Tiger Head, Snake Tails: China Today, How It Got There and Where It is Heading
This survey is as big as the country it covers, but it pulls its punches, David Bachman finds
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The Doomsday Machine: The High Price of Nuclear Energy, the World's Most Dangerous Fuel
Principles, priorities, practicalities: fine things all, but easier to discuss separately than together. Most of us want to protect the environment, for example. But which bits, and how best to do it...
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Contesting the Reformation
So the past may not be dead, and may not even be past; but we do usually reach a point where we and it can leave each other alone. We are interested in (say) the history of the Roman Empire, but for...
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Opium: Reality's Dark Dream
Jesper Vaczy Kragh discusses the ecstasy and the agony of humanity's ancient companion
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Dreaming in French: The Paris Years of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Susan Sontag, and Angela Davis
From Benjamin Franklin to Ernest Hemingway, American expats have felt compelled to chronicle their sometimes simultaneous fascination with, and consternation at, the City of Light. More recent...
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Seasons in the Sun: The Battle for Britain, 1974-1979
Big books can be intimidating, and this is truly a behemoth. The fourth volume in Dominic Sandbrook's acclaimed history of the UK from the mid-1950s to the late 1970s, Seasons in the Sun contains...
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The Second Sexism: Discrimination Against Men and Boys
Gender is a battlefield, but the casualties aren't always who you'd expect, Simon Blackburn says
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A World of Gardens
The title of John Dixon Hunt's latest book for Reaktion suggests that it is another Reader's Digest-type overview of iconic gardens in a roughly chronological and geographical survey, but Hunt's...
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After 'fightback', Classics will no longer be all Greek to urban youth
Hackney college centre challenges 'crude notions' of pedagogic relevance. Matthew Reisz reports
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News in brief
United StatesLegal tenderA US university aims to buy a law school from another "local" institution for $25 million (£16 million). Texas A&M University will pay Texas Wesleyan University $20...
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Arrested, beaten, caged - but the state could not break him
Jack Grove talks to Miguel Angel Beltrán, the falsely imprisoned Colombian scholar now fighting for reform
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British institute puts the accent on its French connections
University of London's Parisian base offers full immersion in Gallic culture. Matthew Reisz writes
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Grant winners
ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCILResearch Seminar AwardsPolitical science and international studies• Award winner: Mark Webber• Institution: University of Birmingham• Value: £17,815Nato after...
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Gold or green: which is the best shade of open access?
Going for gold is the solid approach, argues Michael Mabe...but David Price counters that only green is sustainable
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Join hands, reach further
Earth's problems know no borders, observes Feridun Hamdullahpur, and research efforts must be collaborative and global to tackle them