THE Book of the Week - Rich Democracies, Poor People: How Politics Explain Poverty
Fiona Taylor gives full marks to an expose of beggary amid plenty
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'Non-Lethal' Weapons
The development of military hardware that does not kill is proving elusive, as Russell Brown discovers
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Martyrs and Murderers: The Guise Family and the Making of Europe
This book began badly for me, with one of those imaginative reconstructions that some people enjoy; in this case of Francois de Lorraine, second Duke de Guise, setting out from his principal...
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The Dawn of Green: Manchester, Thirlmere, and Modern Environmentalism
Prior to picking up The Dawn of Green, I had been re-reading Edward Abbey's novel The Monkey Wrench Gang. First published in 1975, it concerns the activities of four misfits with a shared love of...
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The Provocative Joan Robinson: The Making of a Cambridge Economist
Housewife to acclaimed economist within a decade - not bad going, says Natalie Gold
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Martha Hill and the Making of American Dance
The "making of American dance" bit of the title likely brings to mind a certain Martha, and indeed the legendary Graham figures significantly in Janet Mansfield Soares' biography. Its subject,...
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Sexy Orchids Make Lousy Lovers and Other Unusual Relationships
"Gross," starts the preface to this curious collection on the strangeness of nature. Beetles that commit siblicide, toxic frogs, kleptoparasitism in birds, hallucinogenic plants, poisonous dragons,...
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CULTURAL STUDIES- Gay Suburban Narratives in American and British Culture: Homecoming QueensBy Martin Dines, lecturer in suburban and cultural studies, Kingston University. Palgrave Macmillan, £50.00...
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Campus Horror!
Police cars raced to our campus on Tuesday as news came through of a fatal stabbing following an outbreak of mob violence in the Senior Common Room of David Willetts College.According to unconfirmed...
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Future present in the US
We should learn from the American experience with fees, says Alan Ryan
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Research intelligence - A Wellcome break from the funding treadmill
Trust's long-term awards will put scientists, not their proposals, first. Zoe Corbyn reports
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Leader: Put all the results out in the open
Researchers, government and society benefit when research is made freely available, so the sooner it is mandated, the better
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From where I sit - Symbolic meaning
If history is the hunting ground of politicians, as was suggested in ߣߣÊÓƵ recently, then what makes one political deployment of history worse than another?This question is...
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John Ramsden, 1947-2009
A historian who transformed understanding of British conservatism has died.