Punctuation: Art, Politics and Play
This is the book that puts the "pun", not to mention the "punk", in "punctuation". Jennifer DeVere Brody focuses on punctuation as performance, highlighting its role in novels, poetry, art, dance and...
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Reinventing Foreign Aid
Sixty years after it started, foreign aid has become a debating matter once again. As sharply as ever before, opinion is deeply divided about whether or not aid works. For the optimists, aid is...
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Step outside the Rogerian circle
Gail Kinman asks whether a condemnation of 'therapeutic education' examines all the evidence
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Drugs and Crime
Given the perennial public concerns about the drugs problem and the flourishing of undergraduate and masters courses in drugs and crime in many universities, Richard Hammersley's new textbook in...
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Emigrant Nation: The Making of Italy Abroad
For centuries, high birth rates and a weak economy drove Italians in their millions across the Alps and overseas in search of work. In the Early Modern period, central and northern Europe were the...
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Assessing the assessors
Lee Harvey takes a critical look at an analysis of what education tests really say about students
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Trust: Self-Interest and the Common Good
It is all but 40 years since John Dunn's remarkable revisioning of John Locke reminded us that his great original rebutted Plato, and replaced justice with trust at the centre of the polity.Since...
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The Rise of the Global Imaginary: Political Ideologies from the French Revolution to the Global War on Terror
Manfred B. Steger is interested in isms, especially neologisms. He means to map our changing ideological landscape; to identify our political belief systems. He wonders if today's isms mean something...
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Published this week
BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT- The Ashgate Research Companion to Corporate Social ResponsibilityEdited by David Crowther, professor of corporate social responsibility, De Montfort University, and Nicholas...
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Book of the week: The Legacy of the Mastodon
David Norman enjoys a tale of bones and teeth
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The week in books
Print for Victory: Book Publishing in England 1939-45 by Valerie Holman, associate research fellow in the Group for War and Culture Studies, University of Westminster.British Library Publishing, £30....
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A manifesto to discard elitism
Pablo Mukherjee examines a take on literary theory that offers some convincing new ideas
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ASBO Nation: The Criminalisation of Nuisance
Tackling antisocial behaviour has become a major law-and-order priority for Labour, which has brought in countless measures to help local authorities and the police to crack down on nuisance...
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Blind Date: Sex and Philosophy
In this short book, translated from the French by Catherine Porter, Anne Dufourmantelle, who co-wrote Of Hospitality with Jacques Derrida, explores the relations between sex and philosophy. This wide...
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Professor Lapping's notice board
Jamie Targett's Birthday: November 11thAutumn Term. Weekly Teaching HoursLapping 22Quintock 24Odgers Piercemuller 18 (medical note forthcoming)Research Assistant (Mike) 49Maureen 12Professor Gordon...