Book of the week: Wannabe U: Inside the Corporate University
An indictment of today's academy strikes a chord with Susan Bassnett
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Turnaround: Leading Stressed Colleges and Universities to Excellence
A survey of strategies used by US institutions in hard times gives John Coyne a helpful heads-up
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The Frock-Coated Communist: The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels
In the preface to this formidable biography, sure to enthral all those interested in theories of revolution, Tristram Hunt claims that Engels has "been excised from the popular memory", which may...
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The Canon. All That Is Solid Melts into Air: The Experience of Modernity By Marshall Berman
Marshall Berman's book was first published in the UK in 1983 by Verso and it had an immediate impact. Perry Anderson wrote an 18-page review in New Left Review that was respectful - "surely ... a...
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Questioning the Veil: Open Letters to Muslim Women
Julia Droeber sympathises with a passionate treatise against the reasons given for covering up
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Lady Jane Grey: A Tudor Mystery
There is a lot that is extremely worrying about this book. One might begin with the title. If the appearance on the cover of Lady Jane Grey in capital letters superimposed on a portrait of the...
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Consumerism and the Co-operative Movement in Modern British History: Taking Stock
This book addresses a neglect of the Co-op in historical writings and business history. Fourteen chapters - loosely organised into the three themes of the postwar decline, ideologies and identities,...
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Becoming a Woman in the Age of Letters
The epistolary art was a rite of passage for women in 18th-century France, says Isobel Grundy
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John Piper, Myfanwy Piper - Lives in Art
This intimately informed account of John and Myfanwy Piper's domestic and artistic partnership brims over with insights and revelations. Who knew that in his Chiltern farmhouse, Fawley Bottom - John...
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Belfast Boys: How Unionists and Nationalists Fought and Died Together in the First World War
Belfast's Loyalist murals depict many images of the First World War. The 36th Ulster Division, in which so many forebears of today's Ulster Loyalists fought and died, is a regular theme for these...
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Why Animal Suffering Matters: Philosophy, Theology, and Practical Ethics
Elisa Aaltola is left with no doubt that humans have a moral obligation not to cause animals pain
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Globalization and the Great Exhibition: The Victorian New World Order
In the run-up to the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, held in Hyde Park during the summer of 1851 in Joseph Paxton's Crystal Palace, Prince Albert declared that, by bringing...
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Notebooks from New Guinea: Field Notes of a Tropical Biologist
The big question framing the research of Czech entomologist Vojtech Novotny is that of why there are so many species of insects in tropical rainforests. His investigations, for the past decade, have...
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The Genial Gene: Deconstructing Darwinian Selfishness
A riposte to the biological determinism of Richard Dawkins leaves Janet Smith frustrated
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? = Review forthcomingBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES- The Origin Then and Now: An Interpretative Guide to the Origin of SpeciesBy David N. Reznick, professor of biology at the University of California,...