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...
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Ancestral Roots: Modern Living and Human Evolution
To lose our negative evolutionary baggage we have to go back to our roots, discovers Alan Bilsborough
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Dark Side of the Tune: Popular Music and Violence
In my final year as an undergraduate, I remember discussing with a friend my plan to pursue PhD research in the sociology of metal music. With a contemptuous look on his face, he said "you shouldn't...
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The Unmaking of the Middle East: A History of Western Disorder in Arab Lands
This outstanding, thoroughly researched and vividly written book focuses on the last two centuries of Western involvement in the Middle East. The topic is not new, and the market for books on the...
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Published this week
? = review forthcomingART AND DESIGN- Art and Design at Brighton 1859-2009: From Arts and Manufactures to the Creative and Cultural IndustriesEdited by Philippa Lyon, research fellow in the Centre...
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From where I sit - Humanities wither on the vine
Every new year brings reports on the state of the humanities in higher education, so brace yourself anew. On 7 January, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences released its "Humanities Indicators"....
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V-C's triumphant visit to 'pocket of excellence'
Yesterday morning, our Vice-Chancellor braved the heavy rain and buffeting wind to lead a group of interested journalists across the campus to view the now-famous Poppleton "pocket of excellence"....
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Secrets of real success
Hard work, creativity and luck are keys to accomplishment, says Tim Birkhead
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Off Piste: Shot of love
The espresso is Italy's gift to the world and the ideal stimulant for the creative mind, says Graham Farmelo