The pleasure of being virtuous
Simon Blackburn lauds a lucid and humane directive of making ethical choices
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The End of Work: Theological Critiques of Capitalism
This is a book about the theology of work, though in fact it is as much about philosophers and their views of labour, capitalism and the economy of the modern world. Its strength lies in its...
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The Wooster Group Work Book
Wooster Group director Elizabeth LeCompte describes how the framing device applied to Chekhov's Three Sisters in Brace Up! and Fish Story drew on a documentary about an itinerant troupe of...
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Less heat, more light, please
Tackling climate change is about a lot more than understanding the science, insists Mike Hulme.
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Listen Again: A Momentary History of Pop Music
One of the strangest products of American philanthropy in recent years is Seattle's The Experience Music Project. This kind-of-a-museum, housed in one of Frank Gehry's less acclaimed buildings and...
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Our Secret Discipline: Yeats and Lyric Form
Helen Vendler's latest book is an exhaustive reading of Yeats's poetry in its engagement with poetic forms. In just under 400 pages, she looks at the way he uses a variety of forms, from trimeter to...
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ANTHROPOLOGYPostcolonial DisordersEdited by Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good, professor of social medicine, Harvard University; Sandra Teresa Hyde, associate professor in the departments of anthropology and...
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Correction
A missing comma in a quotation in our profile of Sir Gordon Duff ("Flu fighter", 7 February) may have given the incorrect impression that Sir Gordon had said that the famous Spanish Flu pandemic was...
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Keeping personal data safe
By Diane Gilhooley
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University of Hull - Logistics Institute opens
A £23 million Logistics Institute to study the movement of goods is due to open at the University of Hull on 5 March. The university hopes the institute will have a "significant impact" on the region...
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Roehampton University - Not just William stories
A unique collection of children's literature has a new home. Roehampton University has opened a new Archives and Special Collections Centre in its library. The centre will house the Froebel Archive...
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University of Cambridge - Floodlights get go-ahead
A decade-long battle against local residents and an astronomer who opposed plans to erect floodlights at an athletics track has been won by the University of Cambridge. Planners gave the university...
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University of East London - Black business boost
The University of East London has opened a centre focusing on black-owned enterprises in London. The Black Business Observatory, which is funded by the London Development Agency, will co-ordinate...
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De Montfort University - Russians link up for English
Senior figures from Russia's former nuclear communities and institutes, including scientists and public servants, have arrived to study a course in business English at De Montfort University. They...
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Manchester Business School - Chinese collaboration agreed
Manchester Business School has signed an agreement with the Chinese Academy of Science to collaborate on future research on innovation and sustainable growth. The deal was signed at a conference...