Music at the Limits
Pick up an English-language newspaper in search of music criticism and you will find terse, clipped accounts of concerts, CDs and DVDs (far more pop than classical). Such reviews may well be...
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Educational Resource Management: An International Perspective
Derek Glover and Rosalind Levacic have produced a practical work of reference that rather ambitiously endeavours to mesh the technical with the general and to make all of it accessible to non-experts...
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Book of the week: My Unwritten Books
Fred Inglis on a fierce, foolish, joyous wishlist.
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The week in books
Artscience: Creativity in the Post-Google Generationby David Edwards, founder of Le Laboratoire, in Paris. Harvard University Press, £12.95, ISBN 9780674026254"The book is less a technical tool than...
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Between Iraq and a hard place
In an otherwise usefully myth-debunking work on risk management in an age of war, Bill Durodié looks in vain for an admission that debate on the invasion must go beyond cost-benefit analysis.
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Censoring the body
Both these publications belong to a series based on a very elastic - some would say sloppy - interpretation of what "censorship" is. The titles are misleading. Edward Lucie-Smith's contribution is...
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Deadly Companions: How Microbes Shaped Our History
Plagues and pestilence fascinate. That is why many books for the general reader have been written about them.Some works use disease metaphorically, such as The Plague by Albert Camus and Thomas Mann'...
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Published this week
BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT• Dynasties: Fortune and Misfortune in the World's Great Family BusinessesBy David Landes, professor emeritus of history and economics, Harvard UniversityPenguin, £9.99. ISBN...
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First Impressions competition: 31 January 2008
This week’s competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a black satirical comedy on the media:"It's hot as hell in Martirio, but the papers on the porch are...
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In the footsteps of the Prophet
Youssef Choueiri considers a nuanced and erudite portrait of early Muslim lives and ideas.
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Food: The History of Taste
In our liminal Essex landscapes, where malaria was last a threat in these isles and where land and water daily intersect, the marshes and saltings bring a distinctive character to some 350 miles of...
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Top 10 academic bestsellers: Heffers, Cambridge
1. Contemporary Strategy Analysis by Robert M. GrantBlackwell Publishing, £29.99ISBN 9781405163095.2. Business Studies by Dave Hall, Carlo Raffo and Rob JonesCauseway Press, £.99 ISBN 978190968333....
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Particles and pyrotechnics
Frank Close recommends this journey through red-shifting, the pair production of electrons and positrons, the Universe and everything.
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Low-paid Scots find that pay can double if they go south
Hourly paid lecturers commute daily to England to increase their earning power. Kate Smith reports.
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Wye College - Kent withdrawal clouds future
The University of Kent is pulling out of Wye College in a move that raises new questions about the college's future. In recent years, Kent has offered an applied business management course at Wye in...