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Fighting words, in all their glory
Simon Blackburn revels in a trawl through our rich and varied tradition of ad hominem attacks
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The Neuroscience of Fair Play: Why We (Usually) Follow the Golden Rule
Do unto others as they do unto you" and "I'll scratch your back if you scratch mine". These and many other aphorisms capture the reciprocal nature of co-operative human interactions. But why do we...
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Theory through the prism of a life
A thinker who had no truck with biography is well served by this moving portrait, says Chris Thornhill
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Ribbon Culture: Charity, Compassion and Public Awareness
This is a timely and very welcome book that critically examines the trend in the wearing of charity ribbons. Sarah Moore charts the development of awareness ribbon campaigns through a well-researched...
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Top 10 Academic Bestsellers: Blackwell, Exeter
1. The Selfseeker by Anthony Hyman Teignvalley Press, £20.00 ISBN 97809555387042. God, Humanities and the Cosmos edited by Christopher Southgate Continuum, £32.99 ISBN 97805670301603. Al-Qaeda: The...
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The book of the week: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History
June Purvis on the mother of all resources
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The Week in Books
Roman Eyes: Visuality and Subjectivity in Art and Text by Jas Elsner, Humfry Payne, senior research fellow in classical art and archaeology, Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Princeton University Press...
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Bad teeth and shrewd politics
Paul T. Nicholson on a lucid summary of the Queen of the Nile's historical context and eternal allure
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Published this week
? = Review forthcomingARCHAEOLOGY- Archaeology as Political ActionBy Randall McGuire, professor of anthropology, Binghamton UniversityUniversity of California Press, £38.95 and £17.95ISBN...
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First Impressions competition: 10 April 2008
This week’s competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a Pulitzer prize-winning depiction of a post-apocalyptic world:“When he woke in the woods in the dark...
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University of York - Strategic web networking urged
Universities should appoint "Facebook strategists" according to a paper on social networking websites being considered by the University of York. The "strategists" would keep up to date with changes...
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Birkbeck, University of London - Football's 'feet drain' examined
Have opportunities for young English footballers diminished because of the number of foreign players? This will be one of the questions posed at a one-day conference on player migration in football...
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University of Edinburgh - Posthumous bequest sets record
A doctor has donated almost £2 million to the University of Edinburgh - more than 60 years after he died in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp. Australian Albert McKern graduated from Edinburgh in 1917...
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King's College London - School of nursing honoured
A London university has been declared "baby friendly". Dawn Primarolo, Minister for Public Health, handed over Unicef UK's first Baby Friendly award to the King's College London's Florence...