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Academic computing has come a long way from the first lumbering leviathans. Now, says John Gilbey, we need to work on making everything accessible everywhere, every time
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Brought to Light: Photography and the Invisible, 1840-1900
A lavish catalogue illuminates the secrets of scientific photography, says A.D. Morrison-Low
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John Milton: Life, Work, and Thought
John Milton was one of the most significant figures of his age: polemicist, republican and, towards the end of his life, author of the 10,000-line epic Paradise Lost, which has a strong claim to...
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Top 10 academic bestsellers: Blackwell, Manchester
1. Renaissance Drama: An Anthology of Plays and Entertainments, Second Revised Edition by Arthur F. Kinney Wiley-Blackwell, £23.99 ISBN 97814051196722. Myth, Second Revised Edition by Laurence Coupe...
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Israel's Occupation
Israeli methods of controlling Palestinians have changed but not lessened their grip, says Lori Allen
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The Spy Who Came in From the Co-op: Melita Norwood and the Ending of Cold War Espionage
In 1999, on his way to interview Melita Norwood about Russian revolutionary emigres, David Burke was astonished to see on the front page of The Times a photograph of his 87-year-old interviewee with...
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Freedom and Consumerism: A Critique of Zygmunt Bauman's Sociology
Who is Zygmunt Bauman? The greatest sociologist writing in English today ..." announces an early chapter in this book. Well, if he isn't, who is? Mark Davis, in his plain, open-minded and admirable...
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Book of the week: The Bard: Robert Burns, a Biography
Gerard Carruthers relishes a magisterial portrait of Scotland's iconic literary figure
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The week in books
Bodies by Susie Orbach, visiting professor, London School of Economics.Profile, £10.99, ISBN 9781846680199"Orbach unpacks Freudian ideas such as hysterical symptoms and explains the role of genetics...
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Under Construction: Making Homeland Security at the Local Level
Jeremy Keenan takes issue with a book that is 'the epitome of all that anthropology should not be'
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Samuel Johnson: The Struggle
Samuel Johnson: The Struggle is Jeffrey Meyers' 21st biography, with most of the preceding 20 dealing with modern figures such as Ernest Hemingway or D.H. Lawrence. Here, he takes his first steps...
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Diplomacy Between the Wars: Five Diplomats and the Shaping of the Modern World
The title might suggest another run through the crises and treaties between the wars as the cast changes from the plenipotentiaries at Versailles in their top hats to the great dictators and the man...
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Women, Family, and Gender in Islamic Law
Mona Siddiqui on wives, husbands and their places in the multiple layers of Muslim jurisprudence
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Dance in the Renaissance: European Fashion, French Obsession
Focusing on the 16th-century French court, Margaret McGowan's rigorously researched, beautifully illustrated text argues persuasively for the centrality of dance within Renaissance culture.Dance...
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Mountain against the Sea: Essays on Palestinian Society and Culture
Historians over the past few decades, both in the Middle East and outside it, have mined rich seams of archival sources and oral narratives to construct a resonant and productive body of scholarship...