Gender, Inequality, and Wages
Francine Blau was one of the first academic economists to focus her research on the relative position of women in the labour market, and she is clearly among the best. This book is the ninth in the...
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Warriors of the Cloisters: The Central Asian Origins of Science in the Medieval World
In the history of science writ large, the scientific revolution has deeper roots than we once thought. Although it would have been difficult to imagine even two generations ago, scholarly consensus...
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The Great Degeneration: How Institutions Decay and Economies Die
A.W. Purdue on the ramifications of the demise of Western civil society’s foundational structures
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The Things We Do and Why We Do Them
Why did the chicken cross the road? Why did you choose to have coffee this morning rather than tea? Before we can even attempt to provide an answer to these and similar questions, Constantine Sandis...
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What Art Is Like, in Constant Reference to the Alice Books
I wanted to love this book. I ought, perhaps, to have loved this book…but I didn’t. Despite the assurances on the dust jacket that Miguel Tamen’s study is “wonderful”, not to mention “highly original...
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Odds and quads
These are among the items in The Cabinet of Things used by Falmouth University's Academy for Innovation and Research as tools for stimulating creativity, particularly during "sandpit" problem-solving...
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Appointments
University of HuddersfieldJohn PlayleThe new dean of human and health sciences at the University of Huddersfield joked that you can break yourself into the role by playing "the new person for the...
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The first casualty
Tom Palaima muses on truth’s troubled relationship to the tales we tell about the heart of war
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20 December 2012
Front lines - Fact and fiction intertwined in tales of war, peace and Christmas truces
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Nor the battle to the dumb
Felipe Fernández-Armesto on Notre Dame’s healthy minds in healthy bodies
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THE podcast: 20 December 2012 issue review
Podcast Powered By PodbeanEditor John Gill and reporters David Matthews and Jack Grove join Chris Parr on the latest THE podcast to discuss some of the highlights from this week’s Times Higher...
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Seduced by Logic: Émilie Du Châtelet, Mary Somerville and the Newtonian Revolution
Biancamaria Fontana admires the courage of two women who dared to enter scientific circles
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1994 Group leaks yet another member
The University of Reading is to leave the 1994 Group, becoming the eighth institution this year to depart from the group of small research-intensive universities.
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Labour brands free Scottish tuition "regressive"
The leader of Scottish Labour has attacked the free university tuition north of the border as being "essentially regressive".
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Migration target panned by another Parliamentary committee
A fifth Parliamentary committee has urged the government to remove international students from its net migration target, warning that failure to do so will damage UK universities.