The Origins of Sex: A History of the First Sexual Revolution
Sarah Toulalan lauds a look at how carnal crime and punishment gave way to a stress on private consent
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Travels in China
Impressions of an 'unknowable' China at the end of the Cultural Revolution fascinate Kerry Brown
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Browning, Victorian Poetics and the Romantic Legacy: Challenging the Personal Voice
Robert Browning remains an important standard against which other dramatic poets are measured. We recognise Browning primarily for the dramatic monologue, a poetic form that lends itself well to...
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How Literature Changes the Way We Think
The "medical humanities", the area in which the author, Michael Mack, now works, is a fairly new cross-disciplinary field: in the UK, King's College London and the universities of Durham and...
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The Chosen People: A Study of Jewish Intelligence and Achievement
Moshe Zeidner finds an analysis of Jewish success scores well on IQ but downplays social factors
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Democracy under Attack: How the Media Distort Policy and Politics
This is virtually a social history of modern Britain, told by someone who should know what he is talking about. Malcolm Dean joined The Guardian more than 40 years ago and was for many years its...
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The Curious History of Love
Sasha Roseneil is unswayed by a chronicle of intimacy that fails to reach the heart of the matter
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The One and the Many: Contemporary Collaborative Art in a Global Context
Perhaps it is the loneliness of the studio that has traditionally encouraged artists to hang out in social and stylistic groups. Think of the Impressionists and their Montmartre cafés, or the...
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Human Rights in Camera
This is an original and timely work, retelling the story of the development of the concept of human rights through the eyes of the "world spectator" and her confrontation with images of the suffering...
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Prepare to repel plans, there be 'piracy' on the horizon
Coalition desire to expand range of copyright-free material angers academics. Matthew Reisz reports
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Knight who came in from Gove's realm no stranger to outside view
High-profile debut in the academy holds no fear for Reading's v-c. Interview by Jack Grove
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Grant winners
LEVERHULME TRUSTResearch Project GrantsBasic sciences• Award winner: David Tsiklauri• Institution: Queen Mary, University of London• Value: £157,750Advanced model of solar radio bursts via plasma...
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News in brief
United States'Misled' dental students refundedA US institution has suspended one of its courses and reimbursed students after some claimed it misled them about its credentials. Kaplan College in...
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New ERA heralds circulation boost for European research
Commissioner accelerates plan to ease flow of EU researchers and funding. Paul Jump reports
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Elsevier defends stance on anti-open-access bill
The journal publisher Elsevier has hit back after being pilloried for supporting an anti-open-access bill in the US Congress.