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When is Discrimination Wrong?
Societies routinely discriminate among people. It is done for public safety (individuals under the age of 17 cannot obtain a driver's licence), because resources are scarce (the University of...
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The Enemy at the Gate: Habsburgs, Ottomans and the Battle for Europe
Even after 300 years, the Siege of Vienna by the Ottoman army holds a highly symbolic place in popular historical imagination. Recently, opponents of Turkey's bid to join the European Union invoked...
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Book of the week - The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules our Lives
Tony Mann on probably the best book on probability in the world
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The week in books
Everything is Connected by Daniel Barenboim, former Charles Eliot Professor, Harvard University. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, £16.99 ISBN 9780297855446"Many who have listened to Barenboim's jumbled...
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Welcome to a universe of death
Duncan Wu delights in an exhilarating study of Wordsworth's work that may upset traditionalists
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The Ghost of Freedom: A History of the Caucasus
The Caucasus region is known "as a place of both unimaginable beauty and everyday barbarity". This volatile borderland has long been an object of fascination; it was immortalised by Tolstoy and...
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Picture Perfect: Life in the Age of the Photo Op
On Thursday May 1 2003, President George W. Bush soared above the Pacific in a Navy Viking Jet. The Navy pilot then made a dramatic tail-hook landing on the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, the USS...
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Easy answers and the American way
An airport classic overloaded with acronyms, but as Leslie Gofton concedes, what's not to like?
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The Author Is Not Dead, Merely Somewhere Else: Creative Writing Reconceived
The publishers bill this book as "a searching critique of traditional creative writing pedagogy". Michelene Wandor's wide experience as a writer, critic and teacher certainly qualifies her to offer...
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Jacob's Legacy: A Genetic View of Jewish History
Popular accounts by practitioners of archaeogenetics, and its close relative, genetic history, have a somewhat chequered history. Whether David Goldstein's little book on the genetic history of the...
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Faces from the dust bowl
Anne Hammond reflects on photographs from the Depression that highlighted the plight of the poor
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The Natural and the Supernatural in the Middle Ages
Attitudes to nature and the environment are fashionable topics in historical studies at present, and Robert Bartlett's book forms part of an ongoing discussion about the definition and limits of the...
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Representing Autism: Culture, Narrative, Fascination
For the past two decades or so autism has provided a model that, according to some, has profoundly shaped our under-standing of how we come to know other people as mental beings.The ability to take...
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Navel-gazing in another universe
Anthropology gets in the way of this wander through the new virtual wonderland, finds Grant McCracken