Where has all the passion gone?
In the heyday of campus radicalism, protests took place at the drop of a hat and Marxism ruled. Today's young are quieter and as likely to vote Tory as for the Left. There's still commitment but, as...
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Figure it out
While wrestling, crime, sex and tulipmania spice up popular books on economics, the academic discipline often remains impenetrable. Matthew Reisz considers the costs and benefits of complexity
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26 June 2008
Born to be mild - Is conservatism a badge of honour among students?
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Bio labs could be built in urban areas
MPs see no reason why laboratories that handle the most dangerous pathogens cannot be operated in universities or in towns
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In the Shadow of the Magic Mountain: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story
Robert Gillett on Erika and Klaus Mann's bittersweet relationships with family and country
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Sunshine: One Man's Search for Happiness
I hate smiley faces, and anyone who uses them. It doesn't follow that I hate the sun, but I do hate the fact that endless sunshine makes work impossible. I also hate the fact that sunshine brings on...
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Credit and Blame
Popular science writing at its best enables scientists to explore the implications of their fields' findings and emerging tendencies in ways rarely allowed by the peer-review process. This can make...
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Top 10 Academic Bestsellers - Blackwell, Bristol
1. Pass Finals: A Companion to Kumar and Clark's Clinical Medicine, Second Edition by Geoff Smith, Elizabeth Carty and Louise Langmead. Elsevier, £22.99. ISBN 97807020287792. The Kingdom of Infinite...
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The Pioneering Garretts: Breaking the Barriers for Women
Stephen Halliday on six fearless sisters whose pioneering feminism left Queen Victoria unamused
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The Discovery of Mankind: Atlantic Encounters in the Age of Columbus
The European discovery of the Americas has always been seen as signalling the origins of modernity. For Adam Smith, it kick-started a revolutionary series of changes in European commerce and the...
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Collections of Nothing
If you were to buy one cup of coffee per day for a year from one of the many coffee shops whose paper cups are marked by distinctive logos, you would generate 12.3kg of coffee cups. If, however,...
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The book of the week: Literary Criticism: A New History
Philip Smallwood on a polemicist's progress
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The week in books
A Choice of Enemies by Lawrence Freedman, professor of war studies, King's College London. Public Affairs, £20.00, ISBN 9781586485184"Unlike many critics of the Bush administration, Freedman does not...
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Spicing up Britain: The Multicultural History of British Food
If we are what we eat, then the UK is a mutable feast of cultural diversity, says Jeremy MacClancy
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The Last Minstrels: Yeats and the Revival of the Bardic Arts
Yeats was not an enthusiast for machinery and the modern world. When he agreed to talk and read his poems on BBC Radio in August 1931, he confessed to never having listened to anyone "speaking over...