HEA suspension shameful 1
What baleful news that the guardians of the research assessment exercise are being led to do a "Nixon" with the shredder ("Panels ordered to shred all RAE records", 17 April) and that a leading...
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HEA suspension shameful 2
As Lee Harvey's former research colleagues, we are shocked to hear that he has been suspended from the Higher Education Academy for sending a personal letter to Times Higher Education (Letters, 6...
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Publish and be ignored
Lack of support, poor editing, negligible marketing: the alleged shortcomings of British academic publishing are increasingly leading authors to sign up with US and mainstream imprints. Matthew Reisz...
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Doing the right thing
Short ethics courses for members of medical and research committees are proliferating. But do they equip people with the tools needed to make what could be life-and-death decisions? Esther Oxford...
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The Book of the Week: Pacifism and English Literature: Minstrels of Peace
Catherine Belsey writes on the futility of war
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The Week in Books
The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing edited by Richard Dawkins, Charles Simonyi chair of the public understanding of science, University of Oxford. Oxford University Press, £20.00, ISBN...
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Palmistry's digital analogue
Chris McManus considers claims that finger-length ratios point to individual and sex differences
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Liberty of Conscience: In Defense of America's Tradition of Religious Equality
In Liberty of Conscience, Martha C. Nussbaum argues that threats to religious liberty are not unique to the US, but that its response to these threats since its colonial days is unique and presents...
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Top 10 Academic Bestsellers: Heffers, Cambridge
1. The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science and What Comes Next by Lee Smolin Penguin, £8.99 ISBN 97801410183552. Affluenza by Oliver James Vermilion, £8.99 ISBN...
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In defence of the final human right
A review of euthanasia and end-of-life issues may help to spur legislative change, says Julie Stone
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City of the Sharp-Nosed Fish
Oxyrhynchus, the city dedicated to the eponymous fish of Peter Parsons' book, is in some ways the Tutankhamun's tomb of papyrology. It was quite an ordinary place, but it happens to have preserved...
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Sexual Fluidity: Understanding Women's Love and Desire
How important are sexual attraction, desire and love in shaping our identities? How fixed are our sexual identities? How much choice do we really have in identifying our sexual orientation(s)? And...
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Grey matter, with added colour
M. W. Brown on an engagingly vivid look at the brain and the neuroanatomists who mapped itAcross the centuries, anatomists have sought recognition and hoped for medical and scientific immortality...
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What bugged the Dinosaurs? Insects, Disease, and Death in the Cretaceous
This is the latest of several books on amber by George and Roberta Poinar and specifically looks at Cretaceous ambers (Lebanese, Burmese and Canadian) and what the inclusions can reveal about past...
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Knowing Dickens
Writing at the intersections of public and private, and of biography and criticism, Rosemarie Bodenheimer's beautifully written study of Charles Dickens focuses intently on a body of writing that has...