Nurturing critical minds
Lecturers must do more than lecture, argues Mary Malcolm: they must develop students' intellectual-inquiry skills
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Individual and national success demands one path to higher skills
To meet future challenges, we need a single knowledge infrastructure incorporating higher and further education, says Lord Mandelson
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Daytime TV: Putting on the Ritz
Gary Day admires Joan Collins' chutzpah as she encourages three generations of women to glam up
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Book of the week: Nature's Ghosts
Jules Pretty discusses humanity's tardy conservation efforts
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Organising Poetry
Christoph Bode admires the scholarship but finds no space for novelty in this Romantic study
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Incest and Influence: The Private Life of Bourgeois England
Adam Kuper's thesis is that "marriage within the family - between cousins or between in-laws - was a characteristic strategy of the new bourgeoisie, which had a great deal to do with the success of...
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The Canon: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects By Mary Wollstonecraft
In 1792, Mary Wollstonecraft articulated an idea that students now write about with (perhaps misjudged) ease: society constructs gender. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman discussed the many ways...
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Judas: A Biography
A study of Jesus' traitor reveals the persistence of evil over the centuries, writes Deborah D. Rogers
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Space Travel and Culture: From Apollo to Space Tourism
Many books have been written about the manned exploration of space across its 50-year history and from all manner of perspectives: autobiographical, political, technological. In this 40th anniversary...
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Medieval Film
Anke Bernau and Bettina Bildhauer's edited collection of essays, Medieval Film, covers a wide range of topics related to the way in which the Middle Ages are portrayed on film, simplified and...
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Behind the Scenes at Boston Ballet
Text and images capture a company facing a hostile environment, writes Anne Hogan
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Globalization and Football
Richard Giulianotti, arguably the most prolific academic writer on football over the past 15 years, and Roland Robertson, one of the most prominent figures in the scientific analysis of globalisation...
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Abu Dhabi: Oil and Beyond
Christopher Davidson's new book on Abu Dhabi is certainly not one to be placed in the category of "do we really need another one of these"? It is a timely and thoughtful contribution to the thus-far...
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The Earwig's Tail: A Modern Bestiary of Multi-Legged Legends
Michelle Harvey gets to the bottom of some of the most popular tales of horror surrounding insects
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Teaching for Understanding at University: Deep Approaches and Distinctive Ways of Thinking
I really liked this book. Viewed from the perspective of a lecturer looking to use it for reference when embarking on another academic year with a full teaching timetable, it is extremely well laid...