Cheques and balances
A move to put research on a sustainable footing was keenly embraced by all sides, but disagreements over implementation are hindering progress. Zoe Corbyn reports
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Time traveller
It's time American academics engaged in public debate about the legacy of the past century and tried to help heal the rift between the Old and the New Worlds, historian Tony Judt tells Matthew...
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19 June 2008
Storm in a test tube - Everyone wants sustainable research, but tensions are simmering over where the money goes
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Images of Ancient Greek Pederasty: Boys Were Their Gods
Athenian art lauding men's sexual relations with beardless youth still unsettles, says Simon Goldhill
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A Stranger in Europe: Britain and the EU from Thatcher to Blair
A Stranger in Europe: Britain and the EU from Thatcher to Blair. By Stephen Wall. Oxford University Press 240pp, £20.00. ISBN 9780199284559. Published 24 April 2008If ever there was an insider's...
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Architect and Engineer: A Study in Sibling Rivalry
Next year will see the 175th anniversary of the foundation of the Royal Institute of British Architects. The event will not include any major scholarly reappraisal of the profession's history (...
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Top 10 academic bestsellers: Blackwell, Southampton
1. Blackstone's Statutes on Property Law 2007-2008, Fifteenth Edition edited by Meryl Thomas. Oxford University Press, £14.99. ISBN 97801992117222. Blackstone's Statutes on Family Law 2007-2008,...
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Manipulative Monkeys:The Capuchins of Lomas Barbudal
Phyllis C. Lee on the simian soap opera revealed by a long-term study of the cheeky, sociable capuchin
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An Actor's Work: A Student's Diary
The publication of Jean Benedetti's translation of Konstantin Stanislavski's An Actor's Work on Him/Herself: Part 1 - In the Creative Process of Experiencing and Part 2 - In the Creative Process of...
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Women and Leadership: Transforming Visions and Diverse Voices
I opened this book with enthusiasm. It is an edited collection exploring women and leadership, its approach is overtly feminist and concerned with power in various ways, and it highlights issues of...
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The Book of the Week: Terror and Consent: The Wars for the Twenty-first Century
Alex Danchev finds law and war are indivisible
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The Week in Books
The Meaning of Life by Terry Eagleton, John Edward Taylor professor of English literature, University of Manchester. Oxford University Press, £10.99, ISBN 9780199210701."Eagleton pre-emptively...
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Titan Unveiled: Saturn's Mysterious Moon Explored
Kevin Beurle on an irresistible account of the Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn's vast satellite
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Riding the Waves: A Life in Sound, Science and Industry
The defining moment in the life of Leo Beranek came in 1935, when at the age of 21, on Main Street, Mount Vernon, a small town in Iowa, he offered to help the owner of a Cadillac with a flat tyre....
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The Emergence of the Modern Museum: An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century Sources
The 19th century was the great age of the founding of public institutions, when many of the great private collections passed into public control and when collection, exhibition and research became...