1. The Crucible by Arthur Miller. Penguin, £8.99. ISBN 97801411825512. Playboy of the Western World by John M. Synge, edited by Margaret Llewellyn Jones. Nick Hern Books, £3.99. ISBN 97818545921013....
Gregory Radick reviews a superlative study of the naturalist's principles
The Ends of Life: Roads to Fulfilment in Early Modern England by Keith Thomas, fellow, All Souls College, University of Oxford. Oxford University Press, £20.00, ISBN 9780199237233"It would be hard to...
A study of paradise and perdition in the Koran and other sources is recommended by Youssef Choueiri
There are at least two ways of doing social science. The traditional way is to observe a phenomenon, often a problem or a puzzle, and then explain it. For example, why are divorce rates in society X...
Despite its title, Ad Women is more a history of the development of US consumer culture viewed through a female lens. Throughout there is a tension between the feminine and the feminist, which is...
A study of top US institutions fails to see the bigger picture, says Linda M. Perkins
The rise in flu cases registered in the UK just before Christmas saw infection rates reach an eight-year peak, duly dubbed a "crisis" by some newspapers.This wave of illness affected 60, 70 or...
Peter Meyers' search for the answer to the question of when the war against terrorism began represents a noble attempt to engage with the confusing state of contemporary international relations.As...
Business schools should reassert their intellectual status not focus on revenue, says Malcolm Gillies
?= Review forthcomingBIOLOGICAL SCIENCESDarwin Studies: A Theorist and his Theories in their ContextsBy M.J.S. Hodge, senior fellow in history and philosophy of science, University of LeedsAshgate, £...
The increasing bureaucratisation and the ascendancy of managerialism in mainland China's universities has been a worry for some time, but now a scholar has produced data to show that the concerns are...
Shock was expressed this week at the news that our Vice-Chancellor was one of the few higher education executives in the country not currently facing an ultimatum from their Board of Governors.In an...
Kevin Fong welcomes Obama's promise to restore the importance of science
Cary Cooper reflects on the ups and downs, the friendships and rivalries, the knife-edge thrills and raw passion of years spent loving a tribal and beautiful game