What Anthony Fletcher claims for his latest book is "an entirely fresh view of the upbringing of English children between 1600 and 1914". To be more precise, it is the upbringing of children from the...
Daniel Ogden is the leading home-grown British expert on Ancient Greek and Roman magic and, as such, is part of an international boom in scholarly interest in a subject that spans the Western world....
1. The Stuff of Thought by Steven Pinker Allen Lane, £9.99 ISBN 97801410154772. Get Rid of Your Accent: The English Pronunciation and Speech Training Manual, Third Ed by Linda James and Olga Smith...
Jane Kilby on the idea that the weak are emotionally involved with the strong, egging them on to force
This book is a curious hybrid. One part is a relatively orthodox intellectual biography of Richard Rorty. It begins with accounts of his parents' intellectual interests and political commitments,...
Over the past 20 years, Roger Shuy, professor emeritus at Georgetown University, has published many accounts of linguistic evidence he has contributed in US legal cases. He is almost certainly the...
Andreas Hess shivers at a glimpse of our future
A Floating Commonwealth. By Christopher Harvie, professor of British studies at Tubingen University. Oxford University Press, £55.00, ISBN 97801982830"(Harvie) argues that there was once a 'West...
In this collection of eight essays, art historian Zainab Bahrani sets out to analyse and describe the acts of warfare and violence in ancient Mesopotamia. Rather than simply offering a chronological...
This book is an interesting and thought-provoking examination of the ownership and growing "consumerisation" of parts of the body from cradle to grave, including stem cells, gametes and organs....
Gauging achievement as distinct from ability has always been a vexed question, says Wendy Johnson
For Jeremy Black the curse of history, or at least the curse of history as it is all too often employed by governments, religious, racial and ethnic groups, is that it focuses present attention on...
This is a very good book for all those who already know their English Civil War pretty well. It is not a narrative account of the wars (we have more than enough very good ones already), although it...
BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES- Principles of Snow HydrologyBy David R. DeWalle, professor emeritus of forest hydrology, Pennsylvania State University. Cambridge University Press, £75.00. ISBN 9780521823623This...
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