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Open-access science journal leaves editing to the experts
A new open-access life and biomedical sciences journal, conceived with the aim of transforming research communication and speeding up the publication process, has announced its title and editorial...
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Scottish internationalism: Salmond welcomes Heriot-Watt’s Dubai campus
A Scottish university has opened a new £35 million campus in Dubai aimed at the United Arab Emirates job market.Heriot-Watt University, which earlier this year unveiled a global strategy that it...
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Stranger Magic: Charmed States and The Arabian Nights
A celebrated internationalist's capacity for wonder adds lustre to a literary treasure, says Fred Inglis
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The Price of Civilization: Economics and Ethics after the Fall
Colin Crouch considers a passionate plea to end the corporate lobbyists' stranglehold on the US economy
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Uncreative Writing: Managing Language in the Digital Age
Kenneth Goldsmith thinks literature "is in a rut, tending to hit the same note again and again, confining itself to the narrowest of spectrums, resulting in a practice that has fallen out of step and...
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Plato's Revenge: Politics in the Age of Ecology
I find it difficult to think about Plato and ecology without recalling Val Plumwood's remarkable 1993 book, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature. For me the chapter entitled "Plato and the philosophy...
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Who Killed Hammarskjöld? The UN, the Cold War and White Supremacy in Africa
Joanna Lewis is intrigued by a forensic study of the crash that claimed a champion of decolonisation
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Sitting in Judgment: The Working Lives of Judges
Penny Darbyshire is a seasoned judge watcher. Since 1971 she has work-shadowed almost every known species of English judge, from overworked district judges trying and sentencing minor miscreants in...
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The Church of Scientology: A History of a New Religion
Although the subtitle refers to it as a "new religion", a central concern of this book is whether the Church of Scientology is indeed a religion - or rather, given that the author says he considers...
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I'll Have What She's Having: Mapping Social Behavior
Camilla Power is frustrated by a du jour model of imitative action that ignores collective creativity
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American Nietzsche: A History of An Icon and His Ideas
Who would have thought it? Who could have imagined in 1900, when Friedrich Nietzsche died, that the philosopher of the aristocratic distance and elitist heights would enjoy a reincarnation of sorts...
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Student review: Debating Social Rights
Authors: Conor Gearty and Virginia MantouvalouEdition: FirstPublisher: HartPages: 201Price: £15.00ISBN 9781849460231Debating Social Rights is part of Hart's Debating Law series, edited by Peter Cane...
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Law round-up
Essential Mental Health Law: A Guide to the Revised Mental Health Act and the Mental Capacity Act 2005Authors: Anthony Maden and Tim Spencer-LaneEdition: FirstPublisher: Hammersmith PressPages:...
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Languages and Linguistics round-up
Introduction to Sociolinguistics: Society and IdentityAuthors: Sharon K. Deckert and Caroline H. VickersEdition: FirstPublisher: ContinuumPages: 256Price: £65.00 and £19.99ISBN 9781441150233 and...