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Page Through The Manuscript of Great Expectations with David Wright

Head to the Wisbech and Fenland Museum in Wisbech, England, and you can see the original autograph manuscript for Great Expectations, often considered one of Charles Dickens’ finest works. A gift from Dickens to his friend Chauncey Hare Townsend, the manuscript is an amazing window into Dickens’ brain, with clues to his creative process and [...]

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• In a San Francisco Book Review review of Eruptions that Shook the World, Meredith Greene gives Clive Oppenheimer's "compelling tome " 5 out of 5 stars. Read the full review here. #
• Congratulations to Craig Koslofsky, winner of the Longman-History Today Book of the Year Award for Evening's Empire! #
• In Psychology Today, Ian Dowbiggin asks: "Are [mental] institutions really that bad?" The answer may surprise you. #
• For the second year in a row, Bjorn Lomborg is on Foreign Policy's List of Top 100 Global Thinkers. #
• Beyond Smoke and Mirrors by Burton Richter is the 2011 winner of the Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science! First offered in 1959, the award is offered for outstanding contributions in to the literature of the physical and biological sciences and mathematics. For more information about Beyond Smoke and Mirrors, visit the book’s website. #
• "World Mental Health Day: Another Missed Opportunity?" Ian Dowbiggin's op-ed in The Globalist. #
• Charles Clotfelter joins the conversation on "The Shame of College Sports" in this month's Atlantic. Check out his recently published book Big-time Sports in American Universities for more. #
• Charles Clotfelters' recently published Big-Time Sports in American Universities sparked this year's Duke Magazine Forum. Read what Charles and a panel of distinguished Duke alums had to say about The Economics, Ethics, and Excesses of the Games We Love. #
• Check out this interview with former IMF Fiscal Affairs Department director and Governments Versus Markets author Vito Tanzi on the IMF's Public Financial Management Blog. #
• Could a supervolcano destroy us? Clive Oppenheimer discusses the risks (and his favorite volcano films) with Vice Magazine. #
• Check out this Wall Street Journal review in which Andrew Roberts calls Wilson D. Miscamble's The Most Controversial Decision "quite superb." #
• The Chronicle of Higher Ed ran a glowing review of Justices and Journalists in their "Page View" section today. Read the full piece here #