Queen of the Wits: A Life of Laetitia Pilkington
Helen Wilcox is transfixed by the rolling and rollicking life of a saucy Grub Street manipulator
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The Cult Film Reader
In the academic study of popular culture the margins have a tendency quickly to become the mainstream, and nowhere more so than in the analysis of cinema. As Ernest Mathijs and Xavier Mendik's The...
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Shakespeare's Double Helix
No doubt many scientists would regard references to Shakespeare in a lab report with a mixture of amusement and scepticism," avers Henry S. Turner, precisely (if unfortunately) anticipating his own...
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Top 10 Academic Bestsellers: Blackwell, Manchester
1. Advanced Macroeconomics by David RomerMcGraw-Hill, £43.99. ISBN 97800728773042. Q&A European Union Law 2007/08 by Mike CuthbertTaylor & Francis, £13.99. ISBN 97818594196563. International...
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The Wonderful and Surprising History of Sweeney Todd: The Life and Times of an Urban Legend
Kamilla Elliott devours many slices of a pie that has fascinated collectors and academics alike
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When Prayer Fails: Faith Healing, Children and the Law
This book will do much to confirm the beliefs of those of a convinced antireligious persuasion. Every chapter is full of gruesome stories of children dying, often in great pain, as a result of...
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The Red Queen Among Organizations: How Competitiveness Evolves
It takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place," says the Red Queen in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass, a fitting metaphor for this book about organisational competition,...
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J = Review forthcomingART AND DESIGN- Holy MotherhoodBy Elizabeth L'Estrange, post-doctoral researcher in history of art, University of LiegeManchester University Press, £60.00. ISBN...
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The Book of the Week: The Craftsman
Keith Tester goes in search of a 'more humane material life'
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The Week in Books
The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth by Frances Wilson, specialist in Romantic literature and biography, formerly of the University of Reading. Faber, £18.99, ISBN 9780571230471"Perhaps exhausted by the...
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Thames Valley University - Lecturer loses moonlighting case
A psychology lecturer sacked by her university for working part-time at an NHS trust has lost her case for unfair dismissal. Zoubida Guernina practised as a psychologist one day per week for the NHS...
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University College Falmouth, Dartington - Merger to go ahead in April
The boards of governors of University College Falmouth and Dartington College of Arts have confirmed that the two institutions will merge in April. The controversial merger will mean that Dartington...
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University of Nottingham - Hollywood MA premieres
An MA in Hollywood studies is to be launched by the University of Nottingham this October. The course, which the university says is the first of its kind in Britain, examines the role of Hollywood in...
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University of Warwick - Undiagnosed diabetics uncovered
A study of 3.6 million patient records held by GPs has found evidence that tens of thousands of people may be suffering from undiagnosed diabetes. A University of Warwick research team surveyed 480...
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University of Bath - Grant awarded for cancer study
A team of researchers have been awarded more than £450,000 by Cancer Research UK to investigate a new way of preventing the division and growth of tumour cells. The team at the University of Bath,...