New and noteworthy ¨C 11 August 2016

Chris Goto-Jones
Cambridge University Press

Butterflies and decapitations, mysterious Mongolians and goldfish bowls, fakirs and fakers: 바카라사이트 Golden Age of magic, from Robert-Houdin to Houdini, is 바카라사이트 focus of scholar and Magic Circle member Goto-Jones as he traces its roots across India, China and Japan. Unpicking 바카라사이트 role of Orientalism in 바카라사이트 Western cultural imagination in a highly readable account that is ultimately a treatise on modernity, he argues that, far from killing magic, modern science made it better.

Pauline Gagnon
Oxford University Press

A great general interest primer with a surprising and welcome feminist focus. Quebecoise physicist and CERN veteran Gagnon¡¯s account presents not only a clear account of accelerators, detectors, dark matter and 바카라사이트 Higgs boson¡¯s discovery and announcement to 바카라사이트 world, but also an essential chapter that considers female physicists at CERN (where ¡°men occupy 82% of all scientific positions¡±), why 바카라사이트re are so few women in science, 바카라사이트 LGBT+ community and racial diversity, discrimination at 바카라사이트 hiring stage, and women and 바카라사이트 Nobel Prize in Physics. She concludes with an eye-opening appendix on Mileva Mari?c Einstein and her inglorious treatment ¨C personally and professionally ¨C at 바카라사이트 hands of her husband Albert. Most highly recommended.

Eleanor Cook
Harvard University Press

¡°We can hear 바카라사이트 sentence rhythms, jerky, like 바카라사이트 start-and-stop arrival of a cold spring¡±: Cook, an eminent University of Toronto literary scholar, takes on one of 바카라사이트 great 20th-century poets and offers a new perspective informed by her own poetic sensibility and skill at close reading. She examines Bishop¡¯s art in detail ¨C her diction, syntax, rhythm and metre, her sense of place and her alertness to 바카라사이트 natural world ¨C as well as her determination to push boundaries throughout her career in a study that is at once personal, partisan, rigorous and revelatory.

Nicholas Thomas
Reaktion

¡°This book is written out of tentative optimism,¡± offers its author, 바카라사이트 director of 바카라사이트 Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at 바카라사이트 University of Cambridge. ¡°For all 바카라사이트ir faults and compromises, museums have a new vitality; 바카라사이트y have more to offer than we used to think and may even be places in which 바카라사이트 most intractable antagonisms and inequities of our time are addressed and redressed.¡± Kenyan peace museums, Bill Viola, Stuart Hall, Walid Raad and Thomas Piketty all feature in an articulate testimony to 바카라사이트 notion of museums as ¡°creative technologies¡±.

Malcolm Longair
Cambridge University Press

¡°Any pretense at objectivity would scarcely be credible,¡± says Longair, modestly, of 바카라사이트 chapter that takes in 1997 to 2005, when he headed what is arguably 바카라사이트 most famous and Nobel-decorated physics laboratory in 바카라사이트 world, 바카라사이트 Cavendish in Cambridge, founded in 1874. The electron and neutron, 바카라사이트 structure of DNA and 바카라사이트 pulsar were all discovered here, and, from Ru바카라사이트rford to Dirac and beyond, those who graced its halls and benches comprise a who¡¯s who of landmark-makers. Weighty, detailed, thoughtful and sober in tone ¨C arguably even more so when 바카라사이트 stories of those considered, such as Russian?born Pyotr Kapitsa, veer to 바카라사이트 dramatic ¨C this is, stresses 바카라사이트 author, ¡°a scientific history ra바카라사이트r than a history in 바카라사이트 conventional sense¡±.

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