The provision of references for students and employees (both past and present) is common practice in the higher education sector.
The Science and Technology Facilities Council has released a draft list of research projects and facilities that its science committees are resigned to seeing cut.As part of the latest efforts by the...
Choosing the 18 winners from the shortlisted entries has been extremely difficult and they can rightly be proud of their success: each represents excellence in their field and we congratulate them...
This week’s competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a roman à clef:"It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn...
We’re enslaved by Crazy Frog capitalism – and the mobile phone is the symbol of our bondage, argues Tara Brabazon
Helen Wilcox is transfixed by the rolling and rollicking life of a saucy Grub Street manipulator
In the academic study of popular culture the margins have a tendency quickly to become the mainstream, and nowhere more so than in the analysis of cinema. As Ernest Mathijs and Xavier Mendik's The...
No doubt many scientists would regard references to Shakespeare in a lab report with a mixture of amusement and scepticism," avers Henry S. Turner, precisely (if unfortunately) anticipating his own...
1. Advanced Macroeconomics by David RomerMcGraw-Hill, £43.99. ISBN 97800728773042. Q&A European Union Law 2007/08 by Mike CuthbertTaylor & Francis, £13.99. ISBN 97818594196563. International...
Kamilla Elliott devours many slices of a pie that has fascinated collectors and academics alike
This book will do much to confirm the beliefs of those of a convinced antireligious persuasion. Every chapter is full of gruesome stories of children dying, often in great pain, as a result of...
It takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place," says the Red Queen in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass, a fitting metaphor for this book about organisational competition,...
J = Review forthcomingART AND DESIGN- Holy MotherhoodBy Elizabeth L'Estrange, post-doctoral researcher in history of art, University of LiegeManchester University Press, £60.00. ISBN...
Keith Tester goes in search of a 'more humane material life'
The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth by Frances Wilson, specialist in Romantic literature and biography, formerly of the University of Reading. Faber, £18.99, ISBN 9780571230471"Perhaps exhausted by the...