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First Impressions competition: April 3 2008
This week’s competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a magical tale of finding a female identity:“The summer she was fifteen, Melanie discovered she was...
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The Book of the Week: Worlds at War: The 2,500-Year Struggle between East and West
Tom Palaima on a long, bloody clash of cultures
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The Week in Books
The Gold Leaf Lady and Other Parapsychological Investigations by Stephen Braude, professor of philosophy, University of Maryland, Baltimore County. University of Chicago Press, £11.50, ISBN...
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The Cult of Statistical Significance: How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives
Steve Fuller on Deirdre McCloskey's ongoing struggle against economists' fetishisation of data
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The Selling Sound: The Rise of the Country Music Industry
The Selling Sound is a fascinating and wide-ranging account of the rise of the country music industry. This is not a dry economic discussion of an emerging section of the cultural industries, but a...
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Leadership: A Critical Text
It is refreshing when you come across a clear, well-written book about leadership that is not peddling the latest gimmick, buzzword or quick fix. What makes this work really refreshing is the...
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Top 10 Academic Bestsellers: Blackwell, Edinburgh
1. The Road to Independence? Scotland Since the Sixties by Murray Pittock. Reaktion Books, £15.95. ISBN 97818618936592. What Is This Thing Called Knowledge? by Duncan Pritchard. Routledge, £14.99....
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Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing without Organizations
Tara Brabazon on bold tales of a Web 2.0 revolution to which the poor and excluded need not apply
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Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth and Art
The trickster is a well-known figure in folklore. Best known are Coyote, Hare and Raven. Paul Radin's classic The Trickster (1956) presents the most famous of these Native American tales. Lewis Hyde...
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Life and Death in the Third Reich
Peter Fritzsche's book is one that will undoubtedly court controversy. His aim is to show that "more Germans were Nazis" and that Germans were "more National Socialist" than has been previously...
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Newcastle University - Campus on course for revamp
Plans for a £200 million campus modernisation programme have been unveiled by Newcastle University. A 14-page brochure, Creating a Campus for the Future, sets out the university's plans to revamp its...
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Liverpool Hope University - People's theatre takes centre stage
A new masters in popular theatre will be the first of its kind at a UK university. The course will focus on the study of British and Irish theatre from the 1950s to the present day. Liverpool Hope...
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University of Southampton - Copper works to kill Clostridium
Researchers have established that copper surfaces can inactivate the virulent hospital superbug Clostridium difficile. The University of Southampton team, led by Bill Keevil of the School of...
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University of Teesside - Obesity project makes recruits
A "get a better life" research project led by the University of Teesside's Centre for Food, Physical Activity and Obesity has attracted more than 900 local volunteers. Participants make pledges both...