Top 10 Academic Bestsellers: blackwell.co.uk
1. Understanding the European Union: A Concise Introduction by John McCormick Palgrave Macmillan, £19.99 ISBN 97802302010262. England: An Oxford Archaeological Guide to Sites from Earliest Times to...
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Of corn kernels and Columbine
Keith Kahn-Harris on how hip-hop and nu-metal rage against and within US 'supercapitalism'
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Worlds before Adam: The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Reform
Historians of science are often accused of triumphalism and Whiggism for documenting a progressive narrative flow towards a greater "truth". But the able historian can decipher a path towards a...
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The Judicious Eye: Architecture against the Other Arts
This is a very curious book. It purports (according to the press release) to be a "lucid account of how architecture became separated from the visual arts, and how that breach is being repaired today...
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The book of the week: Dissent over Descent
Keith Ward on evolution versus intelligent design
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The week in books
Txtng: The Gr8 Db8 by David Crystal, honorary professor of linguistics, Bangor University. Oxford University Press, £9.99, ISBN 9780199544905"If you've been waiting for someone to give a good kick to...
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Sweeping aside all the hurdles
Steve Tsang praises essential reading on China's troubled history with the Olympic Games
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Makhmalbaf at Large: The Making of a Rebel Filmmaker
Along with Abbas Kiarostami, Mohsen Makhmalbaf is the best known of the Iranian New Wave directors who came to international prominence in the wake of the 1979 Islamic Revolution. He is not merely a...
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How Terrorism Is Wrong: Morality and Political Violence
When nonviolent politics has been exhausted, or shut off by governments in situations of profound injustice, is violence or even terrorism sometimes justified? This is the central issue animating...
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Published this week
? = Review forthcomingART AND DESIGN- Before Bruegel: Sebald Beham and the Origins of Peasant Festival ImageryBy Alison G. Stewart, professor of art history, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Ashgate, £...
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First Impressions competition: 23 July 2008
This week’s competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novel addressing post-civil-war American Black identity:"I am an invisible man." Entries, including...
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Glyndwr University - Newi becomes a university
The North East Wales Institute of Higher Education has become a university, naming itself after Owain Glyndwr, the Welsh hero who defended his homeland against Henry Bolingbroke, the future Henry IV...
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University of Nottingham - Clerical worker back in court
Hicham Yezza, the university clerical worker arrested after a colleague found a copy of an al-Qaeda training manual on his computer, appeared in court this week charged with immigration offences. Mr...
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University of Winchester - Fees cut for Gurkha children
Partners or children of serving Gurkhas and other Commonwealth Service personnel will pay reduced tuition fees at the University of Winchester from September. Dependants of the Nepalese servicemen...
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University of Portsmouth - IT scholar rules the field
A university lecturer refereed American football's equivalent of the Uefa Cup final in Berlin last week. Jim Briggs juggles lecturing in computing at the University of Portsmouth with his other...