Islands of Privacy
Gary T. Marx enjoys a trip down the information byways of everyday life that we like to keep hidden
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The Just City
Susan Fainstein's book is the result of some 20 years of intense research and thinking on the subject of the "just city", and it seems likely to me to become something of a classic. It provides an...
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The Canon: The Dying Process: Patients' Experiences of Palliative Care by Julia Lawton
I was a master's student in sociology when I first read Julia Lawton's powerful account of her ethnographic study of a hospice. In The Dying Process, she detailed her observations of residents'...
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Mood Matters: From Rising Skirt Lengths to the Collapse of World Powers
Michelle Baddeley reads a 'fantastic' account of how our collective mood can influence the world
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Women Writers and Detectives in Nineteenth-Century Crime Fiction: The Mothers of the Mystery Genre
The quality of detection", someone may have said, "droppeth like the gentle rain from heaven into every genre of literature." Indeed, given the general presence of the idea of detection in English...
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Classed Intersections: Spaces, Selves, Knowledges
Classed Intersections is the outcome of five years of reflections on the theme of "Our working-class lives", a debate that drew together "new researchers" from a range of disciplines to explore why...
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How to Catch a Robot Rat: When Biology Inspires Innovation
Mark Neal's delight in an exciting assessment of the state of robotics is almost lost in translation
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Just War on Terror? A Christian and Muslim Response
Conor Gearty enjoys a balanced analysis of the 'War on Terror' from both sides of the fence
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City Life
This book investigates the life rather than the structures, buildings, policies, systems, human taxonomies and sociologies that normally comprise investigation of the city," writes Adrian Franklin....
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Freedom Flyers: The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II
In Freedom Flyers, J. Todd Moye recounts one of the greatest tales of the Second World War and of US history - that of the Tuskegee airmen. Aviation, civil rights and Second World War enthusiasts...
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Critical mass
Credit: Rebecca AttwoodThe wit and wisdom of the nation's students and lecturers was on display as protesters made history at a mass demonstration against cuts to university funding. Around 52,000...
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London College of Fashion - Next-generation fashionistas
A new course is aiming to produce the fashion podcasters, film-makers, art directors, broadcasters and stylists of the future. Graduates from the London College of Fashion's MA in fashion media...
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Essex/Surrey - Screen memory
Scribbled notes, sketches, costume designs and script drafts - every detail of the film-making process has been captured in an archive collected by director Sally Potter. Now a partnership between...
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Newcastle University - Testing times
Scientists in the North of England have developed a new test for ovarian cancer. Researchers from Newcastle University worked with medical giant Pfizer on the test, which helps to identify patients...
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London College of Communication - Notes that came in from the cold
An investigative reporter has donated much of his archive to a London university. Material from Phillip Knightley's investigations into war reporting and the role of propaganda, including letters and...