Making Noise: From Babel to the Big Bang and Beyond
A tome trumpeting the historical significance of sounds is music to David Toop's ears
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Zoopolis: A Political Theory of Animal Rights
A recent heart-rending animal story concerned mummy and baby elephant trapped in mud, dying of thirst, and soon to be dinner for hyenas and lions. They were rescued, of course, and the predators had...
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The Faith of Girls: Children's Spirituality and Transition to Adulthood
Where once it was only poets who believed that childhood had a distinctly spiritual flavour, more recently a body of research evidence from psychology, theology and education concurs that children do...
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Reclaiming Fair Use: How to Put Balance Back in Copyright
Fierce defence of intellectual property limits free speech and stifles creativity, finds Matthew Rimmer
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A Contest for Supremacy: China, America, and the Struggle for Mastery in Asia
The one constant about China is its complexity, at least for those outside. Finding the right conceptual framework within which to fit this continent-sized country has proved elusive. As Aaron...
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Our Fritz: Emperor Frederick III and the Political Culture of Imperial Germany
Following recent excellent work on Otto von Bismarck and his reputation, it is helpful to be reminded that he was not the sole figure to focus authority and aspiration in Germany as it developed as a...
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STEM the Tide: Reforming Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math Education in America
You don't need to be a genius...you only need a talented teacher to produce able mathematicians. Really? asks Averil Macdonald
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Unionists, Loyalists, and Conflict Transformation in Northern Ireland
Historically, academic research into Northern Ireland was focused on segregated communities, paramilitary violence and, more recently, the dynamics underpinning a largely successful peace and...
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The Art-Architecture Complex
Hal Foster, a highly respected academic and veteran art critic based at Princeton University, intends this book to address a wide audience. The shifts in artistic and architectural practice that he...
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Tatsumi
Davina Quinlivan is drawn into a film that celebrates one of Japan's most gifted manga artists and the anime genre
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The Pick - Bertrand Russell: The First Media Academic
Credit: GettyBertrand Russell: The First Media AcademicBBC Radio 4, 14 January, 8.00pm-9.00pmBertrand Russell (1872-1970) was not only "a mathematician and a philosopher, an earl and an atheist, a...
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Diary
Leeds and other venuesGiulio Cesare in EgittoOf around 30 operas that Handel wrote in Italian for the London stage in the 1720s and 1730s, Giulio Cesare (1724) is probably the most performed and the...
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Don't even ask
"I really don't see why anyone should be required to spend valuable university time counting the cost of excrement."This was how our Head of External Relations, Kirk Swavely, responded to the news...
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Leader: The art of giving and receiving
Universities have to support alumni with their careers if they wish to see graduates open their wallets in support of them
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Research Intelligence - The decline and shortfall of US science
Funding model for the world's research powerhouse may be irrevocably broken, Jon Marcus is told