The Female Gothic: New Directions
An uncanny sense of critical recuperation filled my thoughts as I scanned the contents page and digested the introduction of this edited volume. Here, once again, Ellen Moers' concept of the "female...
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The Canon: Moses and Monotheism. By Sigmund Freud
While Freud may have come to conclusions with which it is not always easy to concur, it is surely absurd to dismiss his work in its entirety. Many do, however, and despite approbation from figures as...
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Is the Rectum a Grave? And Other Essays
Robert Kulpa re-evaluates an interdisciplinary thinker who probes the limits of anthropocentrism
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Unequal Britain: Equalities in Britain since 1945
This book is the product of a group of authors affiliated to the Institute of Historical Research and examines the question of inequality from the viewpoint of groups who are often seen as...
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I do I undo I redo: The Textual Genesis of Modernist Selves
Finn Fordham may be the kind of critic whose attentions writers dread. He is a meticulous enquirer into the often murky truth about how poems and novels come into being; the regrettably mundane...
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Sojourners in a Strange Land: Jesuits and Their Scientific Missions in Late Imperial China
Joseph Dauben is impressed with the scholarship in a study of 'shape-shifting' missionaries
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The Nature and Future of Philosophy
It would be a fine thing to know the nature and the future of philosophy, and Sir Michael Dummett, one of the few British philosophers to regularly appear in encyclopaedias of the discipline of...
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The Great Brain Race: How Global Universities Are Reshaping the World
Sir Howard Newby appreciates a wake-up call for the US academy that will ring alarm bells here, too
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Book of the week: Requiem for a Species
Why are most people 'everyday denialists'? Steven Yearley gets a sobering lesson
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ARTS AND DESIGN- What is Architectural History?By Andrew Leach, senior lecturer in architecture, Griffith University. Wiley, £50.00 and £14.99. ISBN 9780745644561 and 4578This book considers the...
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Cranfield University - Water work
A new project aims to ensure that everyone can get water on tap at all times, at the correct pressure and no matter what may happen along the way. Combining mathematics and risk analysis, the two-...
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Brunel University - Flowery speech
A windproof umbrella and a desktop plant that blooms in response to people's voices are among innovations being showcased at an annual event for design and engineering graduates. The Made in Brunel...
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University of Sheffield - Hot male bodies needed
Hot males are in high demand among female damselflies, scientists have discovered. Researchers from the University of Sheffield used thermographic imaging and high-speed photography to study the...
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Central Lancashire/Birmingham - Energy of youth
Parents left infuriated by teenagers who leave lights on will soon have academic research to back up their case. Computer scientists at the University of Central Lancashire and the University of...
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Odds and quads
In the year 616, Aethelfrith, King of Northumbria, defeated a Welsh army at the Battle of Chester and slaughtered the monks, at nearby Bangor-Is-Coed, who had been praying for his defeat. This...