The credo of rational stupidity
But Huw Dixon refuses to economise on brain effort and remains sceptical of the mysteries of price tags
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Think On My Words: Exploring Shakespeare's Language
The recent proliferation of popular biographies of Shakespeare, including that by Bill Bryson, is evidence that the market for books on the Bard is as buoyant as ever: the recent fame of Lynne Truss...
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Art in an Age of Civil Struggle, 1848-1871: A Social History of Modern Art, Volume 4
In the early 1970s, the publication of Albert Boime's The Academy and French Painting in the Nineteenth Century, Linda Nochlin's Realism and T.J. Clark's investigation of art and politics in France...
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Book of the week: The Destruction of Cultural Heritage in Iraq
Eleanor Robson on an admirable study of Iraq.
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The week in books
Children of the Revolution: The French, 1799-1914 by Robert Gildea, professor of modern history, Oxford University. Allen Lane, £30.00, ISBN 9780713997606"As a professor of history at Oxford...
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Published this week
EDUCATION- Scottish Education: Beyond DevolutionBy Tom Bryce, professor of education, University of Strathclyde, and Walter Humes, research professor of education, University of the West of Scotland...
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First Impressions competition: 31 July 2008
This week’s competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from one of the first existentialist novels:"I am a sick man... I am a spiteful man" Entries, including...
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A calling to engage with the God hypothesis
Olga Wojtas meets a Kirk minister bringing faith-centred education to the Highlands and Islands
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Aberystwyth/Bangor universities - How green is their study
Welsh Education Minister Jane Hutt has announced £23.5 million funding for research into some of the world's major environmental challenges. The cash from the Welsh Assembly Government will help...
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University of Ulster - Power of the grey pound
Supermarkets should lend an ear to senior citizens if they want to keep their trade in the future. That's the message from consumer scientists at the University of Ulster who have been analysing...
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Durham/British Columbia universities - It's science. No, it's magic
Psychologists could gain a far greater insight into how humans think and act by analysing tricks and techniques used by magicians, according to research from Durham University and the University of...
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Anglia Ruskin University - A shift in time
Employers who need shift workers are being paired with student jobseekers through a new "slivers of time" initiative at Anglia Ruskin University. The university's employment bureau says it is...
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Cranfield University - Top guns in Beds
Members of the Nigerian Air Force could find themselves in the Home Counties splendour of Bedfordshire following a five-year contract to provide postgraduate training for the force agreed with...
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University of East Anglia - Found in translation
Authors and translators from across the globe last week attended an unusual event at the University of East Anglia. Organised by the British Centre for Literary Translation, the summer school allows...
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University of Leicester - Sick bee syndrome
Bumblebees go "off colour" and cannot remember which flowers have the most nectar when they are feeling under the weather, a new study from the University of Leicester has found. The study indicates...