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Random Jottings (Free subscription) | yesterday
Marvin Olasky: ...Confirmation of biblical wisdom came earlier this fall from an unlikely source: an Ivy League savant who says it's wrong to depend on the Bible. The prestigious Oxford University Press sent me the new book Morality Without God? by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, a Dartmouth professor. (I'm going to...
CLINIC// (Free subscription) | yesterday
My favourite book shop on Cecil Court is by far Peter Ellis , they have about five shelves dedicated to first edition poetry books and I love going in and fondling North and South (Bishop). It's beautiful and far too expensive but one day it will be mine. Outside the shop is a little stand for lots of cheap books, and I found a poetry book by W.H. Oliver called Out of Season. I had never heard of him...
Abandon Your Modesty (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
I have just signed up to Typecamp London 2010 (Run by Dr Shelley Gruendler and Tiffany Wardleto) learn and experience more about type and typography, it is rather pricey but isn't this the kind of thing I should be spending my Uni' bursary on? here is what it includes in brief: Day 1. London Typographic Walking Tour led by Catherine Dixon of Central St Martins. Day 2. St Bride, turn the pages in a...
prudent investor newsletters (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Jennifer Burns, Author, Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right (Oxford University Press, 2009); and Anne C. Heller, Author, Ayn Rand and the World She Made (Doubleday, 2009) discusses on a Cato Institute Book Forum their perspectives on The Life and Impact of Ayn Rand . This from Cato Institute , ``Two major new books on Ayn Rand testify to the continuing impact of America's most influential...
dovegreyreader scribbles (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
I'm so delighted that The Reader magazine in cahouts with Oxford University Press made me read My Antonia (Anto-nee-a...have I got that right') last month because it's started something that I know won't stop now. I had promised myself that...
Lawyers, Guns and Money (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
I've always found the approach to religious neutrality employed by (amongst many other countries) France, which includes a ban on religious headscarves in public schools, to be deeply misguided and paternalistic at best, and thinly veiled racism at worst. This anecdote certainly doesn't do much to change my mind: When (the Stasi Commission ) looked for a discrete Muslim sign, which could be tolerated...
LibraryLaw Blog (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Of interest to all libraries, especially those that offer txting reference service. The book reviewed below also has a lengthy glossary and appendices showing txting abbreviations. Txting: The gr8 db8 by David Crystal (Oxford University Press: Sept 2009) Review by...
The Economist (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
The rise of the Guises and the Cecils Martyrs and Murderers: The Guise Family and the Making of Europe. By Stuart Carroll. Oxford University Press; 368 pages; $34.95 and GBP18.99. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk The Cecils: Privilege and Power Behind the Throne. By David Loades. The National Archives; 256 pages; $34.95 and GBP9.99. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk ...
Devon History Society (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
A number of local papers - for instance, the Sidmouth Herald - are covering the forthcoming (Nov 5th) Ottery St Mary Tar Barrels, a spectacular annual event in which participants carry flaming tar barrels through the streets. The official website is www.otterytarbarrels.co.uk : as it says: The Tar Barrel tradition is hundreds of years old. The exact origins are unknown but probably started after the...
Scotsman.com Living - Books (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
A BETTER PENCIL: READERS, WRITERS AND THE DIGITAL REVOLUTION Dennis Baron Oxford University Press, £13.99
OUPAAC Running Club (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
On Sunday the club turned out for round one of the Oxford Mail cross-country league at Ascott-under-Wychwood. Liz, Lizzie, Ben, Matthew, and John all took part despite gale force winds and driving rain as we arrived at the course. The Oxford University Press tent was an early casualty - it threatened to take off during the women's race and the guys had to weight it down with stones. Luckily the weather...
One Poet's Notes (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Who in the world do you think you are? Last night, while watching the World Series with my son, I recalled the famous photograph of Marianne Moore throwing a first pitch at Yankee Stadium, and I considered all the allusions to baseball I had seen in poems or essays by poets over the years, some of which are chronicled at one of the Poetry Foundation’s pages devoted to baseball and verse . I also...
Armadillo Blog (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
It is Halloween and all things spooky will be happening, children will be trick-or-treating, carving pumpkins and having great parties. To help with the entertainment adults could read their young children Liz Martinez and Mark Beech’s story of The Everyday Witch published by Bloomsbury. With Mark Beech’s illustration in the style of Quentin Blake adding colour and atmosphere to this story...
Ismailimail (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
By Muhammad Khan An Anthology of Qur’anic Commentaries, Volume 1, On the Nature of the Divine. Edited by Feras Hamza, Sajjad Rizvi and Farhana Mayer, New York: Oxford University Press, pp670, 2008, HB, £64.00. There is no better time to read and review a book on the Qur’an than in the month in which it was revealed. [...]
Adam Smith's Lost Legacy (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
After Adam Smith: a century of transformation in politics and political economy , 2009, Murray Milgate and Shannon C. Stimson , Princeton University Press, Princeton and Oxford. There is no doubt that the popular (and academic) portrayal of the lifetime-works of Adam Smith is quite at odds with the actual contribution of the Adam Smith born in Kirkcaldy in 1723. It’s as if a completely new persona...
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