3 July 2008
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To boldly go… in well-trodden footsteps
Yet another meeting, yet another report that fails to break new ground. Gloria Monday fights boredom by totting up the number of legs in the room
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ÌÇÐÄVlog and far away
Tara Brabazon on the soundtrack to life on a continent’s edge
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Open doors and grand traditions
Yongnian Zheng on the role of China's ancient ethical system in an age of growth and reform
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Franco and Hitler, Spain, Germany, and World War II
The author of this book is a distinguished US historian who greatly influenced students of my generation during the Franco dictatorship. This relatively short work, appropriately and kindly dedicated...
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In Love and Struggle: Letters in Contemporary Feminism
I am going to try but I am not quite sure of this. I don't think I know how to write without being intimate, without exposing myself and my real feelings about what is going on around me and I am not...
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Book of the week: Gardens: An Essay on the Human Condition
Tom Turner on the cultivated intellect
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The week in books
Night's Black Agents by Daniel Ogden, professor of ancient history, University of Exeter. Continuum, £25.00, ISBN 9781847252302"The real disappointment of this book is less its faint whiff of the...
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Where X does not equal Y
Helen Haste reflects on neuroscience's latest insights about the male and female of our species
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Islam and the Secular State: Negotiating the Future of Shari'a
In a volume that the author considers the culmination of his life's work and the final statement he wishes to make on issues he has been struggling with for nearly half a century, Abdullahi Ahmed An-...
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Inside the Presidential Debates: Their Improbable Past and Promising Future
As chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in 1961, Newton N. Minow famously remarked that American television was a "vast wasteland". Currently vice-chairman of the Commission on...
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Top 10 academic bestsellers: Blackwell, Nottingham.
1. Introductory Statistical Mechanics by Roger Bowley. Oxford University Press, £31.99. ISBN 97801985057612. Key Concepts in Cultural Studies by Maja Mikula. Palgrave Macmillan, £13.99. ISBN...
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Published this week
GEOGRAPHY- The Columbia Gazetteer of the WorldEdited by Saul Cohen, specialist in political geography and university professor emeritus at Hunter College of the City University of New York. Columbia...
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20 years ago
This year, overseas students are playing a more active role than ever within their student unions and are beginning to galvanise national disquiet about some of the difficulties they face… The spring...
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Spending research grants wisely
Getting the most from your research grant with the help of the procurement department