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The Ghost of Freedom: A History of the Caucasus
The Caucasus region is known "as a place of both unimaginable beauty and everyday barbarity". This volatile borderland has long been an object of fascination; it was immortalised by Tolstoy and...
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Picture Perfect: Life in the Age of the Photo Op
On Thursday May 1 2003, President George W. Bush soared above the Pacific in a Navy Viking Jet. The Navy pilot then made a dramatic tail-hook landing on the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, the USS...
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Easy answers and the American way
An airport classic overloaded with acronyms, but as Leslie Gofton concedes, what's not to like?
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The Author Is Not Dead, Merely Somewhere Else: Creative Writing Reconceived
The publishers bill this book as "a searching critique of traditional creative writing pedagogy". Michelene Wandor's wide experience as a writer, critic and teacher certainly qualifies her to offer...
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Jacob's Legacy: A Genetic View of Jewish History
Popular accounts by practitioners of archaeogenetics, and its close relative, genetic history, have a somewhat chequered history. Whether David Goldstein's little book on the genetic history of the...
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Faces from the dust bowl
Anne Hammond reflects on photographs from the Depression that highlighted the plight of the poor
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The Natural and the Supernatural in the Middle Ages
Attitudes to nature and the environment are fashionable topics in historical studies at present, and Robert Bartlett's book forms part of an ongoing discussion about the definition and limits of the...
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Representing Autism: Culture, Narrative, Fascination
For the past two decades or so autism has provided a model that, according to some, has profoundly shaped our under-standing of how we come to know other people as mental beings.The ability to take...
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Navel-gazing in another universe
Anthropology gets in the way of this wander through the new virtual wonderland, finds Grant McCracken
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Darwin's Garden: Down House and The Origin of Species
Tennyson's phrase "red in tooth and claw" has long attached to Darwinian nature. Yet Darwin was always, and sometimes mainly, concerned with plants. As he explained in On the Origin of Species (1859...
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Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe
This book was published to coincide with the exhibition organised by the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, in association with the Department of Special Collections of the Stanford University...
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(?) = Review forthcomingARTS AND DESIGN- (?)Patronizing the ArtsBy Marjorie Garber, William R. Kenan Jr professor of English and of visual and environmental studies, Harvard University. Princeton...
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From where I sit: Psychologists in the firing line
In sanctioning the Bush Administration's use of torture, the corruption of American attorneys is common knowledge - but are academic psychologists also partly to blame? A book published this summer,...
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Targett denies 'buggers' charge
Our Director of Corporate Affairs Jamie Targett has vigorously denied his involvement in a video clip currently available on YouTube.This clumsily filmed clip appears to show Targett talking to...