Television drama generates the best US presidents. Jed Bartlett (The West Wing) and David Palmer (24) offered a morally righteous alternative to Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. A Pinnacle of Feeling...
1. Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness by Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein Penguin, £9.99 ISBN 97801410400112. The Logic of Life: Uncovering the New Economics of...
Joanna Lewis gets to grip with the workings of African democracies
Sisters of Sinai: How Two Lady Adventurers Found the Hidden Gospels by Janet Soskice, university reader in philosophical theology and fellow, Jesus College, Cambridge. Chatto and Windus, £18.99, ISBN...
A work of science-fiction trivia transports Gary Day to a place lacking in intellectual atmosphere
This is a book about the history of the Arts Council and an assessment of regional theatre in Britain. Its subject is that much-visited battleground where funding bodies and artists meet to nervously...
Samuel Huntington's thesis of a "clash of civilisations", formulated as the Cold War ended, has proved to be one of the most influential ideas in international-relations theory. Among political...
ART AND DESIGN- Louis H. Sullivan and a 19th-Century Poetics of Naturalized ArchitectureBy Lauren S. Weingarden, associate professor of art history, Florida State University. Ashgate, £65.00. ISBN...
Sociology is shifting from studies of class to forgiveness, and John Brewer, the next president of the BSA, is in the vanguard
Petra Wend is to become the next principal of Queen Margaret University when Anthony Cohen retires at the end of the academic year. Currently deputy vice-chancellor (academic) and deputy chief...
The vice-chancellor of the University of Leeds and his senior management team have pledged not to accept a pay rise this year. In his "Leader column" on the university's website, Michael Arthur...
Leeds Metropolitan University has settled a race discrimination claim with John Samuel, a lecturer and business development manager at Leeds Met Africa, the university's network for supporting...
Cambridge University Press (CUP) is planning to cut more than 150 jobs. The union Unite is protesting the move, describing CUP's decision to cut the jobs in its printing division and publishing...
A new veterinary clinic was launched this month at the University of Bristol. Bristol is the first university to run its clinical services through a wholly-owned subsidiary company, Langford...
A football-shaped molecule has been used to create a new material for research into how superconductors could be used to transmit electricity and cut global energy consumption. Scientists at the...