Apathy about politics and the community in the US is being echoed in the UK. Michael Young explores disengagement. Robert Putnam is a Harvard professor of public policy who has made Bowling Alone a...
East Meets West
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from a novel by an American Don: "He speaks in your voice, American, and there's a shine in his eye that...
The Power of Ideas
Covent Garden, The Untold Story
The Mammoth Book of Sex Drugs & Rock 'n' Roll - Sonic Boom - Black Vinyl White Powder
An Intelligent Person's Guide to Modern Art
Reflections on the Russian Soul
Ashes of Immortality
The Moderns
Department of media and cultural studies. Maureen speaking. I am sorry you have got this machine, but I'm afraid that the office is now closed until Monday August 13 because of staff holidays. Or...
Thank you, Laurie Taylor ( THES , July ), for providing yet more material for my first-year women's studies BA students and further evidence as to why I am still a feminist. Phylomena H. Badsey...
If Alex Gregory is "ice-spying" on Europe's longest glacier, he will do it on the Aletsch Gletscher between Berner Oberland and the Kanton Wallis in Switzerland and not on Mont Blanc. J. R. H....
I was disappointed to see that Sheffield Hallam was omitted from your list of top ten universities for opportunity bursaries ("Call to help needy students", THES , July ). At 153, our allocation is...
The total anticipated spending of the three university purchasing consortia associated with the tender process for a joint desktop-computers agreement has been estimated at £60 million per annum (...