Youth Culture in Modern Britain, c.1920-c.1970: From Ivory Tower to Global Movement - A New History
Andrew Blake is not bothered by the eclectic examples but rather by an emphasis on privilege
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Drugs and the World
Written for a wide audience of specialist and non-specialist readers, Axel Klein's book Drugs and the World is a welcome addition to the growing literature on the use and misuse of psychoactive...
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Shakespeare's Ideas: More Things in Heaven and Earth
When my classmates and I were beginning to get to grips with the Shakespeare portion of the A-level syllabus, our teacher shared an already well-worn joke. An elderly woman leaves the theatre after...
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The Better to Eat You With: Fear in the Animal World
A riveting narrative looks at the science behind rebuilding robust ecosystems, says Jessica Flack
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Tracing the Connected Narrative: Arctic Exploration in British Print Culture, 1818-1860
The past decade has witnessed a notable increase in public interest in polar exploration, particularly in figures of the "heroic age", such as Franklin, Shackleton and Peary. Many like to see in such...
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The Aftermath of Feminism: Gender, Culture and Social Change
The main argument of this well-written and readable book advocates that the battles against both patriarchy and social structures that were detrimental to the advancement and equal participation of...
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Suicide: The Hidden Side of Modernity
Martin Anderson considers the personal tragedies (and the alcohol) behind a grim set of statistics
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Decade of Nightmares: The End of the Sixties and the Making of Eighties America
There is something deeply flawed about this book. It's got nothing to do with the author's ability to observe and absorb the facts, nor with his ability to cater to an obvious fan base, nor even with...
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The Plot to Kill God: Findings from the Soviet Experiment in Secularization
According to a new generation of self-avowed atheists such as Richard Dawkins, A.C. Grayling, Sam Harris and Christopher Hitchens, religion is inherently violent, irrational and reactionary. Only...
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Cinesexuality
Catherine Grant explores spectators' desire for the cinema and the new universes that it opens up
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The Crime of Reason and the Closing of the Scientific Mind
This could have been a good book but sadly it isn't. Yet it only just fails in its purpose and Robert Laughlin, the author, should be encouraged to research his thesis more deeply, because he is an...
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The Writer as Migrant
Why write? The question is especially poignant for writers who fashion their words in a strange country and in a language not their own. Why write when you render yourself vulnerable to accusations...
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The Civil Contract of Photography
Steve Edwards finds positives and negatives in the claim that photos are a key part of political culture
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Cuba: Religion, Social Capital, and Development
What is Cuban civil society like? This is a difficult question, and one that many scholars have attempted to unravel with little success. Efforts tend to range from, at one extreme, Cold War...
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ART AND DESIGN- Railways and the Western European CapitalsBy Micheline Nilsen, assistant professor of art history, University of Indiana. Palgrave Macmillan, £45.00. ISBN 9780230607736Nilsen looks at...