We Are Not Alone: Why We Have Already Found Extraterrestrial Life
The claim that there is life on Mars - and beyond - is sadly not yet proven, writes Ian Crawford
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When Men Dance: Choreographing Masculinities across Borders
Juxtaposing scholarly essays with personal histories, When Men Dance probes the impediments (and, occasionally, the advantages) faced by male artists in a discipline plagued by "choreophobia,...
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The Canon: Folk Devils and Moral Panics: The Creation of the Mods and Rockers. By Stanley Cohen
If ever a work was decisive in defining the contours of a discipline and field of research for decades to come, Stanley Cohen's Folk Devils and Moral Panics certainly ranks among the most influential...
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Let freedom ring
Cary Nelson's latest book considers the dark forces ranged against free speech in the academy. Only collective action can save higher education, the activist and AAUP president tells Zoë Corbyn
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The Empire Project: The Rise and Fall of the British World-System 1830-1970
All this magnificent study of Pax Britannica lacks is the scent of sweat and blood, writes Joanna Lewis
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Why We Disagree about Climate Change: Understanding Controversy, Inaction and Opportunity
This is a distinctive and courageous book. Mike Hulme is a geographer and climate modeller, a contributor to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and professor of climate change at...
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Nice Work If You Can Get It: Life and Labor in Precarious Times
As insecurity increasingly defines work, Rosalind Gill glimpses the emerging global 'precariat'
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Published this week
? = Review forthcomingART AND DESIGN- Pilgrim Art: Cultures of Porcelain in World HistoryBy Robert Finlay, professor of history, University of Arkansas. University of California Press, £24.95. ISBN...
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Part-time no easy option
As someone whose formal higher education was entirely part-time, I'm sure that Lord Mandelson's enthusiasm for the part-time option is founded more on economic expediency than his own student...
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Thorny old Rose
Asking Steven Rose to review a book on evolutionary anthropology is about as likely to deliver balance as sending Richard Dawkins a theology primer ("What's in a number?" 25 February). It makes...
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Traduction cordiale
I have two memories of delightful English-French translation ("Words with no meaning", 18 February). One was in an article based on a conference paper, where I had quoted Mary Evans' term, "...
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Kudos for tackling the taboo research totem 1
I was surprised that John Haldane's lecture on the relative importance of teaching against research received no support in last week's Letters pages ("Teaching is the highest purpose, argues thinker...
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Kudos for tackling the taboo research totem 2
The scale and implications of the changes under way in higher education do not seem to have fully registered with the academy. In many universities, the situation at the chalk face, or rather the...
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Centres must hold 1
Outstanding teaching is needed if UK universities are to compete in a global market. League tables and the National Student Survey have drawn attention to learning and teaching and helped to create...
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Centres must hold 2
Gloom about the Centres of Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETLs) must be seen in light of their contribution to their subject areas.The Higher Education Funding Council for England's review of...