Top 10 academic bestsellers: Blackwell, Oxford
1. China: The Truth about its Human Rights Record by Frank Ching Rider & Co, £4.99 ISBN 97818460413892. Cambridge Latin Anthology by Cambridge School Classics Project Cambridge University Press...
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The ingenuity of torture and war
Alan V. Murray delves into ancient savagery that sadly mirrors many conflicts of the 21st century
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The Flash Press: Sporting Male Weeklies in 1840s New York
This is a scholarly book on a racy topic, and it is a surprise to find the lively, accessible, copiously illustrated narrative of its first part accompanied by more than 40 pages of equally...
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The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State
General interest in Islam remains high, continuing to fuel a wide range of research on the various dimensions of the faith, but in recent years few Western authors have demonstrated the capacity to...
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The book of the week: The Invention of Scotland
John Morrill delights in a teasing of the Scots
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The week in books
The Book of Dead Philosophers by Simon Critchley, professor of philosophy, New School for Social Research, New York, and part-time professor of philosophy, University of Essex. Granta Books, £15.99,...
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Leaps of faith and the gospel truth
Kathy Ehrensperger considers the thorny questions about what Jesus and his disciples really believed
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Histories of the Immediate Present: Inventing Architectural Modernism
The architectural historians of the past century have themselves become increasingly the subject of critical investigation. Much postgraduate history and theory study in architecture now consists of...
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The Tropics of Empire: Why Columbus Sailed South to the Indies
When he arrived, against the expectations of many, at the island he named San Salvador, on 12 October 1492, Christopher Columbus appeared to have proved that inhabited lands lay across the Atlantic....
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Swirling synapses
Michael Siegal marvels at the intricacies and paradoxes of our evolutionary psychology
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Political Hypocrisy: The Mask of Power, from Hobbes to Orwell and Beyond
David Runciman begins Political Hypocrisy with a challenge to writers such as Judith Shklar who believe that hypocrisy is an overrated vice. Certainly there is intuitive evidence that Shklar is right...
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Glamour: A History
This book is a companion piece and very accessible follow-up to the academic scrutiny of The Glamour System, Gundle's 2006 work co-written with Clino Castelli. Here, too, the author examines - in far...
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That other great Churchill
John Childs reacquaints himself with one of our country's most revered military men
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Against Schooling: For an Education that Matters
Stanley Aronowitz is one of the US's foremost sociologists. For more than 30 years his work has comprehended the centrality of education for the American Dream of democracy and meritocracy "almost...
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Barbarians to Angels: The Dark Ages Reconsidered
Barbarians to Angels: The Dark Ages Reconsidered