War: A Short History
Jeremy Black is a realist. He foresees no Utopian end to human history. In this brief book, he aims to re-examine war, a dominant and continuing force in the modern world, "by providing a short...
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The Canon: Documents in Mycenaean Greek. By Michael Ventris and John Chadwick
When I was born on 6 October 1951, a 29-year-old British architect was working away in a flat in the Highpoint apartments in Highgate, London. He was finally seeing glimmers of the light at the end...
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Eccentricity and the Cultural Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Paris
Elizabeth Rechniewski revels in a scholarly account of Parisians breaking the bounds of normality
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Boundless Faith: The Global Outreach of American Churches
Robert Wuthnow has been one of the leading and most prolific sociological commentators on American religion for the past three decades. His most recent book, true to form, is topical and grounded in...
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The Generalissimo • The Age of Openness • Global Shanghai, 1850-2010
Jonathan Fenby takes a mixed view of a new examination of the Chinese leader eclipsed by Mao
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The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure, and Human Evolution
Anthropologists have studied art since the 19th century. They have learnt which approaches are worth the candle, and which aren't. Denis Dutton's book is a counterblast to this intellectual tradition...
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Thriving on a Riff
Trevor Herbert finds resonance in an account of the influence of jazz on American books and films
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So Clean: Lord Leverhulme, Soap and Civilization
Considering that William Lever was such an important late-Victorian and Edwardian public figure, he has garnered relatively little attention compared with his industrialist contemporaries such as...
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After the Car
As I was completing this review, I chanced upon a New York Times blog entitled "Car-Free in America", in which four prominent American scholars discussed the same topic as Kingsley Dennis and John...
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Screen Education: From Film Appreciation to Media Studies
The case for the study of cinema was hard fought, not least among the believers, finds Philip Kemp
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‘To Everything There Is a Season’: Pete Seeger and the Power of Song
In a recent edition of Times Higher Education, James Alexander lamented the gradual demise of the electric guitar in the years that followed the 1970s. The article ran around the time of the 90th...
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Doctoring the Mind: Why Psychiatric Treatments Fail
The citadel of psychiatry has withstood several determined assaults since at least the middle of the last century, most of them launched from within psychiatry itself. Minor skirmishing, involving a...
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CHEMISTRY- Modern Molecular Photochemistry of Organic MoleculesBy Nicholas J. Turro, William P. Schweitzer professor of chemistry, Columbia University, V. Ramamurthy, Bernaud Bauss professor of...
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University of Strathclyde - Roots manoeuvre
Gavin Esler, presenter of Newsnight, and musician Dougie MacLean investigated their family histories at the University of Strathclyde's International Genealogy Festival last week. Bruce Durie,...
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Durham University - Wave of fear
The potential for a devastating Pacific Ocean tsunami striking the West Coast of America may be greater than was previously thought, according to researchers. Geological evidence gathered from the...