Most North Americans are aware of the cowboy-Indian images promoted by Hollywood movies. Few are aware of their 19th-century connection to racist dime-store novels popular in the heyday of westward...
1. Time, Policy, Management: Governing with the Past by Christopher Pollitt Oxford University Press, £25.00 ISBN 97801992377222. The Oxford Handbook of Inter-Organizational Relations edited by Steve...
Archaeologists must remain sceptical of theories not backed by data, says Margarita Diaz-Andreu
John Barrow, a cosmologist at the University of Cambridge and author of many highly acclaimed books, has given us a richly illustrated volume. It is a celebration of the central role visual images...
From time to time, my students ask me whether I am for or against the European Union. In future, I may just point them in the direction of Anand Menon's new book.Menon's mission is to persuade us to...
John Gilbey relives the heady days of IT upheaval
The Last Amateurs: To Hell and Back with the Cambridge Boat Race Crew by Mark de Rond, reader in strategy and organisation, University of Cambridge. Icon Books, £17.99, ISBN 9781848310155"There is a...
(J) = Review forthcomingARCHITECTURE- (J) The Skyscraper and the City: The Woolworth Building and the Making of Modern New YorkBy Gail Fenske. University of Chicago Press, £34.00. ISBN...
This week’s competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novel addressing post-civil-war American Black identity:"Psychics can see the color of time it's...
Hello Everybody, Jennifer Doubleday here!I'm saying who I am because my tutor on this residential Personal Development Weekend says that knowing who you are is the first step on the path to self-...
Sally Feldman on the deals, desperation and bottom-line realities of clearing
Economic woes and political uncertainty mean the sector must take charge in proposing new policies, says Deian Hopkin
J.D. (John) Marshall, 1919-2008.A "hardy frontiersman" of academia who developed a passion for regional history while based in Cumbria as a Second World War conscientious objector has died.J.D. (John...
Instead of "Grappling with the digital divide" (14 August), we have the usual mishmash of, on the one hand, academics who should know better, lamenting their incapacity to catch up with e-literate...
I was struck by the very great difference in the standard of the two letters (Letters, 14 August) you published last week in response to my article on variant spelling ("Just spell it like it is", 7...