Giving the past a shelf life
Pamela Robinson considers the post-Reformation book collectors whose choices spoke volumes
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Does Feminism Discriminate against Men? A Debate
It is tempting to dismiss this volume as part of the well-documented backlash against feminism, but that would be unfair to James Sterba, who argues that feminism has rightly challenged the various...
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Beyond Bullsh*t: Straight-Talk at Work
I don't usually venture along the shelves of self-help business manuals, but a book that makes claims to going beyond bullshit appealed. When you have been in senior university management as long as...
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Top 10 academic bestsellers: Blackwell, Reading
1. Descartes: Meditations on First Philosophy edited by John CottinghamCambridge University Press, £9.99ISBN 97805215581812. Ethics: A Contemporary Introduction by Harry J. GenslerRoutledge, £17....
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Geography is not what it seems
Timothy Darvill looks at how cultural change over 10,000 years has altered the face of Europe
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Free Riding
The barstool and tobacco-chewing view of politics as the activity of power-mad crooks has, of late, become the disgraceful commonplace of the yellow press. The corollary expectoration that political...
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The Black Death: An Intimate History
When history students choose the subject of their dissertations, they often opt for "the Black Death". One hopes they have selected this topic because the disastrous mortality of 1348-49 and the...
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Book of the week: 1918: A Very British Victory
A.W. Purdue on the high cost of the Armistice
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The week in books
Samuel Johnson: A Biography by Peter Martin, professor of English, Principia College in Illinois. Weidenfeld and Nicholson, £25.00 ISBN 9780297607199."Peter Martin is best known for a skilfully...
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Published this week
J = Review forthcomingART HISTORY-The Moral Mirror of Roman ArtBy Rabun Taylor, assistant professor of the history of art and architecture, Harvard UniversityCambridge University Press, £50.00 ISBN...
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Department of Media and Cultural Studies: Enquiries Office Notice Board
Dear Maureen'Credit crunch' holiday on north-east coast going well. If it wasn't for foul weather and lamentable standards of food and accommodation, British seaside resorts would be envy of the...
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Conference league loser
Kevin Fong's clash with the beautiful game leaves him sick as a parrot
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Off Piste: Siege mentality
A fortnightly series in which academics step outside their area of expertise. Terence Kealey reveals how hypocrisy, violence and torture in the America of George Washington have helped create the US...
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Guest leader: Not many breaks in the cloud
Conventional wisdom says universities do rather well in a recession. Don't count on it this time, warns John Craven
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Gerard Kelly, 1968-2008
Gerard Kelly, a former president of lecturers' trade union Natfhe, died of liver failure on 2 August at the age of 40.