The New Religious Intolerance: Overcoming the Politics of Fear in an Anxious Age
Maleiha Malik applauds a road map that seeks to lead the West away from intolerance of Muslims
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The Unrepentant Renaissance: From Petrarch to Shakespeare to Milton
Willy Maley is tickled by an unexpected, less puritanical reading of post-Reformation culture
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Love Online
Love Online, first published in French as Sex @mour, seeks to document people's experiences, post-millennium, with respect to the rise of internet-mediated dating. Sociologist Jean-Claude Kaufmann...
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The Irresistible Fairy Tale: The Cultural and Social History of a Genre
Next year will mark the 30th anniversary of the publication of Jack Zipes' Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion, a milestone in fairy tale studies that challenged a century of scholarship on the...
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Why Lyrics Last: Evolution, Cognition, and Shakespeare's Sonnets
David Gewanter applauds a literary - and scientific - exploration of the Bard's poetic longevity
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Simulating War: Studying Conflict Through Simulation Games
Computers have not eclipsed manual board war gaming. This is the strong message delivered in Philip Sabin's Simulating War. This book is about war gaming, and if you are expecting a traditional...
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Leon Trotsky: A Revolutionary's Life
Leon Trotsky remains a compelling and controversial figure for historians, with two major biographies since 2009. Bertrand Patenaude's Stalin's Nemesis: The Exile and Murder of Leon Trotsky is a...
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The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines
Jon Turney on one scientist's successful efforts to resist the relentless assaults of the denialists
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Evolution and Belief: Confessions of a Religious Palaeontologist
"Man, when he enters the world, is naturally led to inquire who he is, whence he comes; whither he is going; for what purpose he is created..." So wrote Carl Gustav Linnaeus in 1788 and it is very...
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Elliptic Tales: Curves, Counting and Number Theory
In mathematics, numbers such as 0, ±1, ±2, ±3 are called integers, and ratios of two integers such as 1/3 and -2012/2011 are called rational numbers. Number theory is a branch of mathematics, and...
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Archives offer adventures in time and cyberspace
Cengage's plans to digitise the 19th century could open up a whole new world, finds Matthew Reisz
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Modern managers need a compass to navigate stormy market waters
Higher education MBA fetes 10th year as sector's need for 'strategy' rises. David Matthews writes
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Your annual awards need you...to participate
The countdown to the eighth annual Times Higher Education Awards begins this week, with a call for entries from universities across the UK.
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News in brief
United StatesLaws of physicsA physicist at the University of California, San Diego has used an academic paper to escape a $400 (£250) traffic fine. Dmitri Krioukov, who was accused of failing to obey...
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'Overreacting' managers take impact too far, debate hears
The overreaction of university managers to the impact agenda is narrowing the kinds of research scholars feel able to carry out, academics have warned.