Reading Dancing enjoys somewhat emblematic status as a core text in the young discipline of dance studies. Published in 1986, it argues vehemently against the notion that dancing - and by extension,...
Laura González on the meanings beneath people's compulsion to capture images of places visited
As a knitter and an academic (although not an academic in the field of visual or textile arts), I found this treatise on the culture of knitting an engaging read. I consider myself well plugged in to...
This book has no ISBN. "Can it even exist?" I hear booksellers and librarians ask. It hasn't even come from a publishing house. It is a self-published work. I can now detect the gasps of appalled...
It's high time Roy Kerr's contribution to theoretical physics was recognised, writes Graham Farmelo
There's an assumption - and this is not about proprietary disciplinary boundaries - that anyone can write about film. As many studies attest, this is manifestly not the case. He Was Some Kind of Man...
In 2003, news emerged that detainees at Guantanamo Bay and elsewhere had been subjected to hours of repeated playing of songs by bands ranging from the American heavy metallists Metallica to -...
Lots of good sense but too narrow a base leads to author's success and failure, says Bruce Alexander
BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES- Dinosaur Odyssey: Fossil Threads in the Web of LifeBy Scott D. Sampson, adjunct associate professor of geology and geophysics, University of Utah. University of California Press...
Urgent attempts are being made to contact Dr Piercemüller of our Department of Media and Cultural Studies following allegations in a Sunday newspaper that he is the author of the explicit blog...
The rector of Imperial College London has resigned amid speculation about a clash with his chair of governors - a factor in several similar departures in the sector this year.Sir Roy Anderson, who...
Discarding 'unsuitable' proof in policymaking is foolhardy, warns Kevin Fong
A government strategy promises more access to digital material and more freedom to use it. Zoe Corbyn reports
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We bring home mementoes because we want a tangible memory of a time or place. Ulrike Zitzlsperger ponders souvenirs and how they reshape history