Nanoscale Physics for Materials Science
Authors: Takaaki Tsurumi, Hiroyuki Hirayama, Martin Vacha and Tomoyasu TaniyamaEdition: FirstPublisher: CRC Press/Taylor and FrancisPages: 287Price: £57.99ISBN 9781439800591This book is a fine...
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Engineering roundup
Hydraulic Modelling: An IntroductionAuthors: Pavel Novak, Vincent Guinot, Alan Jeffrey and Dominic E. ReeveEdition: FirstPublisher: Spon Press/Taylor and FrancisPages: 602Price: £100.00, £34.99 and £...
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Magnetic Materials: Fundamentals and Applications
Author: Nicola A. SpaldinEdition: Second revisedPublisher: Cambridge University PressPages: 288Price: £40.00ISBN 9780521886697Many authors have attempted to write undergraduate textbooks on the...
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Student review: Electronics: Basic, Analog, and Digital with PSpice
Author: Nassir H. SabahEdition: FirstPublisher: CRC Press/Taylor and FrancisPages: 766Price: £44.99ISBN 9781420087079For undergraduate electronics students who need a textbook to serve as a reference...
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Environmental Chemistry
Author: Stanley E. ManahanEdition: NinthPublisher: CRC Press/Taylor and FrancisPages: 783Price: £35.99ISBN 9781420059205The subject of environmental chemistry is central to the environmental sciences...
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Chemistry roundup
Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics for EngineersAuthors: S. Kjelstrup, D. Bedeaux, E. Johannessen and J. GrossEdition: FirstPublisher: World Scientific PressPages: 2Price: £42.00ISBN 9789814322157The...
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Student review: Quantitative Chemical Analysis
Author: Daniel C. HarrisEdition: Eighth revisedPublisher: W.H. FreemanPages: 750Price: £46.99ISBN 9781429239899For freshers, the university lab can be an intimidating place. Faced with an abundance...
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Introduction to Qualitative Methods in Psychology
Author: Dennis HowittEdition: FirstPublisher: PearsonPages: 488Price: £29.99ISBN 9780132068741There are more and more textbooks available on qualitative research in psychology. This seems incredible...
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Psychology and psychiatry roundup
Abject Relations: Everyday Worlds of AnorexiaAuthor: Megan WarinEdition: FirstPublisher: Rutgers University PressPages: 280Price: £64.50 and £23.50ISBN 9780813546896 and 6902Warin departs from...
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Student review: Social Psychology
Authors: Thomas Gilovich, Dacher Keltner and Richard E. NisbettEdition: Second internationalPublisher: W.W. NortonPages: 800Price: £32.99ISBN 9780393932584Social psychology illuminates and analyses...
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Legal Traditions of the World: Sustainable Diversity in Law
Author: H. Patrick GlennEdition: FourthPublisher: Oxford University PressPages: 448Price: £33.99ISBN 9780199580804Why would one recommend this book? Although the subtitle suggests an economics focus...
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Research intelligence - Freeze won't stop bleeding
Willetts vaunts flat-cash victory for science, but research councils still face operating-budget cuts. Paul Jump reports
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Simulation software claimed to predict effect of management choices on ranking position
Any doubts that world university rankings are influencing institutions’ strategic thinking are likely to be dispelled by news that academics in Taiwan have developed a tool that predicts the outcome...
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Browne's hidden hand a slap in sector's face (part 1)
When it comes to higher education for the humanities and social sciences, the language of cuts has disguised one of the most thoroughgoing acts of privatisation since the sell-off of national assets...
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Browne's hidden hand a slap in sector's face (part 2)
The battle is raging over whether competition is a good way to drive up quality in the sector. If we accept Lord Browne's (and presumably the government's) view that it is, why exclude science,...