The Gargoyles of Notre Dame: Medievalism and the Monsters of Modernity
A 19th-century obsession with the macabre was the medieval church's saviour, says James Stevens Curl
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Cinema Entertainment: Essays on Audiences, Films and Film Makers
This short book enters into a debate that has a lengthy history, not only in the context of cinema but in relation to the cultural industries more broadly. From its inception, cinema has found itself...
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Fixing My Gaze: A Scientist's Journey into Seeing in Three Dimensions
As Donald Rumsfeld memorably observed: "There are also unknown unknowns - the ones we don't know we don't know." While it is a truism that we do not know the things we are not conscious of, the...
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The Medea Hypothesis: Is Life on Earth Ultimately Self-Destructive?
A theory that dispels the idea of Earth's systems being self-regulating does not convince Jon Turney
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Moving Histories of Class and Community: Identity, Place and Belonging in Contemporary England
As a sociologist and ethnographer fascinated by the lived experiences of people, I was interested in reading a book that uses the research methodologies of ethnography, case studies and oral life...
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Atom Egoyan
In the preface to her study of Atom Egoyan, Emma Wilson refers to the film-maker's fascination with Alain Resnais' Last Year at Marienbad (1961) and Nicolas Roeg's Don't Look Now (1973), two seminal...
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Shakespeare's Foreign Worlds: National and Transnational Identities in the Elizabethan Age
A historian and a literary critic walk into a pub ... such formulaic jokes typically open with characters (eg, an Englishman, a Welshman and a Scotsman) united through some shared affiliation (ie,...
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From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558
In the political ordering and governance of early modern England, J.L. McIntosh argues that power was distributed and exercised through the households of the nobility. While national policy may have...
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Lived in London: Blue Plaques and the Stories Behind Them
The quirky tales behind London's commemorative icons revive Duncan Wu's enthusiasm for the city
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The Ethics of Torture
The right not to be tortured is unique among internationally recognised human rights.Where even the right to life is qualified by exclusions - in war, in self-defence, or in judicial proceedings...
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The Secret Battle: Emotional Survival in the Great War
Peter Hart is unconvinced by the assertion that the secret to a soldier's survival was his family
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? = Review forthcomingBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES- ?The Earwig's Tail: A Modern Bestiary of Multi-legged LegendsBy May R. Berenbaum, professor and head of the department of entomology, University of Illinois...
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Imperial College London - Data streams in the field
New mobile-phone software has been developed by academics at Imperial College London to allow scientists to collect and record data when they are out in the field. The application, known as...
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University of Hull - Biosciences bonanza
An entrepreneur has donated £1.5 million to the University of Hull to establish a new biosciences research centre. Assem Allam's donation will yield almost £3 million thanks to matched-funding...
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University of Central Lancashire - App of knowledge
An iPhone application for freshers has been launched by the University of Central Lancashire. The service provides staff and students with the latest information from the students' union,...