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• milton in yosemite: PARADISE LOST AND THE NATIONAL PARKS IDEA

  - 2008-04-01

  ABSTRACT "Milton in Yosemite" investigates the reasons why certain English and American visitors to Yosemite so often described the valley in religious terms, particularly in terms of an Eden. Reformed Protestantism developed a peculiarly strong nostalgia for Eden that John Milton gave a powerful form in Paradise Lost. The poem's...

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• North schools fail the Oxbridge test

  - 2006-12-27

  Byline: By Andrew Hughes North East state schools are sending fewer pupils to Oxbridge than other parts of the country. A new league table, gathered under the freedom of information laws, shows the most successful state schools at getting pupils into Oxford and Cambridge University. The figures...

  Tags: Cambridge, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford

• Twickers date for Falcon prop

  - 2006-12-06

  Rugby Union: Newcastle Falcons prop Oliver Tomaszczyk will play at loosehead for Oxford University in next Tuesday's annual Varsity match against Cambridge at Twickenham. The 20-year-old former England Schools international is not the only Falcon with Varsity Match connections, current first-team flanker Ben Woods having won a Blue for...

  Tags: Cambridge, University of Oxford

• Books received

  - 2005-09-01

  ADNETT, NICK, and STEPHEN HARDY. The European Social Model: Modernisation or Evolution? Chelten-2005. Pp. 244. Cloth $95.00. AGELL, JONAS, MICHAEL KEEN, and ALFONS J. WEICHENREIDER, eds. Labor Market Institutions and Public Regulation. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2005. Pp. 228. Cloth $35.00. AGLIETTA, MICHEL, and ANTOINE REBERIOUX. Corporate Governance Adrift:...

  Tags: Books, Cambridge, FINANCE, Globalization, Innovation, M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Poverty, Princeton University, Robert, Strategy, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford

• La poesía como un preludio a la filosofía: algunas reflexiones sobre un poema tardio de Borges.

  - 2005-05-01

  Resumen: En este artículo me propongo analizar un poema breve de Borges y relacionarlo con una idea metafilosófica de Platón; a saber, que la filosofía empieza con el asombro. Mi tesis fundamental es que hay poemas --y, en mi opinión, los versos de Borges que discutiré...

  Tags: Benefits, Cambridge, embargo, nurse, Strategy, University of Oxford

• Books received

  - 2005-03-01

  AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK. Africa in the Global Trading System: African Development Report 2004. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. 337. Paper $29.95. ALESINA, ALBERTO, and EDWARD L. GLAESER. Fighting Poverty in the U.S. and Europe: A World of Difference. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. 264. Cloth...

  Tags: Books, Cambridge, FINANCE, Globalization, M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Richard, Strategy, U.K., University of Cambridge, University of Oxford

• Books received

  - 2004-09-01

  31NETWORK. India Infrastructure Report 2004: Ensuring Value for Money. New York: Oxford University press, 2004. Pp. 347. Paper $35.00. ADAMS, WALTER, and JAMES W. BROCK. The Bigness Complex: Industry, Labor, and Government in the American Economy. 2d ed. Palo Alto, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2004. Pp. 380. Paper $24.95....

  Tags: Books, Cambridge, FINANCE, Globalization, M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Poverty, Princeton University, Robert, Strategy, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford

• The Hundredth Boat Race: April 3rd, 1954.(Months Past)(Cambridge University)(Oxford University)

  - 2004-04-01

  COLLEGE BOAT races had begun at Oxford by 1815, but rowing was slower to develop at Cambridge, where the Cam was not much better than a sewer. It was the Cambridge University Boat Club, however, which took the initiative in challenging Oxford to the first university match...

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• Books received.

  - 2002-01-01

  American Philosophy of Technology: The Empirical Turn. Indiana Series in the Philosophy of Technology. By Hans Achterhuis, ed. Trans. Robert P. Crease. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001. Pp. xi, 175. Driven Back to the Text: The Premodern Sources of Levinas's Postmodernism. By Oona...

  Tags: Books, Cambridge, essay, ethics, Leadership, Plato, Princeton University, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford

• Books received.(Bibliography)

  - 2001-10-01

  Values, Violence, and Our Future. Value Inquiry Book Series. By Gary J. Acquaviva. Atlantic Highlands: Rodopi, 2000. Pp. ix, 208. Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (1959). By Theodor W. Adorno. Ed. Rolf Tiedemann. Trans. Rodney Livingstone. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. Pp. xi, 300....

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