Max Weber described bureaucracy as "a power instrument of the first order" which, once fully institutionalised, "is among those social structures which are hardest to destroy". Given the disruptions...
Tara Brabazon acclaims a monograph of merit
In the Land of Invisible Women: A Female Doctor's Journey in the Saudi Kingdom by Qanta Ahmed, assistant professor of medicine, Medical University of South Carolina. Sourcebooks, £7.99, ISBN...
Julia King looks at an engineering journey from factory systems to social manipulation
George Irvin's discussion of the impact on society of the new "super rich" could not be more timely. As the UK faces up to the likelihood of a credit crunch-driven recession, attention is...
1. Mathematics for IGCSE by David Rayner. Oxford University Press, £16.25. ISBN 97801991499402. English Grammar in Use: A Self-study Reference and Practice Book for Intermediate Students of English...
Alison Yarrington gleans much from a glimpse into the domestic lives of Cezanne, Monet and Rodin
Some years ago, I found myself having a drink with a young woman who had recently taken up a job as researcher on a well-known Radio 4 programme. She seemed more confident than most people at that...
Contraception: A History sets out a broad overview of this complex and complicated subject. As others have done before, Robert Jutte (in an English translation by Vicky Russell) dispels the myth that...
ARTS AND DESIGN- Writing on Drawing: Essays on Drawing Practice and ResearchEdited by Steve Garner, senior lecturer in the department of design and innovation, The Open University. Intellect Books, £...
University lecturers in Australia are seeing increasing numbers of students who lack what were once considered basic literacy skills.Last semester, I taught a first-year communications unit at...
Our university made the local and national papers last week with the news that it had awarded a joint BA Honours degree in Psychology and Medieval Studies to 137-year-old Winifred Armitage.Winifred,...
Treat your staff to lashings of 1940s-style good sense and you jolly well won't go far wrong, advises Blyton devotee Sally Feldman
Alan Ryan says growing disparity in graduate premiums doesn't bode well for HEIs
Prog rock devotee Greg Walker takes an affectionate look at an intelligent and gloriously ambitious genre, and asks us to celebrate the era when rock's dinosaurs roamed the Earth