Through the myths of time
History holds clues to coping with contemporary crises, but a rigorous approach is essential, says Margaret MacMillan. She talks to Matthew Reisz
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Book of the week: Our Nation Unhinged
Why did they do it? Frank Furedi on the erosion of civil rights in the post-9/11 US
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To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise
The Wal-Mart story illustrates sea changes in US culture, writes Rebekah Peeples Massengill
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The Richness of Art Education
There is a view reaching back to Plato that art produces second-rate knowledge. Howard Cannatella seeks to demonstrate that the mimetic approach found in art education embodies a more valuable form...
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The Other Within: The Marranos: Split Identity and Emerging Modernity
It is likely that anyone familiar with Spanish, Portuguese or Jewish history will have come across the case of the Marranos or Conversos, Iberian Jews who were forced to convert to Catholicism under...
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Truth Machine: The Contentious History of DNA Fingerprinting
The story of how genetic profiling revolutionised forensic science enthrals Charalambos P. Kyriacou
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The Terrorist in Search of Humanity: Militant Islam and Global Politics
"We love death the way you love life." These words uttered by Shehzad Tanweer, one of the London suicide bombers, in a video issued on the first anniversary of the attacks on the city's transport...
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Goth Culture: Gender, Sexuality and Style
Goth, it seems, is having a bit of a moment. Last season's catwalks were full of dark and sinister confections, subsequently copied by high-street retailers from Urban Outfitters to Marks &...
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Published this week
COMPUTER SCIENCE- Complexity: A Guided TourBy Melanie Mitchell, professor of computer science, Portland State University. Oxford University Press, £14.99. ISBN 9780195124415Mitchell offers a tour d'...
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Breaking the book barrier
Expensive textbooks put the brakes on higher education for many students in developing nations. But a project aiming to make such books available for free via the internet could change all that,...
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Help to make missing links
Elsevier wants to foster web tools that 'improve' science by making the oceans of data online more navigable. Zoë Corbyn reports
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Grant winners
ACTION MEDICAL RESEARCHAward winner: L. IslamInstitution: Institute of Child Health, University College LondonValue: £138,300Blindness in childrenAward winner: S. KhanjaniInstitution: Imperial...
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The challenge: balance defence of science with popular engagement
At the Royal Society's new Science Policy Centre, James Wilsdon can push his ideas, says Zoë Corbyn
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Motes of trust
The scandal over MPs' expenses may have little impact on voter numbers, says an expert on the public's faith in politics
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Appointments
Jeremy Harbison and Gerry Mallon have been named the two new pro-chancellors at the University of Ulster. Both have been members of the university's governing council since 1994. Mr Mallon, 39, who...