Pamela Stone suggests that most sociological interest in the gendering of work and organisations tends to focus on women's labour force participation and career choice. There seems to be very little...
When Joseph Hooker was born in 1817, there were no professional scientists. By the time of his death in 1911, it was an accepted fact that science should be professionalised, knowledge...
1. Understanding the European Union: A Concise Introduction by John McCormick Palgrave Macmillan, £19.99 ISBN 97802302010262. England: An Oxford Archaeological Guide to Sites from Earliest Times to...
Keith Kahn-Harris on how hip-hop and nu-metal rage against and within US 'supercapitalism'
Historians of science are often accused of triumphalism and Whiggism for documenting a progressive narrative flow towards a greater "truth". But the able historian can decipher a path towards a...
This is a very curious book. It purports (according to the press release) to be a "lucid account of how architecture became separated from the visual arts, and how that breach is being repaired today...
Keith Ward on evolution versus intelligent design
Txtng: The Gr8 Db8 by David Crystal, honorary professor of linguistics, Bangor University. Oxford University Press, £9.99, ISBN 9780199544905"If you've been waiting for someone to give a good kick to...
Steve Tsang praises essential reading on China's troubled history with the Olympic Games
Along with Abbas Kiarostami, Mohsen Makhmalbaf is the best known of the Iranian New Wave directors who came to international prominence in the wake of the 1979 Islamic Revolution. He is not merely a...
When nonviolent politics has been exhausted, or shut off by governments in situations of profound injustice, is violence or even terrorism sometimes justified? This is the central issue animating...
? = Review forthcomingART AND DESIGN- Before Bruegel: Sebald Beham and the Origins of Peasant Festival ImageryBy Alison G. Stewart, professor of art history, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Ashgate, £...
This week’s competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novel addressing post-civil-war American Black identity:"I am an invisible man." Entries, including...
The North East Wales Institute of Higher Education has become a university, naming itself after Owain Glyndwr, the Welsh hero who defended his homeland against Henry Bolingbroke, the future Henry IV...
Hicham Yezza, the university clerical worker arrested after a colleague found a copy of an al-Qaeda training manual on his computer, appeared in court this week charged with immigration offences. Mr...