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Scientists say degree courses in complementary therapies and alternative medicine are 'baloney' and 'mumbo-jumbo'. CAM academics disagree passionately. Zoe Corbyn checks out the fray
Sex is researched across many disciplines, but there are no certificated courses in sexology in the UK. Matthew Reisz considers some of the scientists who are focusing on sexual functioning and...
Whatever their social and cultural backgrounds, students will flourish if we take them seriously and impart a love of our subject, says Frank Furedi

Sore points - Does complementary and alternative medicine have a place in the academy?

Choosing the 18 winners from the shortlisted entries has been extremely difficult and they can rightly be proud of their success: each represents excellence in their field and we congratulate them...
A.W. Purdue on ten years of adroit scholarship that helped to revitalise a discipline in Britain
The visual reticence of this little book, 20 x 15 cm, with a grey cover showing a black-and-white photograph, undersells the expansiveness, diversity and materiality of its subject. The title is...
There often seems to be little common ground between the hyper-realist, often hawkish style of analysis associated with Robert Kagan, and the hyper-critical type of the Chomskyan variety that regards...

Drummond Bone does not warm to a harsh critic but enjoys his cut-throat literary world
The Decline and Fall of the British Empire by Piers Brendon, fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge. Vintage Press, £9.99, ISBN 9780712668460"The true symbol of the British Empire is the moustache,...
Charlotte Methuen on Early Protestantism's continuing influence on modern-day culture
Daniel Drache, professor of political science at York University in Toronto, describes recent developments in activism connected to the internet and communications revolution in a book that new...
1. Total English by J. J. Wilson and Antonia Clare. Pearson Education, £19.99. ISBN 97805828417102. Constitutional and Administrative Law by Hilaire Barnett. Routledge, £32.99. ISBN 97804154582903....
A Classic Greek holiday via time-machine: Simon Goldhill strolls the agora and wishes you were here