Chanel: An Intimate Life
Anne Hogan on an insightful study of the famous couturiere's complex character and singular journey
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A Merciless Place: The Lost Story of Britain's Convict Disaster in Africa
A monarchy and ruling elite live in conspicuous excess while the majority get poorer. Financial scams, identity theft and unscrupulous moneylenders are rife. A sense of unfairness and desperation has...
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American Egyptologist: The Life of James Henry Breasted and the Creation of His Oriental Institute
Upon entering the Oriental Institute, nestled in the neo-Gothic University of Chicago campus, you pass under a sculpture of "East teaching the West". This concept of the Near East and the Nile Valley...
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Magical Mathematics: The Mathematical Ideas that Animate Great Magic Tricks
To create illusions, Fibonacci and algorithms are as important as sleight of hand, discovers C.J. Howls
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Deviations: A Gayle Rubin Reader
Gayle Rubin is an American feminist anthropologist whose seminal essays The Traffic in Women (1975) and Thinking Sex (1984) changed the way we think about sex and gender. This book brings together a...
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The Historical Novel in Nineteenth-Century Europe: Representations of Reality in History and Fiction
For a genre that until very recently was seen as marginal at best, and hopelessly dull at worst, the historical novel has been very well served of late by in-depth scholarly analyses. Books by...
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Cities of the Classical World: An Atlas and Gazetteer of 120 Centres of Ancient Civilization
Simon Goldhill warms to the charms of a wacky history tour, despite its simplified viewpoint
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The Case of the Poisonous Socks: Tales from Chemistry
As I conduct my laboratory experiments every day, pushing the boundaries of science ever forwards, I must confess I don't give much thought to the scientific history that came before "my time"....
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Heinrich Himmler
Under the command of Heinrich Himmler, the SS adopted the policy of selecting only those men who were considered fine specimens of Nordic manhood. Strict obedience to this rule would have made its...
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UCL archaeology sets its sights on Qatar's fertile terrain
Attracting top scholars to the Gulf state's flagship campus is a priority, writes David Matthews in Doha
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News in brief
United StatesProbationary measuresA US higher education accreditation body has placed a university on probation for a year to deal with its financial problems. The measure placed on Fisk University...
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Grant winners
LEVERHULME TRUSTResearch Project GrantsBasic sciences• Award winner: Neil Spooner• Institution: University of Sheffield• Value: £86,263Neutron identification from tracks• Award winner: John Quinn•...
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Where's the ticked-off box?
If you're sick of HR's endless, dubious employee surveys, says Adrian Furnham, there's a fiendishly simple way to fight back
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Super-selection creates a monoculture that does not benefit society
Government policies that push universities to recruit only top achievers are bad for diversity and equality, warns Tessa Blackstone
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Political science
A new generation of politically savvy scientists is needed to ensure that STEM delivers the benefits the UK needs, argues Ian Gibson