1. Street on Torts: Twelfth Edition by John MurphyOxford University Press, £29.99ISBN 97801992916632. Principles of Criminal Law by Andrew AshworthOxford University Press, £30.99ISBN 97801992811453....
Anthony Freeman on the histories, myths and exegesis that grew into Judaeo-Christian Scriptures.
In early modern England, the name Helen referred to one individual: Helen of Troy, famed alike for her beauty, her sexual waywardness and for the waste and destruction that followed in her wake. The...
The family, in Tony Duvert's iconography, is the mainspring of oppression, "breeder of meat and whittler-down of men. As a 'producer' unit, it is ... capable only of destroying the children that it...
Michael Benton muses on our slippery past.
Turning Back the Clock: Hot Wars and Media Populism by Umberto Eco, director of the Scuola Superiore di Studi Umanistici, University of Bologna, translated by Alastair McEwen. Harvill Secker, £17.99...
Peter Sinclair finds the Washington Consensus isn't a reliable prescription for developing economies.
In Don Norman's latest book, whose title echoes that of his 1988 bestseller The Design of Everyday Things, he turns his attention to the increasing number of "smart" products that don't just react to...
William Herschel arrived in Hanoverian England as a penniless refugee who first eked out a meagre living as a professional musician. In 1766, his fortunes changed dramatically when his great talent...
ARCHAEOLOGY- The Tomb in Ancient Egypt: Royal and Private Sepulchres from the Early Dynastic Period to the RomansBy Aidan Dodson, research fellow of archaeology and anthropology, University of...
This week’s competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a book about a small town who find their way of life threatened, with fatal consequences:"They shoot...
Study reports poor language skills can leave foreign students floundering. Melanie Newman writes.
People who exercise appear to be biologically younger than their sedentary counterparts, research suggests.Physical activity has been shown to have a major impact on health: frequent exercisers...
A £7.65 million gift from the John and Lucille van Geest Foundation to Nottingham Trent University could be the largest donation to a post-1992 institution, according to the university. The donation...
A £500,000 grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council for a project to gather, digitise and analyse a large collection of music published around 1840 until 1930 has been awarded to the...