The French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002) is perhaps best known for La Distinction (1979), but it is his 1992 work Les Regles de l'Art that in my view best sums up the themes he explored...
To tackle the Earth's problems, we must look at the culture behind them, finds Laurence Coupe
Men serving on the front line are like puppets on a string, postulated German playwright Wolfgang Borchert on his return from the Eastern Front: all individual thought and impulses reduced to an...
The American Civil War, or as we prefer to call it in the South, the War Between the States (or, alternatively, the War of Northern Aggression or the War for Southern Independence), has captivated me...
? = Review forthcomingBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES- The Theory of Island Biogeography RevisitedEdited by Jonathan B. Losos, professor in organismic and evolutionary biology, Harvard University, and Robert E....
One of our leading low-scoring RAE academics has joined in the debate about the value of the ESRC's £4.4 million project investigating the relationship between work and happiness.Dr Quintock, of the...
Sally Feldman mourns the demise of local papers and regional television
A new funding scheme aims to revive research in systematics and taxonomy. Zoe Corbyn reports
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They say the best way to handle nerves when public speaking is to imagine your audience naked, but that wasn't much help when I gave a talk at the British Naturism winter bash somewhere in the north...
A world-renowned expert on inequalities in health has died.Deborah Baker was born in London on 23 September 1949 and studied at Brunel University before qualifying as a psychologist in 1973.She went...
How disappointing it was to read Peter Williams' comments in your magazine ("Engage with quality assurance or face state takeover, scholars told", 19 November).Williams, the former chief executive of...
The Government's approach to quality is to remove support from courses regarded as unsatisfactory. Such a policy seems destructive. A more positive approach would be to use metrics of quality to...
Academics are concerned about the objectivity of a £4.4 million Economic and Social Research Council call, with additional support from the Medical Research Council, for bids to study the happiness...