Show me the money
Press-ganged into attending the annual graduation ceremony, a sweaty and begowned Gloria Monday wishes some of the cash on show was heading her way
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White Paper fallout, QAA reform and US study costs
Have your say on the reaction to last week's White Paper, the criticism of the government's proposals on quality assurance and the website revealing the priciest US universities
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A particular talent for maths
Simon Mitton on Abdus Salam, Nobel scientist and champion of underprivileged students
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Opting Out? Why Women Really Quit Careers and Head Home
Pamela Stone suggests that most sociological interest in the gendering of work and organisations tends to focus on women's labour force participation and career choice. There seems to be very little...
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Imperial Nature: Joseph Hooker and the Practices of Victorian Science
When Joseph Hooker was born in 1817, there were no professional scientists. By the time of his death in 1911, it was an accepted fact that science should be professionalised, knowledge...
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Top 10 Academic Bestsellers: blackwell.co.uk
1. Understanding the European Union: A Concise Introduction by John McCormick Palgrave Macmillan, £19.99 ISBN 97802302010262. England: An Oxford Archaeological Guide to Sites from Earliest Times to...
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Of corn kernels and Columbine
Keith Kahn-Harris on how hip-hop and nu-metal rage against and within US 'supercapitalism'
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Worlds before Adam: The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Reform
Historians of science are often accused of triumphalism and Whiggism for documenting a progressive narrative flow towards a greater "truth". But the able historian can decipher a path towards a...
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The Judicious Eye: Architecture against the Other Arts
This is a very curious book. It purports (according to the press release) to be a "lucid account of how architecture became separated from the visual arts, and how that breach is being repaired today...
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The book of the week: Dissent over Descent
Keith Ward on evolution versus intelligent design
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The week in books
Txtng: The Gr8 Db8 by David Crystal, honorary professor of linguistics, Bangor University. Oxford University Press, £9.99, ISBN 9780199544905"If you've been waiting for someone to give a good kick to...
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Sweeping aside all the hurdles
Steve Tsang praises essential reading on China's troubled history with the Olympic Games
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Makhmalbaf at Large: The Making of a Rebel Filmmaker
Along with Abbas Kiarostami, Mohsen Makhmalbaf is the best known of the Iranian New Wave directors who came to international prominence in the wake of the 1979 Islamic Revolution. He is not merely a...
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How Terrorism Is Wrong: Morality and Political Violence
When nonviolent politics has been exhausted, or shut off by governments in situations of profound injustice, is violence or even terrorism sometimes justified? This is the central issue animating...
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Published this week
? = Review forthcomingART AND DESIGN- Before Bruegel: Sebald Beham and the Origins of Peasant Festival ImageryBy Alison G. Stewart, professor of art history, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Ashgate, £...