The Week in Books
The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict by Joseph Stiglitz, chair, management board, Brooks World Poverty Institute, University of Manchester, and Linda Bilmes, lecturer in...
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What We Say Goes: Conversations on US Power in a Changing World
Neil Smith on Noam Chomsky's meticulous dissection of the rhetoric of the American empire
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Keynes: Life and Times
It is hardly controversial to claim that John Maynard Keynes was the most influential economist of the 20th century. There are also strong grounds for seeing him as one of the century's most...
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The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, From Edison to Google
In The Big Switch, Nicholas Carr provides clear and insightful accounts of leading technological initiatives and business models to convey his vision of how the Edisons of the digital age are...
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Top 10 Academic Bestsellers: Blackwell, Leeds
1. The Maudsley Prescribing Guidelines, Ninth Edition by David Taylor, Carol Paton and Robert KerwinRoutledge, £25.00. ISBN 97804154241652. Internet Marketing: Strategy, Implementation and Practice,...
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A Writer's People: Ways of Looking and Feeling
V.S. Naipaul's keen, ruthless eye confirms that great writers make stern critics, says Radhakrishnan Nayar
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Fiction and the Weave of Life
This engaging and admirably clear contribution to the philosophy of literature attempts to rehabilitate what the author terms "literary humanism" - the unfashionable but intuitively appealing view...
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Beyond UFOs: The Search for Extraterrestrial Life and its Astonishing Implications for Our Future
The title and preface of this book led me to believe that I was about to read about UFO sightings, alien abduction and an anecdotal story of why Jeffrey Bennett believes in aliens. Instead, I soon...
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Naguib Mahfouz: Egypt's Nobel Laureate
Ziad Elmarsafy acquaints himself with the many and varied faces of a prolific literary genius
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Hiroshima: The World's Bomb
The first person to "split" an atom was Ernest Rutherford, a New Zealander. Enrico Fermi, an Italian, was first to split uranium, although he did not quite understand what had occurred. That mystery...
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The Quran and the Secular Mind: A Philosophy of Islam
This is a puzzling book - one that it is not easy to make sense of. Its author knows about the Koran and about modern Western philosophy. Crudely, he is in favour of the one and against the other....
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Simone de Beauvoir: The Making of an Intellectual Woman
Ursula Tidd lauds a timely restating of Simone de Beauvoir's bold fusion of intellect and emotion
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Theatre Censorship: From Walpole to Wilson
While theatre censorship was technically abolished in 1968, the content and regulation of theatre production is still a live issue. Recent years have seen attempts to censor both the National Theatre...
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Brand New China: Advertising, Media and Commercial Culture
Jing Wang is professor of Chinese Cultural Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her first book was an erudite study of the lore of stones in Chinese culture as reflected in...
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BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT- Women Speaking Up: Getting and Using Turns in Workplace MeetingsBy Cecilia E. Ford, professor of English, University of WisconsinPalgrave, £50.00. ISBN 9781403987228Ford...