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In social situations, topologists and biophysicists alike find that their enthusiasm for their discipline is not always infectious. Matthew Reisz reports
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11 December 2008
Chattering classes - Student-centred learning is built on sharing opinions, but is it just faddish babble?
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Performing Class in British Popular Music
A case study on musical performance takes us into rarely charted waters, finds Martin James
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The Art of Lecturing: A Practical Guide to Successful University Lectures and Business Presentations
Parham Aarabi's slim volume is intended to be a practical guide to giving enthralling lectures to an internet generation with reduced attention spans, but even as a member of the Channel 4 generation...
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Watching the Lord of the Rings: Tolkien's World Audiences
Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings film trilogy (2001-03) was a global phenomenon that dominated screen culture in the early years of the 21st century. On a national level, an entire country, New...
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Book of the week: The Atom and the Apple
A physicist's stories captivate Chris Sachrajda
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The week in books
The Crime of Reason: And the Closing of the Scientific Mind by Robert B. Laughlin, Anne T. and Robert M. Bass professor of physics, Stanford University, Basic Books, £15.99, ISBN 9780465005079"...
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Cuba in Revolution: A History since the Fifties
The forthcoming 50th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution will be marked by an avalanche of commentary. Some, especially in Latin America and Africa, will be characterised by admiration and gratitude...
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Trouble with Strangers: A Study of Ethics
There is one Terry Eagleton, and he is Mephistopheles. Forty years ago, when New Left Church came out, heretically announcing to the British intelligentsia and briefly radical students the...
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Top 10 academic bestsellers: Blackwell, Edinburgh
1. Essential Grammar in Use by Helen Naylor and Raymond Murphy. Cambridge University Press, £19.50. ISBN 97805216754372. Business Studies 1 Pack by Edinburgh Management School. Pearson Education, £79...
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Who Owns The Sky? The Struggle to Control Airspace from the Wright Brothers On
James T. Crouse finds a work that plots the course of US aviation law is a breath of fresh air
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Madness and Murder: Gender, Crime and Mental Disorder in Nineteenth-Century Ireland
As a reading and viewing public, we have become jaded with ever-more dramatic and graphic renderings of violent crime. Television routinely shows torture, imprisonment, even dismemberment - a recent...
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Entertaining Television: The BBC and Popular Television Culture in the 1950s
At a time when the BBC in particular, and public service broadcasting in general, are being defended primarily on the grounds of their cultural worthiness and attacked for paying high fees to...
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The Death of Captain Cook: A Hero Made and Unmade
Katrina Schlunke is captivated by a work that navigates the tricky waters of historical reputation
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Transformations: Identity Construction in Contemporary Culture
My history degree was rigorous and traditional. The pendulum of curriculum swung between militarism and diplomacy. The disconnection between popular culture and history was stark and obvious. Some "...