The Beijing Consensus: How China's Authoritarian Model Will Dominate the Twenty-First Century
Kerry Brown on a Washington insider's attempt to shed light on the Eastern giant's interesting future
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Poor Women in Rich Countries: The Feminization of Poverty over the Life Course
Women's engagement with the labour market and the welfare state has been the subject of increased attention in recent years, as more women enter the labour market, rates of lone parenthood change and...
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The Canon: The Wealth of Nations. By Adam Smith
Appointed professor of logic at the University of Glasgow in 1751 at the age of 28, Adam Smith established his academic credentials at a young age. Yet for all his intellectual prowess as a writer,...
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The 1926 Miners' Lockout: Meanings of Community in the Durham Coalfield
Alan Campbell unearths the complex attitudes among mining communities during the lockout
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Music, Theater and Cultural Transfer: Paris, 1830-1914
What place can there be for opera? The question is still asked today, as debates surrounding arts funding and the validity of state subventions persist. What merits funding and what does not? What...
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Seamus Heaney and Medieval Poetry
When one thinks of medievalism in poetry, one thinks first of the 19th century, of John Keats, Alfred Tennyson, William Morris and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, of the reinventions of King Arthur,...
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A Zeptospace Odyssey: A Journey into the Physics of the LHC
Both the layman and expert will find these insights into particle physics fascinating, says Tara Shears
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Global Cities at Work: New Migrant Divisions of Labour
This book presents the voices of migrant workers living in London and working in cleaning, construction, food processing, hospitality and domiciliary care. The authors show the ways in which the...
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Peer to Peer and the Music Industry - The Criminalization of Sharing
In a recent interview, legendary music producer Brian Eno declared the record to be a "blip" in the history of the music industries. By this he was referring less to the actual vinyl format than to...
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Norwich calling
Memorabilia collected by the co-founder of punk rock band the Clash has gone on display at a Norwich institution. The personal archive of Mick Jones includes guitars, stage clothes and posters, as...
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Sheffield Hallam University - Students get inside scoop
A group of 30 journalism students will attend the 2010 Delhi Commonwealth Games to work as press volunteers. The students from Sheffield Hallam University will join about 30,000 volunteers oiling the...
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University of Nottingham - 'Lambrini ladies' losing out
The votes of up to 4 million "Lambrini ladies" are being written off by politicians, according to research. Steven Fielding, director of the University of Nottingham's Centre for British Politics, is...
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St George's/Oxford/Southampton - Alzheimer's and the word
Neurologists are investigating how Alzheimer's disease affects the written language of sufferers. A team at St George's, University of London, working with colleagues at the universities of Oxford...
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Birmingham City/Lancaster/Salford - All that jazz
The changing face of jazz and its role in European culture is to be analysed in a research project. The study will involve Birmingham City University, Lancaster University and the University of...
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University of Sussex - Higher consciousness
The unnerving experience of deja vu is to be examined by a centre for "consciousness science", hailed as the first to apply cross-disciplinary knowledge to the subject. As well as addressing the...