In the conclusion to their compact survey of the purpose of art, Eleonora Belfiore and Oliver Bennett state that their aim was neither to explain current debates nor to "direct us towards a better...
1. Corporate Finance: Core Principles and Applications by Stephen A. Ross, Randolph W. Westerfield, Jeffrey Jaffe and Bradford D. Jordan. McGraw-Hill, £72.99. ISBN 97800732236052. Macroeconomics:...
A labour of love pays tribute to our fascination with the winged world, writes Jim Reynolds
Linda Williams' book, she tells us, "began as an amateur movie". Rather like James Spader's character in Steven Soderbergh's 1989 debut feature Sex, Lies, and Videotape - a film which, surprisingly,...
Robert von Hallberg believes that lyric poetry offers a compelling alternative to modern discourses which, be they academic, journalistic, commercial or political, rely on rational processes...
Diagnostic labels are a cause of fierce debate in this enjoyable set of 'stories', says David Pilgrim
Regarded by emigre and domestic critics as a closet Stalinist and by Western observers as a closet reformer, Mikhail Gorbachev, as the last General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet...
In 1980, eight Catholic activists, including Philip and Daniel Berrigan, staged a nonviolent protest at the General Electric plant outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where nose cones for Mark 12A...
The life and legacy of Darwin dominates the new year roster of academic titles of note, but there are many other works of intellectual substance promised between January and June
Praise and burials: our reviewers' verdicts on fellow academics' most fascinating, disgruntled, authoritative, wrong-headed, provocative, cerebral, paradigm-shifting, impenetrable and frankly naughty...
Call me a hopeless romantic, but I believe universities should have just two functions: to teach students and to conduct research.They should not be places with whole departments of staff managing...
As we reach this momentous moment, many of you (although by no means all of you) can look back upon 2008 with a real sense of pride. It was a year in which the RAE results confirmed Poppleton's...
Alan Ryan declares "Bah, Humbug!" to resolutions for university funding
Web 2.0 tools allow researchers to share ideas, data and results. Sarah Collinson and Zoe Corbyn report
Leslie Gofton recalls swapping words, if not licks, with Jimi Hendrix, and argues that a misspent adulthood is a much greater waste than ill-spent adolescence