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CONTACT:academy@InstituteOfIdeas.com
ORGANIZER:Academy of Ideas
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DESCRIPTION:An initiative to bring together different strands of social\, p
 olitical\, scientific\, academic and cultural discussion into an annual fes
 tival.
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\nTickets are held at 2006 prices and are available to buy online
  here. Information about alternate payment methods is available here.
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 Specially commissioned essays\, Battles in Print\, on each of the topics di
 scussed at the 2006 festival can be found on the festival website. A printe
 d and bound selection of 19 Battles in Print is now available to buy. 
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 nSpeakers include: Patrick Basham (co-author\, Diet Nation)\; John Luik (se
 nior fellow\, Democracy Institute\, Washington DC\; co-author\, Diet Nation
 )\; Professor Edzard Ernst (Laing chair in complementary medicine\, Peninsu
 la Medical School\, Universities of Exeter and Plymouth)\; Toby Murcott (sc
 ience writer and broadcaster\; Body & Soul contributor\; author\, The Whole
  Story - Alternative Medicine on Trial?)\; Professor Chris Lane (Herman and
  Beulah Miller research professor of literature\, Northwestern University\,
  Chicago\; author\, Shyness: How Normal Behaviour Became a Sickness)\; Prof
 essor Simon Wessely (chair\, department of psychological medicine\, Institu
 te of Psychiatry\, King's College London)\; Dr David Wainwright (senior lec
 turer in health services research\, University of Bath\; author\, Work Stre
 ss: The Making of a Modern Epidemic) and many more.
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SUMMARY:The Battle of Ideas 
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