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Gravity's Engines: The Other Side of Black Holes
Virginia Trimble considers supermassive creative destruction at the Universe’s galactic centres
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Animal Suffering: Philosophy and Culture
Do we really need a book like this? Isn’t it perfectly obvious that animals suffer, and that their suffering matters? Well, hardly. In fact, it may instead seem obvious that most animals - insects,...
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The Most Remarkable Woman in England: Poison, Celebrity and the Trials of Beatrice Pace
In July 1928, Beatrice Pace was acquitted of the charge of murdering her husband, Harry. The trial of the working-class woman had attracted considerable press coverage, making her a “celebrity”....
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I Did It To Save My Life: Love and Survival in Sierra Leone
Joanna Lewis on how cultures and circumstances skew our passions more than we may realise
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Welfare States and Immigrant Rights: The Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion
Welfare States and Immigrant Rights offers an original analysis of the impact of welfare states on immigrants’ social rights, economic situations and levels of inclusion. In what is the first...
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The Demon of Writing: Powers and Failures of Paperwork
Ben Kafka is wised up to any jokey allusions one might play upon his name: he is a witty, very well-read and genial master not only of the Marx and Freud he takes as prime movers of his little jeu d’...
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From Where I Sit - Silence on Europe is deafening
Few stories have so dominated the news in recent years as Europe's sovereign debt crisis. We have been faced with a torrent of bad news and warnings ranging from worries about contagion within the...
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22 November 2012
Don’t let the scholars grind you down - Karel Reisz’s son reflects on academic interpretations of his director father’s work
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Research intelligence - A shift from tactics to strategy
It’s time for physics to make a big bang, the woman from the ministry tells Elizabeth Gibney
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Lawrence of Arabia
The 50th anniversary re-release of Lawrence of Arabia allows us to reassess cinema’s sensual relationship with the desert, Davina Quinlivan writes
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The Last Walk: Reflections on Our Pets at the End of Their Lives
Erika Cudworth considers the ethical dilemmas posed by the decline and death of a beloved ‘pet’
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Cyberspaces free from the constraints of theocracy
Event hears how online learning offers ‘alternative public realm’ for Iranians. Matthew Reisz reports