Faces from the dust bowl
Anne Hammond reflects on photographs from the Depression that highlighted the plight of the poor
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The Natural and the Supernatural in the Middle Ages
Attitudes to nature and the environment are fashionable topics in historical studies at present, and Robert Bartlett's book forms part of an ongoing discussion about the definition and limits of the...
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Representing Autism: Culture, Narrative, Fascination
For the past two decades or so autism has provided a model that, according to some, has profoundly shaped our under-standing of how we come to know other people as mental beings.The ability to take...
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Navel-gazing in another universe
Anthropology gets in the way of this wander through the new virtual wonderland, finds Grant McCracken
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Darwin's Garden: Down House and The Origin of Species
Tennyson's phrase "red in tooth and claw" has long attached to Darwinian nature. Yet Darwin was always, and sometimes mainly, concerned with plants. As he explained in On the Origin of Species (1859...
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Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe
This book was published to coincide with the exhibition organised by the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, in association with the Department of Special Collections of the Stanford University...
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Published this week
(?) = Review forthcomingARTS AND DESIGN- (?)Patronizing the ArtsBy Marjorie Garber, William R. Kenan Jr professor of English and of visual and environmental studies, Harvard University. Princeton...
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From where I sit: Psychologists in the firing line
In sanctioning the Bush Administration's use of torture, the corruption of American attorneys is common knowledge - but are academic psychologists also partly to blame? A book published this summer,...
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Targett denies 'buggers' charge
Our Director of Corporate Affairs Jamie Targett has vigorously denied his involvement in a video clip currently available on YouTube.This clumsily filmed clip appears to show Targett talking to...
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Summer off? Not likely
Tim Birkhead dispels the myth that lecturers spend three months on the beach
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Leader: Errors that truly merit derision
In denigrating students, devaluing teachers and equating degrees with big salaries, the media and the Government damage society
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Tim Cooke, 1947-2008
A pioneer of multidisciplinary cancer research, described as a true visionary in the field, has died.
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Perils of a new kind of peer review
It is encouraging to see the research assessment exercise (RAE) subpanel chairs arguing in ߣߣÊÓƵ that peer review should remain at the heart of any future system of research...
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Objectors are not arrogant 1
Michael Pittilo of The Robert Gordon University asserts (Letters, 28 August) that academics' objections to alternative medicine degree courses are "arrogant", and he claims, as a fact no less, that...
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Objectors are not arrogant 2
Lord Winston's recent BBC programme Superdoctors was a masterly explication to a lay audience of how stem-cell treatment for advanced heart disease can be evaluated in a randomised, double-blind,...