The Wisdom of Birds: An Illustrated History of Ornithology
A labour of love pays tribute to our fascination with the winged world, writes Jim Reynolds
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Screening Sex
Linda Williams' book, she tells us, "began as an amateur movie". Rather like James Spader's character in Steven Soderbergh's 1989 debut feature Sex, Lies, and Videotape - a film which, surprisingly,...
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Lyric Powers
Robert von Hallberg believes that lyric poetry offers a compelling alternative to modern discourses which, be they academic, journalistic, commercial or political, rely on rational processes...
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Try to Remember: Psychiatry's Clash over Meaning, Memory and Mind
Diagnostic labels are a cause of fierce debate in this enjoyable set of 'stories', says David Pilgrim
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Gorbachev: Man of the Twentieth Century?
Regarded by emigre and domestic critics as a closet Stalinist and by Western observers as a closet reformer, Mikhail Gorbachev, as the last General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet...
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Religion and War Resistance in the Plowshares Movement
In 1980, eight Catholic activists, including Philip and Daniel Berrigan, staged a nonviolent protest at the General Electric plant outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where nose cones for Mark 12A...
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Turn over a new leaf
The life and legacy of Darwin dominates the new year roster of academic titles of note, but there are many other works of intellectual substance promised between January and June
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Quote, unquote
Praise and burials: our reviewers' verdicts on fellow academics' most fascinating, disgruntled, authoritative, wrong-headed, provocative, cerebral, paradigm-shifting, impenetrable and frankly naughty...
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From where I sit - School sets a management lesson
Call me a hopeless romantic, but I believe universities should have just two functions: to teach students and to conduct research.They should not be places with whole departments of staff managing...
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Our Vice-Chancellor's New Year Message
As we reach this momentous moment, many of you (although by no means all of you) can look back upon 2008 with a real sense of pride. It was a year in which the RAE results confirmed Poppleton's...
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No new year cheer here
Alan Ryan declares "Bah, Humbug!" to resolutions for university funding
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Research intelligence - Log on to a global laboratory
Web 2.0 tools allow researchers to share ideas, data and results. Sarah Collinson and Zoe Corbyn report
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Off Piste: Youth is never wasted on the young
Leslie Gofton recalls swapping words, if not licks, with Jimi Hendrix, and argues that a misspent adulthood is a much greater waste than ill-spent adolescence
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Leader: Seek out the silver linings
The struggle for economic recovery will present the sector with opportunities - it must seize them and put them to good use
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David John Keskeys, 1953-2008
David Keskeys, dean of the School of the Arts at the University of Northampton, has died.He was born in Germany on 8 February 1953. After a foundation course at Medway College of Design, he moved to...