How to be French: Nationality in the Making since 1789
A survey of citizenship criteria makes a valuable contribution to a hot issue, says Sian Reynolds
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Rebuilding War-Torn States: The Challenge of Post-Conflict Economic Reconstruction
War-ravaged nations have been a prominent feature of the post-Cold War era. Although many of the conflicts have dissipated into some form of peace, few of these places can be said to have established...
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Top 10 academic bestsellers: Blackwell, york
1 Macroeconomics: Fifth International Edition by Olivier Blanchard Pearson Education, £49.99 ISBN 97801320796312. Violence by Slavojiek Profile Books, £8.99 ISBN 97818466801753. Dante's Inferno -...
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The Long Work Hours Culture
Gail Kinman welcomes an exhaustive overview of lengthy labours and their impacts on health
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Saladin
Saladin, the Kurdish leader who crowned the political achievements of his mentor Nur al-Din by uniting the late 12th-century Muslim Middle East under his rule and recapturing Jerusalem and the Holy...
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Fragmenting Fatherhood: A Socio-Legal Study
Fragmenting Fatherhood explores how fatherhood has been understood and regulated at different moments across diverse areas of English law and social policy. Both Richard Collier and Sally Sheldon are...
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Book of the week: Le Corbusier and the Occult
Flora Samuel on the arcane undercurrent to the architect's work
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The week in books
The House of Wisdom: How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization by Jonathan Lyons, PhD candidate in sociology of religion, Monash University. Bloomsbury, £20.00, ISBN 9780747594000"The theory of...
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Slumming: Sexual and Racial Encounters in American Nightlife, 1885-1940
Lori Brooks explores why trips across US social divides were a popular white middle-class activity
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Shakespeare and Modern Culture
Last Christmas, my Arkansan in-laws gave me Shakespeare Was a Big George Jones Fan. It is a DVD in which Cowboy Jack Clement, who wrote songs for Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis Presley, among others,...
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Dark Places: The Haunted House in Film
From the start, it was evident that ghost stories and the movies were made for each other. The earliest cinematic pioneers, such as Georges Melies in France and G.A. Smith in England, soon realised...
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Anti-War Activism: New Media and Protest in the Information Age
John Sloboda on the potential of new technology to make anti-war activism more effective
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Rimbaud: The Double Life of a Rebel
Edmund White first encountered Rimbaud's work in the toilets of his boarding school, which is, indubitably, the place to appreciate the one who celebrated cool, creative latrinal space in The Seven-...
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Queen's University Belfast - Cash to build Chinese 'bridges'
More than £1 million has been awarded to Queen's University Belfast to help it build links with leading Chinese universities and institutions. Some £1.09 million has been bestowed on a team from the...
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London Met/Soas - Mind your language
Two university heads have launched a partnership designed to promote the uptake of foreign languages in the UK's secondary schools. Brian Roper, vice-chancellor of London Metropolitan University, and...