It is a while since I studied economics. It was during the 1980s, and game theory commanded a significant part of my syllabus. The Art of Strategy is evidence that it remains as vibrant today.Game...
Healy is a controversial psychiatrist whose critics have been vociferous in denouncing his ideas and have even gone so far as to claim he has lost the plot. But his study of bipolar disorder has an...
1. Nursing Care: An Essential Guide by Linda Field and Barbara Smith. Pearson Education, £22.99. ISBN 97801319765282. Biology and Practical Skills in Biomolecular Science by Rob Reed, David Holmes,...
Fred Inglis is moved by a meditation on loss that transforms into an unforgettable study of America's soul
Darwin's Angel: An Angelic Riposte to The God Delusion by John Cornwell, affiliated research scholar in the department of history and philosophy of science, University of Cambridge. Profile Books, £6...
BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE- A Mechanistic Approach to Plankton EcologyBy Thomas Kirboe, research professor, Danish Institute for Fisheries Research. Princeton University Press, £23.95. ISBN 9780691134222A...
A hate figure of popular history reveals his more caring side to Tom Palaima in a vivid new treatment
When the mathematician Claude E. Shannon published his classic paper "A Mathematical Theory of Communication" in the Bell System Technical Journal in 1948, he affected a variety of different...
The most conspicuous trademark of New Historicism is its use of anecdote. In their attempts to foreground the relativity of canonicity, the New Historicists would not begin their analysis of Othello...
The Times Higher Education-QS World University Rankings for 2009 will be published here at 00.01 on Thursday 8 October
The 2008 Times Higher Education-QS World University Rankings have provoked a response worldwide, as power-shifts among the top 200 institutions are analysed.
What must surely be the longest presidential campaign in US history is taking place in an unlimited media environment, yet not since the 1920s has academic opinion so despaired of the educative value...
Several leading national newspapers were quick to pick up on the news that our current Head of Computation, Professor Norbert Norbert, has designed a "university management computer" which is...
When it comes to grants, Tim Birkhead knows just how Kevin the Teenager feels
In performing magic, academic and author Dale Salwak found a demanding calling that rewarded him with joy and self-discovery