The wizards of Oz
The 'Melbourne model' has prompted universities worldwide to consider broadening undergraduate degrees. But, finds Hannah Fearn, the template does not win over everyone
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The past is a disputed country
Archaeology's ability to reveal the truth untainted by political, cultural and nationalist bias remains a matter for heated debate. Matthew Reisz reports
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8 January 2009
Know thyself? - Higher education still finds it difficult to reflect hard-headedly on its practices
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Book of the week: Margaret Mead: The Making of an American Icon
For an academic, the anthropologist Margaret Mead (1901-78) attracted a great deal of attention. She appeared on a US postage stamp, in cartoons, on TV, before Congress, in FBI files, in children's...
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The week in books
Smoot's Ear by Robert Tavernor, professor of architecture and urban design, London School of Economics. Yale University Press, £10.99, ISBN 9780300143348"Tavernor's engaging, quirky study explores...
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Itineraries in Conflict: Israelis, Palestinians, and the Political Lives of Tourism
Wilful ignorance is not an option for those who travel at leisure in the Middle East, writes Laleh Khalili
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The Social Impact of the Arts: An Intellectual History
In the conclusion to their compact survey of the purpose of art, Eleonora Belfiore and Oliver Bennett state that their aim was neither to explain current debates nor to "direct us towards a better...
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Top 10 academic bestsellers: Blackwell, Exeter
1. Corporate Finance: Core Principles and Applications by Stephen A. Ross, Randolph W. Westerfield, Jeffrey Jaffe and Bradford D. Jordan. McGraw-Hill, £72.99. ISBN 97800732236052. Macroeconomics:...
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The Wisdom of Birds: An Illustrated History of Ornithology
A labour of love pays tribute to our fascination with the winged world, writes Jim Reynolds
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Screening Sex
Linda Williams' book, she tells us, "began as an amateur movie". Rather like James Spader's character in Steven Soderbergh's 1989 debut feature Sex, Lies, and Videotape - a film which, surprisingly,...
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Lyric Powers
Robert von Hallberg believes that lyric poetry offers a compelling alternative to modern discourses which, be they academic, journalistic, commercial or political, rely on rational processes...
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Try to Remember: Psychiatry's Clash over Meaning, Memory and Mind
Diagnostic labels are a cause of fierce debate in this enjoyable set of 'stories', says David Pilgrim
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Gorbachev: Man of the Twentieth Century?
Regarded by emigre and domestic critics as a closet Stalinist and by Western observers as a closet reformer, Mikhail Gorbachev, as the last General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet...
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Religion and War Resistance in the Plowshares Movement
In 1980, eight Catholic activists, including Philip and Daniel Berrigan, staged a nonviolent protest at the General Electric plant outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where nose cones for Mark 12A...
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Turn over a new leaf
The life and legacy of Darwin dominates the new year roster of academic titles of note, but there are many other works of intellectual substance promised between January and June