The Evolution of the Human Head
Chris McManus is impressed by a multidisciplined tour de force that simply oozes scholarship
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Shelley's Ghost: Reshaping the Image of a Literary Family
Duncan Wu is gripped by a tale of a remarkable family's careful crafting of its public standing
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Why Everyone (Else) is a Hypocrite: Evolution and the Modular Mind
This book is intended for a popular audience. It is low on technical detail, rhetorically selective in its presentation of research findings and light-hearted in tone: but none of this should deter...
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The Colors of Zion: Blacks, Jews, and Irish from 1845 to 1945
The past few decades have seen the rise of "whiteness" studies, which explore the cultural construction of white power. The studies demonstrate how anti-African-American hostility was constituted as...
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As China Goes, So Goes the World: How Chinese Consumers are Transforming Everything
The People's Republic is buying into Western consumerism. Kerry Brown counts the costs
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The Offensive Internet: Speech, Privacy and Reputation
This volume dangles the lure of much enjoyable moral indignation. Readers are promised "example after example of harassment" and "vile and hateful speech", after which they will "never again see the...
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Montaigne and the Art of Free-thinking
It is perhaps unsurprising that a major literary classic written in the late 16th century should prove if not inaccessible, at least difficult to approach for the modern reader. The paradox, in the...
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Polyglots plot as Glasgow letter screams foul over axe
Academics close ranks to defend beleaguered foreign language study. Matthew Reisz reports
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Gifts that just stop giving? Donation fears when matched funding ends
Conference hears that scheme's imminent demise could arrest momentum. Hannah Fearn reports
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LSE gender studies gives lie to narrative of loss
Gender studies is often perceived as a discipline in decline, but rumours of its impending demise have been greatly exaggerated, according to Clare Hemmings, director of the Gender Institute at the...
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News in Brief
United StatesQuantity of mercyOne hundred academics at the University of California have signed a letter of protest over the treatment of Muslim students who disrupted a speech by Michael Oren, the...
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China's poor dig deep for academic glory
University education is now the big-ticket expenditure for rural families. John Morgan reports
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Grant Winners
ACTION MEDICAL RESEARCH• Award winner: Sharhad Taheri• Institution: Diabetes centre, Birmingham Heartlands Hospital• Value: £138,762Obesity in children: sleep patterns• Award winner: John Speakman•...
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Blogconfidential: Leaving it all behind
Each week, Dr Margot Feelbetter poses a dilemma and offers advice for readers to respond to online. This week: Leaving it all behind
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Appointments
University of SalfordJulie BerryThe new university librarian at the University of Salford has pledged to use her role to help part-time students make the most of the resources available to them....