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The Art and Politics of Science
Jon Turney welcomes President Obama's science champion, if not his plodding autobiography
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Death, Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Adolescent Literature
If you thought J.K. Rowling was pushing any boundaries with Cedric Diggory's much-discussed demise in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, clearing the way for Harry's budding sexual interest in Cho...
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The Canon: The Origins of the Second World War by A.J.P. Taylor
Few books have so shocked received opinion and been as influential as A.J.P. Taylor's The Origins of the Second World War. It was a classic exercise in the revisionism that is central to the...
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Sexual Solipsism: Philosophical Essays on Pornography and Objectification
Mary Evans discovers how arguments about porn can extend our understanding of equality
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Europe through Arab Eyes, 1578-1727
'You surprise us,' they told him. 'You know languages, read books, travel through the cities and the regions of the world, and yet you are a Muslim!'"These words are taken from a conversation Ahmad...
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The Refuge and the Fortress: Britain and the Flight from Tyranny
Margot Finn welcomes a timely study of the UK's role in sheltering academic refugees
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Theme Park
The 20th-century leisure phenomenon that is the theme park industry owes its development to many influences, including fairground-ride technology, architectural practice and the history of leisure...
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Robert Lepage
Robert Lepage, actor, cineaste, dramaturge and director, is frequently listed, with Celine Dion and Cirque du Soleil, as one of Quebec's leading exports. While this association may seem unflattering...
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Class War? What Americans Really Think about Economic Inequality
John Benson is not totally convinced by this analysis, but appreciates its challenging stance
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Global Perspectives in the Geography Curriculum: Reviewing the Moral Case for Geography
Early on, Alex Standish forcefully outlines what he sees as the damage wreaked on school curriculums by, variously, postmodernism, the failure of Western liberalism and the rise of post-national...
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Fantasy, Myth and the Measure of Truth: Tales of Pullman, Lewis, Tolkien, MacDonald and Hoffmann
Fantasy writers are notoriously read (and even studied) mostly by enthusiasts of a fannish bent. The "mere" readers consume fantasy voraciously, and often without making or wanting to make any...
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Bernard Shaw and the BBC
Christopher Innes discusses a man whose talent to provoke made him the perfect radio personality
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Why Socrates Died: Dispelling the Myths
In 399BC, Socrates was sentenced to death. The charges, as far as we can reconstruct them, were vague: impiety, worshipping new gods, corrupting the young. It is startling that such accusations led...
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Psychotherapy and the Quest for Happiness
This book is addressed to would-be "existential" psychotherapists and is written for their instruction. Since there surely cannot be enough of them to provide a viable readership, the book must...