Book of the Week - Ireland: A History
Don MacRaild salutes a witty, readable and epic journey through the many-hued past of the Emerald Isle
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Stranger From Abroad: Hannah Arendt, Martin Heidegger, Friendship and Forgiveness
Robert Eaglestone finds little narrative fire in a gossipy account of a life-shaping relationship
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Gaming the World: How Sports Are Reshaping Global Politics and Culture
This book is a valuable contribution to the burgeoning study of sport in a global perspective. Focusing largely on the "Big Four" sports in the US (baseball, basketball, American football and ice...
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The Canon: Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
Rachel Carson was not the first to suggest that the chemical fog produced by modern industry was carcinogenic. But her prodigious feat of synthesising a jumble of scientific and medical information...
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The Idea of the Library in the Ancient World
Stephen Bales welcomes a comprehensive challenge to a reductionist reification
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The Atlantic and its Enemies: A Personal History of the Cold War
Norman Stone's "personal history of the Cold War" is an informative, entertaining and often provocative account of world affairs from the fall of Winston Churchill in 1945 to that of Margaret...
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The Protestant Whore: Courtesan Narrative &England, 1680-1750
Mining the depths of late-17th- and 18th-century English novels for insights into the cultural and political turmoil of the era is standard practice for scholars; however, in her new book, The...
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True American by Rosemary C. Salamone
Darren Paffey finds that the US attitude to bilingualism has been driven by blinkered politics
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The Inordinately Strange Life of Dyce Sombre: Victorian, Anglo-Indian MP and Chancery 'Lunatic'
If anyone wished to know the truly profound power of wealth in Victorian society, then reading Michael Fisher's book would answer their questions. He has written a wonderfully entertaining biography...
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Lords of the Sea: The Triumph and Tragedy of Ancient Athens
John Hale's portrait of ancient Athens and its navy is an informative and fast-paced account that lives up to the phrase "epic story" that appears in the subtitle of its US edition. His style and...
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Published this week
? = Review forthcomingARTS AND DESIGN- Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and FashionEdited by Joanne B. Eicher, emeritus regent's professor, University of Minnesota. Berg Publishers, £995.00. ISBN...
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News in brief
United States: for-profits unlikely to flock to UKPrivate college operators in the US will focus on growth areas such as Latin America rather than flocking to the UK, it has been suggested. David...
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Criminal minds betray the academy's higher principles
As bad behaviour mars the US sector, observers point to lack of ethical code for all scholars. Jon Marcus reports
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V-cs criticised for inaction over retirement age
Government plans to scrap the fixed retirement age in the UK have been welcomed as a transformative change for higher education staff - but prompted criticism of vice-chancellors for not acting...
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Reform for externals excludes register
No evidence of 'shortcomings', but review proposes measures to boost clarity. Rebecca Attwood writes