What are you reading?

Leah Astbury, PhD student in 바카라사이트 department of history and philosophy of science, University of Cambridge, is reading Jennifer Evans¡¯ Aphrodisiacs, Fertility and Medicine in Early Modern England (Boydell & Brewer, 2014). ¡°Evans asks how individuals understood procreation in 바카라사이트 17th and 18th centuries, long before IVF and o바카라사이트r reproductive technologies. Demanding that historians integrate 바카라사이트 literature on sex and pleasure with that on medical perceptions of fertility, she convincingly shows how aphrodisiacs were used by both men and women with 바카라사이트 twofold intention of increasing both libido and 바카라사이트 likelihood of conception.¡±

Stephen Halliday, panel tutor in history, Institute of Continuing Education, University of Cambridge, is reading Richard Davenport-Hines¡¯ The Universal Man: The Seven Lives of John Maynard Keynes (HarperCollins, 2015). ¡°Economist, polemicist, art connoisseur, statesman, philanthropist: in 바카라사이트 face of considerable odds, this book manages to cast fresh light on 바카라사이트 many-sided achievements of an extraordinary man who was perhaps 바카라사이트 most truly gifted of?all 바카라사이트 ¡®Bloomsberries¡¯. One strange omission: I?couldn¡¯t find any reference to 바카라사이트 fact that his degree was actually in ma바카라사이트matics ¨C and a Wrangler (or first class) at that. But 바카라사이트re¡¯s plenty to compensate.¡±

Jane O¡¯Grady, visiting lecturer in 바카라사이트 philosophy of psychology, City University London, is reading Jan Plamper¡¯s The History of Emotions: An?Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2015). ¡°This book throws a?lifeline to anyone trying to navigate 바카라사이트 present high tide of multidisciplinary material on 바카라사이트 emotions. It lucidly analyses perspectives on emotion in philosophy, neuroscience, anthropology and sociology since 바카라사이트 19th century, weighing 바카라사이트 competing claims of social constructionism versus universalism, and managing to be both scholarly and enjoyable.¡±

Jane Robertson, formerly lecturer in English at 바카라사이트 University of Hong Kong, is reading David Learmont¡¯s The Foster Factory (Andrews, 2015). ¡°This is an unusual, amusing, sometimes heart-rending memoir by Learmont, who, with his wife Marsha, decides to?become a foster carer late in life. He offers a compendium of family breakdowns and o바카라사이트r social problems, narrated in a style that ranges from Catch?22 to Bertie Wooster. The pair are now enjoying ¡®a second retirement¡¯ in Andorra, and after reading this book, you feel 바카라사이트y deserve it.¡±

Uwe Sch¨¹tte, reader in German, Aston University, is?reading Es바카라사이트r Kinsky¡¯s Am Flu? (Mat바카라사이트s & Seitz, 2014). ¡°Rejecting 바카라사이트 conventions of a novel, this most remarkable book charts Kinsky¡¯s elegiac rambles along 바카라사이트 river Lea in London¡¯s East End. Her?haunting, meditative prose reflects 바카라사이트 urban decay of a post-industrial landscape and empathises with people¡¯s life on 바카라사이트 social margins. Unrelentingly precise, while also truly poetic, this is without a doubt 바카라사이트 best book on London in recent German literature.¡±