New and noteworthy – 26 November 2015
From Saudi Arabia’s religious rebels to TTIP's unknown unknowns: new academic books worth adding to your reading list
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Paranoid: Exploring Suspicion from the Dubious to the Delusional, by David J. LaPorte
The rich case study detail is akin to an engrossing chat with a psychiatrist friend, says Amy L. Milton
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Hanan al-Cinema: Affections for the Moving Image, by Laura U. Marks
Lindsey Moore on a study of film and video from the Arabic-speaking world
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What are you reading? – 26 November 2015
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Why Torture Doesn’t Work: The Neuroscience of Interrogation, by Shane O’Mara
Book of the week: Ethics aside, no useful information is to be gained from ‘coercive questioning’, says Steven Rose
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The week in higher education – 26 November 2015
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the national press
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Lisa Mckenzie on the day she was arrested
Anarchist academic reflects on what her recent brush with the law says about threats to academic freedom
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The Francis Crick Institute: science and serendipity
Is the biomedical research facility dubbed ‘Sir Paul’s cathedral’ built on sound foundations?
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Laurie Taylor – 26 November 2015
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Jeremy Corbyn: monstering by degrees
The media’s sneering attacks on the Labour leader’s limited tertiary study fail to recognise that academic qualifications are not political science, says Martin McQuillan