Summertime, and the reading is easy
Surveying the forthcoming crop of scholarly books, Karen Shook spots engaging reads suitable for the poolside lounger and weighter tomes for air-conditioned studies
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Women and Science in India: A Reader
Suroopa Mukherjee finds questions of gender and research in India are addressed, but not answered
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The Liberal Way of War: Killing to Make Life Live
The recurrence of war throughout human history is a pattern whose explanation has eluded philosophers, politicians, activists and diplomat practitioners. During the classical European system of...
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The Bible and the People
The father of a friend of mine once characterised the US-American approach to travel in the following manner: "Do Europe in three days: Pisa, Florence and the Bingen Mauseturm." Be that as it may:...
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Between Medieval Men: Male Friendship and Desire in Early Medieval English Literature
A thoughtful examination of how homosexuality is portrayed historically rings true with Robert Mills
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The History of Italian Cinema: A Guide to Italian Film from its Origins to the Twenty-First Century
Widely recognised as the foremost historian of Italian cinema, to whom "all historians of Italian films owe an outstanding debt", Gian Piero Brunetta has finally and somewhat belatedly seen his...
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Shapes for Sounds
The written character is and remains the basis of every typographic activity. It is not a creation of our century. The written character goes far back in time, spanning the vast distance from early...
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Thinking About Almost Everything: New Ideas to Light Up Minds
Durham University's commercial for the range and depth of its work leaves Jon Turney wanting more
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Published this week
BIOLOGICAL SCIENCESMore Than Darwin: The People and Places of the Evolution-Creationism ControversyBy Randy Moore, H.T. Morse-Alumni distinguished teaching professor of biology, University of...
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Poor quality subsidised by bundles of despair
The electronic distribution of academic journals has many advantages, but the business model that underpins it has a fatal flaw.Central to it is the "bundling" of journals. When we subscribe to a...
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Knowledge is not enough
I wonder if Thomas Docherty has any first-hand experience of apprenticeships ("To provide teaching of quality, we must get back to our roots", 9 July). Far from being characterised by mutual respect...
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Lord Dahrendorf, 1929-2009
Lord Ralf Dahrendorf, the sociologist, politician and former longstanding director of the London School of Economics, has died.He was born in Hamburg on 1 May 1929, the son of a Social Democrat...
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Universities and civilisation - our Chancellor speaks
Here is an extract from the speech given by our Chancellor at last week's Social Science graduation ceremony in the David Lammy Concert Hall.Proud parents and graduandsI am delighted to have this...
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Sharp insights 1
Gary Thomas can't think of any "major social-scientific achievements" ("In search of singular insight", 9 July). Well, Nobel prizewinner Amartya Sen, in his book Poverty and Famines: An Essay on...
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Sharp insights 2
The strange article by Gary Thomas suggests to me that the author knows little about modern economics research.The May 2009 issue of The Quarterly Journal of Economics, one of the leading...