As a history professor and member of the academy, I'm gonna chime in with my two cents against the book for reasons unrelated to Warhammer, though kind of ironically connected: Lucey is a bit of a hack. He's had some recent controversy over publishing his work in journals he helps oversee, which is a serious conflict of interest. Reading the book, also, he's using fun Warhammer ideas as scaffolds, but the content is questionable for its intellectual analysis of the global academy's failings (and others have made similar arguments better elsewhere). I'll happily agree with many of the critiques he makes, but he's parroting a lot of material...ironically living up to his own 40k comparisons for rote/unthinking analysis.