As anyone who has seen the film The End of the Line will know, one of the greatest failures of governance in the world today is in the management of
In recent years neuroscientists have discovered amazing things about the human brain. Free will and consciousness are, it appears, at least partly illusions. A literary movement in the early twentieth
The bomb attack on the headquarters of the United Nations operation in Baghdad on 19 August 2003 which killed the UN special representative in Iraq, Sergio Vieira de Mello, injured
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"Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet"
Mark Lynas
Fourth Estate | March 2007 | ISBN 0007209045
What we are seeing now, in regard
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Coral - A Pessimist in Paradise
by Steve Jones
Little, Brown | March 2007 | ISBN 978-0-316-72938-3
"Of all the ocean's ecosystems, none is
The United States president's state of the union address is a highpoint in American political theatre, and now the world's calendar. Modelled as it is after
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"In Gods We Trust: the evolutionary landscape of religion"
by Scott Atran
Oxford University Press | March 2005 | ISBN 0195178033
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One day there is a terrible fire in the forest. All the animals flee in terror, until they come to the bank of a raging river. Both the mouse and
In the last days of 2005, leading thinkers and scholars from around the world share their fears, hopes and expectations of 2006. As Isabel Hilton asks: What does 2006 have in store? (Part one)
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Climate Change Begins at Home : Life on the Two-Way Street of Global Warming
by Dave Reay
Palgrave Macmillan | August 2005 | ISBN 1403945780
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A Brief History of Neoliberalism
by David Harvey
Oxford | September 2005 | ISBN 0199283265
People use the word neo-liberal a lot, but what does it really
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The Republican War on Science
by Chris Mooney
Basic Books | September 2005 | ISBN 0465046754
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