In Liberty of Conscience, Martha C. Nussbaum argues that threats to religious liberty are not unique to the US, but that its response to these threats since its colonial days is unique and presents...
1. The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science and What Comes Next by Lee Smolin Penguin, £8.99 ISBN 97801410183552. Affluenza by Oliver James Vermilion, £8.99 ISBN...
A review of euthanasia and end-of-life issues may help to spur legislative change, says Julie Stone
Oxyrhynchus, the city dedicated to the eponymous fish of Peter Parsons' book, is in some ways the Tutankhamun's tomb of papyrology. It was quite an ordinary place, but it happens to have preserved...
How important are sexual attraction, desire and love in shaping our identities? How fixed are our sexual identities? How much choice do we really have in identifying our sexual orientation(s)? And...
M. W. Brown on an engagingly vivid look at the brain and the neuroanatomists who mapped itAcross the centuries, anatomists have sought recognition and hoped for medical and scientific immortality...
This is the latest of several books on amber by George and Roberta Poinar and specifically looks at Cretaceous ambers (Lebanese, Burmese and Canadian) and what the inclusions can reveal about past...
Writing at the intersections of public and private, and of biography and criticism, Rosemarie Bodenheimer's beautifully written study of Charles Dickens focuses intently on a body of writing that has...
? = Review forthcomingANTHROPOLOGYA Companion to Latin American AnthropologyEdited by Deborah Poole, professor of anthropology, Johns Hopkins University. Blackwell, £95.00. ISBN 9780631234685This...
This week’s competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a Whitbread book of the year about a very unique murder mystery:“It was 7 minutes after midnight.”...
The art college that taught Antony Gormley and Stella McCartney has won planning permission to build a major campus at King's Cross. The new site for Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design,...
A new research facility is being opened on a Chinese university campus by the University of Central Lancashire. The centre, at Shenzhen Virtual University Park, will run in partnership with the City...
A university and three NHS foundation trusts have announced plans for a health sciences centre, which they claim will offer the widest range of services and research expertise in the UK. The Academic...
Soils that can remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere are being designed by a team at Newcastle University. The research, believed to be the first of its kind, uses calcium to capture the surplus...
Airline staff are being trained for the national airline of Bahrain at City University London. Gulf Air has launched a professional development programme in aviation management for all its staff,...