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Amid the marketing puffery and opaque jargon, many prospectuses fail to explain what a course is really about, students complain. Matthew Reisz looks over the good, the bad and the flannel
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An American in Victorian Cambridge
A Yank's college confessional about Cambridge in the 1840s is just capital, finds Peter Mandler
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Sense of Place and Sense of Planet: The Environmental Imagination of the Global
Ursula Heise's book leads ecocriticism in a new direction, one that should have been taken long before now. Sense of Place and Sense of Planet is the first work of literary ecocriticism to start out...
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Top 10 Academic Bestsellers: Blackwell, Bristol
1. Introduction to Comparative Politics, Fourth Edition by Mark Kesselman, Joel Krieger and William A. Joseph. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, £32.99. ISBN 97806186044702. Theory and Methods in Political...
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Every Fury on Earth
These sharp essays on intellectuals, academia and politics chart a promising career, Alan Ryan says
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The Venturesome Economy: How Innovation Sustains Prosperity in a More Connected World
In this thought-provoking book, Amar Bhide challenges the "technonationalist" view that America's comparative advantage lies in technological leadership and the associated "alarmist" fears that, as...
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Book of the Week - Max Weber: A Biography
In one of the opening chapters of this absorbing and meticulously researched biography of the great polymath of the human sciences, the author recounts the fate of Max Weber's talented younger...
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The week in books
The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning by James Lovelock, honorary visiting fellow, Green College, Oxford. Allen Lane, £20.00. ISBN 9781846141850"James Lovelock is the closest thing we have to...
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Slow-Tech: Manifesto for an Over-wound World
We need an alternative to our frenetic society but, writes John Whitelegg, this book does not provide it
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Coda
Let sleeping tumours lie." If only one could. Simon Gray's previous memoir, The Last Cigarette, ended with the grim news that he had been diagnosed with lung cancer. The posthumously published Coda...
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Global Soundtracks: Worlds of Film Music
Music and the moving image were inseparable long before the arrival of the talkies. From the live accompaniment of yesteryear's picture-house organs to today's finitely constructed electro-acoustic...
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Moral Machines: Teaching Robots Right from Wrong
John Gilbey praises an invaluable guide to avoiding the stuff of science-fiction nightmares
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First We Read, Then We Write: Emerson on the Creative Process
On the first page of this intensely readable gem of a little book, Robert D. Richardson observes most surprisingly, and bluntly: "Writing was the central passion of Emerson's life ... But he never...
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Dante's Two Beloveds: Ethics and Erotics in the Divine Comedy
Olivia Holmes' study is an investigation into a fundamental topic for scholars and readers of Dante and medieval literature in general: the complex and fascinating relationship that ties together...
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Published this week
? = Review forthcomingART AND DESIGN- The Idol in the Age of Art: Objects, Devotions and the Early Modern WorldEdited by Michael W. Cole, associate professor of history of art, University of...