The Anatomy of Harpo Marx
Philip Kemp has qualms about the purpose of an examination of a dumb comedian's physicality
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Why Calories Count: From Science to Politics
People should read this book. They should read it if they are obsessive weight-watchers or serial dieters, or just concerned about what their children eat. They should read it if they work in public...
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Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength
For many years, willpower was out of fashion. In psychology, both Freudians and behaviourists were sceptical of the idea that we have conscious control, and the dominant view was that teaching self-...
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Dignity: Its History and Meaning
Simon Blackburn explores an ancient moral concept that some consider fundamental to human society
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Survival of the Beautiful: Art, Science, and Evolution
Darwin fails to explain fully why some evolved traits are so exquisitely alluring, finds Jon Turney
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The Arch Conjurer of England: John Dee
Magic at the Elizabethan court, Glyn Parry argues here, was pretty much like sex. Even if no one talked about it openly, everyone was thinking about it, wanted to do it and feared they might not be...
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The Freud Files: An Inquiry into the History of Psychoanalysis
"How did psychoanalysis attain its prominent cultural position?" This book, first published in 2006 in French and now available in translation with some light additions and changes, attempts to...
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Fly the nest or be left behind
'More must be done' to entice UK students to spend time on foreign soil. Matthew Reisz writes
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News in brief
Dementia researchDouble down on UK expertiseOverall funding for dementia research will more than double to £66 million by 2015 to try to make the UK a world leader in the field. The announcement was...
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India's got talent - but too few places where it can grow
Private help is needed to upgrade the country's higher education sector, business college chief tells Rachel Williams
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Unexpected climate change as course joins two cultures
MA/MSc in environmental issues draws on both humanities and sciences, reports Matthew Reisz
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The forecast for Gloucestershire: sunny, open and collaborative
Local college links pay a places bonus as v-c puts storms behind him. David Matthews reports
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UK flag waves in a growing global village on the Nile
BUE seeks extra British backing in competitive environment. David Matthews reports from Cairo
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Joint effort, mutual benefit for UK-Asian partners
The Medical Research Council has signed a memorandum of understanding with Japan's main science funding body to pool resources on projects of "mutual strategic importance".
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News in brief
United StatesFine not dandyA federal judge has reduced a fine levied last year against a US university for campus safety violations. Washington State University was originally fined $82,500 (£52,000...