Student review: Understanding Phonetics
Author: Patricia AshbyEdition: FirstPublisher: Hodder EducationPages: 248Price: £21.99ISBN 97803409281Starting a course in phonetics is more daunting than the prospective student might think, but...
Search
-
-
Student review: Encounters: Chinese Language and Culture, Student Book 1
Encounters: Chinese Language and Culture, Student Book 1Authors: Cynthia Y. Ning and John S. MontanaroEdition: FirstPublisher: Yale University PressPages: 336Price: £65.00ISBN 9780300161625Encounters...
-
Reporting Research in Psychology: How to Meet Journal Article Reporting Standards
Author: Harris CooperEdition: SixthPublisher: American Psychological AssociationPages: 136Price: £24.95ISBN 9781433809163As a science-based subject, psychology is underpinned by methodologically...
-
Student Review: Qualitative Research Methods in Psychology: Combining Core Approaches
Author: Nollaig FrostEdition: FirstPublisher: Open University Press/McGraw-Hill EducationPages: 384Price: £70.00 and £26.99ISBN 9780335241507, 41514 and 41521 (e-book)A text on research methods...
-
Physical Chemistry for the Life Sciences
Authors: Peter Atkins and Julio de PaulaEdition: SecondPublisher: Oxford University PressPages: 590Price: £34.99ISBN 9780199564286Sometimes the most creative scientific research happens at the...
-
Chemistry round-up
Forensic ScienceAuthors: Andrew R.W. Jackson and Julie M. JacksonEdition: ThirdPublisher: Pearson EducationPages: 544Price: £39.99ISBN 97803738404Aimed at newcomers to forensic science, this text...
-
Student Review: Molecular Quantum Mechanics
Authors: Peter W. Atkins and Ronald S. FriedmanEdition: FifthPublisher: Oxford University PressPages: 560Price: £39.99ISBN 9780199541423For many, the mere mention of quantum mechanics will conjure up...
-
Kropotkin's heirs apparent
Alan Ryan on Occupy Wall Street, a refreshingly rational anarchist movement
-
Are radical journals selling out?
Well, they’re not doing badly. But in a world in which capitalism is in crisis, the Left is moribund, activists are slick professionals and rebellion drives sales, Alastair Bonnett envisages a new...
-
Democratic experiments
Science affects everyone on the planet, so how and to what extent should the public help set its agenda? Jon Turney looks to the notion of vox populi research for some ideas
-
Bloggers raise alarm over sleep of reason
The standfirst of "You can't tell me anything" ( October) says that "the gleefully bull-headed ignorance shown by politicians, bloggers and others" suggests that "scientific evidence and scholarly...
-
Intelligence agency
Which?'s intention to move into the world of higher education information provision has caused something of a stir (The week in higher education, October).We know that choosing a university is a...
-
Misshapen and incapable
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council claims to have consulted the scientific community regarding its "shaping capability" policy aimed at maintaining the UK's global research...
-
Galaxy quest starts small
It was good to see "citizen science" featured in ߣߣÊÓƵ ("Powered by the people", 20 October), but the article's claim that the vast majority of initiatives in this area are American-...
-
Identity theft
The philosopher Gilbert Ryle once sought to explain the notion of a "category mistake" by recalling a tourist in Oxford complaining that he had been round the colleges but still hadn't found the...