Reverting to type
As academic ‘content providers’ battle with e-learning gurus, it’s time to reflect on form and meaning – and the ubiquitous, iniquitous HelveticaThis year is the tenth anniversary of my realisation...
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Updated 11 July: UEL vice-chancellor on ‘indefinite leave’
Meeting on 8 July decides Martin Everett’s fate. Melanie Newman reports
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All the news that's fit to print
Tim Luckhurst is convinced that good journalism will continue to triumph over spin and blogging
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Growing Up in England: The Experience of Childhood, 1600-1914
What Anthony Fletcher claims for his latest book is "an entirely fresh view of the upbringing of English children between 1600 and 1914". To be more precise, it is the upbringing of children from the...
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Night's Black Agents: Witches, Wizards and the Dead in the Ancient World
Daniel Ogden is the leading home-grown British expert on Ancient Greek and Roman magic and, as such, is part of an international boom in scholarly interest in a subject that spans the Western world....
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Top 10 academic bestsellers: Blackwell, London WC2
1. The Stuff of Thought by Steven Pinker Allen Lane, £9.99 ISBN 97801410154772. Get Rid of Your Accent: The English Pronunciation and Speech Training Manual, Third Ed by Linda James and Olga Smith...
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Shedding light on the dark zone
Jane Kilby on the idea that the weak are emotionally involved with the strong, egging them on to force
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Richard Rorty: The Making of an American Philosopher
This book is a curious hybrid. One part is a relatively orthodox intellectual biography of Richard Rorty. It begins with accounts of his parents' intellectual interests and political commitments,...
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Fighting over Words: Language and Civil Law Cases
Over the past 20 years, Roger Shuy, professor emeritus at Georgetown University, has published many accounts of linguistic evidence he has contributed in US legal cases. He is almost certainly the...
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Book of the Week: Democracy Incorporated
Andreas Hess shivers at a glimpse of our future
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The week in books
A Floating Commonwealth. By Christopher Harvie, professor of British studies at Tubingen University. Oxford University Press, £55.00, ISBN 97801982830"(Harvie) argues that there was once a 'West...
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Rituals of War: the Body and Violence in Mesopotamia
In this collection of eight essays, art historian Zainab Bahrani sets out to analyse and describe the acts of warfare and violence in ancient Mesopotamia. Rather than simply offering a chronological...
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Body Shopping: The Economy Fuelled by Flesh and Blood
This book is an interesting and thought-provoking examination of the ownership and growing "consumerisation" of parts of the body from cradle to grave, including stem cells, gametes and organs....
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Thinking outside the tick box
Gauging achievement as distinct from ability has always been a vexed question, says Wendy Johnson
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The Curse of History
For Jeremy Black the curse of history, or at least the curse of history as it is all too often employed by governments, religious, racial and ethnic groups, is that it focuses present attention on...