The Pioneering Garretts: Breaking the Barriers for Women
Stephen Halliday on six fearless sisters whose pioneering feminism left Queen Victoria unamused
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The Discovery of Mankind: Atlantic Encounters in the Age of Columbus
The European discovery of the Americas has always been seen as signalling the origins of modernity. For Adam Smith, it kick-started a revolutionary series of changes in European commerce and the...
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Collections of Nothing
If you were to buy one cup of coffee per day for a year from one of the many coffee shops whose paper cups are marked by distinctive logos, you would generate 12.3kg of coffee cups. If, however,...
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The book of the week: Literary Criticism: A New History
Philip Smallwood on a polemicist's progress
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The week in books
A Choice of Enemies by Lawrence Freedman, professor of war studies, King's College London. Public Affairs, £20.00, ISBN 9781586485184"Unlike many critics of the Bush administration, Freedman does not...
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Spicing up Britain: The Multicultural History of British Food
If we are what we eat, then the UK is a mutable feast of cultural diversity, says Jeremy MacClancy
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The Last Minstrels: Yeats and the Revival of the Bardic Arts
Yeats was not an enthusiast for machinery and the modern world. When he agreed to talk and read his poems on BBC Radio in August 1931, he confessed to never having listened to anyone "speaking over...
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Seven Rules for Social Research
This is an unusual and untypical book on social research methods, in which Glenn Firebaugh manages to buck the unwelcome trend within methods texts of creating "How to ..." guides, seasoned liberally...
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Published this week
FILM STUDIESDeleuze and the Cinemas of Performance: Powers of Affection.By Elena del Rio, assistant professor of film studies, University of Alberta. Edinburgh University Press, £55.00. ISBN...
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First Impressions competition: 19 June 2008
This week’s competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from an action-adventure novel set in the heathery hills of Scotland:“I will begin the story of my...
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Editing a book
Volunteering to edit a collection of your peers' work will bring you hard graft, especially when it comes to rounding up tardy contributors, as well as satisfaction.
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Effective lecture handouts
Striking the balance between offering a complete annotated script of your lecture and making students take reams of notes is essential
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University of East Anglia - Top marks for climate research
The University of East Anglia is the only higher education institution to have been named in a list of the most influential bodies in environmentalism over the past 30 years. Its Climatic Research...
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Cardiff University - US tour seals Ivy League ties
Nobel laureate Sir Martin Evans is visiting leading universities and research organisations in the US to promote links with Cardiff University. Sir Martin, director of Cardiff's School of Biosciences...
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Universities of Aberdeen and Liverpool, and King's College London - Genes link to depression probed
A person is four times more likely to suffer from depression, which will affect up to 25 per cent of the population at some point in their lives, if a close family member has also had it. The genetic...