You can judge an academic book, as you can judge any academic programme, by the critical material in the bibliography. Higher education is about criticism, although its purpose is now contested....
1. Operations Management: Fifth Edition by Nigel Slack, Stuart Chambers and Robert JohnstonPearson Education, £47.99. ISBN 97814058470012. The Color Purple by Alice WalkerOrion Publishing, £6.99....
From the Cold War to Benazir Bhutto's assassination, Pakistan's military state within a state has shown a deadly ability to turn crises to its own ends, says Gurharpal Singh.In making sense of the...
Mica Nava's significant study of cosmopolitanism traces its marginal status at the beginning of the 20th century to its relative normalisation today. It focuses particularly on English cultural...
Despite its title, The Void is not a science fiction adventure but a journey through many of the fundamental ideas of modern physics. It centres on efforts to understand the nature of the vacuum (the...
In the age of Borat it may come as a surprise to learn that the grasslands between Ukraine and Kazakhstan were once regarded as an early crucible of civilisation. This idea is revisited in a major...
Mussolini and the Rise of Fascism by Donald Sassoon, professor of comparative European history, Queen Mary, University of London. Harper Press, £14.99 ISBN 978-00071924"Just as he wanted people to...
Jeffrey Richards revels in Piers Brendon's vivid evocation of a liberal Empire with an irreconcilable paradox at its heart.
The study of women who opposed female enfranchisement in late 19th-century and early 20th-century Britain has been neglected by historians. Anti-democratic and hostile to the labour movement of their...
This is an excellent study of a popular comedy that links it into a variety of English cultural identities. Unusually for a book classified as cultural studies, it is clearly written, and by an...
ART AND DESIGN- Building St. Paul'sBy James W. P. Campbell, fellow in architecture and history of art at Queens' College, CambridgeThames and Hudson, £12.95. ISBN 9780500342442Campbell tells the...
This week’s competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a science-fiction novel with dystopic elements:"Snowman wakes before dawn."Entries, including postal...
The cultural commentator Peter York was due to speak on "The Chavs and the Chav Nots" at the University College for the Creative Arts this week. Mr York's lecture, which is subtitled "understanding...
Universities are urged to focus more on practice to remain relevant to managers. John Gill reports.
"Very weak" modern language research in universities is to blame for a decline in the popularity of the subject among students, an academic has claimed.