Lord Dahrendorf, 1929-2009
Lord Ralf Dahrendorf, the sociologist, politician and former longstanding director of the London School of Economics, has died.He was born in Hamburg on 1 May 1929, the son of a Social Democrat...
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Book of the week: Beyond The Box
Behaviourism's founder has suffered bad press, writes Janine Spencer
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Suicide in Nazi Germany
Cornelie Usborne delves into a complex and painful phenomenon of the Second World War
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Deciphering the Cosmic Number: The Strange Friendship of Wolfgang Pauli and Carl Jung
Wolfgang Pauli was admired as a blazingly confident theoretical physicist but also feared as a pitiless critic of every woolly or illogical idea. In 1932, when he was at his peak, few of his...
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The Canon: The Elementary Forms of Religious Life. By Emile Durkheim
It should be against the law for anyone to write about religion without passing an exam on Emile Durkheim's 1912 text The Elementary Forms of Religious Life. This book stands unchallenged as the most...
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Summertime, and the reading is easy
Surveying the forthcoming crop of scholarly books, Karen Shook spots engaging reads suitable for the poolside lounger and weighter tomes for air-conditioned studies
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Women and Science in India: A Reader
Suroopa Mukherjee finds questions of gender and research in India are addressed, but not answered
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The Liberal Way of War: Killing to Make Life Live
The recurrence of war throughout human history is a pattern whose explanation has eluded philosophers, politicians, activists and diplomat practitioners. During the classical European system of...
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The Bible and the People
The father of a friend of mine once characterised the US-American approach to travel in the following manner: "Do Europe in three days: Pisa, Florence and the Bingen Mauseturm." Be that as it may:...
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Between Medieval Men: Male Friendship and Desire in Early Medieval English Literature
A thoughtful examination of how homosexuality is portrayed historically rings true with Robert Mills
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The History of Italian Cinema: A Guide to Italian Film from its Origins to the Twenty-First Century
Widely recognised as the foremost historian of Italian cinema, to whom "all historians of Italian films owe an outstanding debt", Gian Piero Brunetta has finally and somewhat belatedly seen his...
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Shapes for Sounds
The written character is and remains the basis of every typographic activity. It is not a creation of our century. The written character goes far back in time, spanning the vast distance from early...
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Thinking About Almost Everything: New Ideas to Light Up Minds
Durham University's commercial for the range and depth of its work leaves Jon Turney wanting more
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BIOLOGICAL SCIENCESMore Than Darwin: The People and Places of the Evolution-Creationism ControversyBy Randy Moore, H.T. Morse-Alumni distinguished teaching professor of biology, University of...
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Poor quality subsidised by bundles of despair
The electronic distribution of academic journals has many advantages, but the business model that underpins it has a fatal flaw.Central to it is the "bundling" of journals. When we subscribe to a...