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Leader: Autonomy must be the goal
Universities need to be free from government control if they are to succeed in providing the education demanded of them
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From where I sit: Accentuating the positive
I am constantly reading (and writing) about the negatives of tertiary education today: universities are now merely businesses; grammatical standards have slipped; young people are ignoramuses who don...
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Stanley Ellis, 1926-2009
A dialectologist and pioneering forensic linguist - who made a notable intervention in the Yorkshire Ripper inquiry - has died.Stanley Ellis was born in Bradford on 18 February 1926, studied at...
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Principles of Molecular Photochemistry: An Introduction/Modern Molecular Photochemistry of Organic Molecules
Timely revision of a classic work
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Fundamentals of Environmental Chemistry
This is the third edition of a well-established textbook that presents the chemistry of the environment: the natural, unpolluted environment and the damaged environment, including what can be done to...
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Chemistry for the Life Sciences
This book is mostly a collection of chapters on basic physical chemistry and organic chemistry with just a smattering of information on the inorganic parts of the periodic table of relevance to...
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Molecular Theory of Water and Aqueous Solutions: Part I - Understanding Water
From the general principles of chemistry we now turn to an investigation of a single substance, water. Water is perhaps one of the most extraordinary of substances, with properties unlike those of...
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Food Chemistry
If you want to know the depth of chemistry behind a menu in a restaurant, this is the book for you. Here are more than 1,000 pages of closely packed information about the essential chemistry of foods...
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Student Review: Chemistry3: Introducing Inorganic, Organic and Physical Chemistry
Chemistry has a reputation as a difficult, arcane subject, often reinforced by monolithic textbooks as unhelpful as they are intimidating. Stepping up to challenge this convention, Chemistry3 aims to...
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Discovering Computers 2010: Living in a Digital World, Complete
The US House of Representatives has just inaugurated the National Computer Science Education Week. With 405 votes for and none against the resolution, computer science must be hitting the mainstream....
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How to Think Like a Programmer
One could be forgiven for imagining that this may be yet another title joining the throngs of indistinguishable (but always yellow) introductory programming books, but now there is a new kid on the...
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Introduction to Algorithms
Rightly, this has become the text for teaching algorithms. If you want to program serious algorithms, from sorting and searching to string matching, this book is your resource, with nearly 1,000...
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Interactive Graphics for Data Analysis: Principles and Examples
It's all very well using computers to do complicated things, but do we understand what they have done? Suppose you have the data about the people who survived the sinking of the Titanic on your...
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Student Review: Invitation to Computer Science
The authors explain that the inspiration for writing this was their belief that computer science courses gave an insufficient picture of the discipline. To remedy this, they have gathered an immense...