Keeping up with all the Joneses
Sir William Jones 1746-94
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Out of the asylum, into the office
A History of Psychiatry
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Wade's vanishing world
The Golden Metwand and the Crooked Cord
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Sacred symbols - a user's guide
Hinduism and the Religious Arts
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The threat and lure of the East
Islam in Britain 1558-1685
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Was Muhammad a Christian?
Foundations of Islam
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from an author with a magic touch: "Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buend...
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Ways of all Buddhists
The Foundations of Buddhism
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Open windows of opportunity
Innovation and Adaptation in European Higher Education - Changing Relationships Between Higher Education and the State
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Teachers take a cue from Taco
The Digital University
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A lost era of academic endeavour
Higher Education in Bengal 1919-1947
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A search for the spirit in a secular world
The Spirit of the Child
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Erudite fondler of women not words
Max Lerner
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Is autobiography good research?
Is telling stories about your own life a useful sociological research tool? In a BSA conference paper, sisters Sara and Sue Scott explore how maternal aspirations can be passed on to daughters. Their...
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Sorry, could you repeat that...?
Two typically convoluted examples from papers presented at this year's BSA conference. Roy Boyne, Durham University "What follows from this is that some of the fundamental sociological divides, such...