1. Blackstone's Statutes on Employment Law 2007-2008 edited by Richard Kidner Oxford University Press, £16.99 ISBN 97801992117152. An Experiential Approach to Organization Development by Donald Brown...
But Huw Dixon refuses to economise on brain effort and remains sceptical of the mysteries of price tags
The recent proliferation of popular biographies of Shakespeare, including that by Bill Bryson, is evidence that the market for books on the Bard is as buoyant as ever: the recent fame of Lynne Truss...
In the early 1970s, the publication of Albert Boime's The Academy and French Painting in the Nineteenth Century, Linda Nochlin's Realism and T.J. Clark's investigation of art and politics in France...
Eleanor Robson on an admirable study of Iraq.
Children of the Revolution: The French, 1799-1914 by Robert Gildea, professor of modern history, Oxford University. Allen Lane, £30.00, ISBN 9780713997606"As a professor of history at Oxford...
EDUCATION- Scottish Education: Beyond DevolutionBy Tom Bryce, professor of education, University of Strathclyde, and Walter Humes, research professor of education, University of the West of Scotland...
This week’s competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from one of the first existentialist novels:"I am a sick man... I am a spiteful man" Entries, including...
Olga Wojtas meets a Kirk minister bringing faith-centred education to the Highlands and Islands
Welsh Education Minister Jane Hutt has announced £23.5 million funding for research into some of the world's major environmental challenges. The cash from the Welsh Assembly Government will help...
Supermarkets should lend an ear to senior citizens if they want to keep their trade in the future. That's the message from consumer scientists at the University of Ulster who have been analysing...
Psychologists could gain a far greater insight into how humans think and act by analysing tricks and techniques used by magicians, according to research from Durham University and the University of...
Employers who need shift workers are being paired with student jobseekers through a new "slivers of time" initiative at Anglia Ruskin University. The university's employment bureau says it is...
Members of the Nigerian Air Force could find themselves in the ÌÇÐÄVlog Counties splendour of Bedfordshire following a five-year contract to provide postgraduate training for the force agreed with...
Authors and translators from across the globe last week attended an unusual event at the University of East Anglia. Organised by the British Centre for Literary Translation, the summer school allows...