public consciousness. In 鈥淧osh spice up CVs to gain edge at post-92s鈥 (News, 11 April), you report on research that will...
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Forewarned, forearmed
The University of East Anglia鈥檚 Chris Fox is making the mistake of assuming that the reaction to a long-term diagnosis of illness (in this case, dementia) will be anxiety (鈥淓arly warning warning鈥,...
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UCU congress faces executive decision
Cut on cards as union looks to live within its means
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Physicist: data opacity belies journal鈥檚 transparency
Critic says Nature Materials is breaking its own rules