Sex, politics and a quality imagination
Renowned feminist writer Sheila Rowbotham talks to Matthew Reisz about writing from her own experience and imagining what it is like to be inside a homosexual man's body
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Reluctant Refuge: The Story of Asylum in Britain
In Reluctant Refuge, Edie Friedman and Reva Klein seek to provide an argument, accessible to the general populace, for an end to the dehumanisation of refugees and the negative rhetoric about asylum...
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Eternal Chalice: The Enduring Legend of the Holy Grail
This is an informative book on a difficult topic. It deals first with the original European sources of the Grail story from Chretien of Troyes to Malory, discussing the gradual layering of the...
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16 October 2008
Degrees of separation - How the relationship between HE and FE could turn sour
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Win OUP books worth over £200!
Times Higher Education, in association with the www.veryshortintroductions.co.uk series from Oxford University Press has 35 Very Short Introduction titles (worth over £200) to give away to one lucky...
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Brushing up on domesticity
Mary Evans is reminded of the threat to diversity presented by resurgence of the commodity culture
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The Art of Strategy: A Game Theorist's Guide to Success in Business and Life
It is a while since I studied economics. It was during the 1980s, and game theory commanded a significant part of my syllabus. The Art of Strategy is evidence that it remains as vibrant today.Game...
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Mania: A Short History of Bipolar Disorder
Healy is a controversial psychiatrist whose critics have been vociferous in denouncing his ideas and have even gone so far as to claim he has lost the plot. But his study of bipolar disorder has an...
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Top 10 Academic Bestsellers: Blackwell, Bristol
1. Nursing Care: An Essential Guide by Linda Field and Barbara Smith. Pearson Education, £22.99. ISBN 97801319765282. Biology and Practical Skills in Biomolecular Science by Rob Reed, David Holmes,...
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Book of the Week: Loneliness as a Way of Life
Fred Inglis is moved by a meditation on loss that transforms into an unforgettable study of America's soul
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The week in books
Darwin's Angel: An Angelic Riposte to The God Delusion by John Cornwell, affiliated research scholar in the department of history and philosophy of science, University of Cambridge. Profile Books, £6...
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Published this week
BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE- A Mechanistic Approach to Plankton EcologyBy Thomas Kirboe, research professor, Danish Institute for Fisheries Research. Princeton University Press, £23.95. ISBN 9780691134222A...
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Shock and gore not to the fore
A hate figure of popular history reveals his more caring side to Tom Palaima in a vivid new treatment
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Coding and Redundancy: Man-made and Animal-evolved Signals
When the mathematician Claude E. Shannon published his classic paper "A Mathematical Theory of Communication" in the Bell System Technical Journal in 1948, he affected a variety of different...
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The Sorcerer's Tale: Faith and Fraud in Tudor England
The most conspicuous trademark of New Historicism is its use of anecdote. In their attempts to foreground the relativity of canonicity, the New Historicists would not begin their analysis of Othello...