A Scottish university has opened a new £35 million campus in Dubai aimed at the United Arab Emirates job market.Heriot-Watt University, which earlier this year unveiled a global strategy that it...
A celebrated internationalist's capacity for wonder adds lustre to a literary treasure, says Fred Inglis
Colin Crouch considers a passionate plea to end the corporate lobbyists' stranglehold on the US economy
Kenneth Goldsmith thinks literature "is in a rut, tending to hit the same note again and again, confining itself to the narrowest of spectrums, resulting in a practice that has fallen out of step and...
I find it difficult to think about Plato and ecology without recalling Val Plumwood's remarkable 1993 book, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature. For me the chapter entitled "Plato and the philosophy...
Joanna Lewis is intrigued by a forensic study of the crash that claimed a champion of decolonisation
Penny Darbyshire is a seasoned judge watcher. Since 1971 she has work-shadowed almost every known species of English judge, from overworked district judges trying and sentencing minor miscreants in...
Although the subtitle refers to it as a "new religion", a central concern of this book is whether the Church of Scientology is indeed a religion - or rather, given that the author says he considers...
Camilla Power is frustrated by a du jour model of imitative action that ignores collective creativity
Who would have thought it? Who could have imagined in 1900, when Friedrich Nietzsche died, that the philosopher of the aristocratic distance and elitist heights would enjoy a reincarnation of sorts...
Authors: Conor Gearty and Virginia MantouvalouEdition: FirstPublisher: HartPages: 201Price: £15.00ISBN 9781849460231Debating Social Rights is part of Hart's Debating Law series, edited by Peter Cane...
Essential Mental Health Law: A Guide to the Revised Mental Health Act and the Mental Capacity Act 2005Authors: Anthony Maden and Tim Spencer-LaneEdition: FirstPublisher: Hammersmith PressPages:...
Introduction to Sociolinguistics: Society and IdentityAuthors: Sharon K. Deckert and Caroline H. VickersEdition: FirstPublisher: ContinuumPages: 256Price: £65.00 and £19.99ISBN 9781441150233 and...
Group Problem SolvingAuthor: Patrick R. LaughlinEdition: FirstPublisher: Princeton University PressPages: 168Price: £52.00, £20.95 and £25.14ISBN 9780691147901, 9780691147918 and 9781400836673 (e-...
Teaching with the aid of notebook PCs is given a cautious thumbs up by lecturers. Jack Grove writes