Reality Mining: Using Big Data to Engineer a Better World, by Nathan Eagle and Kate Greene
Are our ever more monitored lives becoming safer as a result? John Gilbey sifts the evidence
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Weimar: From Enlightenment to the Present, by Michael H. Kater
Roger Morgan on the German city that enjoyed a golden age of culture that it never managed to reclaim
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The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person鈥檚 Guide to Writing in the 21st Century, by Steven Pinker
Rachel Bowlby on a modern style guide that aims to teach good writing in a non-prescriptivist way
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Pornotopia: An Essay on Playboy鈥檚 Architecture and Biopolitics, by Beatriz Preciado
Richard Williams on Hugh Hefner鈥檚 attention to the enhancement of pleasure through erotic design
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The Compelling Ideal: Thought Reform and the Prison in China 1901鈥1956, by Jan Kiely
Jonathan Mirsky on the attempts to impose thought reform on prisoners in pre-Communist China
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British Culture and the First World War: Experience, Representation and Memory, by Toby Thacker
Angela Smith on stories of the lives of 11 creatives interwoven to give an overview of the Great War from a range of perspectives
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How would you change the National Student Survey?
Ahead of the annual Battle of Ideas Festival, we asked you to tell us what you think is missing from the country-wide canvassing of university student views
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鈥楽implistic鈥 redundancy metrics criticised
Warwick staff concerned about 鈥榮ingle cash metric鈥 used to identify redundancies in life sciences
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Hong Kong鈥檚 students ask: if not now, when?
The territory鈥檚 young people have bravely asked the question that its universities have ducked, observes Bruce Macfarlane
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What鈥檚 the point of the party conference?
Martin McQuillan takes a whistle-stop tour of the Conservative, Labour and Liberal Democrat events
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Academy鈥檚 fat cats 鈥榯oo smart鈥 to attack Labour鈥檚 拢6,000 fees policy
Liam Byrne, the shadow universities minister, also urges the sector to speak out to prevent a 鈥榙isastrous鈥 exit from the European Union
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Dissemination of dissent: lessons from Iran鈥檚 revolution
Iran shaped the career of Annabelle Sreberny, professor of global media and communications at Soas, but doing research there remains difficult
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Education and satisfaction are antithetical
Why keep on assessing how students feel? asks Joanna Williams
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Business schools: thinkers v doers
Apprentice interviewer Claude Littner offers UK business schools advice on balancing the practical and the theoretical
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After Ch谩vez
Mike Cole praises Venezuela for 鈥渢he promotion of social democracy and the mass alleviation of poverty鈥 (鈥淲hat is the best bloc for a 21st-century education system?鈥, From Where I Sit, 9 October). He...