The one constant about China is its complexity, at least for those outside. Finding the right conceptual framework within which to fit this continent-sized country has proved elusive. As Aaron...
Following recent excellent work on Otto von Bismarck and his reputation, it is helpful to be reminded that he was not the sole figure to focus authority and aspiration in Germany as it developed as a...
You don't need to be a genius...you only need a talented teacher to produce able mathematicians. Really? asks Averil Macdonald
Historically, academic research into Northern Ireland was focused on segregated communities, paramilitary violence and, more recently, the dynamics underpinning a largely successful peace and...
Hal Foster, a highly respected academic and veteran art critic based at Princeton University, intends this book to address a wide audience. The shifts in artistic and architectural practice that he...
Davina Quinlivan is drawn into a film that celebrates one of Japan's most gifted manga artists and the anime genre
Credit: GettyBertrand Russell: The First Media AcademicBBC Radio 4, 14 January, 8.00pm-9.00pmBertrand Russell (1872-1970) was not only "a mathematician and a philosopher, an earl and an atheist, a...
Leeds and other venuesGiulio Cesare in EgittoOf around 30 operas that Handel wrote in Italian for the London stage in the 1720s and 1730s, Giulio Cesare (1724) is probably the most performed and the...
"I really don't see why anyone should be required to spend valuable university time counting the cost of excrement."This was how our Head of External Relations, Kirk Swavely, responded to the news...
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• Top marks to zoology researchers at the University of Oxford for their canny PR. Finding a new species of crab on the ocean floor near Antarctica would not normally win newspaper column inches nor...
How do you teach the humanities to MBA students without them demanding a refund on their tuition fees? And, at a time when the humanities are under threat at many universities, what is the value of...