Trouble with Strangers: A Study of Ethics
There is one Terry Eagleton, and he is Mephistopheles. Forty years ago, when New Left Church came out, heretically announcing to the British intelligentsia and briefly radical students the...
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Top 10 academic bestsellers: Blackwell, Edinburgh
1. Essential Grammar in Use by Helen Naylor and Raymond Murphy. Cambridge University Press, £19.50. ISBN 97805216754372. Business Studies 1 Pack by Edinburgh Management School. Pearson Education, £79...
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Who Owns The Sky? The Struggle to Control Airspace from the Wright Brothers On
James T. Crouse finds a work that plots the course of US aviation law is a breath of fresh air
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Madness and Murder: Gender, Crime and Mental Disorder in Nineteenth-Century Ireland
As a reading and viewing public, we have become jaded with ever-more dramatic and graphic renderings of violent crime. Television routinely shows torture, imprisonment, even dismemberment - a recent...
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Entertaining Television: The BBC and Popular Television Culture in the 1950s
At a time when the BBC in particular, and public service broadcasting in general, are being defended primarily on the grounds of their cultural worthiness and attacked for paying high fees to...
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The Death of Captain Cook: A Hero Made and Unmade
Katrina Schlunke is captivated by a work that navigates the tricky waters of historical reputation
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Transformations: Identity Construction in Contemporary Culture
My history degree was rigorous and traditional. The pendulum of curriculum swung between militarism and diplomacy. The disconnection between popular culture and history was stark and obvious. Some "...
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Genomes and What to Make of Them
A few weeks ago I was interviewed live on Radio Leicester on the subject of genes and behaviour.I was asked: "Are there genes for hobbies?". "No," said I. "Thank you very much," said the interviewer...
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Published this week
? = Review forthcomingART AND DESIGN- The Borghese Collections and the Display of Art in the Age of the Grand TourBy Carole Paul, lecturer in art history, University of California at Santa Barbara....
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From where I sit - Moving in for the kill
One of the larger-than-life billboards to be seen recently on the Paris Metro features a battered London bobby under a giant sign reading "Arretez de massacrer l'anglais!" (Stop massacring (the)...
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Targett for Universities UK?
In an unexpected development, our thrusting Director of Corporate Affairs, Jamie Targett, has indicated that he may throw his hat into the ring for the appointment as Chief Executive of Universities...
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Oxford in talks over 'professors'
An academic is calling for all dons with permanent posts to get the title. Melanie Newman reports
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Clear and present danger
Sally Feldman lauds the daredevils who inspire students to defy and test limits
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Bettering the state we're in
A publicly supported national university would benefit all students, says Brian Roper, rather than just the best prepared
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Research intelligence - Five-year plan to tackle three killers
Charity to target lung, pancreatic and oesophageal cancer via centres of excellence. Zoe Corbyn reports