Deciphering the code
This week's A-level results may lead to the keenest clearing rush yet. But do universities' websites tell prospective students what they need to know, Hannah Fearn asks a panel of sixth-formers.
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All about me, dot com
Who is the online you - hand-coded pages of hobbies and family photos, terse departmental entries or slickly branded media portals? Zoe Corbyn surveys the world of academics' personal websites
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Surviving Bhopal: Dancing Bodies, Written Texts, and Oral Testimonials of Women in the Wake of an Industrial Disaster
Mary Evans on the politics of corporate crime and its social costs for the poor in the global South
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Belonging in an Adopted World: Race, Identity, and Transnational Adoption
We became the proud owners of a new dog a few weeks ago - a gorgeous golden retriever puppy with huge paws and a voracious appetite for shoes. Although he's our dog, I certainly didn't give birth to...
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The Canon: The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois
"The problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color-line." Few sentences have proven as prophetic as this one, taken from the first paragraph of W.E.B. Du Bois' The Souls of Black Folk...
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Book of the Week: The Third Man: Life at the Heart of New Labour
Prince of Darkness or bringer of the light of modernisation? Vernon Bogdanor on Labour's chiaroscuro genius
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Decisions, decisions
Too many cheeses can drive society crackers. Slovenian scholar Renata Salecl tells Matthew Reisz about the paralysing effects of the Western ideology du jour: the 'tyranny of choice'
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The Nesting Season: Cuckoos, Cuckolds, and the Invention of Monogamy
Tim Birkhead appreciates a great science writer's somewhat erratic tour of avian fidelity and infidelity
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Pope and Devil: the Vatican's Archives and the Third Reich
The Vatican's dealings with Nazi Germany have been a major source of controversy for decades. From the first staging of Rolf Hochhuth's play, The Representative, in 1963 to the publication in 1999 of...
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Envisioning Future Academic Library Services: Initiatives, Ideas and Challenges
Covering a broad range of topics, this edited volume will appeal to information professionals who are interested in the future direction, challenges and opportunities for library and information...
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Published this week
? = Review forthcomingARTS AND DESIGN- Redefining Gender in American Impressionist Studio Paintings: Work Place/Domestic SpaceBy Kirstin Ringelberg, associate professor of art history, Elon...
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Dearth of knowledge is a dangerous thing 1
I was sorry to read Tim Birkhead parroting the faddish notion that "technology has devalued the learning of facts" because they can now be acquired so easily "at the click of a button on a smartphone...
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Dearth of knowledge is a dangerous thing 2
I suggest that the decision-makers in higher education would do well to make the connection between Tim Birkhead's article on shaking up the "dreadful inertia" in teaching and the piece on academics...
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Greatly exaggerated
While I am delighted to read of Liz Hallum's "Great escape" (12 August) - and very much in favour of her choice of wine - I was somewhat dismayed to discover in the article that the area in which I...
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How 'terrible'
I am saddened but not surprised by the University and College Union's response to the pay award that we have made at Regent's College ("Private virtues include 3% pay rise for staff", 12 August). It...