Asking questions of the quotidian
Ian Patterson wishes a study built around writers' day-to-day concerns wasn't quite so workaday
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Bioviolence: Preventing Biological Terror and Crime
For 50 years, weapons of mass destruction were primarily of concern to the military in the context of the Cold War, with the primary focus on nuclear weapons. The Soviet Union's demise moved...
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Death by a Thousand Cuts
Few of those who now use the phrase "death by a thousand cuts" will be aware of its origins in lingchi, a highly unpleasant form of execution used in Imperial China, which involved the slicing of the...
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Top 10 Academic Bestsellers: Blackwell, Aberdeen
1. A History of Our Time: Readings on Postwar America, Seventh Edition edited by William H. Chafe, Harvard Sitkoff and Beth Bailey Oxford University Press, £19.99 ISBN 97801953203672. Endgame by...
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Pithy, polemical and paradoxical
Nick Prior finds plenty to think about in a new translation of one of Pierre Bourdieu's last works
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Antarctic Destinies: Scott, Shackleton and the Changing Face of Heroism
Once upon a time, heroes were meant to be the persisting role models for our young people. They were special people, selected as exemplars by public acclaim to demonstrate the higher elements of...
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In Pursuit of the Gene: From Darwin to DNA
When William Bateson introduced the word "genetics" in 1905, he meant it to name a new branch of inquiry. Bateson well knew that scientifically minded people had long been researching inheritance....
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Truth and reconciliation
Geoffrey Scarre on an insightful, reasoned look at the human capacity to offer and accept apologies
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Katyn: A Crime without Punishment
The USSR occupied more than half of interwar Poland from 17 September 1939 onwards through its secret agreement with Nazi Germany in the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact. During April to mid-May 1940 about 14...
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Mystics
What is mysticism? William Harmless answers the question through a series of biographical case studies, avoiding the imposition of a rigid definition of mysticism on a varied cast of characters,...
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Poking a nose into Italy's past
Stephen Gundle on the tales a beloved wooden puppet has to tell about his creator's country
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Sk-interfaces: Exploring Borders-Creating Membranes in Art, Technology and Society
Living organisms, animals and the human body in particular, have long been the inspiration for many forms of art. Using a palette of every conceivable material to draw, paint, sculpt and so on,...
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Queering the Underworld: Slumming, Literature and the Undoing of Lesbian and Gay History
Since the early 1990s, both queer theory and the related work of lesbian and gay scholarship have concentrated on archival uncoverings (Martha Vicinus), the exploration of textual closets (Eve...
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Simple isn't always best
Simon Barton is disappointed by a lopsided, broad-brush tale of Dark Ages Muslim-Christian clashes
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Why Is There No Labor Party in the United States?
In 1906, Werner Sombart's hallmark study of American political development sought to underline the peculiar social chemistry of an advanced industrial order that had achieved economic prominence...