First Impressions
This week's First Impressions, the competition in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from the observations of a Danish police reporter in New York: "Long ago it was...
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A master of porno graphics
Beardsley Japonisme - Aubrey Beardsley - Aubrey Beardsley and the Nineties - Aubrey Beardsley
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Englished diaspora
A Dragonfly in the Sun
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Speaking Volumes: The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance
On Henry Petroski's The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance. As I sit at my desk I notice the pencil in the holder. It is a Venus pencil, which was originally produced by the American Lead...
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Strange familiar territory
Emotion, Social Theory and Social Structure - Intimacy
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Active social engagement sought
Social Science
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Local factors in females' choices
Population, Gender and Politics
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Potatoes on couch
Time for Life
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Cases of vanity
Embodied Practices - The Sculpture Machine
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Of female bondage: from bone to Lycra
The Feminine Ideal
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Brands hatched
Excellence in Advertising
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Comedy with a few errors
A Cultural History of Humour
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Euro bonds and splits
Britain in Europe
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When death is unspoken
Endangered Langauges
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Fakirs, fakery and the facts
Are psychic powers real or bunkum? Ex-magician Richard Wiseman took science into paranormal realms Throughout history religious leaders have performed apparent miracles, often using such...