The week in books
The Decline and Fall of the British Empire by Piers Brendon, fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge. Vintage Press, £9.99, ISBN 9780712668460"The true symbol of the British Empire is the moustache,...
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Reformation: is it still relevant?
Charlotte Methuen on Early Protestantism's continuing influence on modern-day culture
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Defiant Publics: The Unprecedented Reach of the Global Citizen
Daniel Drache, professor of political science at York University in Toronto, describes recent developments in activism connected to the internet and communications revolution in a book that new...
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Top 10 academic bestsellers: Blackwell, Preston
1. Total English by J. J. Wilson and Antonia Clare. Pearson Education, £19.99. ISBN 97805828417102. Constitutional and Administrative Law by Hilaire Barnett. Routledge, £32.99. ISBN 97804154582903....
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Spot the must-see in 458BC
A Classic Greek holiday via time-machine: Simon Goldhill strolls the agora and wishes you were here
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About Churchill: The Playwright and the Work
The Putney Debates, witch hunting, gender-bending in colonial Africa, dinner guests from different historical moments, disgruntled fairies, cloned sons and a global war fought by all aspects of the...
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Invented Edens: Techno-Cities of the 20th Century
Books on the Garden City tradition are two a penny, and this slimmish volume looks like another one. At first I wondered why two historians of science had written the book at all. They fall for the...
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Isolated from our heritage
Loss of learned skills is messing with our heads, but John Gilbey wonders who needs to know
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Fat: A Cultural History of Obesity
Somehow it seemed very appropriate that I chose to review this book during my annual sojourn to a Balearic beach where all the glories of the differing human form were exposed to public gaze. Fat...
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The Grail, the Quest and the World of Arthur
This collection of essays, issued in the publisher's Arthurian Studies series, was inspired by a conference at Pennsylvania State University that brought together experts in the medieval literary...
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Published this week
? = Review forthcomingGENERAL SCIENCE- ? Superstition: Belief in the Age of ScienceBy Robert L. Park, professor emeritus of physics, University of Maryland. Princeton University Press, £14.95. ISBN...
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From where I sit - The long march to quality
The hot story in China surrounds reports that a high-ranking Ministry of Education official has admitted that the massive expansion of university enrolment that began in 1999 was a decision made in...
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43 lecturers accidentally 'imprisoned'
What was described by Mike Adobe, our Deputy Head of Advanced Computer Services, as "a technological blip", led to the unfortunate overnight retention in our Central Library of 43 members of academic...
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Notes from the debt pit
Eschewing the City for the academy offers us scant protection, says Kevin Fong
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Off Piste: Life and sport: A world apart
Those who say life is like a game are confusing fantasy with reality, says Robert A. Segal