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Religious Difference in a Secular Age: A Minority Report, by Saba Mahmood
Egypt is route to exploring how modern politics privileges beliefs of majorities, finds Bård Kårtveit
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Alexander Yakovlev: The Man Whose Ideas Saved Russia from Communism, by Richard Pipes
Vladimir Tismaneanu on a study of one man’s journey from ‘Homo Sovieticus’ to ‘Homo Antisovieticus’
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Regional alliances help leading universities ‘pull up drawbridge’ on funding, study claims
First analysis of its kind says modern institutions have suffered from creation of research consortia
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Books interview: Katy Shaw
The author of Crunch Lit on Enid Blyton, the miners' strike, 'Marmite' books and her Pisa Pile of books waiting to be read
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What are you reading? – 7 January 2016
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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The Real Planet of the Apes: A New Story of Human Origins, by David R. Begun
Simon Underdown relishes an engaging study of evolution that delights in breaking the fourth wall
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The week in higher education – 7 January 2016
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the national press
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Paris at War: 1939-1944, by David Drake
Victoria Harris on a study of the occupied city that makes powerful use of diary entries
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Why Minsky Matters: An Introduction to the Work of a Maverick Economist
Book of the week: Economic instability is inevitable – what matters is our efforts to limit it, says Victoria Bateman of L. Randall Wray's latest book
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The corrosion of conformity on campus
Joanna Williams discusses student censors, the elevation of subjective experience over ‘facts’ and the need to challenge ideas
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Are blue skies back for Canada’s scientists?
Science suffered restrictions and reductions in funding under the previous government. Will the Trudeau administration put it back on track? Ellie Bothwell investigates
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Grant winners – 7 January 2016
A round-up of recent recipients of research council cash