Book of the week: March of the Microbes
Jon Turney on a microbiologist's ambitious project to captivate us with minuscule wonders
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About Faces: Physiognomy in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Alan Collins on a Victorian pseudo-science that addressed fears of the anonymous urban 'other'
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A World by Itself: A History of the British Isles
In his 1942 essay "The Rediscovery of Europe", George Orwell gave a tongue-in-cheek assessment of historical periodisation in schoolboy history: "Think of history as a sort of long scroll with thick...
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The Canon: Ways of Seeing. By John Berger
In the early 1970s, John Berger almost single-handedly changed the face of art history with this work and the four-part BBC TV series that accompanied it. The book continues to be influential, and...
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Shoestring theories
Is intelligent life on our pale blue dot a one-off freak of nature, or is the cosmos teeming with it? Theoretical physicist Paul Davies' cosmic search aims to find out - and it won't cost the earth....
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Nine Wartime Lives: Mass-Observation and the Making of the Modern Self
Hester Vaizey is fascinated by the revelations of diaries from a wartime Mass-Observation project
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Animalkind: What We Owe to Animals
Philosopher Jean Kazez takes as this book's starting point the difficult, highly relevant, and often avoided question: "How should we treat animals?" She approaches the question from different angles...
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Overlooking the Visual: Demystifying the Art of Design
Landscape architect and educator Kathryn Moore identifies a malaise in thinking about the design process, which she attributes to the traditional rationalist world view that sees designing as part of...
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Published this week
BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT STUDY- Management Theory in ActionBy Eric H. Kessler, senior professor of management, Pace University. Palgrave Macmillan, £58.50. ISBN 9780230607583Drawing on the accounts of...
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Wholesale opulence?
An academic conference is to analyse the concept of luxury. In Pursuit of Luxury: Commercial and Academic Perspectives on Luxury will cover issues ranging from the understanding of the term to...
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Edge Hill/Manchester - Don't have nightmares
Examination stress is the stuff of nightmares for many - but a project aims to free children from its grip. Researchers at Edge Hill University and the University of Manchester have devised a...
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Coventry/Surrey - Dance to the music of time
Dances past and present are to be preserved in a digital archive. Researchers at the universities of Coventry and Surrey have won funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council to create a...
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Roehampton University - Candid cameras
An institution has produced a series of short films about the problems students face at university, including debt, alcohol abuse, dyslexia and moving out of halls. The Roehampton University series,...
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University of Essex - Hold the phones, it's fine
Researchers have found no evidence that short-term health problems such as headaches, rashes and nausea are caused by exposure to a type of mobile phone mast. A two-and-a-half-year study, carried out...
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University of York - Special relationships
Two scholarships have been launched to help improve a university's research links with the US. The Fulbright Commission is to fund two US academics to spend between three and eight months at the...