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We Are Our Brains: From the Womb to Alzheimer’s, by Dick Swaab
Tristan Bekinschtein would prefer to see all the evidence considered when determining what makes us the way we are
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Imagine There’s No Heaven: How Atheism Helped Create the Modern World, by Mitchell Stephens
Gavin Hyman on the importance of atheistic thought in human cultural development
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Žižek’s Jokes (Did You Hear the One about Hegel and Negation?), by Slavoj Žižek
Robert Eaglestone bridles at provocative, yet tired, ‘quips’ from the Elvis of philosophers
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The Ambiguity of Virtue: Gertrude van Tijn and the Fate of the Dutch Jews, by Bernard Wasserstein
Victoria Harris longs for more illumination in history of an unsung wartime heroine
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Teresa of Avila, Doctor of the Soul, by Peter Tyler
Jane Shaw praises a subtle and emotionally astute reading of the saint’s language of the spirit
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Groundbreaking science is blind to prejudice
Hiranya Peiris rebuts the Daily Mail’s impoverished worldview of scientists
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A profitable alignment of interests
Johnny Rich on a simple change that could erase student debt, fund universities and boost employability - without costing taxpayers more
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Reality has no manual
How do you prepare students for the impossible? asks Kevin Fong
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The Muslims Are Coming! Islamophobia, Extremism and the Domestic War on Terror, by Arun Kundnani
Lars Berger on a critique of counter-radicalisation strategies
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27 March 2014
Me and my PhD supervisor - True tales of love and loathing
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Altered Pasts: Counterfactuals in History, by Richard J. Evans
Ascertaining the truth behind events is what matters, says Robert Gellately, not hypotheticals
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News in brief - 27 March 2014
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Exiled v-c fights to return to Papua New Guinea
Students protest in support of Dutch-born university head Albert Schram, expelled by the government in 2013
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Science and politics – mix for best results
By joining forces, scientists and politicians can pack a policy punch, argues Keith Humphreys