Willetts cooks up 'half-baked' plan for science institutions
Clarification needed on how any of the proposed consortia partners would benefit. Paul Jump writes
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Visitors deserve the best
Anti-immigration policies, an Indian student's murder - the UK government needs to forge better foreign links, urges Keith Vaz
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Technology and innovation at the core of the Big Apple
The legacies from the collapse of the Lehman Brothers investment bank in 2008 include years of turmoil on Wall Street and a nosedive for the Western world's economies.Now add to the list a science...
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Memory: Fragments of a Modern History
Recalling the past and claiming expertise in how we do it can be fraught affairs, Alan Collins writes
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Making Noise: From Babel to the Big Bang and Beyond
A tome trumpeting the historical significance of sounds is music to David Toop's ears
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Zoopolis: A Political Theory of Animal Rights
A recent heart-rending animal story concerned mummy and baby elephant trapped in mud, dying of thirst, and soon to be dinner for hyenas and lions. They were rescued, of course, and the predators had...
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The Faith of Girls: Children's Spirituality and Transition to Adulthood
Where once it was only poets who believed that childhood had a distinctly spiritual flavour, more recently a body of research evidence from psychology, theology and education concurs that children do...
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Reclaiming Fair Use: How to Put Balance Back in Copyright
Fierce defence of intellectual property limits free speech and stifles creativity, finds Matthew Rimmer
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A Contest for Supremacy: China, America, and the Struggle for Mastery in Asia
The one constant about China is its complexity, at least for those outside. Finding the right conceptual framework within which to fit this continent-sized country has proved elusive. As Aaron...
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Our Fritz: Emperor Frederick III and the Political Culture of Imperial Germany
Following recent excellent work on Otto von Bismarck and his reputation, it is helpful to be reminded that he was not the sole figure to focus authority and aspiration in Germany as it developed as a...
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STEM the Tide: Reforming Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math Education in America
You don't need to be a genius...you only need a talented teacher to produce able mathematicians. Really? asks Averil Macdonald
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Unionists, Loyalists, and Conflict Transformation in Northern Ireland
Historically, academic research into Northern Ireland was focused on segregated communities, paramilitary violence and, more recently, the dynamics underpinning a largely successful peace and...
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The Art-Architecture Complex
Hal Foster, a highly respected academic and veteran art critic based at Princeton University, intends this book to address a wide audience. The shifts in artistic and architectural practice that he...
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Tatsumi
Davina Quinlivan is drawn into a film that celebrates one of Japan's most gifted manga artists and the anime genre
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The Pick - Bertrand Russell: The First Media Academic
Credit: GettyBertrand Russell: The First Media AcademicBBC Radio 4, 14 January, 8.00pm-9.00pmBertrand Russell (1872-1970) was not only "a mathematician and a philosopher, an earl and an atheist, a...