Theory through the prism of a life
A thinker who had no truck with biography is well served by this moving portrait, says Chris Thornhill
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Ribbon Culture: Charity, Compassion and Public Awareness
This is a timely and very welcome book that critically examines the trend in the wearing of charity ribbons. Sarah Moore charts the development of awareness ribbon campaigns through a well-researched...
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Top 10 Academic Bestsellers: Blackwell, Exeter
1. The Selfseeker by Anthony Hyman Teignvalley Press, £20.00 ISBN 97809555387042. God, Humanities and the Cosmos edited by Christopher Southgate Continuum, £32.99 ISBN 97805670301603. Al-Qaeda: The...
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The book of the week: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History
June Purvis on the mother of all resources
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The Week in Books
Roman Eyes: Visuality and Subjectivity in Art and Text by Jas Elsner, Humfry Payne, senior research fellow in classical art and archaeology, Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Princeton University Press...
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Bad teeth and shrewd politics
Paul T. Nicholson on a lucid summary of the Queen of the Nile's historical context and eternal allure
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Published this week
? = Review forthcomingARCHAEOLOGY- Archaeology as Political ActionBy Randall McGuire, professor of anthropology, Binghamton UniversityUniversity of California Press, £38.95 and £17.95ISBN...
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First Impressions competition: 10 April 2008
This week’s competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a Pulitzer prize-winning depiction of a post-apocalyptic world:“When he woke in the woods in the dark...
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University of York - Strategic web networking urged
Universities should appoint "Facebook strategists" according to a paper on social networking websites being considered by the University of York. The "strategists" would keep up to date with changes...
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Birkbeck, University of London - Football's 'feet drain' examined
Have opportunities for young English footballers diminished because of the number of foreign players? This will be one of the questions posed at a one-day conference on player migration in football...
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University of Edinburgh - Posthumous bequest sets record
A doctor has donated almost £2 million to the University of Edinburgh - more than 60 years after he died in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp. ߣߣÊÓƵn Albert McKern graduated from Edinburgh in 1917...
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King's College London - School of nursing honoured
A London university has been declared "baby friendly". Dawn Primarolo, Minister for Public Health, handed over Unicef UK's first Baby Friendly award to the King's College London's Florence...
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University of Northampton - Arts study to take centre stage
A centre for research in the arts has been opened at the University of Northampton. The Avenue Research Centre, opened officially this week, will house a centre for contemporary fiction and narrative...
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Bath Spa University - Yorkshire lasses shine brighter
A northern accent can have a positive effect on how intelligent you appear to other people, according to researchers at Bath Spa University. Researchers Lance Workman and Hayley-Jane Smith asked 48...
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University of East Anglia - Indecent image controversy
A student who downloaded indecent images of children on to a computer in the university library has kept his job working on the student union's reception desk. The student, 26, who is studying for a...