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Something for the weekend?
Diverting as this large pack of prophylactic-related data and anecdotes may be, the lack of references is a barrier to Chris McManus's full enjoyment.Condomology has not yet entered the academic...
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Eye Rhymes
Drawing on hitherto unpublished visual material housed in the University of Indiana's Lilly Library and Smith College's Mortimer Rare Book Room, and published to coincide with the 75th anniversary of...
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Red Baron: The Life and Death of an Ace
There are few First World War personalities who still attract as much interest as the German fighter pilot Manfred, Freiherr von Richthofen. Whereas Rene Fonck and William Avery Bishop, highest-...
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Top 10 Academic Bestsellers: Blackwell, Newcastle
1. Theogony and Works and Days by Hesiod, translated by M.L. WestOxford University Press, £7.99. ISBN 97801928394112. Modern Literary Theory: A Reader edited by Patricia Waugh and Philip RiceHodder...
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The golden notebooks
Anthony Phelan on a rich harvest of insight and riddle from one of Europe's great cultural critics
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In Praise of Prejudice
The title of this book is misleading in two ways. First, it is not simply devoted to the praise of prejudice but differentiates between what its author terms "good" and "bad" prejudice. Second, the...
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Provoking Democracy: Why We Need the Arts
At the heart of this clear and elegantly written book is one of the central questions that has faced anyone practising or teaching in any of the major art forms during the past century. As Caroline...
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The Book of the Week: Violence by Slavoj Žižek
The Žižek variations: Julian Baggini on the bravura art of repetition.
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The Week in Books
The Second Plane - September 11: 2001-2007 by Martin Amis, professor of creative writing, University of Manchester. Jonathan Cape, £12.99 ISBN 9780224076104"It was not the slaughter of 11th September...
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Published this week
ART AND DESIGNThe Cambridge Companion to GiottoEdited by Anne Derbes, professor of art at Hood College and Mark Sandona, professor of English, Hood CollegeCambridge University Press, £18.99. ISBN...
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First Impressions competition: February 14 2008
This week’s competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a romantic adventure set in the French Revolution:"He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense...
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Nerc goes to work on £1bn climate change partnership
Research council aims to integrate science and policy in flagship programme. Zoe Corbyn reports.
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Grant winners
European Research Council.Forty-one UK researchers have won European Research Council "starting independent research grants". Below we publish details of 23 winners; we will print the remainder next...
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Self-made Kiwi
Birkbeck's Ian Conrich, the driving force behind New Zealand studies in the UK, fell in love with the country via its cinema.