Children of the revolution
The Sixties generation of academics are approaching retirement, so what better time to consider that contentious era's legacy, writes Matthew Reisz
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Comic-strip hero
Graduate student Jorge Cham decided to look on the bright side of his experiences and created a comic that is entertaining millions, writes Jon Marcus
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Managers, take a bow
The inaugural Times Higher Education Leadership and Management Awards, run in association with the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education, will recognise and reward business and management. The...
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Ancient Rome and Modern America
Tom Palaima discovers how the US uses Roman history to defend and challenge its own identity
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Copy, Rip, Burn: The Politics of Copyleft and Open Source
The production of non-proprietary software, more commonly known as free/libre and open-source software (FLOSS), has taken parts of the academic, activist and governmental world by storm. It has not...
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Top 10 Academic Bestsellers: Blackwell, Aberdeen
1. The Crucible by Arthur Miller. Penguin, £8.99. ISBN 97801411825512. Playboy of the Western World by John M. Synge, edited by Margaret Llewellyn Jones. Nick Hern Books, £3.99. ISBN 97818545921013....
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Book of the week: Darwin's Sacred Cause
Gregory Radick reviews a superlative study of the naturalist's principles
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The week in books
The Ends of Life: Roads to Fulfilment in Early Modern England by Keith Thomas, fellow, All Souls College, University of Oxford. Oxford University Press, £20.00, ISBN 9780199237233"It would be hard to...
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The Garden and the Fire: Heaven and Hell in Islamic Culture
A study of paradise and perdition in the Koran and other sources is recommended by Youssef Choueiri
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Passing the Plate: Why American Christians Don't Give Away More Money
There are at least two ways of doing social science. The traditional way is to observe a phenomenon, often a problem or a puzzle, and then explain it. For example, why are divorce rates in society X...
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Ad Women: How They Impact What We Need, Want and Buy
Despite its title, Ad Women is more a history of the development of US consumer culture viewed through a female lens. Throughout there is a tension between the feminine and the feminist, which is...
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Closed Minds? Politics and Ideology in American Universities
A study of top US institutions fails to see the bigger picture, says Linda M. Perkins
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Living with Enza: The Forgotten Story of Britain and the Great Flu Pandemic of 1918
The rise in flu cases registered in the UK just before Christmas saw infection rates reach an eight-year peak, duly dubbed a "crisis" by some newspapers.This wave of illness affected 60, 70 or...
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Civic War and the Corruption of the Citizen
Peter Meyers' search for the answer to the question of when the war against terrorism began represents a noble attempt to engage with the confusing state of contemporary international relations.As...
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From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession
Business schools should reassert their intellectual status not focus on revenue, says Malcolm Gillies