Naomi Baker's handsome volume is a warts-and-all account of an overlooked feature of Renaissance studies: facial discrimination. Plain Ugly sounds like it should, by rights, come in a plain wrapper....
George Orwell once suggested that sport was war minus the shooting. In contemporary times, media reports frequently use militaristic language to describe sporting contests, and we often see reference...
Glynis M. Breakwell is engaged but not converted by this social evolutionary analysis of leadership
During the latter part of the 20th century and the early 21st century, Romantic studies as a subject has increasingly shifted its focus away from Nature, with a capital "N", towards place, with a...
At a time when our present Queen has recently opened a Facebook page, studying the image-making and "spin" strategies of past British monarchs seems to have added topicality. Kevin Sharpe's new and...
Gareth Dale is intrigued by an account of small-town life in the secret police
David Dunmur and Tim Sluckin provide an inside view of the science of the liquid crystals that are responsible for the displays that have not only become our windows into the digital world, but have...
Playfulness and Samuel Taylor Coleridge? The two are not generally associated. After all, Thomas Carlyle compared Coleridge with "a hundred horse-power engine stuck in the mud and with the boiler...
Malcolm Gillies analyses the rapid rise of James Rhodes, and asks how much is hype and how much is talent
NottinghamRoman Sexuality: Images, Myths and MeaningsWhat are we to make of the range of sexual images to be found in Roman art and archaeology? This exhibition at the Weston Gallery - part of the...
Gabriel OrozcoTate Britain, London, until 25 AprilWhen Gabriel Orozco was a child, he thought that squashing a car might make it more aerodynamic and fast-moving. In 1993, he got a chance to put his...
In what is being described as "a dramatic breakthrough", a research team led by our Deputy Head of Neuroscience, Dr E.G. Pataglig, has established that there is no measurable cognitive difference...
A lawyer turned academic librarian with "a great sense of puckish humour", Morris L. Cohen directed some of the US' most prestigious law libraries during his career.Born in New York on 2 November 19...
Gary Day is startled by an art critic's approach to the work, life and loves of John Constable
Mordecai Richler is well served by a wry and affecting adaptation of his final novel, Duncan Wu says