Footnotes and fancy-free
We should teach PhD students how to balance the conflicting demands of scholarship and dissemination, says Peter Barry
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27 November 2008
Cut out for work - Have we sacrificed learning for earning?
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Base deeds in a Low Country
Fred Halliday examines the broad historical issues of a Dutch society in crisis
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Kurdistan: Crafting of National Selves
This book is not so much about how Kurds imagine their nation and construct their identities as members of it, but more about how the nation-states where Kurds live mould the national identities to...
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Top 10 Academic Bestsellers: Blackwell, Loughborough
1. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard Faber, £8.99 ISBN 97805710818202. The Recruiting Officer by George Farquhar edited by John Ross Methuen Drama, £6.99 ISBN 97807136334983. Ward...
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Where rhetoric meets reality
Markets and governments should not be viewed as opposing forces, explains Natalie Gold
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Fame
In Mark Rowlands' polemical and problematic philosophical exploration of fame, he blames the moral malaise of the present on celebrity culture. Rowlands terms this degenerate version of...
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Churchill: The Greatest Briton Unmasked
The magnitude of Winston Churchill's political career, with its numerous twists and turns, continues to baffle the efforts of biographers. The official biographer, Sir Martin Gilbert, buried him...
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Book of the week: The Crisis of the Twelfth Century
The Middle Ages were dark, bloody and brutal, discovers John Arnold
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The week in books
Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle by Daniel Everett, chair of languages, literatures and cultures, Illinois State University. Profile Books, £15.00, ISBN...
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In the beginning was the letter
Roy Harris is unconvinced by a muddled treatise on the abstractions of 'God' and 'Mind'
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Why We Watched: Europe, America, and the Holocaust
In 1968, the journalist Arthur Morse published While Six Million Died, an expose of American indifference and even antipathy towards the plight of European Jewry during the Holocaust. Since Morse's...
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The Savage Text: The Use and Abuse of the Bible
The savage text makes hatred holy." There is much in the Bible that seems to endorse cruelty, hatred, violence and oppression, and texts taken from it and read literally and in isolation can be used...
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Published this week
GEOGRAPHY AND ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIESRegions: Critical Essays in Human GeographyEdited by J. Nicholas Entrikin, professor of geography, University of California, Los AngelesAshgate, £150.00ISBN...
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Hefce names new chief executive
The new chief executive of the Higher Education Funding Council for England has been named.Sir Alan Langlands, principal and vice-chancellor of the University of Dundee, will succeed David Eastwood...