Architect and Engineer: A Study in Sibling Rivalry
Next year will see the 175th anniversary of the foundation of the Royal Institute of British Architects. The event will not include any major scholarly reappraisal of the profession's history (...
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Top 10 academic bestsellers: Blackwell, Southampton
1. Blackstone's Statutes on Property Law 2007-2008, Fifteenth Edition edited by Meryl Thomas. Oxford University Press, £14.99. ISBN 97801992117222. Blackstone's Statutes on Family Law 2007-2008,...
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Manipulative Monkeys:The Capuchins of Lomas Barbudal
Phyllis C. Lee on the simian soap opera revealed by a long-term study of the cheeky, sociable capuchin
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An Actor's Work: A Student's Diary
The publication of Jean Benedetti's translation of Konstantin Stanislavski's An Actor's Work on Him/Herself: Part 1 - In the Creative Process of Experiencing and Part 2 - In the Creative Process of...
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Women and Leadership: Transforming Visions and Diverse Voices
I opened this book with enthusiasm. It is an edited collection exploring women and leadership, its approach is overtly feminist and concerned with power in various ways, and it highlights issues of...
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The Book of the Week: Terror and Consent: The Wars for the Twenty-first Century
Alex Danchev finds law and war are indivisible
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The Week in Books
The Meaning of Life by Terry Eagleton, John Edward Taylor professor of English literature, University of Manchester. Oxford University Press, £10.99, ISBN 9780199210701."Eagleton pre-emptively...
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Titan Unveiled: Saturn's Mysterious Moon Explored
Kevin Beurle on an irresistible account of the Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn's vast satellite
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Riding the Waves: A Life in Sound, Science and Industry
The defining moment in the life of Leo Beranek came in 1935, when at the age of 21, on Main Street, Mount Vernon, a small town in Iowa, he offered to help the owner of a Cadillac with a flat tyre....
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The Emergence of the Modern Museum: An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century Sources
The 19th century was the great age of the founding of public institutions, when many of the great private collections passed into public control and when collection, exhibition and research became...
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Published This Week
(J) = Review forthcomingANTHROPOLOGY- Unstrange Minds: A Father Remaps the World of AutismBy Roy Richard Grinker, professor of anthropology, international affairs, and human sciences at the George...
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First Impressions competition: 12 June 2008
This week’s competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from an unfinished sensation novel:“An ancient English Cathedral Town?”Entries, including postal address,...
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Putting names to student faces
As class sizes increase, remembering students’ names is a growing challenge – and word association can help
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Workplace bullying
Intimidation and victimisation at work can destroy health, confidence and careers
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Cranfield University - Nanoparticles draw fine-art fans
Lecturers in fine art at the Norwich School of Art and Design have teamed up with scientists at Cranfield University to investigate how nanotechnology can be used to change the way that artists draw...