Economic Gangsters: Corruption, Violence, and the Poverty of Nations
Susanne Karstedt admires a model of how to use data analysis and original research creatively
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The Household: Informal Order around the Hearth
The big question this book asks is: how does a leaky roof get fixed? It isn't trivial or ironic at all that Robert C. Ellickson, a professor of law at Yale University, hints that the failures of most...
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The Art and Architecture of Mantua: Eight Centuries of Patronage and Collecting
Unlimited wealth and refined taste transformed Mantua - a provincial town between three lakes, halfway from Venice to Milan - into one of the artistic and cultural centres of Europe. The Gonzagas, a...
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Book of the week: The Inheritance of Rome
Power, Tom Palaima learns, was easily gained but damned hard to keep
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The week in books
Teenagers: A Natural History by David Bainbridge, university clinical veterinary anatomist, University of Cambridge. Portobello Books, £13.99, ISBN 97818461212"The selling point is that David...
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Published this week
ART AND DESIGNArchitecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro.By Robert Kirkbride, director of studio 'patafisico and associate professor, Parsons The New School for...
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From where I sit - Don't join ghostwriters in the lie
A relative in his early thirties about to finish an economics degree has told me that cheating at universities is rampant.Plagiarism is commonplace and many students buy essays and submit them as...
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What's in a name?
Our Director of Corporate Affairs, Jamie Targett, has given an enthusiastic welcome to the suggestion from researchers at the University of California, San Diego that academics should be given a...
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The wrong sort of society
A market-dominated culture fails to sustain social mobility, writes Alan Ryan
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Leader: Good work that needs to continue
London Met has taken on the difficult job of widening access - it deserves support and backing in this tumultuous climate
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Sally Ledger, 1961-2009
Sally Ledger, a leading authority on Victorian culture and women's writing, has died.
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The facts on pay still look bleak to me
Jocelyn Prudence (Letters, 22 January) urges us to "examine the facts". I have worked at the University of Leeds for nearly 35 years and during that time, the job of raising a family has proved quite...
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Value for money
Sally Hunt's analysis of the salary of the vice-chancellor of the University of Southampton is confused and incomplete (Letters, 29 January). She seeks to compare a potential future increase in pay...
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Fraud is fraud worldwide
I don't think Niall Hayes' article on plagiarism is particularly helpful ("A cheat, moi? That's unfair", 29 January). Obviously there is more to a plagiarism "offence" than a simple similarity count...
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Statistical uncertainty
Brenda Gourley's timing was unfortunate (Letters, 29 January). On the day her letter appeared, the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills issued a Statistical First Release for 2007-08,...