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Ruth First Papers

The Ruth First Papers are the collected notes and writings of Ruth First the anti-apartheid campaigner, journalist and scholar. The project aims to create and populate a digital archive of a selection of Ruth First’s writings held at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study. The online archive was launched in June 2012. 

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Professor Colin Blakemore

Newly appointed Director of the Institute of Philosophy's Centre for the Study of the Senses

Professor Blakemore, a renowned vision scientist, is one of Britain’s leading scientists, who speaks and advises on a number of public issues, including chairing the Royal Society’s recent Brain Waves project, reviewing the policy implications of developments in neuroscience, including a report on Neuroscience and the Law. Colin Blakemore is a Fellow of the Royal Society, and was a previous head of the Medical Research Council. He has been a Reith Lecturer and given the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures. He has been honoured by many countries, including India and China, and has ten honorary degrees.

Professor Blakemore will direct the work of the Centre for the Study of the Senses, which pioneers collaborative sensory research between philosophers, psychologists and neuroscientists, looking at the way our senses cooperate to create perceptions of the world around us.

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Broken Government? American Politics in the Obama Era

Morgan, Iwan Davies, Philip John

Barack Obama’s election as president in 2008 generated widespread hope that the United States was entering a new era whereby government, in a reversal of Ronald Reagan’s famous dictum, would be the solution to the nation’s manifold problems amid the worst economic downturn ...