Cakes, Custard and Category Theory: Easy Recipes for Understanding Complex Maths, by Eugenia Cheng
Noel-Ann Bradshaw is inspired by a book with all the right ingredients for explaining a tricky subject
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What are you reading? – 4 June 2015
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Black Hole: How an Idea Abandoned by Newtonians, Hated by Einstein, and Gambled on by Hawking Became Loved, by Marcia Bartusiak
The science of gravitational singularities is a head-spinning work in progress, says Tara Shears
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A Less Green and Pleasant Land: Our Threatened Wildlife, by Norman Maclean
Jules Pretty laments the sad decline and impoverishment of the UK’s natural diversity
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A day in the life of a temporary lecturer
Poor materials, disengaged students and little time or incentive to prepare dishearten one casualised academic
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On Romantic Love: Simple Truths about a Complex Emotion, by Berit Brogaard
A philosophical investigation of romance leaves Jane O’Grady feeling frustrated and unsatisfied
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Chopsticks: A Cultural and Culinary History, by Q. Edward Wang
Jonathan Mirsky enjoys a bowlful of insights into the origins and uses of the utensil that Asia made its own
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Death in the Shape of a Young Girl: Women’s Political Violence in the Red Army Faction, by Patricia Melzer
Female terrorism preoccupies us, and this timely exploration provides stimulating insights, Ulrike Zitzlsperger discovers
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How to Do Things with Pornography, by Nancy Bauer
Karen Boyle on a work that uses pornography as a catalyst for thinking about philosophical thinking rather than as a point of analysis in itself
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Schools and hard knocks: teaching the world’s poor
James Tooley ran into trouble while researching low-cost private education in developing nations
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Jay Appleton, 1919-2015
A British geographer who played a major role in opening up his discipline to more aesthetically and culturally focused approaches has died
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Q&A with Frances Corner
We speak to the head of the London College of Fashion and pro vice-chancellor, University of the Arts London
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Same-sex marriage: the academy as a home for ‘unpopular views’
Reflecting on the Irish vote and social change, a vice-chancellor lauds universities’ role in providing a forum for debate
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World in brief – 4 June 2015
Higher education news from around the globe
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Minority students benefit from confidence-building measures
With a focus on raising students’ expectations, Kingston University aims to close the BME attainment gap