Sell, baby, sell – and remember Betamax
Dan Stern says that the marketisation of research means that academics must abandon the ivory tower and get down and dirty in the marketplace – or face obscurity
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Book of the week: Heaven's Touch: From Killer Stars to the Seeds of Life, How We Are Connected to the Universe
Simon Mitton on a tour de force that joins the human and the cosmic
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Striking a Light: The Bryant and May Matchwomen and their Place in History
Jane Humphries admires the detective work that is rekindling respect for the match girls' strike of 1888
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Kierkegaard: An Introduction
This general introduction to Kierkegaard's thought proves a clear, sober and informative guide both for students coming to Kierkegaard for the first time and for more experienced readers. The book's...
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The Canon. Utopian Thought in the Western World. By Frank E. Manuel and Fritzie P. Manuel
Frank Manuel was already a distinguished historian with several excellent books on Utopianism to his credit when, in 1979, he and his wife, Fritzie, published this magnum opus. More comprehensive,...
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The Gargoyles of Notre Dame: Medievalism and the Monsters of Modernity
A 19th-century obsession with the macabre was the medieval church's saviour, says James Stevens Curl
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Cinema Entertainment: Essays on Audiences, Films and Film Makers
This short book enters into a debate that has a lengthy history, not only in the context of cinema but in relation to the cultural industries more broadly. From its inception, cinema has found itself...
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Fixing My Gaze: A Scientist's Journey into Seeing in Three Dimensions
As Donald Rumsfeld memorably observed: "There are also unknown unknowns - the ones we don't know we don't know." While it is a truism that we do not know the things we are not conscious of, the...
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The Medea Hypothesis: Is Life on Earth Ultimately Self-Destructive?
A theory that dispels the idea of Earth's systems being self-regulating does not convince Jon Turney
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Moving Histories of Class and Community: Identity, Place and Belonging in Contemporary England
As a sociologist and ethnographer fascinated by the lived experiences of people, I was interested in reading a book that uses the research methodologies of ethnography, case studies and oral life...
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Atom Egoyan
In the preface to her study of Atom Egoyan, Emma Wilson refers to the film-maker's fascination with Alain Resnais' Last Year at Marienbad (1961) and Nicolas Roeg's Don't Look Now (1973), two seminal...
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Shakespeare's Foreign Worlds: National and Transnational Identities in the Elizabethan Age
A historian and a literary critic walk into a pub ... such formulaic jokes typically open with characters (eg, an Englishman, a Welshman and a Scotsman) united through some shared affiliation (ie,...
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From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558
In the political ordering and governance of early modern England, J.L. McIntosh argues that power was distributed and exercised through the households of the nobility. While national policy may have...
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Lived in London: Blue Plaques and the Stories Behind Them
The quirky tales behind London's commemorative icons revive Duncan Wu's enthusiasm for the city
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The Ethics of Torture
The right not to be tortured is unique among internationally recognised human rights.Where even the right to life is qualified by exclusions - in war, in self-defence, or in judicial proceedings...