This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things: Mapping the Relationship Between Online Trolling and Mainstream Culture, by Whitney Phillips
Tara Brabazon on an ethnographical study of the internet users who ‘swarm’ in order to cause maximum pain
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The Globalization of Inequality, by François Bourguignon
A tax rate of 67.5% is part of an economist’s plan to stem excessive inequality, finds Danny Dorling
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The Alvarez Generation: Thom Gunn, Geoffrey Hill, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and Peter Porter, by William Wootten
Richard Larschan on an examination of the conflicting ‘emotional styles’ of two camps of poets of the 1950s and 1960s
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The Variety of Values: Essays on Morality, Meaning, and Love, by Susan Wolf
Jane O’Grady on a collection that stresses the importance of creativity, beauty and self-fulfilment
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After Django: Making Jazz in Postwar France, by Tom Perchard
Les Gofton on a compelling study of a musical subculture
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The First World War, by A. W. Purdue
An overview of the action in Europe also examines present-day attitudes towards the conflict, says Niamh Gallagher
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The Happiness Industry: How the Government and Big Business Sold Us Well-Being, by William Davies
Kathryn Ecclestone on a study examining the underside of the new fixation on inner feelings
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Gladstone’s Library: a retreat for readers and writers
The vibrant residential library founded on the bequest of the former prime minister can be both productive and restorative, finds Emma Rees
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Huddersfield deputy v-c to be Leeds Beckett head
The next vice-chancellor of Leeds Beckett University will be Peter Slee
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General election 2015: which way are your university's staff likely to vote?
We drill down into our election survey of the higher education sector for a clue
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Derby appoints Kathryn Mitchell as next v-c
Kathryn Mitchell is to succeed John Coyne as vice-chancellor of the University of Derby
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Aberdeen staff balloted on strike action
Members of the University and College Union at the University of Aberdeen are being balloted on potential strike action over the loss of 150 jobs
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Universities must reconnect with the outside world, says UCL professor
Michael Stewart uses inaugural lecture to criticise social sciences and arts in particular for being too insular
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Manchester jobs ‘at risk’ after ‘redeployment’ rule change
Around 40 jobs could be at risk at the University of Manchester after it announced plans to drop longstanding opposition to compulsory redundancies
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Student accommodation satisfaction ‘falling’, figures suggest
Despite students reporting increasing levels of satisfaction with UK higher education, one area is bucking the trend: university accommodation.