Fallgirls: Gender and the Framing of Torture at Abu Ghraib
Joanna Bourke reflects on the role of women in the abuse of Iraqi prisoners by the US military
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Consuming Pleasures: Intellectuals and Popular Culture in the Postwar World
Daniel Horowitz is a leading cartographer of cultural studies, as much at home with the quaggy contents of the bog as with the high, dry sierra of theory. He writes big books on one big theme: the...
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When Words Are Called For: A Defense of Ordinary Language Philosophy
This is a revolutionary book - certainly within the context of mainstream analytic philosophy. But its appeal should be wider than the admittedly narrow circle of professional philosophers. Indeed,...
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Nature's Compass: The Mystery of Animal Navigation
Animal migrations and the navigation skills they require have long been a source of fascination, and they continue to be an active research field in biology. Despite progress over the past century,...
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Camera Historica: The Century in Cinema
Not a conventional history of film and no obvious theme - it's a bit of a mixed bag, says Philip Kemp
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The Declining Significance of Homophobia: How Teenage Boys are Redefining Masculinity and Heterosexuality
The term "groundbreaking research" is often bestowed too lightly, but it is richly deserved in the case of this book. Mark McCormack offers a pioneering and remarkably inspiring account of the...
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Modern Women in China and Japan: Gender, Feminism and Global Modernity between the Wars
This book's title reflects an original and bold move, namely to focus on the location of Katrina Gulliver's subjects (modern women in China and Japan) rather than their national, cultural and/or...
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Sing another tune to make pop music for the masses
Researchers must think creatively to grab wider audiences for their work. Matthew Reisz reports
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Grant winners
NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH RESEARCHHealth Technology Assessment programme• Award winner: Sue Moss• Institution: Queen Mary, University of London• Value: £126,348Long-term follow-up of a trial of...
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News in brief
United StatesIn two minds on training of mindsA national survey has found that Americans are split over the value of a degree. Six out of 10 respondents consider the costs associated with attending...
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Caps in the air, but Labor budget plans crash to earth
Canberra coffers hit by response to new 'demand-driven' enrolment policy. Susan Woodward reports
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Is failure to complete hitting US ability to compete?
The US is losing its cutting edge in innovation, an economic survey of the country has claimed.
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Winning the dragon race
By any objective measure, Welsh university research simply doesn't deserve its bad press, argues Peter Halligan
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Fight the rogue agents with a badge of honour that rewards the good
A cross-border certification regime run by institutions is the only way to tackle unscrupulous recruiters, says Mitch Leventhal
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Smooth operator
The chief scientific adviser needs academic, diplomatic and political skills. Mark Walport might have them all, thinks James Wilsdon