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The Stone reader : modern philosophy in 133 arguments
\"Once solely the province of ivory-tower professors and college classrooms, contemporary philosophy was finally emancipated from its academic closet in 2010, when The Stone was launched in The New York Times. First appearing as an online series, the column quickly attracted millions of readers through its accessible examination of universal topics like the nature of science, consciousness, and morality, while also probing more contemporary issues such as the morality of drones, gun control, and the gender divide. Now collected for the first time in this ... volume, The Stone Reader presents 133 ... essays from the series, placing nearly the entirety of modern philosophical discourse at a reader's grasp\"--Dust jacket flap.
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Kaleidoscope
How much do different countries invest in mental health research compared with other branches of healthcare? As part of the ROAMER project, Hazo et al compared four European nations: the UK, France, Spain and Finland. Using 2011 data, public and private (not-for-profit) annual spends were calculated, respectively, at ₠127.6, ₠84.8, ₠16.8 and ₠10.2 million. To look on it another way, that equates to a national spend per disability-adjusted life year (DALY) of ₠48.7, ₠31.2, ₠39.5 and ₠12.5. How does this relate to wider research spending? In the UK, just 4% of health research funding goes on mental health – given that it accounts for 12% of total DALYs, that's an enormous underspend (the Finns do better at almost 10%). A recent paper in the BJPsych confirmed that greater national investment in mental health services produces better clinical outcomes, but the burden remains enormous and we need more research into prevention, intervention and treatment. We can all play a positive role: only 1.7% of charity research spend went to mental health – time to put your hands into your pockets.
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Tales from a not-so-smart Miss Know-It-All
When Miss Know-It-All's inbox overflows with pleas for guidance, Nikki Maxwell, the school newspaper advice columnist, turns to her best friends for help.
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Real life rock : the complete top ten columns, 1986-2014
The Washington Post hails Greil Marcus as our greatest cultural critic. Writing in the London Review of Books, D. D. Guttenplan calls him probably the most astute critic of American popular culture since Edmund Wilson. For nearly thirty years, he has written a remarkable column that has migrated from the Village Voice to Artforum, Salon, City Pages, Interview, and The Believer and currently appears in the Barnes & Noble Review. It has been a laboratory where Marcus has fearlessly explored and wittily dissected an enormous variety of cultural artifacts, from songs to books to movies to advertisements, teasing out from the welter of everyday objects what amounts to a de facto theory of cultural transmission. Published to complement the paperback edition of The History of Rock & Roll in Ten Songs, Real Life Rock reveals the critic in full: direct, erudite, funny, fierce, vivid, astute, uninhibited, and possessing an unerring instinct for art and fraud. The result is an indispensable volume packed with startling arguments and casual brilliance.
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