When I first picked up Martin Francis' The Flyer, with its cover portrait of a handsome young airman by Eric Henri Kennington, I expected yet another collection of tales of derring-do by British...
Stephen Halliday enjoys an unusual book about Darwin, but wonders at its focus on his fortunes
As this review is for Times Higher Education, I will confine myself to the question "Are academics professional?"That wisest of all vice-chancellors, Eric Ashby, touched twice in his life on this...
Alex Khasnabish's Zapatismo Beyond Borders: New Imaginations of Political Possibility is an ambitious and timely book that examines the resonance of the revolutionary movement Zapatismo, and its...
Simon Mitton looks at the cosmos through a lens made of space-time
Getting Off Track: How Government Actions and Interventions Caused, Prolonged, and Worsened the Financial Crisis by John B. Taylor, Mary and Robert Raymond professor of economics, Stanford University...
The small support networks and micro-publics that help scholarship flourish intrigue Andreas Hess
I sometimes think that if it were not for her coins, Queen Zenobia would be taken as a legendary figure, at least as fanciful as Semiramis of Babylon, or Shirin, the Armenian princess who became the...
1. Carriage of Goods by Sea, Sixth Edition by John F. Wilson Pearson Education, £46.99 ISBN 97814058466912. Research Methods in Lifespan Development by Gary Creasey Pearson Education, £34.99 ISBN...
ART AND DESIGN- Symbolist Art in ContextBy Michelle Facos, associate professor in the history of art, Indiana University. University of California Press, £38.95 and £17.95. ISBN 9780520254992 and...
Innate behaviour that dictates our leadership style is determined partly by our genes, according to a study by an international research team based at Aston University. More than 100 students...
Magicians now feature as part of the curriculum at The Robert Gordon University, after the institution invited communications agency Fifth Dimension on campus to demonstrate its innovative learning...
Durham Business School has been recognised by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB). The school has received AACSB International accreditation, a globally recognised...
An art gallery was turned into a laboratory by researchers from the University of Manchester's School of Computer Science, who are examining how people experience art. During an art exhibition, held...
A search for a new principal and vice-chancellor to replace Duncan Rice has been launched by the University of Aberdeen. Professor Rice is set to step down at the end of his term of office in...