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Her guitar wept and her voice soared
The passing of American singer, guitarist, songwriter and civil-rights activist Odetta reminds us of the power of music and the relevance of history, says Tara Brabazon
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Creative, flexible systems are key to lifelong learning
Universities need to “show more imagination” to create a culture of lifelong learning in the higher education sector, Sir David Watson said this week.Speaking in his role as chair of the Commission...
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Obsession: A History
Behaviour is judged within cultural contexts and, says Christine Purdon, excused if deemed positive
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The Masculine Self in Late Medieval England
Sometime during the 1340s, a child was born in Lincolnshire and brought up as a boy called Nicholas. In his twenties, Nicholas married a young girl called Katherine. Unfortunately, Katherine soon...
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Cambodian Dance: Celebration of the Gods
Denise Heywood dedicates this book to the dancers who survived the horrific years of the Pol Pot regime (1975-79), when 90 per cent of Cambodian artists and artisans were murdered. The few who...
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Euler's Gem: The Polyhedron Formula and the Birth of Topology
Robert Bradley enjoys a clear, elegant exposition of the history and principles of topology
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Cinematic Mythmaking: Philosophy in Film
"There is", writes Irving Singer in his prefatory note, "no definitive termination in this text, or in anything else I write." He adds that "because my mission is not historical, I feel justified in...
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Top 10 academic bestsellers: Heffers, Cambridge
1. Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air by David Mackay. UIT Cambridge, £19.99. ISBN 97809544529332. Oliver Cromwell: New Perspectives edited by Patrick Little. Palgrave Macmillan, £17.99. ISBN...
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Book of the Week: Einstein's Generation
Simon Mitton is pleased to see other great physicists get their due
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The week in books
Elsewhere, USA: How We Got From the Company Man, Family Dinners and the Affluent Society to the Home Office, BlackBerry Moms and Economic Anxiety by Dalton Conley, university professor of the social...
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Motherhood, the Elephant in the Laboratory: Women Scientists Speak Out
Juggling family life and a career in science is a struggle for women, Elizabeth Whitelegg observes
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Grotesque Relations: Modernist Domestic Fiction and the US Welfare State
When Bronson Alcott took his children off to a commune with instructions not to eat meat or wear animal products, the little Alcotts, freezing on a diet of apples while wearing politically correct...
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Religion of Fear: The Politics of Horror in Conservative Evangelicalism
Written by an American scholar of religious studies at North Carolina State University, this book argues that conservative evangelical Christians are driven by the fear that America is being taken...
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Published this week
? = Review forthcomingBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES?Six-Legged Soldiers: Using Insects as Weapons of WarBy Jeffrey A. Lockwood, professor of natural sciences and humanities, University of Wyoming. Oxford...