7 August 2008
Whose hand runs the show? - What the Lee Harvey affair reveals about the Higher Education Academy
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An argument for engagement
Howard Davies on a call for the citizenry to increase their level of involvement in democracy
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Physicists on Wall Street - and Other Essays on Science, Politics, Language and Literature
Jeremy Bernstein has had a fine dual career as theoretical physicist and writer. Combining the two, his efforts to take readers inside the minds of other physicists have offered insight into some of...
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The Last Cigarette
What does it take to be a successful diarist? The number-one quality is probably honesty, something Simon Gray has in spades, especially in situations that reflect badly on him. Take, for instance,...
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Top 10 Academic Bestsellers: Blackwell, Portsmouth
1. Blackstone's Statutes on Employment Law 2007-2008 edited by Richard Kidner Oxford University Press, £16.99 ISBN 97801992117152. An Experiential Approach to Organization Development by Donald Brown...
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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...