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Books received.(Bibliography)
Artha: Meaning. By Jonardon Ganeri. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. ix + 258. Hardcover Rs 920.00. Buddhism in the Public Square: Reorienting Global Interdependence. By Peter D. Hershock. London and New York: Routledge, 2006. Pp. x + 229. Price not...
Japanese emperor visits Oxford university
OXFORD, England AFP — Japan's Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko visited the historic University of Oxford on Monday during their three-day tour of Britain. The royals met students and the university's chancellor Chris Patten -- the last colonial governor of Hong Kong. They smiled as they sheltered under...
Japanese emperor arrives in Britain for dinner with queen
LONDON AFP — The Japanese Emperor arrived in Britain Sunday for a three-day visit that will see him carry out engagements including dinner with Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace. Britain may not hold happy memories for Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko -- on their last visit in 1998,...
Faces To Watch (FTW) Model Search Update: Michael Rothkopf Chosen to Represent the UK at Basel Finalists.
LONDON, February 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Out of 60,000 applicants worldwide, Michael Rothkopf of Oxford has won one of the coveted twenty finalist spots competing to represent the next face of Guess Watches. Rothkopf has everything that represents a Guess persona: stunning...
The Politics of the Poor: The East End of London, 1885-1914.(Book review)
The Politics of the Poor: The East End of London 1885-1914. By Marc Brodie. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. xii, 240. $95.00.) The author of this study has returned to the nettlesome question of why East End Londoners tended to return Conservatives to Parliament....
Book of the Year prize.(Frontline)(Brief Article)
For an author's first or second book in English, published October 2003-September 2004. Judges: Jeremy Black University of Exeter, Julian Jackson (Queen Mary, London), Miri Rubin (Queen Mary, London). JOINT WINNERS ...
Hornywinks and crowdy-kits
Romanusque lyra, plaudat tibi barbarus harpa, Graecus Achilliaca, chrotta Britanna canat. If it is true that the study of English folklore has suffered excessively from the malady of unfounded speculation (Simpson and Roud 2000, vi), any attempt to venture beyond established facts might be regarded as foolhardy. On the...
Sir William Lower (1570-1615).(Commons Sense)
The History of Parliament mainly concentrates on political careers, but there were many who sat in the House of Commons who possessed little political ambition. Some of them preferred less dangerous pursuits, for example the early seventeenth-century Cornish MP Sir William Lower. ...
Early modern Britain & Europe.(the Ends of the Earth: The Age of the European Explorers; David Starkey's Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII; 1473-1541: Loyalty, Uneage and Leadership; For the Glory of God: How Monotheism Led to Reformations, Science,
Starting with the work of 15th-century Portuguese prince Henry the Navigator who sponsored early voyages, To the Ends of the Earth: The Age of the European Explorers by Peter O. Koch (McFarland & Company, 29.50 [pounds sterling]) traces the story of navigation to the quests of ...
Books received, to June 2002.
Nadje Al-Ali and Khalid Koser, New Approaches to Migration? Transnational Communities and the Transformation of Home, London: Routledge, Routledge Research in Transnationalism, 2002, 246 pp., 55.00 h.b. [pounds sterling] (ISBN 0-415-25432-9) Brian W. Alleyne, Radicals Against Race: Black Activism and ...




