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Book of the week: Francis Crick: Hunter of Life's Secrets
Jon Turney on the DNA pioneer's life and long career
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Milton's Words
The individual phrases of a great poet's work are freighted with significance, says Sophie Read
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A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years
You might be forgiven for expecting a 1,000-page book to be a little self-indulgent. Not this one. The prose is taut and tart, sometimes to the point of breathlessness; and it is an astonishing feat...
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The Canon. Reading Dancing. By Susan Leigh Foster
Reading Dancing enjoys somewhat emblematic status as a core text in the young discipline of dance studies. Published in 1986, it argues vehemently against the notion that dancing - and by extension,...
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The Framed World: Tourism, Tourists and Photography
Laura González on the meanings beneath people's compulsion to capture images of places visited
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The Culture of Knitting
As a knitter and an academic (although not an academic in the field of visual or textile arts), I found this treatise on the culture of knitting an engaging read. I consider myself well plugged in to...
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Comparing Conrad: Essays on Joseph Conrad and His Implied Dialogues with Other Writers
This book has no ISBN. "Can it even exist?" I hear booksellers and librarians ask. It hasn't even come from a publishing house. It is a self-published work. I can now detect the gasps of appalled...
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Cracking the Einstein Code: Relativity and the Birth of Black Hole Physics
It's high time Roy Kerr's contribution to theoretical physics was recognised, writes Graham Farmelo
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He Was Some Kind of Man: Masculinities in the B Western
There's an assumption - and this is not about proprietary disciplinary boundaries - that anyone can write about film. As many studies attest, this is manifestly not the case. He Was Some Kind of Man...
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Sound Targets: American Soldiers and Music in the Iraq War
In 2003, news emerged that detainees at Guantanamo Bay and elsewhere had been subjected to hours of repeated playing of songs by bands ranging from the American heavy metallists Metallica to -...
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Addiction: A Disorder of Choice
Lots of good sense but too narrow a base leads to author's success and failure, says Bruce Alexander
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BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES- Dinosaur Odyssey: Fossil Threads in the Web of LifeBy Scott D. Sampson, adjunct associate professor of geology and geophysics, University of Utah. University of California Press...
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Is Piercemüller Beau de Jour?
Urgent attempts are being made to contact Dr Piercemüller of our Department of Media and Cultural Studies following allegations in a Sunday newspaper that he is the author of the explicit blog...
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Another fallen leader: Imperial's rector exits
The rector of Imperial College London has resigned amid speculation about a clash with his chair of governors - a factor in several similar departures in the sector this year.Sir Roy Anderson, who...