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Spirit of Resistance
Gavin Jacobson Stéphane Hessel Time for Outrage! Quartet, 2011 40 Pages £4.25 ISBN 978-0704372221 … … “Ninety-three years. I’m nearing the last stage. The end cannot be far off.” It is with these...
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Impact Assessment
Gabriel Roberts ed. Jonathan Bate The Public Value of the Humanities Bloomsbury Academic, 2011 288 Pages £20 ISBN 978-1849660624 … … Amid the articles, blog-posts, lectures, and shouting matches...
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Gabriel Roberts As buildings begin to go up in the Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, it’s worth asking what effect they will have on the area. The development is one of the most significant that Oxford...
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Interview with David Lammy MP
David Lammy Out of the Ashes: Britain After the Riots Guardian Books, 2011 266 pages £9.99 ISBN 978-0852652671 … … In the wake of the riots in the United Kingdom in August 2011, David Lammy, the...
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Public Schools
Gabriel Roberts Stefan Collini What Are Universities For? Penguin, 2012 240 pages £9.99 ISBN: 978-1846144820 … … On the face of it, Stefan Collini’s new book is an attempt to defend universities, and...
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The Imperialism of PE
Houman Barekat Marc Perelman Barbaric Sport: A Global Plague Verso Books, May 2012 £8.99 144 pages ISBN 978-1844678594 … … The 105 members of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) must be feeling...
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Urban Renaissance Travelogue
Owen Hopkins Owen Hatherley A New Kind of Bleak: Journeys Through Urban Britain Verso, 2012 £20.00 288 pages ISBN 978-1844678570 … … Over the last few years, Owen Hatherley has established himself...
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The Cloud of Unknowing
Liz Sawyer Mark Thompson “Rhetoric and the Art of Public Persuasion” The Humanitas Lecture Series St Peter’s College 4th-9th November 2012 … … … … … The Big Society. Eurogeddon. One Nation. Credit...
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Mapping the Contradictions
Joe Kennedy Slazoj Žižek The Year of Dreaming Dangerously Verso, 2012 £7.99 144 pages ISBN 978-1781680421 … … … … … The Year of Dreaming Dangerously affirms, before anything else, a sense that Slavoj...
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The Possibility of Sanity
Kalika Sands Sarah Wise Inconvenient People, Lunacy Liberty and the Mad-Doctors in Victorian England Bodley Head, 2012 £20.00 496 pages ISBN 978-1847921123 … … … … .. When one considers madness in the...
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Minority Groups: Rivals or Allies?
Dominic Davies St Anne’s Equalities Forum Minority Groups: Rivals or Allies? Mary Olgilvie Lecture Theatre, St Anne’s College 10th May 2013 … … … … .. .. Last Friday a small group collected in the Mary...
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A Structure of the Psyche
Luke Brunning Darian Leader Strictly Bipolar Penguin, 2013 £10.99 128 pages ISBN 978-0224098151 … … … … .. Once you pass the fourth page of Strictly Bipolar you will not encounter any more statistics....
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Ecological Boredom
Gabriel Roberts George Monbiot Feral Allen Lane, 2013 £20.00 303 pages ISBN 978-1846147487 … … … … .. This is a confusing book. It is not (as George Monbiot probably hopes) a winning combination of...
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Introduce a Little Anarchy
Karthick Manoharan Noam Chomsky On Anarchism Penguin Books, 2013 £6.00 192 pages ISBN: 978-0-241-96960-1 … … … … … In general, the word “anarchy” tends to churn up an image of total lawlessness, a...
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GDP Fetishism
Ramin Nassehi Diana Coyle GDP: A Brief but Affectionate History Princeton University Press, 2014 £13.95 (hardback) 168 pages ISBN: 9781400849970 … … … … … Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is arguably one...
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