Sara Baartman and The Hottentot Venus: A Ghost Story and a Biography Kaila Adia Story lauds this powerful effort to reclaim the history of a woman abused by European society 19 February
Book of the week: 13 Things That Don't Make Sense This study suggests that science has lost its way, says Robert Matthews 19 February
Backstage at the Revolution Brian Vick praises a study that explains how a bastion of opulence outlasted the sans-culottes 19 February
Moral Relativism A treatise on moral relativism leads Robert Segal to question whether we are in fact absolutists 19 February
Closed Minds? Politics and Ideology in American Universities A study of top US institutions fails to see the bigger picture, says Linda M. Perkins 12 February
From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession Business schools should reassert their intellectual status not focus on revenue, says Malcolm Gillies 12 February
Ancient Rome and Modern America Tom Palaima discovers how the US uses Roman history to defend and challenge its own identity 12 February
Book of the week: Darwin's Sacred Cause Gregory Radick reviews a superlative study of the naturalist's principles 12 February
The Garden and the Fire: Heaven and Hell in Islamic Culture A study of paradise and perdition in the Koran and other sources is recommended by Youssef Choueiri 12 February
Sans-Culottes: An Eighteenth-Century Emblem in the French Revolution A brave attempt to reframe a time of great upheaval in France falls short, says Lynn Hunt 5 February
Economic Gangsters: Corruption, Violence, and the Poverty of Nations Susanne Karstedt admires a model of how to use data analysis and original research creatively 5 February
Book of the week: The Inheritance of Rome Power, Tom Palaima learns, was easily gained but damned hard to keep 5 February
Israel's Occupation Israeli methods of controlling Palestinians have changed but not lessened their grip, says Lori Allen 29 January
Book of the week: The Bard: Robert Burns, a Biography Gerard Carruthers relishes a magisterial portrait of Scotland's iconic literary figure 29 January
Under Construction: Making Homeland Security at the Local Level Jeremy Keenan takes issue with a book that is 'the epitome of all that anthropology should not be' 29 January
Women, Family, and Gender in Islamic Law Mona Siddiqui on wives, husbands and their places in the multiple layers of Muslim jurisprudence 29 January
Ancestral Roots: Modern Living and Human Evolution To lose our negative evolutionary baggage we have to go back to our roots, discovers Alan Bilsborough 29 January
Brought to Light: Photography and the Invisible, 1840-1900 A lavish catalogue illuminates the secrets of scientific photography, says A.D. Morrison-Low 29 January
