City of the Sharp-Nosed Fish
Oxyrhynchus, the city dedicated to the eponymous fish of Peter Parsons' book, is in some ways the Tutankhamun's tomb of papyrology. It was quite an ordinary place, but it happens to have preserved...
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Sexual Fluidity: Understanding Women's Love and Desire
How important are sexual attraction, desire and love in shaping our identities? How fixed are our sexual identities? How much choice do we really have in identifying our sexual orientation(s)? And...
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Grey matter, with added colour
M. W. Brown on an engagingly vivid look at the brain and the neuroanatomists who mapped itAcross the centuries, anatomists have sought recognition and hoped for medical and scientific immortality...
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What bugged the Dinosaurs? Insects, Disease, and Death in the Cretaceous
This is the latest of several books on amber by George and Roberta Poinar and specifically looks at Cretaceous ambers (Lebanese, Burmese and Canadian) and what the inclusions can reveal about past...
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Knowing Dickens
Writing at the intersections of public and private, and of biography and criticism, Rosemarie Bodenheimer's beautifully written study of Charles Dickens focuses intently on a body of writing that has...
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Published this week
? = Review forthcomingANTHROPOLOGYA Companion to Latin American AnthropologyEdited by Deborah Poole, professor of anthropology, Johns Hopkins University. Blackwell, £95.00. ISBN 9780631234685This...
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First Impressions competition: 17 April 2008
This week’s competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a Whitbread book of the year about a very unique murder mystery:“It was 7 minutes after midnight.”...
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University of the Arts London - New campus at King's Cross
The art college that taught Antony Gormley and Stella McCartney has won planning permission to build a major campus at King's Cross. The new site for Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design,...
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University of Central Lancashire - Chinese research hub opens
A new research facility is being opened on a Chinese university campus by the University of Central Lancashire. The centre, at Shenzhen Virtual University Park, will run in partnership with the City...
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King's College London - Academic health centre unveiled
A university and three NHS foundation trusts have announced plans for a health sciences centre, which they claim will offer the widest range of services and research expertise in the UK. The Academic...
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Newcastle University - Dirt enlisted in green initiative
Soils that can remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere are being designed by a team at Newcastle University. The research, believed to be the first of its kind, uses calcium to capture the surplus...
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City University London - Gulf Air training takes flight
Airline staff are being trained for the national airline of Bahrain at City University London. Gulf Air has launched a professional development programme in aviation management for all its staff,...
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Lancaster University - Feast of ideas on offer
An "ideas festival" is being held to celebrate research under way at Lancaster University. The one-day event on 18 April is an opportunity for academics to share their work with the wider world...
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Cardiff University - Anti-crime initiative praised
A scheme set up by a Cardiff University medic to cut alcohol-fuelled violent crime has been recommended by the Government as a model for other cities. The Cardiff Partnership, set up 12 years ago by...
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Goldsmiths, University of London - Transatlantic tie-up launched
A cross-Atlantic partnership will allow students and staff to collaborate on academic and research initiatives in art and design. The partnership, between the Toronto-based Ontario College of Art and...