The rites of spring
Inspired sects on the Cretan beach or dispiriting meat markets in Leeds: Simon Goldhill on the ups and downs of the academic conference seasonWhen April comes around, and students start to focus on...
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On the side of the angels
After a decade as professor of physics, John Polkinghorne retrained for the priesthood. He talks to Matthew Reisz about his faith and run-ins with atheism's champion, Richard Dawkins
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Sara Baartman and The Hottentot Venus: A Ghost Story and a Biography
Kaila Adia Story lauds this powerful effort to reclaim the history of a woman abused by European society
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Against and for CBT: Towards a Constructive Dialogue?
It would be difficult for anyone outside the therapy professions to get their head around this book without knowing something of the politico-economic background that generated it. For at least the...
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Liberation: The Bitter Road to Freedom, Europe 1945-1950
William Hitchcock's aim is to depict the human face of war and liberation in Europe. His subtitle refers to the misery suffered by civilians who discovered during liberation that the Allies'...
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Book of the week: 13 Things That Don't Make Sense
This study suggests that science has lost its way, says Robert Matthews
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The week in books
Maurice Bowra: A Life by Leslie Mitchell, emeritus fellow in modern history, University College, Oxford Oxford University Press, £25.00, ISBN 9780199295845"(Bowra's) attitudes to science and...
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Backstage at the Revolution
Brian Vick praises a study that explains how a bastion of opulence outlasted the sans-culottes
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The Persistence of the Classical: Essays on Architecture presented to David Watkin
This beautiful book is a tribute to a distinguished architectural historian on the occasion of his retirement from the University of Cambridge, and includes a useful bibliography of David Watkin's...
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Top 10 Academic Bestsellers: Blackwell, Cardiff
1. Sociolinguistics: A Reader and Coursebook edited by Nikolas Coupland and Adam Jaworski. Palgrave Macmillan, £22.99 ISBN 97803336118072. Atiyah's Accidents, Compensation and the Law, Seventh...
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Moral Relativism
A treatise on moral relativism leads Robert Segal to question whether we are in fact absolutists
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Published this week
? = Review forthcomingBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES- Homo erectus: Pleistocene Evidence from the Middle Awash, EthiopiaEdited by W. Henry Gilbert, assistant professor of anthropology, California State...
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From where I sit - Different strokes for different folk
"Europe's diverse school systems contain a host of innovative and excellent practices. We should make better use of this diversity." So says An Agenda for European Co-operation on Schools, a recent...
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Nothing but blue skies
Our Head of Social Psychology, Professor G.W. Tipping, has thrown his not-inconsiderable weight behind the letter from 20 eminent scientists calling for a rebellion against new research council rules...
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Teaching quality is not linked to qualification
Your report "Lib Dems want better teaching and no fees" (12 February) implies that there is a link between possessing a teaching qualification and providing high-quality teaching. No such link has...