Shedding light on the dark zone
Jane Kilby on the idea that the weak are emotionally involved with the strong, egging them on to force
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Richard Rorty: The Making of an American Philosopher
This book is a curious hybrid. One part is a relatively orthodox intellectual biography of Richard Rorty. It begins with accounts of his parents' intellectual interests and political commitments,...
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Fighting over Words: Language and Civil Law Cases
Over the past 20 years, Roger Shuy, professor emeritus at Georgetown University, has published many accounts of linguistic evidence he has contributed in US legal cases. He is almost certainly the...
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Book of the Week: Democracy Incorporated
Andreas Hess shivers at a glimpse of our future
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The week in books
A Floating Commonwealth. By Christopher Harvie, professor of British studies at Tubingen University. Oxford University Press, £55.00, ISBN 97801982830"(Harvie) argues that there was once a 'West...
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Rituals of War: the Body and Violence in Mesopotamia
In this collection of eight essays, art historian Zainab Bahrani sets out to analyse and describe the acts of warfare and violence in ancient Mesopotamia. Rather than simply offering a chronological...
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Body Shopping: The Economy Fuelled by Flesh and Blood
This book is an interesting and thought-provoking examination of the ownership and growing "consumerisation" of parts of the body from cradle to grave, including stem cells, gametes and organs....
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Thinking outside the tick box
Gauging achievement as distinct from ability has always been a vexed question, says Wendy Johnson
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The Curse of History
For Jeremy Black the curse of history, or at least the curse of history as it is all too often employed by governments, religious, racial and ethnic groups, is that it focuses present attention on...
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War in England 1642-1649
This is a very good book for all those who already know their English Civil War pretty well. It is not a narrative account of the wars (we have more than enough very good ones already), although it...
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BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES- Principles of Snow HydrologyBy David R. DeWalle, professor emeritus of forest hydrology, Pennsylvania State University. Cambridge University Press, £75.00. ISBN 9780521823623This...
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Top institutions in physics by impact
Data provided by Thomson Scientific from its Essential Science Indicators, 1 January 1998–29 February 2008
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Queen Margaret University - The greenest of greenfield sites
The Queen last week opened Scotland's first new campus in 40 years. Queen Margaret University has moved from a number of separate locations in Edinburgh to a single, £100 million site that is...
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University of Nottingham - Winning look at video stars
A project to showcase the work of its academics through short online videos has won the University of Nottingham an International Business Award 2008. "Test Tube", produced by Nottingham Science City...
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University of Essex - Human rights anniversary feted
Experts from across the globe gathered last week at the University of Essex to mark the 25th anniversary of the institution's Human Rights Centre. Essex was the first UK university to offer a...