One way to figure out what makes humans human, which is the subject of this book, is to compare them with either gods or animals. In Homer and the Bible, humans get compared with gods. The difference...
Jayna Brown's Babylon Girls: Black Women Performers and the Shaping of the Modern is a remarkable cultural history of African-American performance from 1890 to 1945. Drawing on archival research,...
John Gilbey welcomes this study of zero hour throughout the ages
The Long and the Short of It: A Guide to Finance and Investment for Normally Intelligent People Who Aren't in the Industry by John Kay, fellow, St John's College, University of Oxford. Erasmus Press...
A revised model of journalism's place in the internet age gets a vote of confidence from Tim Luckhurst
This book is about bullshit. As well as two mentions of it on the cover, there is "drug company bullshit", "the corporations that riddle (our culture) with bullshit", and "the opportunity cost of...
Just when it seems that vision in the 19th century has been examined in every possible light and pursued into the darkest, most shadowy corners, Chris Otter has come up with a new way of looking at...
Theory, even to a writer 'fed up' with it, is relevant, as the lessons of humanism show, says Carolyn Lesjak
While it sounds like a television drama starring Trevor Eve as a cold-case copper revisiting gruesome murders from the Seventies, "Speaking with the Dead" is, in fact, the locus classicus of an...
Western meddling in foreign lands ... Moshe Behar wonders if it's worth a read by a certain Mr Obama
The once-neglected topic of British cinema has undergone such a sustained re-evaluation over the last ten years or so that there remain few nooks and crannies that have not been brought into the...
Despite the American automobile industry's catastrophic decline in popularity, profits and market share, there has been no shortage of scholarly analyses of its historical importance. If pioneering...
A discerning study of the legacy of the last of the papal castrati resonates with Martha Feldman
? = Review forthcomingBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES- Animal Experimentation: A Guide to the IssuesBy Vaughan Monamy, senior lecturer in environmental science and environmental ethics, ߣߣÊÓƵn Catholic...
2009-10 grant letter reveals 9.8 per cent increase over previous year. John Gill reports