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• North schools fail the Oxbridge test

  - 2006-12-27

  Byline: By Andrew Hughes North East state schools are sending fewer pupils to Oxbridge than other parts of the country. A new league table, gathered under the freedom of information laws, shows the most successful state schools at getting pupils into Oxford and Cambridge University. The figures...

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• Books received

  - 2005-09-01

  ADNETT, NICK, and STEPHEN HARDY. The European Social Model: Modernisation or Evolution? Chelten-2005. Pp. 244. Cloth $95.00. AGELL, JONAS, MICHAEL KEEN, and ALFONS J. WEICHENREIDER, eds. Labor Market Institutions and Public Regulation. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2005. Pp. 228. Cloth $35.00. AGLIETTA, MICHEL, and ANTOINE REBERIOUX. Corporate Governance Adrift:...

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• Books received

  - 2005-03-01

  AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK. Africa in the Global Trading System: African Development Report 2004. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. 337. Paper $29.95. ALESINA, ALBERTO, and EDWARD L. GLAESER. Fighting Poverty in the U.S. and Europe: A World of Difference. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. 264. Cloth...

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• Books received

  - 2004-09-01

  31NETWORK. India Infrastructure Report 2004: Ensuring Value for Money. New York: Oxford University press, 2004. Pp. 347. Paper $35.00. ADAMS, WALTER, and JAMES W. BROCK. The Bigness Complex: Industry, Labor, and Government in the American Economy. 2d ed. Palo Alto, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2004. Pp. 380. Paper $24.95....

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• The Hundredth Boat Race: April 3rd, 1954.(Months Past)(Cambridge University)(Oxford University)

  - 2004-04-01

  COLLEGE BOAT races had begun at Oxford by 1815, but rowing was slower to develop at Cambridge, where the Cam was not much better than a sewer. It was the Cambridge University Boat Club, however, which took the initiative in challenging Oxford to the first university match...

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• Books received.

  - 2002-01-01

  American Philosophy of Technology: The Empirical Turn. Indiana Series in the Philosophy of Technology. By Hans Achterhuis, ed. Trans. Robert P. Crease. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001. Pp. xi, 175. Driven Back to the Text: The Premodern Sources of Levinas's Postmodernism. By Oona...

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• Books received.(Bibliography)

  - 2001-10-01

  Values, Violence, and Our Future. Value Inquiry Book Series. By Gary J. Acquaviva. Atlantic Highlands: Rodopi, 2000. Pp. ix, 208. Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (1959). By Theodor W. Adorno. Ed. Rolf Tiedemann. Trans. Rodney Livingstone. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. Pp. xi, 300....

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• Books received.

  - 2001-04-01

  Nietzsche's Middle Period. By Ruth Abbey. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. xvii, 208. Cardinal Ratzinger: The Vatican's Enforcer of the Faith. By John L. Allen Jr. New York: Continuum, 2000. Pp. xii, 340. The Cambridge Companion to German Idealism. Cambridge...

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• BOOKS RECEIVED.(Bibliography)

  - 2000-10-01

  Illocutionary Acts and Sentence Meaning. By William P. Alston. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000. Pp. xv, 327. Nicomachean Ethics. Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy. By Aristotle. Ed. Roger Crisp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xlii, 213. Metaphysics Book...

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• BOOKS RECEIVED.

  - 2000-07-01

  Introduction to Sociology. By Theodor W. Adorno. Ed. Christoph Goedde. Trans. Edmund Jephcott. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000. Pp. x, 198. Problems of Moral Philosophy. By Theodor W. Adorno. Ed. Thomas Schroeder. Trans. Rodney Livingstone. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000. Pp. viii, 224....

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