Society's ever shifting goalposts Economic migrants face the continual production of new differences, says Jorg Michael Dostal 21 May
Guilty Money: The City of London in Victorian and Edwardian Culture, 1815-1914 Through boom and bust, the popular view of high finance has changed little, finds Howard Davies 21 May
The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better John Welshman gives the thumbs up to the suggestion that egalitarian countries work best 21 May
Book of the week: Evelyn Sharp: Rebel Woman, 1869-1955 June Purvis welcomes a compelling tale of an overlooked feminist 21 May
Trade Unions in a Neoliberal World: British Trade Unions under New Labour An analysis of workers' alliances should engage more with workers themselves, says Sian Moore 21 May
History, Historians, and Conservatism in Britain and America: From the Great War to Thatcher and Reagan A. W. Purdue finds a study of a neglected area of the 20th century complex and penetrating 21 May
Birdscapes: Birds in Our Imagination and Experience Tim Birkhead is charmed by a revelation of how our feathered friends affect our lives 14 May
Book of the week: An Orchard Invisible Jules Pretty unearths the roots of epic tales of life and death 14 May
Lives in Science: How Institutions Affect Academic Careers Graham Farmelo on a study of physicists, who stand 'between the sacred and the secular' 14 May
Veil: Mirror of Identity Julia Droeber finds thinly veiled orientalism in an analysis of Muslim values and Western liberalism 7 May
The Canon: The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, 1400-1580 By Eamon Duffy 7 May
Global Justice: A Cosmopolitan Account A proselytising book assumes much about world poverty but answers little, writes Radha D'Souza 7 May
Book of the week: Mothers and Others Camilla Power finds emotional modernity is the legacy of co-operative breeding 7 May
How Professors Think Fred Inglis searches the academy for signs of intelligent life - or clear diction, at a pinch 30 April
Out of the ballpark Anthropologist Thomas Carter's passion for baseball led him to explore the game's special significance for Cuba in The Quality of Home Runs. He gives Matthew Reisz the rundown By Matthew Reisz 30 April
Book of the week: Naming Infinity Tony Mann celebrates a book that emphasises the human factor 30 April
The Romantic Economist Economists need to be embedded in the culture of society to explain how it works, says Natalie Gold 30 April
Abraham Lincoln in the Post-Heroic Era: History and Memory in Late Twentieth-Century America 30 April
Al-Qaeda Goes to College Anthony Glees says this book fails to consider the threat to academia posed by terrorism's side effects 23 April
Foul Bodies: Cleanliness in Early America Foul Bodies: Cleanliness in Early America. By Kathleen M. Brown. Yale University Press, 448pp, £25.00. ISBN 9780300106183. Published 3 February 2009 23 April
Splendors and Miseries of the Brain: Love, Creativity, and the Quest for Human Happiness Prashanth A K admires the exuberance of this ambitious study, but not its central thesis 23 April
Book of the week: Architecture Depends A call for architects to rejoin the messy world delights Flora Samuel 23 April
Entrepreneurialism in Universities and the Knowledge Economy An analysis of how higher education is responding to current challenges impresses Huw Morris 16 April
