Reclaiming Catherine of Siena: Literacy, Literature, and the Signs of Others
Catherine was a visionary unafraid to take on the men claiming divine authority, writes Anke Bernau
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The Cambridge Companion to Bob Dylan
The Cambridge Companion to Bob Dylan situates Dylan and his work in the history of American culture. Dylan appears in this new American studies series after Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and W....
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The Canon: The Theatre of the Absurd. By Martin Esslin
Perhaps it's only books one meets at a young and impressionable age that become major landmarks on one's intellectual landscape. When Martin Esslin's book came out I was a teenager, fascinated - but...
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Stock Market Efficiency, Insider Dealing and Market Abuse
A study of regulation finds that it mostly works, but the debate has moved on, says Ranald Michie
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Anglo-Jewry since 1066: Place, Locality and Memory
Two kinds of experiences have shaped Jewish histories: persecution and diaspora. The pre-eminent 20th-century American Jewish historian Salo Baron objected to the preoccupation with persecution,...
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Consuming History: Historians and Heritage in Contemporary Popular Culture
Since the 1990s, Jerome de Groot's hugely suggestive study contends, the popular appetite for and means of "consuming" history have boomed. This enfranchisement and participation has unsettled "...
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Packaging Terrorism: Co-opting the News for Politics and Profit
Charles Townshend examines some significant questions concerning the UK and US media
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Post-Neoliberalism in the Americas
Historians are likely to mark the end of the era of market fundamentalism at the moment in 2008 when the breakdown of the poorly regulated American financial system wreaked havoc upon economies from...
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Top 10 academic bestsellers, Blackwell, Brighton
1 Contemporary Strategy Analysis, Sixth Edition by Robert M. GrantWiley-Blackwell, £31.99ISBN 97814051630952 Management Accounting for Business, Third Edition by Colin DruryThomson Learning, £42....
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Idiocy: A Cultural History
Writers love a fool, as Penny L. Richards learns from a roll call of idiots across the centuries
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Paris from the Ground Up
According to Ecclesiastes xii, 12: "of making many books there is no end". On no subject is that more true than Paris - probably the most written-about city in the world. The question to be posed of...
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Recorded Music: Philosophical and Critical Reflections
It was John Philip Sousa, the American composer and band conductor, who in Appleton's Magazine in 1906 coined the term "canned music".Like so many of Sousa's utterances, it was grumpy and off-the-...
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ANTHROPOLOGY- Society of Others: Kinship and Mourning in a West Papuan PlaceBy Rupert Stasch, associate professor in anthropology, University of California, San Diego. University of California Press...
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Concern over London's research resources 1
I have been following with deepening anxiety the increasing dangers faced by research libraries in London, on many of which my research and that of many French colleagues depends (Letters, 4 June)....
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Concern over London's research resources 2
Recent correspondence on the future of the University of London's library has focused on the Senate House Library itself. But the Research Library Services also include the libraries of the...