Only death could break this bond
The wife of a giant of science gave him valuable intellectual stimulus, Graham Farmelo discovers
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Why Europe Matters: The Case for the European Union, by John McCormick
Roger Morgan welcomes a book that tackles ignorance, dispels confusion and inspires appreciation about the EU
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Fortunes of Feminism: From State-Managed Capitalism to Neoliberal Crisis, by Nancy Fraser
Gwendolyn Beetham on a collection of essays that remind us that an alternative to global capitalism’s inequality is badly needed
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Fluid New York: Cosmopolitan Urbanism and the Green Imagination, by May Joseph
Laurence Coupe celebrates efforts to rethink urban spaces to give them an ecological dimension
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The Lost Art of Finding Our Way, by John Edward Huth
Robert J. Mayhew on how people need to recover their ability to find their way without using technology
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Liberty’s Dawn: A People’s History of the Industrial Revolution, by Emma Griffin
Pat Hudson on a treasure trove of accounts of working-class individuals enjoying new opportunities and choices amid change
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The Young Atatürk: From Ottoman Soldier to Statesman of Turkey, by George W. Gawrych
Erik Jan Zürcher salutes a study showing how the military shaped the founder of the Republic of Turkey
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Guiding light of human rights
An exercise in persuasion by an expert in corporate responsibility is a must-read for Aurora Voiculescu
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Within these four walls
Annmarie Adams considers the apologetic architecture of buildings with ‘controversial’ uses
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Not on the money
Unrealistic global monetary solutions aside, Howard Davies is astounded by a sloppy translation
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Laurie Taylor
First things first“I have every sympathy with the University of Surrey’s desperate attempts to increase the number of its students with top‑class degrees.”That was the supportive response of Dr K. T...
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Odds and quads
This poster from 1935 (left), designed by graphic artist MacDonald Gill, was used to promote the commercial telephone service between London and New York introduced by the Post Office in 1927.
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News in brief
United StatesPresidential pay constraintsA university system’s board of trustees has frozen and even cut the wages of its presidents after a public outcry over pay. The heads of the California State...
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The old heave-ho
Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, Gerald Kauvar and E. Grady Bogue on the many reasons higher education leaders end up walking the plank