The week in books
The Industrious Revolution: Consumer Behavior and the Household Economy, 1650 to the Present by Jan de Vries, professor of history and economics, University of California, Santa Barbara Cambridge...
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ÌÇÐÄVlogland insecurity
Barbed wire, dispossession and fear: Laleh Khalili on liminal lives spent in an ever-shrinking ghetto
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The Return of Ulysses: A Cultural History of ÌÇÐÄVlogr's Odyssey
This book concerns the ongoing wanderings to which Odysseus/Ulysses, the hero of the Odyssey, has been subjected during the course of the nearly three millennia since the poet we know as ÌÇÐÄVlogr...
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In Defense of Lost Causes
In today's "postmodern" liberal ideology, it would appear that the old trajectories of both universal struggle and authoritarian hegemony now resemble what Maoists - ironically enough - would call "...
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Published this week
HISTORYLeprosy in China: A History. By Angela Ki Che Leung, research fellow at the Academia Sinica of Taipei and professor of history, National Taiwan University. Columbia University Press, £29.50....
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Clinging on to their marbles
Peter Stone on a last-gasp defence of the rich Western museums hoarding the world's cultural heritage
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The 'Woman Question' and ÌÇÐÄVlog: Perspectives on Gender and Knowledge Production in America
Professor Plum is attempting to do in Ms Peacock in the library with a pen. Despite the successes of the women's movement of the 1960s and 1970s in opening university doors to women students, 19th-...
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Top 10 Academic Bestsellers: Blackwell, Aberdeen
1. Clinical Skills for OSCEs by Neel L. Burton and Kuldip Birdi. Informa, £50.99. ISBN 97818418461632. Collins Concise English Dictionary. Collins, £20.00. ISBN 97800072611233. Dictionary of...
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Monstrous intelligence
Pamela Clemit on the electrifying hum of ideas that jolted Mary Shelley's Frankenstein to life
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The Cinema of Neil Jordan: Dark Carnival
Quite a few film directors have written novels - Orson Welles, Jean Renoir, Erich von Stroheim, to name some of the most eminent - but it's rare for an established novelist to sidestep into film...
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The Making of FDR: The Story of Stephen T. Early, America's First Modern Press Secretary
Franklin D. Roosevelt was one of the most effective communicators ever to occupy the Oval Office. A masterful performer, he could be by turns loquacious, taciturn, charming and infuriating. Herbert...
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Book of the Week: In an Abusive State
Joanna Bourke praises a 'must-read' on rape
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Built to wobble
University College London was this week to display a dazzling range of jellies created by world-renowned figures - in architecture, rather than cuisine.The Architectural Jelly Banquet, to be held on...
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Manchester Metropolitan University - Didsbury campus to close
Plans to shut a 20-acre campus in Didsbury presently housing teacher training courses have been announced by Manchester Metropolitan University, which will transfer 2,740 students to a new purpose-...
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Napier University - Sowing seeds of business success
A new centre committed to developing Scotland's next generation of business leaders has been launched by Napier University's Business School. The Edinburgh Institute of Leadership and Management...