The Savage Visit: New World People and Popular Imperial Culture in Britain, 1710-1795 by Kate Fullagar
Neil Rennie on the 18th-century fascination with exotic visitors and the cultural exchange that took place
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Physics in Mind: A Quantum View of the Brain by Werner R. Loewenstein
Tristan Bekinschtein recommends a challenge to our notions of consciousness and cognition
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Utopia and Terror in Contemporary American Fiction by Judie Newman
Kate North recommends an analysis of the use of apparently contradictory concepts in selected texts over the past 15 years
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To Touch the Face of God: The Sacred, the Profane, and the American Space Program 1957-1975 by Kendrick Oliver
Margaret Weitekamp on a historical study of the relationship between religion and spaceflight
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For happy students, listen - then act
A responsive attitude and landmark infrastructure projects help to create contentment, our survey shows. Elizabeth Gibney reports
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The story behind our figures...
Ben Marks of YouthSight, which carried out the survey for THE, explains the reasoning and methodology that created this year’s university rankings
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Great expectations – how to bring reality up to scratch
Study costs more, so do students want more? Olga Wojtas hears from universities and student leaders about what can be done to boost satisfaction - from bricks and mortar to increased participation
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What you know is important, but so is where you've worked
A university’s links with industry, providing placements and internships, are increasingly important to students and form a key indicator in our survey. David Matthews explores this fast-evolving area
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Representation, as well as a good night out, is what matters
A well-managed students’ union is key to creating a happy university - as Victoria Bentata discovers
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THE Student Experience Survey 2013 results
What matters most to undergraduates?
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To Touch the Face of God: The Sacred, the Profane, and the American Space Program 1957-1975 by Kendrick Oliver
Man has always looked to the heavens.” When I was teaching a space history course at undergraduate level, an inordinate number of students wanted to start their human spaceflight essays with some...
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Utopia and Terror in Contemporary American Fiction by Judie Newman
In 2002 Martin Amis said: “After a couple of hours at their desks on September 12, 2001, all the writers on earth were reluctantly considering a change of occupation.” Many said that 9/11 could not,...
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Mental uncertainty principles
Tristan Bekinschtein recommends a challenge to our notions of consciousness and cognition
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On the Edge: The Contested Cultures of English Suburbia by Rupa Huq
This is the end…my beautiful friend…” Jim Morrison’s voice filters through the thin walls of my Travelodge suite as the lorries rumble along the M25 into the dark heart of suburbia.This is going to...