Get wise to the product
'Knowledge for its own sake' is as narrowly utilitarian a remit for universities as the business-facing alternative, argues Gary Day
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When it comes to the crunch...
The economic downturn is affecting most sectors in the UK, including higher education. But, writes Hannah Fearn, it is not necessarily all bad news
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Pet Food Politics
Dog and cat food contamination scandal should breed widespread suspicion, writes Erika Cudworth
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Believing and Seeing: The Art of Gothic Cathedrals
This book, published in French in 1999 as Le Croire et le Voir: L'art des Cathedrales (XIIe-XVe siecle), is an ambitious, broad-ranging study of the role and function of the image within the medieval...
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Top 10 Academic Bestsellers: Blackwell, London N7
1. International Corporate Reporting: A Comparative Approach, Fourth Revised Edition by C. Roberts, P. Weetman and P.D. Gordon, Prentice Hall, £45.99. ISBN 978037147362. Management: An Introduction...
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Unfinished Agendas: New and Continuing Gender Challenges in Higher Education
S.L. Sutherland finds that women still have some way to go to achieve equality in the academy
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The Philosopher and the Wolf: Lessons from the Wild on Love, Death and Happiness
One way to figure out what makes humans human, which is the subject of this book, is to compare them with either gods or animals. In Homer and the Bible, humans get compared with gods. The difference...
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Babylon Girls: Black Women Performers and the Shaping of the Modern
Jayna Brown's Babylon Girls: Black Women Performers and the Shaping of the Modern is a remarkable cultural history of African-American performance from 1890 to 1945. Drawing on archival research,...
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Book of the week: On Borrowed Time
John Gilbey welcomes this study of zero hour throughout the ages
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The week in books
The Long and the Short of It: A Guide to Finance and Investment for Normally Intelligent People Who Aren't in the Industry by John Kay, fellow, St John's College, University of Oxford. Erasmus Press...
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Why Democracies Need an Unlovable Press
A revised model of journalism's place in the internet age gets a vote of confidence from Tim Luckhurst
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Bad Science
This book is about bullshit. As well as two mentions of it on the cover, there is "drug company bullshit", "the corporations that riddle (our culture) with bullshit", and "the opportunity cost of...
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The Victorian Eye: A Political History of Light and Vision in Britain, 1800-1910
Just when it seems that vision in the 19th century has been examined in every possible light and pursued into the darkest, most shadowy corners, Chris Otter has come up with a new way of looking at...
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Why Victorian Literature Still Matters
Theory, even to a writer 'fed up' with it, is relevant, as the lessons of humanism show, says Carolyn Lesjak
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Tudor Autobiography: Listening for Inwardness
While it sounds like a television drama starring Trevor Eve as a cold-case copper revisiting gruesome murders from the Seventies, "Speaking with the Dead" is, in fact, the locus classicus of an...