After the gold rush
Ireland's economic boom brought equally impressive growth in higher education enrolment. But in a chillier fiscal climate, what awaits the Celtic Tiger's universities? Hannah Fearn reports
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Wondrousgames of logic
Mathematician Robin Wilson's enthusiasm for Lewis Carroll stems from a shared delight in the brain-teasing and magical world of numbers. Matthew Reisz reports
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24 July 2008
Avon calling - The self-help academics who give our lives a rosy glow
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A man and a plan for a better world
Martin Mills finds an idealist at the apocalypse, but asks why one of our Dalai Lamas is missing
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Apocalypse: Earthquakes, Archaeology and the Wrath of God
Fifty years ago, the seismologist Charles Richter - he of the famous scale - lamented that "ancient accounts of earthquakes do not help us much; they are incomplete, and accuracy is usually...
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Top 10 academic bestsellers: Blackwell, Oxford
1. China: The Truth about its Human Rights Record by Frank Ching Rider & Co, £4.99 ISBN 97818460413892. Cambridge Latin Anthology by Cambridge School Classics Project Cambridge University Press...
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The ingenuity of torture and war
Alan V. Murray delves into ancient savagery that sadly mirrors many conflicts of the 21st century
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The Flash Press: Sporting Male Weeklies in 1840s New York
This is a scholarly book on a racy topic, and it is a surprise to find the lively, accessible, copiously illustrated narrative of its first part accompanied by more than 40 pages of equally...
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The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State
General interest in Islam remains high, continuing to fuel a wide range of research on the various dimensions of the faith, but in recent years few Western authors have demonstrated the capacity to...
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The book of the week: The Invention of Scotland
John Morrill delights in a teasing of the Scots
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The week in books
The Book of Dead Philosophers by Simon Critchley, professor of philosophy, New School for Social Research, New York, and part-time professor of philosophy, University of Essex. Granta Books, £15.99,...
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Leaps of faith and the gospel truth
Kathy Ehrensperger considers the thorny questions about what Jesus and his disciples really believed
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Histories of the Immediate Present: Inventing Architectural Modernism
The architectural historians of the past century have themselves become increasingly the subject of critical investigation. Much postgraduate history and theory study in architecture now consists of...
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The Tropics of Empire: Why Columbus Sailed South to the Indies
When he arrived, against the expectations of many, at the island he named San Salvador, on 12 October 1492, Christopher Columbus appeared to have proved that inhabited lands lay across the Atlantic....
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Swirling synapses
Michael Siegal marvels at the intricacies and paradoxes of our evolutionary psychology