Supertext: The textbook that changed my life
I wish there had been a textbook that changed my life, not because I want to have my life altered but because I have never found a single textbook for the study of South Asian culture. It is too vast...
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An ancient high ideal that makes brutes of us all
What do Bush, Blair and Alexander the Great have in common? They have all been seduced by an Aristotlean vision of the 'civilising' empire. Margaret Doody explains. Alexander the Great is the first...
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All threads of a global tapestry
Textile
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US way to give in life or death
As the dishes are being cleared from the evening meal in the campus dining hall, students at Bates College file upstairs and take their places in long rows of seats. It is 7pm and the students are...
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Big guns may win the battle but not the war
What wins wars? Jeremy Black finds superior arsenal is just one factor in determining which side is victorious Historians used to emphasise the material aspects of war - specifically the quality and...
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Good sources for the shipping news
Encyclopaedia of Underwater Archaeology - Encyclopaedia of Underwater Archaeology - Encyclopaedia of Underwater Archaeology - Encyclopaedia of Underwater Archaeology
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Burglar, ghost, fiend, poet, drunk and hero
William Empson
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Middlesex wins enterprise award Middlesex University has today won the Queen's award for enterprise, in recognition of its recruiting a high number of overseas students. It boosted overseas student...
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Lump sum won't balance out the market forces
There is no one-size-fits-all solutionto saving strategically important subjects, says Howard Newby This year, Charles Clarke, the Education Secretary, has written not one but two letters to the...
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High Court blocks international student employment The High Court has upheld a ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ Office ruling that international students may not work to complete their studies. Financial Times Women MPs bullied...
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Picking through the 'bleached bones' of leviathan
Dorrik Stowe's hunt for Tethys, a lost ocean that once dominated the planet, takes leads him from the Dolomites to the Himalayas The Tethys Ocean once dominated the Earth. Its vast waters were party...
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Haven for the worldly-wise
SOAS since the Sixties
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MPs urge greater independence for research councils The research councils, which fund scientific work in universities across the UK, should assert their independence from government in setting their...
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ESA service makes customised maps available to African aid workers
Paris, 30 Nov 2004 The map is not the territory, runs the famous quote, but maps do represent an unparalleled tool for emergency management. Nobody knows this better than humanitarian organisations...
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To affinity and beyond
Overseeing postgraduate research is like tending a garden, says Gina Wisker. You support, nurture, develop and empower students so they grow as researchers and contribute an original kernel of...