Kingmakers: The Invention of the Modern Middle East
Western meddling in foreign lands ... Moshe Behar wonders if it's worth a read by a certain Mr Obama
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Thorold Dickinson: A World of Film
The once-neglected topic of British cinema has undergone such a sustained re-evaluation over the last ten years or so that there remain few nooks and crannies that have not been brought into the...
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Republic of Drivers: A Cultural History of Automobility in America
Despite the American automobile industry's catastrophic decline in popularity, profits and market share, there has been no shortage of scholarly analyses of its historical importance. If pioneering...
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Moreschi and the Voice of the Castrato
A discerning study of the legacy of the last of the papal castrati resonates with Martha Feldman
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Published this week
? = Review forthcomingBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES- Animal Experimentation: A Guide to the IssuesBy Vaughan Monamy, senior lecturer in environmental science and environmental ethics, Australian Catholic...
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Government raises funding to £7.8 billion
2009-10 grant letter reveals 9.8 per cent increase over previous year. John Gill reports
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Leeds Met fees set to rise after v-c resigns
Dissent over higher charges may have influenced Simon Lee's decision to go, writes Melanie Newman
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From where I sit - Pariah status for informal experts
He is a sprightly 77-year-old schoolteacher who has spent his life discovering ancient painted rock shelters in an area of central India called Narsinghgarh.Yet few outside the small town where he...
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Targett blames students
Statistics showing that Poppleton had come last in the Times Higher Education Student Experience Survey have been dismissed as "unreliable, invalid, partial, misleading and seriously out-of-date" by...
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Cash and trash trump class
Privilege clings to wealth as mores change, says Felipe Fernández-Armesto
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Research intelligence - Matters of loaf and death
Ensuring the UK's food supply in an uncertain future has become a priority for the BBSRC. Zoe Corbyn reports
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Leader: Everyone is talking the talk
The increasing use of English in higher education across Europe could cost the UK a vital competitive advantage
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Olek Zienkiewicz, 1921-2009
Olek Zienkiewicz, the civil engineer acclaimed as the father of the "world-changing" computational modelling technique known as the Finite Element Method, has died.Although born in Caterham, Surrey...
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We need collaboration, not concentration 1
Michael Arthur, the vice-chancellor of the University of Leeds, fears that the loss of a "critical mass" at the research-intensive universities will damage Britain's research environment, leading to...
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We need collaboration not concentration 2
Am I the only one who squirmed with embarrassment at the plea for mercy by Michael Arthur as he feared sharing the post-RAE quality-related funding pot with "less" research-intensive universities?He...