While Freud may have come to conclusions with which it is not always easy to concur, it is surely absurd to dismiss his work in its entirety. Many do, however, and despite approbation from figures as...
Robert Kulpa re-evaluates an interdisciplinary thinker who probes the limits of anthropocentrism
This book is the product of a group of authors affiliated to the Institute of Historical Research and examines the question of inequality from the viewpoint of groups who are often seen as...
Finn Fordham may be the kind of critic whose attentions writers dread. He is a meticulous enquirer into the often murky truth about how poems and novels come into being; the regrettably mundane...
Joseph Dauben is impressed with the scholarship in a study of 'shape-shifting' missionaries
It would be a fine thing to know the nature and the future of philosophy, and Sir Michael Dummett, one of the few British philosophers to regularly appear in encyclopaedias of the discipline of...
Sir Howard Newby appreciates a wake-up call for the US academy that will ring alarm bells here, too
Why are most people 'everyday denialists'? Steven Yearley gets a sobering lesson
ARTS AND DESIGN- What is Architectural History?By Andrew Leach, senior lecturer in architecture, Griffith University. Wiley, £50.00 and £14.99. ISBN 9780745644561 and 4578This book considers the...
A new project aims to ensure that everyone can get water on tap at all times, at the correct pressure and no matter what may happen along the way. Combining mathematics and risk analysis, the two-...
A windproof umbrella and a desktop plant that blooms in response to people's voices are among innovations being showcased at an annual event for design and engineering graduates. The Made in Brunel...
Hot males are in high demand among female damselflies, scientists have discovered. Researchers from the University of Sheffield used thermographic imaging and high-speed photography to study the...
Parents left infuriated by teenagers who leave lights on will soon have academic research to back up their case. Computer scientists at the University of Central Lancashire and the University of...
In the year 616, Aethelfrith, King of Northumbria, defeated a Welsh army at the Battle of Chester and slaughtered the monks, at nearby Bangor-Is-Coed, who had been praying for his defeat. This...
Threat to discipline stems from an obsession with productivity, argue scholars. Matthew Reisz reports