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“Following the footsteps of the psyche” – an interview with Carol Gilligan

November 9th, 2011 · No Comments

In September I met up with Carol Gilligan at Polity‘s offices in Cambridge to record this two-part interview in which she talked about her childhood, writing her landmark study In a Different Voice (1982), her most recent book Joining the Resistance, and her thoughts on what has been achieved in the three decades since In [...]

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Tags: history and politics · podcasts · science and philosophy

46. Elephants on the Edge

January 17th, 2011 · 2 Comments

  “Elephants are not treated much differently now than they were in the mid-eighteenth century: they are objects of awe and conservation, yet legally hunted, made captive, abused, and forced to labor for human gain. What then has research and learning served?” In Elephants on the Edge, Gay Bradshaw makes an eloquent but always scientifically [...]

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Tags: natural history · podcasts · science and philosophy

3. Books of the Year – Louise Foxcroft

December 10th, 2010 · No Comments

Our third guest reviewer of this year’s publishing highlights is Cambridge-based historian of medicine, Louise Foxcroft. Louise won the Longman/History Today Prize in 2009 for her book Hot Flushes, Cold Science: A History of the Modern Menopause. You can hear a podcast in which she discusses the book here. And here are Louise’s favourite books [...]

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Tags: biography and memoir · literature · medicine · podcasts · science and philosophy

Summer Reading Choices: Graham Farmelo

August 10th, 2010 · No Comments

Graham Farmelo is Senior Research Fellow at the Science Museum, London, and Adjunct Professor of Physics at Northeastern University, Boston, USA. He edited the best-selling It Must be Beautiful: Great Equations of Modern Science in 2002. His biography of Paul Dirac, The Strangest Man, won the 2009 Costa Biography Prize and the 2010 Los Angeles [...]

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Summer Reading Choices: Helena Markou

August 4th, 2010 · No Comments

Helena Markou has the enviable title of Publishing Innovation Manager for Blackwell’s (the retail chain). When she isn’t making or selling books she can be found in the printmakers studio covered in indigo ink, in the dojo shooting arrows, or in a karaoke-box hogging the mic. Here are her summer reading selections: Holiday reading is [...]

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Tags: podcasts · science and philosophy · travel

39. On Monsters: An Unnatural History of our Worst Fears

January 13th, 2010 · No Comments

I first became aware of Stephen Asma‘s book on the fine Washington Post Book World podcast (which sadly is no more). The Post also chose the book as one of its top non-fiction titles of the year for 2009, calling it “a safari through the many manifestations of our idea of the monstrous”. Their reviewer [...]

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Tags: history and politics · literature · podcasts · religion and belief · science and philosophy

“Where is everybody?”

January 4th, 2010 · No Comments

Here’s an intriguing question to start the new year with. Last autumn I interviewed Marcus Chown about his latest popular science title, We Need to Talk about Kelvin. At the end of the interview (which you can find here), we made this short video in which Marcus tackled a question famously posed by the Italian [...]

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Tags: podcasts · science and philosophy · video

Books of the Decade – Mark Vernon

December 11th, 2009 · No Comments

Mark Vernon is a writer, broadcaster and journalist.  His academic interests led him from physics to philosophy via theology (he began his professional life as a priest in the Church of England). He went freelance ten years ago and now writes regularly for the Guardian, The Philosophers’ Magazine, TLS, Financial Times and New Statesman, alongside [...]

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Tags: literature · podcasts · religion and belief · science and philosophy

Three questions for… Robert Rowland Smith

December 1st, 2009 · No Comments

This is the second in an occasional series in which I ask an interviewee three questions – no tricks or traps, but no forewarning either. This time my guest is writer, Robert Rowland Smith, who has just published a book entitled Breakfast with Socrates: The Philosophy of Everyday Life. I rather like the exclamation mark [...]

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Books of the Decade – Christopher Potter

December 1st, 2009 · No Comments

Christopher Potter, after a distinguished career in publishing of over two decades, published his own first book this year: You Are Here: A Portable History of the Universe, which the Sunday Times called “wonderful stuff, the most thoughtful pop science book of the last few years” and which New Scientist praised for its “crisp, authoritative [...]

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Tags: literature · science and philosophy