America's suburbs grew dramatically in the years after the Second World War, and the developer William Levitt was a key figure in the expansion. In Levittown, David Kushner paints a compelling...
As fans of the hit television series 24 will know, Jack Bauer is the gutsy hero who races against the clock to save America from terror attacks. For some, including Michael Chertoff, the former US...
David H. Price asks if the Bush Administration engineered or simply exploited a hostage situation
Stefan Kaufmann is both lucky and unlucky. His luck is to be a senior scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology in Berlin, situated close to the Luisenstrasse, where in 1880 Robert...
That music can be a countercultural and subversive force is clear and well documented. Genres including folk, jazz, punk, rap and dancehall have all been subject to regulation and state attention,...
The story of medieval Spain cannot be neatly delineated along religious lines, says Jill Ross
The title of Lindiwe Dovey's first monograph promises more than it can possibly deliver. This is not a synoptic study of African film or African literature, but a series of cogently focused case...
Alison Assiter's new work on Soren Kierkegaard and moral theory is a fine attempt at providing a fresh way of thinking about ethics and human rights without completely abandoning the framework that...
BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE- Lizards in an Evolutionary Tree: Ecology and Adaptive Radiation of AnolesBy Jonathan B. Losos, professor of organismic and evolutionary biology, Harvard University. University of...
Academics should take the lead when it comes to cutting aviation-related carbon, say Jens Rolff and David Sedley
Being a badly dressed academic is nothing to be ashamed of, says Peter J. Smith. An undressed professor, however, is a step too far
Libraries cater for small audiences but are giving a valuable service, writes Matthew Reisz
Students may be exaggerating the negative effects of term-time paid employment in order to avoid involvement in other activities, researchers at Edge Hill University suggest.The debate about term-...
Tribunal says management were unreasonable and probation periods too long, writes Melanie Newman
Funding warningReductions due in 2010-11Universities in Wales have been assured that their funding for 2009-10 will not change, but warned to expect less money in 2010-11. The Higher Education...