No room to jump
It is wonderful to see more money being put into grants to fund boundary-hopping between disciplines ("Leap ahead", 17 July). The emphasis with these grants is on the physical and life sciences,...
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Ask us oldies for answers
I fell about laughing to read that a research grant of £123,000 will be used to help older people keep warm in winter with less fuel, reduce their carbon footprint and help them to lead "sustainable...
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Kilmichael just one debate
Your report "Troubles and strife as IRA historian draws peers' fire" (3 July) gives the misleading impression that our conference was dominated by the Kilmichael debate. In fact, over two days we...
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I can help you change your life
No, not the claim of many a self-help guru, but increasingly the mantra of modern academics. Matthew Reisz finds out why they are dipping their toes in the genre, despite its lack of scholarly kudos
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After the gold rush
Ireland's economic boom brought equally impressive growth in higher education enrolment. But in a chillier fiscal climate, what awaits the Celtic Tiger's universities? Hannah Fearn reports
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Wondrousgames of logic
Mathematician Robin Wilson's enthusiasm for Lewis Carroll stems from a shared delight in the brain-teasing and magical world of numbers. Matthew Reisz reports
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24 July 2008
Avon calling - The self-help academics who give our lives a rosy glow
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A man and a plan for a better world
Martin Mills finds an idealist at the apocalypse, but asks why one of our Dalai Lamas is missing
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Apocalypse: Earthquakes, Archaeology and the Wrath of God
Fifty years ago, the seismologist Charles Richter - he of the famous scale - lamented that "ancient accounts of earthquakes do not help us much; they are incomplete, and accuracy is usually...
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Top 10 academic bestsellers: Blackwell, Oxford
1. China: The Truth about its Human Rights Record by Frank Ching Rider & Co, £4.99 ISBN 97818460413892. Cambridge Latin Anthology by Cambridge School Classics Project Cambridge University Press...
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The ingenuity of torture and war
Alan V. Murray delves into ancient savagery that sadly mirrors many conflicts of the 21st century
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The Flash Press: Sporting Male Weeklies in 1840s New York
This is a scholarly book on a racy topic, and it is a surprise to find the lively, accessible, copiously illustrated narrative of its first part accompanied by more than 40 pages of equally...
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The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State
General interest in Islam remains high, continuing to fuel a wide range of research on the various dimensions of the faith, but in recent years few Western authors have demonstrated the capacity to...
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The book of the week: The Invention of Scotland
John Morrill delights in a teasing of the Scots
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The week in books
The Book of Dead Philosophers by Simon Critchley, professor of philosophy, New School for Social Research, New York, and part-time professor of philosophy, University of Essex. Granta Books, £15.99,...