Top 10 Academic Bestsellers: Blackwell, Leeds
1. The Maudsley Prescribing Guidelines, Ninth Edition by David Taylor, Carol Paton and Robert KerwinRoutledge, £25.00. ISBN 97804154241652. Internet Marketing: Strategy, Implementation and Practice,...
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A Writer's People: Ways of Looking and Feeling
V.S. Naipaul's keen, ruthless eye confirms that great writers make stern critics, says Radhakrishnan Nayar
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Fiction and the Weave of Life
This engaging and admirably clear contribution to the philosophy of literature attempts to rehabilitate what the author terms "literary humanism" - the unfashionable but intuitively appealing view...
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Beyond UFOs: The Search for Extraterrestrial Life and its Astonishing Implications for Our Future
The title and preface of this book led me to believe that I was about to read about UFO sightings, alien abduction and an anecdotal story of why Jeffrey Bennett believes in aliens. Instead, I soon...
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Naguib Mahfouz: Egypt's Nobel Laureate
Ziad Elmarsafy acquaints himself with the many and varied faces of a prolific literary genius
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Hiroshima: The World's Bomb
The first person to "split" an atom was Ernest Rutherford, a New Zealander. Enrico Fermi, an Italian, was first to split uranium, although he did not quite understand what had occurred. That mystery...
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The Quran and the Secular Mind: A Philosophy of Islam
This is a puzzling book - one that it is not easy to make sense of. Its author knows about the Koran and about modern Western philosophy. Crudely, he is in favour of the one and against the other....
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Simone de Beauvoir: The Making of an Intellectual Woman
Ursula Tidd lauds a timely restating of Simone de Beauvoir's bold fusion of intellect and emotion
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Theatre Censorship: From Walpole to Wilson
While theatre censorship was technically abolished in 1968, the content and regulation of theatre production is still a live issue. Recent years have seen attempts to censor both the National Theatre...
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Brand New China: Advertising, Media and Commercial Culture
Jing Wang is professor of Chinese Cultural Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her first book was an erudite study of the lore of stones in Chinese culture as reflected in...
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First Impressions competition: March 13 2008
This week’s competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a Pulitzer Prize-winning celebration of the human spirit:"In Haddam, summer floats over tree-softened...
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University of Central Lancashire - Scholarship carrot for postgrads
A university has unveiled plans to increase recruitment to its postgraduate courses by offering its brightest undergraduates automatic scholarships if they stay on. The University of Central...
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BPP College - Fees for legal course rise by 10%
The first profit-making private company to obtain degree-awarding powers has confirmed that it will increase fees for its postgraduate legal practice course by 10 per cent, to £11,550, for 2008-09....
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Leeds Metropolitan University - Creationist installation removed
An exhibition promoting creationism has been removed from Leeds Metropolitan University after protests from staff. The large exhibition in the Leslie Silver Building, which houses the university's...