Gangs, Marginalised Youth and Social Capital
In the early 1970s, a sociologist using the pseudonym James Patrick published a book that he researched by going undercover in Glasgow's tough inner-city housing schemes and participating in the...
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Changing the Score: Arias, Prima Donnas, and the Authority of Performance
Musicologists, as well as opera buffs, will welcome this well-documented and thoughtfully written study on a relatively rare topic: namely, the practice and performance of insertion arias in operatic...
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Our Dark Side: A History of Perversion
A confused attempt to explain the unspeakable falls back on the usual suspects, writes Fred Inglis
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The Conservative Party: From Thatcher to Cameron
A.W. Purdue feels this Tory analysis may underestimate the fluidity of the electorate
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Wittgenstein and Political Theory: The View from Somewhere
Ludwig Wittgenstein was unarguably one of the most compelling and applicable thinkers across so many disciplines. Here, Christopher Robinson, assistant professor of humanities and social sciences at...
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Issues in Contemporary Documentary
As Jane Chapman notes in her introduction to this broad-ranging book, "documentary is now so popular and diverse that it needs to be understood as complex, multifaceted and influenced by a range of...
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Being a Pilgrim: Art and Ritual on the Medieval Routes to Santiago
Paula Gerson is transported to Galicia by this guide to the route to Saint James' remains
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The Fighting Tudors
You cannot put a good man down! This appears to be David Loades' third book on the Tudors to have been published in 2009, and in total he must soon be approaching his half century, which should...
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Genocide before the Holocaust
The word "genocide" was coined by the Polish-born Jewish lawyer Raphael Lemkin in 1943. Taking its roots from Greek and Latin, it describes the targeted and intentional killing or destruction of a...
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? = Review forthcomingGEOGRAPHY AND ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES- Discourse Dynamics in Participatory Planning: Opening the Bureaucracy to StrangersBy Diana MacCallum, lecturer, Griffith School of the...
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Trotsky: A Biography
Willy Maley enjoys the complexities, but not the cack-handed certainties, of this magisterial tome
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Out, out, damned spot!
Academics in our humanities departments were shocked to learn last week that a thorough investigation by a university management team had failed to find any evidence for the existence of an I (impact...
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Libel law is an ass
Let’s abolish it and nurture scepticism instead, says Felipe Fernández-Armesto
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Research intelligence: Dynamic duo
Two free-to-use Web 2.0 tools offer scholars the opportunity for greater collaboration. James Everest reports
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