Strictly English: The Correct Way to Write...and Why It Matters
Geoff Pullum lambasts an archaic guide to English that is long on attitude but short on accuracy
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Tales from the Sausage Factory: Making Laws in New York State
This is an intriguing idea for what will doubtless seem a rather specialist book - unless you are an American or interested in politics, the law and constitutional matters. Its title is adapted from...
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The Canon: The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women by Naomi Wolf
What women look like is often more important than what they do. That this is still sadly the case, 20 years on from the publication of Naomi Wolf's The Beauty Myth, is exemplified by Liverpool, the...
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The Fear of Barbarians
Michael King sees flaws in this rhetorical critique of the West's moral response to Islamist terrorism
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She's So Fine: Reflections on Whiteness, Femininity, Adolescence and Class in 1960s Music
If you thought musical tales of misogynistic violence were the sole preserve of heavy metal bands, think again. As this edited volume illustrates, such narratives were also evident in songs such as...
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Histories of Labour: National and International Perspectives
Most historians will recognise the back cover of this book: it shows a worker with a stick and a basket, smoking and walking, with an early steam train in the background. It is the picture that used...
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John Keats: A Literary Life
A biographical ode to a fine Romantic soars above publishing restraints, writes Duncan Wu
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Living History: A Family's 19th Century
On 11 May 1812, something unique in English history occurred: the prime minister was assassinated. He was Spencer Perceval, shot dead by John Bellingham, who was tried and hanged within a week of the...
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Global Inequalities and Higher Education: Whose Interests Are We Serving?
As a glance at any issue of this magazine shows, higher education is increasingly a global phenomenon. But globalisation poses particular challenges. Put crudely, is higher education to be a means of...
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Blogconfidential: Text offenders
Each week, Dr Margot Feelbetter poses a dilemma and offers advice for readers to respond to online. This week: Text offenders
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Appointments
Bryn MawrSusan SuttonA scholar who moved over to the "dark side" of university administration has been appointed senior adviser for international initiatives at her alma mater. Susan Sutton will join...
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When in Madrid ..
British worker ants are socially docile and "apathetic" compared with their "aggressive" Spanish relatives, researchers have found. Scientists from the University of Leicester discovered that the...
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Wales, Newport/Glamorgan universities - Filling in the gaps
The University Heads of the Valleys Institute, a project to plug gaps in higher education provision across Wales, has been launched. The institute is formed by a partnership between the University of...
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London School of Business and Finance - That's the business
A private provider has made the bold claim that as many as half a million people could be studying its online MBA programme through Facebook within a year. The London School of Business and Finance...
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Newcastle University - Damage limitation
A medical trial that could transform the way paramedics treat stroke victims is under way. The study, led by Newcastle University, local hospitals and ambulance services, will enable paramedics to...