The week in books
Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town by Mary Beard, professor of classics, University of Cambridge. Profile Books, £25.00, ISBN 9781861975164"Mary Beard ... sets out to rehabilitate Pompeii and succeeds...
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Honour, passion and homicide
Robert Shoemaker wonders if the statistics, and the 'civilising process', tell the whole story
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The Man Who Believed He Was King of France: A True Medieval Tale
Identity fraud is not a modern invention. History is rife with impostors claiming to be long-lost members of royal families. One of these "hidden kings" is Giannino di Guccio, an Italian merchant who...
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Termites in the Trading System: How Preferential Agreements Undermine Free Trade
Termites in the Trading System is a seriously weighty little tome. In 110 pithy pages, economist Jagdish Bhagwati marshals a compelling case against Free Trade Areas - the termites eating away at the...
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Ron Johnston examines the finer points of citation, arguing that only conformists will be published
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The She-Apostle: The Extraordinary Life and Death of Luisa de Carvajal
On Easter Saturday 1605, a middle-aged Spanish lady who spoke no English and was in chronic ill health landed at Dover. Her handicaps were of no especial concern to her because her greatest hope in...
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Shakespeare and Laughter: A Cultural History
Indira Ghose's adroit, engaging study begins with a moment of consternation. When invited by a newspaper to nominate the "funniest Brit of all time", the nation chose not Shakespeare but Eric...
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Published this week
ARTS AND DESIGN- Architecture by Birds and Insects: A Natural ArtBy Peggy Macnamara, associate professor, School of the Art Institute of ChicagoUniversity of Chicago Press, £13.00ISBN 9780226500973A...
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From where I sit: China's media world is too small
China is becoming increasingly worried about the rising number of students taking journalism and communications courses when it is impossible for all the graduates to find work in a strictly...
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Poppleton students only 'marginally' less satisfied than before
Our Director of Corporate Affairs, Jamie Targett, was quick to find reassurance in the news from the 2008 National Student Survey that student satisfaction at Poppleton had decreased by only 4 per...
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Don't knock knowledge
Kevin Fong says the experiments at Cern represent science at its finest
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Leader: A case of considered judgment
Here's a shock: academics know how to assess work and reach mostly the same conclusions about what mark is meritedWhen we decided to conduct our Big Marking Experiment, we set out with only one...
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Gail Braybon, 1952-2008
Gail Braybon, the pioneering feminist historian of the Great War, has died.Born in Southampton in 1952, Ms Braybon attended Southampton School for Girls and studied history at the University of...
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Plan for £29m Oxford book depository shelved
The University of Oxford's plans for a £29 million book storage facility, which the university has argued is essential to protect the future of the Bodleian library, have been killed off by the...
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A path toward major change
Literary Theory: A ReintroductionAuthor: David AyersEdition: FirstPublisher: Wiley-BlackwellPages: 256Price: £12.99ISBN 9781405136013A quarter of a century ago Terry Eagleton wrote Literary Theory:...