Reading Joyce
Challenging the academic truism that the best criticism avoids subjectivity, David Pierce weaves into his argument a kind of diary about his own book's becoming and his experiences as a teacher,...
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Top 10 Academic Bestsellers: Blackwell, Oxford
1. Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Crosses the Line by Sudhir Venkatesh. Allen Lane, £18.99. ISBN 97807139999382. The New Cold War: How the Kremlin Menaces both Russia and the West by...
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The Secret Life of Poems: A Poetry Primer
Duncan Wu is beguiled as Tom Paulin coaxes hidden politics, pigswill and tears from well-known verse
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Jews and Europe in the Twenty-First Century: Thinking Jewish
In offering us the distilled essence of interviews he has conducted with prominent Jewish intellectuals, academics and parliamentarians in Western Europe, Nick Lambert presents us with two books in...
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The Business School and the Bottom Line
The Business School and the Bottom Line. By Ken Starkey and Nick Tiratsoo. Cambridge University Press 252pp, £25.00. ISBN 9780521865111. Published 16 August 2007I read this book while doing a circuit...
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The Book of the Week: Common Reading
Rónán McDonald lauds a fine British essayist
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The Week in Books
Arsenals of Folly: The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race by Richard Rhodes, affiliate of the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. Simon and Schuster, £20.00, ISBN...
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A New History of Anthropology
Jeremy MacClancy raises three cheers to a book that offers oft-neglected theories on the past
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The Re-Enchantment of Morality: Wisdom for a Troubled World
Richard Harries, now Lord Harries of Pentregarth, is well known as the long-serving former Bishop of Oxford and as a noted Christian apologist. His latest offering seeks to provide an introduction to...
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God's Fury, England's Fire: A New History of the English Civil Wars
English Civil War studies continue to be a magnetic field for historians and literary scholars; Michael Braddick's 90 pages of endnotes and 30-page bibliography of secondary works bear ample witness...
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The FBI: A History
Gary L. McDowell delves into the mysteries and machinations of an iconic American institution
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Quirky Sides of Scientists: True Tales of Ingenuity and Error from Physics and Astronomy
Popular science has become more enticing in some ways in recent years. Skilled story-telling, stylish writing, a shared sense of wonder and high intellectual excitement are all available in a...
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What is Emotion? History, Measures and Meanings
Jerome Kagan, professor emeritus of psychology at Harvard University, questions the things others would not dare. His book is deliciously subversive. He masterfully unearths the shaky assumptions of...
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BIOGRAPHY- Leni Riefenstahl: A LifeBy Jurgen Trimborn, professor of film, theatre and art history, University of CologneI. B. Tauris, £14.99. ISBN 9781845116446Trimborn uses detailed research and his...
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Marketing: Real People, Real Choices
Planning with a peppering of practical pizzazz