The author of this book is a distinguished US historian who greatly influenced students of my generation during the Franco dictatorship. This relatively short work, appropriately and kindly dedicated...
I am going to try but I am not quite sure of this. I don't think I know how to write without being intimate, without exposing myself and my real feelings about what is going on around me and I am not...
Tom Turner on the cultivated intellect
Night's Black Agents by Daniel Ogden, professor of ancient history, University of Exeter. Continuum, £25.00, ISBN 9781847252302"The real disappointment of this book is less its faint whiff of the...
Helen Haste reflects on neuroscience's latest insights about the male and female of our species
In a volume that the author considers the culmination of his life's work and the final statement he wishes to make on issues he has been struggling with for nearly half a century, Abdullahi Ahmed An-...
As chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in 1961, Newton N. Minow famously remarked that American television was a "vast wasteland". Currently vice-chairman of the Commission on...
1. Introductory Statistical Mechanics by Roger Bowley. Oxford University Press, £31.99. ISBN 97801985057612. Key Concepts in Cultural Studies by Maja Mikula. Palgrave Macmillan, £13.99. ISBN...
GEOGRAPHY- The Columbia Gazetteer of the WorldEdited by Saul Cohen, specialist in political geography and university professor emeritus at Hunter College of the City University of New York. Columbia...
This year, overseas students are playing a more active role than ever within their student unions and are beginning to galvanise national disquiet about some of the difficulties they face… The spring...
Getting the most from your research grant with the help of the procurement department
Inspiring students in the lecture hall requires honing your rhetorical technique and considering your audience.
The University of Cambridge is spending £2 million per year on subsidising sandwiches while academic journals are being cancelled and students fight for scarce research grants, according to Ross...
An expert on comics has challenged academics who get snooty about Lord Snooty and his Beano pals. Christopher Murray, who this week hosted the second annual conference on comics at the University of...
A conference analysing "train wreck" female celebrities will look at the gender dynamics of fame and the popularity of news stories about the women we "love to hate". Hosted by the University of East...