More excitingly, perhaps though, are the potentially game-changing academic led initiatives.
Yet this week it was not Mr Harper who lost his job but his would-be nemesis, Stéphane Dion, the Liberal leader.Mr Dion, a diffident former academic, led his party to its worst-ever result in a general election in October.
Stuart Isacoff, pianist, critic and academic, leads readers on a journey of discovery in A Natural History of the Piano (Souvenir, £20), the music, the musicians and "the wondrous box" itself: a volume to inspire and delight.
Academic leads and community partners who adopted a peer research model in their projects were invited to attend one of two focus groups to identify and discuss methodological, ethical, and practical issues (n = 10).
In a study last year three academics, led by Griffith University's Mr Sharman, approached shell-company providers around the world posing as corrupt officials and money-launderers.
The academics, led by Professor Davis Logsdon, of the University of Minnesota, published their conclusion after their research definitively found that the bar had finally dropped to its lowest possible position.
Here academics, led by a protected area management specialist Graeme Worboys, gather to debate the merits of removing horses from the Australian Alps.
That changed by the late 1970's, as international rivals began to challenge America companies and as free-market academics, led by University of Chicago theorists, influenced antitrust thinking.
New details have also emerged about the lack of cooperation from many FA officials when the team of academics, led by Celia Brackenridge of Brunel University, began the study.
A recent report from the Nuffield Foundation by a team of academics led by Liz Trinder had highlighted everything wrong with the current system, Lady Butler-Sloss said.
The academics, led by Prof Phil Taylor, argue that the country needs a "systems architect" and that energy, at least for the bulk of the population, is too cheap, which is leading to waste.
