The Masculine Self in Late Medieval England
Sometime during the 1340s, a child was born in Lincolnshire and brought up as a boy called Nicholas. In his twenties, Nicholas married a young girl called Katherine. Unfortunately, Katherine soon...
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Cambodian Dance: Celebration of the Gods
Denise Heywood dedicates this book to the dancers who survived the horrific years of the Pol Pot regime (1975-79), when 90 per cent of Cambodian artists and artisans were murdered. The few who...
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Euler's Gem: The Polyhedron Formula and the Birth of Topology
Robert Bradley enjoys a clear, elegant exposition of the history and principles of topology
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Cinematic Mythmaking: Philosophy in Film
"There is", writes Irving Singer in his prefatory note, "no definitive termination in this text, or in anything else I write." He adds that "because my mission is not historical, I feel justified in...
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Top 10 academic bestsellers: Heffers, Cambridge
1. Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air by David Mackay. UIT Cambridge, £19.99. ISBN 97809544529332. Oliver Cromwell: New Perspectives edited by Patrick Little. Palgrave Macmillan, £17.99. ISBN...
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Book of the Week: Einstein's Generation
Simon Mitton is pleased to see other great physicists get their due
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The week in books
Elsewhere, USA: How We Got From the Company Man, Family Dinners and the Affluent Society to the Home Office, BlackBerry Moms and Economic Anxiety by Dalton Conley, university professor of the social...
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Motherhood, the Elephant in the Laboratory: Women Scientists Speak Out
Juggling family life and a career in science is a struggle for women, Elizabeth Whitelegg observes
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Grotesque Relations: Modernist Domestic Fiction and the US Welfare State
When Bronson Alcott took his children off to a commune with instructions not to eat meat or wear animal products, the little Alcotts, freezing on a diet of apples while wearing politically correct...
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Religion of Fear: The Politics of Horror in Conservative Evangelicalism
Written by an American scholar of religious studies at North Carolina State University, this book argues that conservative evangelical Christians are driven by the fear that America is being taken...
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Published this week
? = Review forthcomingBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES?Six-Legged Soldiers: Using Insects as Weapons of WarBy Jeffrey A. Lockwood, professor of natural sciences and humanities, University of Wyoming. Oxford...
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From where I sit - Bumpy landings for parachutes
A flurry of movement at the top ranks of universities in mainland China caught the public's attention towards the end of last year.Among those to move were Zhou Qifeng, former president of Jilin...
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Staff drug shock probe
A significant proportion of academic staff at this university may be using drugs to enhance their performance.This was the shock implication of remarks made last week by Doctor Fritz Itzig of our...
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With no due respect, LOL
Insults toasting on an open flame test Kevin Fong's post-Christmas spirit
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Research intelligence - Seeking savvy lab partners
A BBSRC scheme aims to find business experts who can help scientists commercialise research. Elinor Zuke reports