Robert Lepage
Robert Lepage, actor, cineaste, dramaturge and director, is frequently listed, with Celine Dion and Cirque du Soleil, as one of Quebec's leading exports. While this association may seem unflattering...
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Class War? What Americans Really Think about Economic Inequality
John Benson is not totally convinced by this analysis, but appreciates its challenging stance
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Global Perspectives in the Geography Curriculum: Reviewing the Moral Case for Geography
Early on, Alex Standish forcefully outlines what he sees as the damage wreaked on school curriculums by, variously, postmodernism, the failure of Western liberalism and the rise of post-national...
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Fantasy, Myth and the Measure of Truth: Tales of Pullman, Lewis, Tolkien, MacDonald and Hoffmann
Fantasy writers are notoriously read (and even studied) mostly by enthusiasts of a fannish bent. The "mere" readers consume fantasy voraciously, and often without making or wanting to make any...
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Bernard Shaw and the BBC
Christopher Innes discusses a man whose talent to provoke made him the perfect radio personality
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Why Socrates Died: Dispelling the Myths
In 399BC, Socrates was sentenced to death. The charges, as far as we can reconstruct them, were vague: impiety, worshipping new gods, corrupting the young. It is startling that such accusations led...
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Psychotherapy and the Quest for Happiness
This book is addressed to would-be "existential" psychotherapists and is written for their instruction. Since there surely cannot be enough of them to provide a viable readership, the book must...
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Published this week
? = Review forthcomingBUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT- Anger in the Air: Combating the Air Rage PhenomenonBy Joyce A. Hunter, associate professor of management, Saint Xavier University. Ashgate, £55.00. ISBN...
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Top ten academic bestsellers: Blackwell Medical, Nottingham
1 Disease Management: A Guide to Clinical Pharmacology, Second Edition by Michael Randall and Karen E. NeilPharmaceutical Press, £34.95ISBN 97808536976712 Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, Fifth Edition by...
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Singh plans to appeal ruling in libel case
Support campaign kicks off as science writer insists he will continue fighting suit over remarks about chiropractic treatments. Zoë Corbyn reports
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Peter Martin, 1949-2009
Peter Martin, a leading authority on Asian languages and multilingual education, has died.He was born in Singapore on 18 April 1949, grew up in Bradford and read environmental studies at what was...
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The voice of the Union
Following the UCU annual congress, we welcome a guest column from this university's UCU Branch Secretary, Gerry Loadbearing.I took strong exception to the editorial in last week's Poppletonian, which...
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Senate House Library and the future 1
The letter last week from John Sabapathy ("Senate House Library in peril", 28 May) has drawn attention to the damaging direction taken by the library policy of the University of London. The...
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Senate House Library and the future 2
I was prompted by the blatant inaccuracies in John Sabapathy's letter "Senate House Library in peril" to seek to put the record straight.The University of London board of trustees on 13 May endorsed...
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Academics on the airwaves
Matthew Reisz makes a convincing case for public intellectuals ("Listen and learn", 28 May) and his main example, the Reith Lectures, is evidence of the importance of radio for academics.There can be...