Making Noise: From Babel to the Big Bang and Beyond
A tome trumpeting the historical significance of sounds is music to David Toop's ears
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Zoopolis: A Political Theory of Animal Rights
A recent heart-rending animal story concerned mummy and baby elephant trapped in mud, dying of thirst, and soon to be dinner for hyenas and lions. They were rescued, of course, and the predators had...
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The Faith of Girls: Children's Spirituality and Transition to Adulthood
Where once it was only poets who believed that childhood had a distinctly spiritual flavour, more recently a body of research evidence from psychology, theology and education concurs that children do...
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Reclaiming Fair Use: How to Put Balance Back in Copyright
Fierce defence of intellectual property limits free speech and stifles creativity, finds Matthew Rimmer
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A Contest for Supremacy: China, America, and the Struggle for Mastery in Asia
The one constant about China is its complexity, at least for those outside. Finding the right conceptual framework within which to fit this continent-sized country has proved elusive. As Aaron...
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Our Fritz: Emperor Frederick III and the Political Culture of Imperial Germany
Following recent excellent work on Otto von Bismarck and his reputation, it is helpful to be reminded that he was not the sole figure to focus authority and aspiration in Germany as it developed as a...
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STEM the Tide: Reforming Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math Education in America
You don't need to be a genius...you only need a talented teacher to produce able mathematicians. Really? asks Averil Macdonald
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Unionists, Loyalists, and Conflict Transformation in Northern Ireland
Historically, academic research into Northern Ireland was focused on segregated communities, paramilitary violence and, more recently, the dynamics underpinning a largely successful peace and...
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The Art-Architecture Complex
Hal Foster, a highly respected academic and veteran art critic based at Princeton University, intends this book to address a wide audience. The shifts in artistic and architectural practice that he...
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New dawn in the West after former Thames Valley leaves the at-risk list
V-c forecasts sunshine for a leaner, more fiscally sound University of West London. Jack Grove writes
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Stormy waters ahead as 'disruptive forces' sweep the old guard
Online education will turn the academy inside out, argue US authors. Sarah Cunnane reports
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'Invisible' gays in top roles? We'll have to see about that
Lack of v-cs who have come out is 'an issue across the sector', says Stonewall. David Matthews writes
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Midwifery teaching pressures 'threaten quality'
A worsening in the student-to-staff ratio in midwifery courses in recent years could be compromising the quality of teaching, a union has warned.
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£11m distributed to cut emissions
Hefce announces second batch of Revolving Green Fund projects. David Matthews reports
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News in brief
MMR vaccine study disputeWakefield sues BMJ for libelThe former doctor whose discredited research linked the MMR vaccine to autism has launched a libel suit against the British Medical Journal....