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Articles by Karen Shook
New monographs explore sudden sight loss, stoicism, botanical beauty, a Buddhist take on the dismal science, and tough women
Economics, modernised; remembering Bob Crow; the emergence of globalisation from a war-torn world; Big Brother; and a history of squatting
Story time for social scientists; tax owed is not tax loathed; the mighty river of free-flowing curiosity; and the truth, short and sweet
Why you need a ¡®No¡¯ hat, rethinking the economic wisdom of ¡®necessary luxuries¡¯, restoring financial power to the people, and lessons learned from teaching prisoners to read
Africa¡¯s 17th-century warrior queen; the modern equivalent of tinkering in your shed; mergers and acquisitions in the world of HE; and what tax havens really do to the economy
Philosophical Gallic charm, modern slavery, top tips for managing research projects, when man meets machine and the loss of hope
A study of racism, where texture ends and taste begins, an oral history of Cuba, higher education¡¯s place, and journalism today
Guide for a scientific career, suitable for ages 8 and up; the cultural temperature of ¡®climate¡¯; on why gender inequality is still with us; and the Russian Revolution from below
With wit and frankness, rebel scientist Tommaso Dorigo has spent a dozen years telling it like it is in his blog about research life. He speaks to Karen Shook
Timely lessons from the AV club; what¡¯s on Dante¡¯s mind; Europe¡¯s research powerhouse; and stripteases and naked protests
The perils and pains of growing old; romancing a Romance language; on hold, again; learning from failure; transparent higher education
On draught: tales of early Muslim lives lived; bad soldiers; oh joy ¨C emoji decoded; and cogito ergo vino
The state¡¯s war on welfare, the tracks of our years, what the emperor¡¯s historian daughter saw, Ronnie forever, and tales of an American city
A fresh run at ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵr; unseen dirty work; all the lols of yoof-speak; and the link between Ayn Rand¡¯s bad thoughts, worse writing and financial catastrophe
Must-read monographs serve up chicken, the history of drama, gender equality in class and the mixed fortunes of Mad Men and Hollywood moguls
Tomes deserving of your time include our island story in art, rescuing religion from jihadis and Islamophobes, going to town on an egg and a veritable word-fest
The legal scholar and nudger-in-chief on Marvel Comics, where to begin with behavioural economics, and Star Wars and President Obama
This week¡¯s bookish things to do: brush up your Shakespeare, explore a mother of a holiday, put paid to the rentiers and count the cost of London¡¯s Olympics
The literary scholar and author of Orwell's Nose: A Pathological Biography on Rider Haggard, the River Stour and Moby-Dick
The score on Brian Eno, the struggles of America¡¯s down and out in cheap motels, and how our forebears slept
The scholar of international relations and author of Holidays in the Danger Zone on misplaced nostalgia, foreign encounters and the allure of ¡®dark tourism¡¯
Hey presto! This week¡¯s books to astonish and enlighten survey modern magic in Asia, physics with a feminist focus, the work of Elizabeth Bishop and the museum as creative spark
Timely titles for consideration take in upright citizens, fly-by-wire ethics, a world of troubling numbers and home round the range
The church historian and author of All Things Made New: Writings on the Reformation on the journey from E. Nesbit to Ian Kershaw and the comforting certainties of detective fiction
