Attitudes to nature and the environment are fashionable topics in historical studies at present, and Robert Bartlett's book forms part of an ongoing discussion about the definition and limits of the...
For the past two decades or so autism has provided a model that, according to some, has profoundly shaped our under-standing of how we come to know other people as mental beings.The ability to take...
Anthropology gets in the way of this wander through the new virtual wonderland, finds Grant McCracken
Tennyson's phrase "red in tooth and claw" has long attached to Darwinian nature. Yet Darwin was always, and sometimes mainly, concerned with plants. As he explained in On the Origin of Species (1859...
This book was published to coincide with the exhibition organised by the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, in association with the Department of Special Collections of the Stanford University...
(?) = Review forthcomingARTS AND DESIGN- (?)Patronizing the ArtsBy Marjorie Garber, William R. Kenan Jr professor of English and of visual and environmental studies, Harvard University. Princeton...
In sanctioning the Bush Administration's use of torture, the corruption of American attorneys is common knowledge - but are academic psychologists also partly to blame? A book published this summer,...
Our Director of Corporate Affairs Jamie Targett has vigorously denied his involvement in a video clip currently available on YouTube.This clumsily filmed clip appears to show Targett talking to...
Tim Birkhead dispels the myth that lecturers spend three months on the beach
In denigrating students, devaluing teachers and equating degrees with big salaries, the media and the Government damage society
A pioneer of multidisciplinary cancer research, described as a true visionary in the field, has died.
It is encouraging to see the research assessment exercise (RAE) subpanel chairs arguing in Times Higher Education that peer review should remain at the heart of any future system of research...
Michael Pittilo of The Robert Gordon University asserts (Letters, 28 August) that academics' objections to alternative medicine degree courses are "arrogant", and he claims, as a fact no less, that...
Lord Winston's recent BBC programme Superdoctors was a masterly explication to a lay audience of how stem-cell treatment for advanced heart disease can be evaluated in a randomised, double-blind,...
William Gibson of Oxford Brookes University says that I haven't quite got the hang of reductio ad absurdum (Letters, 28 August) and that I can't cry foul if he reduces to absurdity my principles by...