Fresh: A Perishable History
Food has always been a (in some ways the) central concern of mankind, but of late it has received unprecedented press: from a spate of books on "proper eating" to celebrity chefs moving beyond...
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Frankenstein: Icon of Modern Culture
It may be impossible today to envisage Victor Frankenstein's Monster without invoking the grotesque that Boris Karloff created in the corny but influential 1931 cinema adaptation, one of the first of...
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Higher Learning, Greater Good: The Private and Social Benefits of Higher Education
Roger Brown enjoys a timely text that shows we cannot afford to starve the academy of funds
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Levittown: Two Families, One Tycoon, and the Fight for Civil Rights in America's Legendary Suburb
America's suburbs grew dramatically in the years after the Second World War, and the developer William Levitt was a key figure in the expansion. In Levittown, David Kushner paints a compelling...
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Spaces of Security and Insecurity: Geographies of the War on Terror
As fans of the hit television series 24 will know, Jack Bauer is the gutsy hero who races against the clock to save America from terror attacks. For some, including Michael Chertoff, the former US...
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The Dark Sahara: America's War on Terror in Africa
David H. Price asks if the Bush Administration engineered or simply exploited a hostage situation
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The New Plagues: Pandemics and Poverty in a Globalized World
Stefan Kaufmann is both lucky and unlucky. His luck is to be a senior scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology in Berlin, situated close to the Luisenstrasse, where in 1880 Robert...
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Sound Commitments: Avant-Garde Music and the Sixties
That music can be a countercultural and subversive force is clear and well documented. Genres including folk, jazz, punk, rap and dancehall have all been subject to regulation and state attention,...
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The Arts of Intimacy: Christians, Jews and Muslims in the Making of Castilian Culture
The story of medieval Spain cannot be neatly delineated along religious lines, says Jill Ross
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African Film and Literature: Adapting Violence to the Screen
The title of Lindiwe Dovey's first monograph promises more than it can possibly deliver. This is not a synoptic study of African film or African literature, but a series of cogently focused case...
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Kierkegaard, Metaphysics and Political Theory: Unfinished Selves
Alison Assiter's new work on Soren Kierkegaard and moral theory is a fine attempt at providing a fresh way of thinking about ethics and human rights without completely abandoning the framework that...
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BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE- Lizards in an Evolutionary Tree: Ecology and Adaptive Radiation of AnolesBy Jonathan B. Losos, professor of organismic and evolutionary biology, Harvard University. University of...
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Planes, trains and carbon
Academics should take the lead when it comes to cutting aviation-related carbon, say Jens Rolff and David Sedley
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Shakespeare and porn: a topic for theoretical, not practical, analysis
Being a badly dressed academic is nothing to be ashamed of, says Peter J. Smith. An undressed professor, however, is a step too far
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Dismal Amazon ratings belie success of print on demand
Libraries cater for small audiences but are giving a valuable service, writes Matthew Reisz