Book of the week: Darwin's Sacred Cause
Gregory Radick reviews a superlative study of the naturalist's principles
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The week in books
The Ends of Life: Roads to Fulfilment in Early Modern England by Keith Thomas, fellow, All Souls College, University of Oxford. Oxford University Press, £20.00, ISBN 9780199237233"It would be hard to...
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The Garden and the Fire: Heaven and Hell in Islamic Culture
A study of paradise and perdition in the Koran and other sources is recommended by Youssef Choueiri
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Passing the Plate: Why American Christians Don't Give Away More Money
There are at least two ways of doing social science. The traditional way is to observe a phenomenon, often a problem or a puzzle, and then explain it. For example, why are divorce rates in society X...
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Ad Women: How They Impact What We Need, Want and Buy
Despite its title, Ad Women is more a history of the development of US consumer culture viewed through a female lens. Throughout there is a tension between the feminine and the feminist, which is...
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Closed Minds? Politics and Ideology in American Universities
A study of top US institutions fails to see the bigger picture, says Linda M. Perkins
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Living with Enza: The Forgotten Story of Britain and the Great Flu Pandemic of 1918
The rise in flu cases registered in the UK just before Christmas saw infection rates reach an eight-year peak, duly dubbed a "crisis" by some newspapers.This wave of illness affected 60, 70 or...
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Civic War and the Corruption of the Citizen
Peter Meyers' search for the answer to the question of when the war against terrorism began represents a noble attempt to engage with the confusing state of contemporary international relations.As...
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From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession
Business schools should reassert their intellectual status not focus on revenue, says Malcolm Gillies
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Published this week
?= Review forthcomingBIOLOGICAL SCIENCESDarwin Studies: A Theorist and his Theories in their ContextsBy M.J.S. Hodge, senior fellow in history and philosophy of science, University of LeedsAshgate, £...
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From where I sit - The rise of the manager class
The increasing bureaucratisation and the ascendancy of managerialism in mainland China's universities has been a worry for some time, but now a scholar has produced data to show that the concerns are...
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No ultimatum for our Vice-Chancellor
Shock was expressed this week at the news that our Vice-Chancellor was one of the few higher education executives in the country not currently facing an ultimatum from their Board of Governors.In an...
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Return to an age of reason
Kevin Fong welcomes Obama's promise to restore the importance of science
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Off Piste: Lifetime kicks
Cary Cooper reflects on the ups and downs, the friendships and rivalries, the knife-edge thrills and raw passion of years spent loving a tribal and beautiful game
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Leader: Short-term outlook, no blue skies
By forcing academics to do R&D for industry, ministers stifle the type of curiosity-driven work that delivers the biggest bangs