Thinking about Leadership
Amanda Goodall finds this analysis perceptive, useful...and it's written by someone who has led
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Begat: The King James Bible and the English Language
Many of today's common phrases originated in the Authorised Version, Hannibal Hamlin discovers
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Surviving Hitler's War: Family Life in Germany, 1939-48
Much has been written about women in wartime and post-war Germany, generally to the effect that they were left to shoulder the burdens of maintaining family life in both the terrifying and chaotic...
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The Solitary Self: Darwin and the Selfish Gene
It is not, I suggest, just an accident that all those we think of as typical rational beings - namely human ones - have begun their lives as babies, living in a deeply affectionate and dependent...
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Herding Cats: Being Advice to Aspiring Academic and Research Leaders
Malcolm Gillies enjoys this aphoristic guide to university life but fears time may have moved on
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Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World
Until the 19th century, the average person consumed $3 per day (in today's prices). There were small blips for ancient Rome, the early medieval Arab world and late medieval Europe, but otherwise the...
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Mind Games: 31 Days to Rediscover Your Brain
This book advertises itself as a self-directed course to explore mind, brain and consciousness in a way that involves not just reading, but engaging in various activities that allow diligent students...
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Campus round-up
University of Northampton - Trash to cashProceeds from a university's new social enterprise are to be used to fund student scholarships. We Re PC, the company launched by the University of...
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News in brief
IndiaTurn it up to six, protests demandThousands of staff from about 200 universities took part in a march to demand that the Indian government increase its investment in education. The protesters,...
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No campus necessary: online provider offers hope to Haiti
As the country struggles with problems caused by the quake, distance learning stirs optimism for some young people. Sarah Cunnane reports
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The life fantastic? Students who share it can Shine!
International students are being invited to follow in the footsteps of an award-winner who took a passion for international development and apple crumble from her time in the UK.Entries are sought...
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Grant winners
ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCILFirst Grants• Award winner: R. Ward• Institution: University of Manchester• Value: £195,226Hairdressing, image and body work in care services to older people•...
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Blogconfidential: No flag of surrender
Each week, Dr Margot Feelbetter poses a dilemma and offers advice for readers to respond to online. This week: No flag of surrender
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Appointments
University of AlbertaEvangelos MichelakisThe work of a researcher examining two seemingly unrelated fields - pulmonary hypertension and cancer - has been recognised by the national advocacy group...
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Eastwood takes aim at conspiracy theorists
Browne panellist labels accusations of STEM bias as crass 'reductionism'. Simon Baker reports