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Paracelsus: Medicine, Magic and Mission at the End of Time
Theophrastus von Hohenheim (1493/94-1541), who began using the pen name Paracelsus in an astrological tract published in 1529, has long been appreciated for his revolutionary ideas in medicine and...
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Intellectuals and their Publics: Perspectives from the Social Sciences
Fred Inglis admires an examination of the place of those who speak truth to power in society today
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Published this week
? = Review forthcomingBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES- The Cambridge Companion to DarwinEdited by Jonathan Hodge, senior lecturer in the history and philosophy of science, and Gregory Radick, senior lecturer in...
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How to be French: Nationality in the Making since 1789
A survey of citizenship criteria makes a valuable contribution to a hot issue, says Sian Reynolds
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Rebuilding War-Torn States: The Challenge of Post-Conflict Economic Reconstruction
War-ravaged nations have been a prominent feature of the post-Cold War era. Although many of the conflicts have dissipated into some form of peace, few of these places can be said to have established...
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Top 10 academic bestsellers: Blackwell, york
1 Macroeconomics: Fifth International Edition by Olivier Blanchard Pearson Education, £49.99 ISBN 97801320796312. Violence by Slavojiek Profile Books, £8.99 ISBN 97818466801753. Dante's Inferno -...
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The Long Work Hours Culture
Gail Kinman welcomes an exhaustive overview of lengthy labours and their impacts on health
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Saladin
Saladin, the Kurdish leader who crowned the political achievements of his mentor Nur al-Din by uniting the late 12th-century Muslim Middle East under his rule and recapturing Jerusalem and the Holy...
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Fragmenting Fatherhood: A Socio-Legal Study
Fragmenting Fatherhood explores how fatherhood has been understood and regulated at different moments across diverse areas of English law and social policy. Both Richard Collier and Sally Sheldon are...
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Book of the week: Le Corbusier and the Occult
Flora Samuel on the arcane undercurrent to the architect's work
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The week in books
The House of Wisdom: How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization by Jonathan Lyons, PhD candidate in sociology of religion, Monash University. Bloomsbury, £20.00, ISBN 9780747594000"The theory of...
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Slumming: Sexual and Racial Encounters in American Nightlife, 1885-1940
Lori Brooks explores why trips across US social divides were a popular white middle-class activity
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Shakespeare and Modern Culture
Last Christmas, my Arkansan in-laws gave me Shakespeare Was a Big George Jones Fan. It is a DVD in which Cowboy Jack Clement, who wrote songs for Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis Presley, among others,...
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Dark Places: The Haunted House in Film
From the start, it was evident that ghost stories and the movies were made for each other. The earliest cinematic pioneers, such as Georges Melies in France and G.A. Smith in England, soon realised...