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Invisible hand needs someone to stir the pot
Reproduction and childcare tend to get short shrift from dismal science. But Nancy Folbre brings to the fore the impact that sex and family can have on economic activity. Matthew Reisz learns the...
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The Philosophers' Quarrel: Rousseau, Hume, and the Limits of Human Understanding
Robert A. Segal is delighted by a study of two titans of thought who failed to fathom each other
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A Rising China and Security in East Asia: Identity Construction and Security Discourse
China is the West's only serious rival for global dominance. Unlike its relationship with the defunct Soviet Union, the West depends on this competitor (the US survives on its lending), yet, more...
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Exploding the Myths of Modern Architecture
Architecture is the most politicised of professions. The process began after the First World War when Georg Walter Adolf Gropius, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and others associated with the Bauhaus...
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The Feminism of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Sexualities, Histories, Progressivism
June Purvis is impressed by a long-overdue study of this poet, writer and lecturer for social reform
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Charles Darwin's Notebooks From The Voyage Of The Beagle
Whisper it quietly: 2009 has been something of a bad year for Darwin. The bicentennial celebrations of his birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species has led to an...
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Murder and Morality in Victorian Britain: The Story of Madeleine Smith
Murder is back in fashion. Historians such as Ginger Frost and M.J. Wiener have begun to exploit the fact that deaths in suspicious circumstances tend to leave more interesting records than deaths...
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How the Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n 'Roll
Martin James discusses how the Fab Four played their part in the loss of rock's dancefloor vitality
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A Philosophy of Pain
This book is about pain, but in a very broad sense indeed. Almost any unwelcome psychic disturbance comes under the heading of pain for Arne Johan Vetlesen. This has its good side, for it means that...
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The Canon. On Photography by Susan Sontag
Susan Sontag was a controversial figure. Her writing, activism and strong, frequently unpopular but influential opinions earned her a prominent and unique place in American intellectual circles,...
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Objectors to impact are not few, but many
David Delpy, chief executive of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, argues that there is "a risk that those outside the academy would believe that all academics (are) opposed to...
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Creative ways out of slump
If the gross domestic product figures due next week show no sign of recovery, it will be the first time the UK has had six successive quarters without growth.This leaves me wondering why the UK needs...
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Teaching needs support, too
Mary Malcolm's opinion piece "Nurturing critical minds" (15 October) made me laugh aloud. Just one sentence of her article focused on the workers meant to deliver her vague aims - "Of course, this...
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Beyond the practical
In illustrating courses that have "an obvious pay-off in employment terms" and thus merit support, Alan Ryan ("Practical implications", 8 October) instances a six-month paralegal training course. He...