How Intelligence Happens
This is an elegant book. The elegance begins with its appearance: slender, with sparing cover adornment in subdued colours, and no capital letters in the title or the author's name. It continues with...
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Atatürk: An Intellectual Biography
More than 72 years after his death, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk is still omnipresent in Turkey. Travellers arrive at Istanbul's Atatürk International Airport, pass the Atatürk Stadium on their way into the...
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On Being: A Scientist's Exploration of the Great Questions of Existence
John Harris finds perverse enjoyment in a gleefully bleak consideration of the meaning of life
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The Life and Times of Stella Browne: Feminist and Free Spirit
In 1937, the middle-aged "Miss" Stella Browne, when giving evidence to the UK Government's Interdepartmental Committee on Abortion, delivered a thunderbolt - she told the committee that she knew from...
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Bastard Culture! How User Participation Transforms Cultural Production
The term "bastard culture" refers to unofficial culture. Although Mirko Tobias Schäfer does not dwell on this in much detail, it derives from "bastard pop", the transformation of two music recordings...
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UK 'consumer' culture causes global concerns
Hundreds of academics, writers and other campaigners from across the world have signed a "manifesto" calling on the coalition government and UK universities to reverse policies that they say are...
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Forces of attraction: what students want from the US sector
Besides costs, applicants are swayed by a surprising range of factors, poll finds. Sarah Cunnane reports
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Censor sensibility
By restoring cuts made to Oscar Wilde's work, we gain insights into the political forces underpinning censorship, says Nicholas Frankel
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Top 20 journals in anthropology
The table above lists the top 20 journals in anthropology by citation impact for the period 1 January 2001 to 28 February 2011. These journals range in focus from general to subfield-specific,...
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News in brief
JapanQuake costs universities billionsFour Japanese universities have estimated that the damage caused to them by the earthquake earlier this year will total ¥90 billion (£679 million). According to...
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A gift too far? Questions are asked about donor's terms
Academics claim that big corporate giver is allowed to vet professors, reports John Morgan
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China's basic science takes great leap forward
A newly released study suggests that the huge increase in Chinese research output is starting to be matched by a similar rise in the quality of its basic science.
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Grant winners
LEVERHULME TRUSTResearch Project GrantsHumanities• Award winner: Simon Hillson• Institution: University College London• Value: £101,806Do larger molars and robust jaws in early hominins represent...
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Fears that Willetts' hellish week may leave debate in limbo
'Knee-jerk' reactions to minister's musings endanger sector, v-cs claim. Simon Baker writes
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Slay the middle-class shibboleth: academy has become a 'rite of passage'
Going to university has become a "middle-class shibboleth" that reinforces social divisions and prevents the poor from accessing higher education to improve their life chances.To remedy the situation...