Books

Dick Hobbs on how the intense nature of policing creates secondary casualties in poor communities

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Jane Darcy wonders if exhaustive analysis has left too little room for study of Romantic poet’s creative power

Philip Kemp wishes for more insight into child star’s life

Marta Herrero lauds an analysis from an insider affording rare insight into the market

Self-help guide encourages employees to conform, tolerate and adapt, says Sandra Leaton Gray

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Peter J. Smith on the Elizabethan poets’ rejection of the Petrarchan faith in posthumous passion

Rebecca Langlands lauds an intricate evocation of the volcanic region’s history

Farzana Shaikh finds persuasive arguments in an analysis of democracy and military rule in Pakistan

The revolutionary Magónistas offer great insight into life as an exile, says Samuel Brunk

In a culture of impunity, the categories of victim and perpetrator are still blurred, says Gwendolyn Beetham

Conflict changed London, says A. W. Purdue, for both ill and better

Luna Centifanti welcomes a disentanglement of popular confusions over brain and behaviour

A good grasp of basic statistics will help us to make the right life choices, finds Omar Malik

Philip Roscoe extols a mischievous economics blockbuster brimming with ideas and predictions

Les Gofton on the application of the punk ethos to studying sociology

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Gary Day on a new biography that breathes some life into the war poet

Tracey Warr finds comedy and tragedy in the posthumous dissemination of an artist’s work

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Jon Turney on an editor whose work with popular science writers helped to re-establish the genre

Steve Redhead finds a lack of sophistication in this analysis of the online gaming community

William Poole on how a culture of literary commonplacing gradually gave way to one of scientific record-keeping

Deborah Rogers on the Tiger Mother’s new polemic

An autobiographical tale of country music fandom resonates with Susan Deacy

The Party is still at the root of everything, says Jonathan Mirsky

Elena Lombardi lauds a persuasive invitation to everyone yet to be beguiled by the Divine Comedy

Christina Scharff on an exploration of the pleasure, curiosity and guilt that accompany this pastime

Claire Chambers on how the national imaginings of the English changed during the Romantic period separating out notions of class and race

A US approach to environmental integrity offers useful pointers for the UK, says David Maguire

Ulrike Zitzlsperger on how the ‘vertical railway’ has changed our society and our buildings

New data enrich an account of the activists who refused to be counted in 1911, says June Purvis

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Caroline Warman suggests that a complex period is oversimplified as the result of a forceful agenda

Advice from an astronomer would have benefited this exploration of connections between two subjects, says Virginia Trimble

Joanne Dickson on innovative mental health approaches to the understanding and treatment of a global problem

Claire Spottiswoode on the history of modern ornithology and how it has contributed to our understanding of evolution

Sigrid Sterckx on a Derrida-inspired analysis of calculation, incalculability and ending life

Laurence Coupe admires scholarly insights of a kind the REF could never hope to measure

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Helen Smith takes a tour of a landmark year in literary and religious Jacobean culture

Simon Underdown on a gripping account of the reconstruction of the first genome recovered from an extinct human species

Hazel Christie relishes a polished and powerful narrative that explains how memory works

Jules Pretty salutes an account revealing an unnerving alteration in a place and its ecosystems

Howard Segal on an analysis of six small-scale projects and their participants’ experiences

Barbara Graziosi on the ‘management consultant’ whose advice was sought for more than 1,000 years

What will we need to know to reboot civilisation after the apocalypse?, asks Alison Stokes

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Tristan Bekinschtein would prefer to see all the evidence considered when determining what makes us the way we are

Gavin Hyman on the importance of atheistic thought in human cultural development

Robert Eaglestone bridles at provocative, yet tired, ‘quips’ from the Elvis of philosophers

Victoria Harris longs for more illumination in history of an unsung wartime heroine

Jane Shaw praises a subtle and emotionally astute reading of the saint’s language of the spirit

Lars Berger on a critique of counter-radicalisation strategies

Ascertaining the truth behind events is what matters, says Robert Gellately, not hypotheticals

Jon Turney on the possibilities, real and imagined, of engineering the building blocks of life

Eric Michael Johnson is gripped by an evaluation of what it is to be human and our place in nature

Perceptive questions abound in this Western-oriented discussion, says Ursula King