CSI: heart of darkness
The success of forensic science must not blind the discipline to the truths to be gleaned from studying the chaos of criminality, argues Stephen Wade
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University Alliance tells coalition: if you want efficiency, cut the red tape
Reform of university employment contracts, pensions and taxation is needed if the higher education sector is to find efficiency savings in the age of austerity, a mission group report has warned.The...
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Surrey tops graduate employment table, London South Bank languishes at bottom
Graduate employment rates vary widely between universities, according to figures published today.The proportion of graduates who say they are working or studying six months after graduation ranges...
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Cable sets out radical plans for academy’s future
Vince Cable has opened the door to radical changes in the structure and funding of higher education in a landscape of reduced public investment, with potential innovations including bigger graduate...
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Book of the week: Bottled and Sold
No filter: Mathew White on our readiness to swallow the hype that costs us the Earth
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Sarah Kane in Context
Christopher Innes on the first collection of essays to focus on a single British playwright of the 1990s
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Rising Road: A True Tale of Love, Race, and Religion in America
We have all heard a story or two about parents who disapprove of their children's choice of spouse. Whether we think of the star-crossed lovers in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet or the Draytons in...
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The Canon: Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North America. By Kerby A. Miller
The notion that the Irish were exiles driven out of Ireland by poverty, hardship and English colonialism was hardly new when, in 1985, Kerby Miller's weighty, learned study hit the bookshelves. After...
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Repairing British Politics
Anthony King on a law scholar's ambitious plan to give the UK its own governmental charter at last
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University Continuing Education 1981-2006: 25 Turbulent Years
This new volume consists of eight chapters written by nine contributors who between them have experience of continuing education in more than a dozen universities. They illustrate the issues that...
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Ill Fares the Land: A Treatise on Our Present Discontents
Tony Judt applies the ominous Oliver Goldsmith soundbite that provides this book's title to a Western world afflicted by economic crisis, gross inequalities, insecurity and fear. One of his messages...
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Dude, Can You Count?
If you look past its idiosyncratic style, Chris Howls believes this book's underlying message adds up
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Made in America: A Social History of American Culture and Character
Made in America is a thoughtful assessment of the patterns of American life over the course of the past several centuries. Claude S. Fischer, a sociologist at the University of California, Berkeley,...
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Militainment, Inc.: War, Media, and Popular Culture
The militarisation of entertainment, or what Roger Stahl astutely labels "militainment", is a new social formation for our catastrophic times. In a year when The Hurt Locker won both cinema awards...
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The Tyranny of Guilt
Has Europe vanquished its monsters or have they just changed shape? wonders Robert Eaglestone