The Week in Books
The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing edited by Richard Dawkins, Charles Simonyi chair of the public understanding of science, University of Oxford. Oxford University Press, £20.00, ISBN...
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Palmistry's digital analogue
Chris McManus considers claims that finger-length ratios point to individual and sex differences
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Liberty of Conscience: In Defense of America's Tradition of Religious Equality
In Liberty of Conscience, Martha C. Nussbaum argues that threats to religious liberty are not unique to the US, but that its response to these threats since its colonial days is unique and presents...
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Top 10 Academic Bestsellers: Heffers, Cambridge
1. The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science and What Comes Next by Lee Smolin Penguin, £8.99 ISBN 97801410183552. Affluenza by Oliver James Vermilion, £8.99 ISBN...
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In defence of the final human right
A review of euthanasia and end-of-life issues may help to spur legislative change, says Julie Stone
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City of the Sharp-Nosed Fish
Oxyrhynchus, the city dedicated to the eponymous fish of Peter Parsons' book, is in some ways the Tutankhamun's tomb of papyrology. It was quite an ordinary place, but it happens to have preserved...
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Sexual Fluidity: Understanding Women's Love and Desire
How important are sexual attraction, desire and love in shaping our identities? How fixed are our sexual identities? How much choice do we really have in identifying our sexual orientation(s)? And...
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Grey matter, with added colour
M. W. Brown on an engagingly vivid look at the brain and the neuroanatomists who mapped itAcross the centuries, anatomists have sought recognition and hoped for medical and scientific immortality...
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What bugged the Dinosaurs? Insects, Disease, and Death in the Cretaceous
This is the latest of several books on amber by George and Roberta Poinar and specifically looks at Cretaceous ambers (Lebanese, Burmese and Canadian) and what the inclusions can reveal about past...
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Knowing Dickens
Writing at the intersections of public and private, and of biography and criticism, Rosemarie Bodenheimer's beautifully written study of Charles Dickens focuses intently on a body of writing that has...
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Published this week
? = Review forthcomingANTHROPOLOGYA Companion to Latin American AnthropologyEdited by Deborah Poole, professor of anthropology, Johns Hopkins University. Blackwell, £95.00. ISBN 9780631234685This...
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First Impressions competition: 17 April 2008
This week’s competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a Whitbread book of the year about a very unique murder mystery:“It was 7 minutes after midnight.”...
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University of the Arts London - New campus at King's Cross
The art college that taught Antony Gormley and Stella McCartney has won planning permission to build a major campus at King's Cross. The new site for Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design,...
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University of Central Lancashire - Chinese research hub opens
A new research facility is being opened on a Chinese university campus by the University of Central Lancashire. The centre, at Shenzhen Virtual University Park, will run in partnership with the City...
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King's College London - Academic health centre unveiled
A university and three NHS foundation trusts have announced plans for a health sciences centre, which they claim will offer the widest range of services and research expertise in the UK. The Academic...