Why Hell Stinks of Sulfur: Mythology and Geology of the Underworld, by Salomon Kroonenberg
Alison Stokes enjoys a tour of the physical and metaphorical lands of fire and brimstone
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July 1914: Countdown to War, by Sean McMeekin
A startling exercise in revisionism leads A. W. Purdue to ponder which nation was responsible for launching the great conflict
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Better Humans? Understanding the Enhancement Project, by Michael Hauskeller
Andy Miah on the pros and cons of humanity 2.0
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Resistance: Jews and Christians Who Defied the Nazi Terror, by Nechama Tec
Rachel L. Einwohner on those who stood against the Holocaust
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Hard to think straight with the wolf at the door
People tend to lose the plot when there’s not enough to go around, Victoria Bateman discovers
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Stellar mother
Margaret Weitekamp applauds a filial tribute to a woman who helped get the US off the ground
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Unjust arm of the law
Vicky Conway hails powerful research that lays bare the corrosive effect of unchecked power
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God not dead on campus
Campus is not the secular space imagined by die-hard antagonists, Gerald Pillay observes
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Laurie Taylor
Only the lonely“In my opinion, both universities are far too mealy-mouthed about the whole business.”This was the typically frank response of Jamie Targett, our Director of Corporate Affairs, to the...
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Doctrinal differences
I am about to begin my 20th year of teaching in the UK: 12 years at Lancaster University and now in my eighth year at the University of Aberdeen. I had taught for years in my native US and, when I...
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Campus round-up - 12 September 2013
Source: Science Photo LibraryCold comfortStudents interested in microbiology are set to benefit from an annual joint field trip module with the University of Akureyri, Iceland thanks to a British...
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Jean Bethke Elshtain, 1941-2013
A respected author and renowned philosopher of US religion, ethics and politics has died
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Appointments - 12 September 2013
University of WestminsterRoland DannreutherRoland Dannreuther, dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Westminster, said he felt an equal mixture of “excitement and...
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News in brief - 12 September 2013
United StatesAlabama State rebukedA US university has lost an appeal against a sexual harassment verdict that ruled in favour of three former employees. The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals issued a 23-...