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• National briefs: Online theory

  - 2008-04-17

  CHARLES Darwin's original version of the theory of evolution is among thousands of the scientist's papers being made available online by Cambridge University. Documents stored at the university library can be seen for free at http://darwin-online.org.uk.

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• Reciprocal Comparison and African History: Tackling Conceptual Eurocentrism in the Study of Africa's Economic Past

  - 2007-12-01

  Abstract: This article argues for constructive responses to the dominance, in the analysis of African economic history, of concepts derived from Western experience. It reviews the existing responses of this kind, highlighting the fact that some of the most influential ideas applied to African economies, past and present, have been...

  Tags: Africa, African, Cambridge, economist, Europe, Famine, London, theory, University of Cambridge

• Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954-1965

  - 2007-11-01

  TRIUMPH FORSAKEN: The Vietnam War, 1954-1965, Mark Moyar, Cambridge University Press, New York, 2006, $32.00. We bring to history the preconceptions of our personalities and our age. Conceptions of the past are far from stable; the urgencies ofthe present perennially revise them. Mark Moyar has written an ambitious book...

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• Study says Australian Aborigines came from Africa

  - 2007-05-08

  SYDNEY AFP — New DNA evidence shows that Australian Aborigines are descended from a wave of migrants who left Africa about 50,000 years ago, researchers at Cambridge University have found. The researchers said the findings reinforced the "Out of Africa" evolutionary theory, which holds that all modern humans are...

  Tags: Africa, Biotechnology, INTERNET, PRODUCTIVITY, researcher, theory, University of Cambridge

• Anglo-Saxon Perceptions of the Islamic World.(Book Review)

  - 2005-09-22

  Anglo-Saxon Perceptions of the Islamic World. By Katharine Scarfe Beckett. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. 276 pp. $65. Beckett studies the nearly five centuries from the rise of an Islamic policy (A.D. 622) to the first Crusade (A.D. 1096), looking in detail at the...

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• Speed of light may be slowing, as experts challenge Einstein.(validity of theory of relativity)(Brief Article)

  - 2005-04-11

  Apr 11, 2005 (The Age - ABIX via COMTEX) British scientists have questioned the validity of Albert Einstein's special theory of relativity. Einstein's most famous theory holds that the speed of light is constant and does not change. However, Cambridge University's Michael Murphy says...

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• The very order of things: Rousseau's tutorial republicanism *.

  - 2005-04-01

  Rousseau's political theory has seemed to many to contemplate the radical transformation of human character through invasive governmental practices. But a classical republican reading of his general concern with moeurs and his developed conception of statecraft shows why he called for regulating or redirecting psychic dispositions, not destroying and then...

  Tags: Cambridge, conception, disposition, Geneva, legislator, liberty, Plato, Republic, Republican, theory, U.K., University of Cambridge

• Economic methodology: heterogeneity and relevance

  - 2004-09-22

  THIS IS AN ISSUE-RAISING, QUESTION-MONGERING PAPER. MANY MORE questions will be asked than will, in fact, be answered. The intention is to propose a broad-based critique of contemporary economic methodology starting off from the recognition of the deep-seated heterogeneity of the subject matter of economics. There is a good...

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• The conduct of policy analysis: philosophical points of reference.

  - 2004-07-01

  Introduction This paper explicates and critically reviews, within a philosophical framework, the competing approaches to policy analysis. It does so by drawing upon the philosophy of the social sciences to construct a taxonomy of contesting epistemological and ontological understandings. With the resultant set...

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• Cambridge University Press

  - 2004-03-01

  CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS has brought out two more titles in its series of companions: The Cambridge Companion to Bertrand Russell ([pounds sterling]55.00 and US$75.00) edited by Nicholas Griffin. This collection of fifteen essays, prepared by scholars from Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the U.S., is introduced by the editor...

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