The art of asking
A new generation of dynamic fundraisers is overcoming traditional British reticence about seeking donations - with increasing effect. Esther Oxford meets the persuaders
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Starstruck
It is not often that you will find respected academics saying 'I want to be Kelly McGillis, in Top Gun, kissing Tom Cruise', at least not in public. But the study of celebrity is full of surprises,...
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The Employment Bill - managing difficult and sensitive issues
By Diane Gilhooley
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Text messages, minus the text
Susan Bassnett admires a playfully serious paean to the joys of not curling up with a good book.
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The Europeanization of the World
This is a thoroughly well-intentioned and worthy book, but it is perhaps the ultimate example of "yes, but". It cunningly avoids calling itself "How the European heritage underlies the...
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Top 10 Academic Bestsellers: Blackwell, Manchester
1. Street on Torts: Twelfth Edition by John MurphyOxford University Press, £29.99ISBN 97801992916632. Principles of Criminal Law by Andrew AshworthOxford University Press, £30.99ISBN 97801992811453....
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In the beginning were the Words
Anthony Freeman on the histories, myths and exegesis that grew into Judaeo-Christian Scriptures.
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Shakespear's Names
In early modern England, the name Helen referred to one individual: Helen of Troy, famed alike for her beauty, her sexual waywardness and for the waste and destruction that followed in her wake. The...
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Good Sex Illustrated
The family, in Tony Duvert's iconography, is the mainspring of oppression, "breeder of meat and whittler-down of men. As a 'producer' unit, it is ... capable only of destroying the children that it...
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The Book of the Week: Your Inner Fish
Michael Benton muses on our slippery past.
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The week in books
Turning Back the Clock: Hot Wars and Media Populism by Umberto Eco, director of the Scuola Superiore di Studi Umanistici, University of Bologna, translated by Alastair McEwen. Harvill Secker, £17.99...
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The myth of the universal remedy
Peter Sinclair finds the Washington Consensus isn't a reliable prescription for developing economies.
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The Design of Future Things
In Don Norman's latest book, whose title echoes that of his 1988 bestseller The Design of Everyday Things, he turns his attention to the increasing number of "smart" products that don't just react to...
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The Haunted Observatory: Curiosities from the Astronomer's Cabinet
William Herschel arrived in Hanoverian England as a penniless refugee who first eked out a meagre living as a professional musician. In 1766, his fortunes changed dramatically when his great talent...
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Published this week
ARCHAEOLOGY- The Tomb in Ancient Egypt: Royal and Private Sepulchres from the Early Dynastic Period to the RomansBy Aidan Dodson, research fellow of archaeology and anthropology, University of...