Book of the week: Salsa Dancing into the Social Sciences The methodologically bewildered find their groove, says Leslie Gofton 27 November
Rainbow nation remains divided Despite the advent of democracy, citizenship entitlement is still unclear, writes Saul Dubow 27 November
Love unbridled is a volcano Lynne Segal enjoys a race through two and half millennia of sexual matters in Europe 27 November
Welcome to a world of free access Traditional textbooks can encourage intellectual passivity in students. But alternatives are beginning to emerge, writes Matthew Reisz By Matthew Reisz 27 November
Base deeds in a Low Country Fred Halliday examines the broad historical issues of a Dutch society in crisis 20 November
Where rhetoric meets reality Markets and governments should not be viewed as opposing forces, explains Natalie Gold 20 November
Book of the week: The Crisis of the Twelfth Century The Middle Ages were dark, bloody and brutal, discovers John Arnold 20 November
In the beginning was the letter Roy Harris is unconvinced by a muddled treatise on the abstractions of 'God' and 'Mind' 20 November
It’s just fiction, says Archbishop Church leader sets aside the writer’s theology in favour of his imaginings, says Robin Feuer Miller 13 November
Book of the Week: Honest Signals: How They Shape Our World A 'nervous system for humanity'? John Gilbey finds a sting in the tale 13 November
Fear, corruption and lies David Cesarani on a historiographical landmark that probes Germany's crippled society of ruins 13 November
Ordinary heiress, extraordinary life: Patty's got a gun Jill Radford is impressed by a study of the kidnap that gripped 1970s America - and the ensuing trial 13 November
