The European discovery of the Americas has always been seen as signalling the origins of modernity. For Adam Smith, it kick-started a revolutionary series of changes in European commerce and the...
If you were to buy one cup of coffee per day for a year from one of the many coffee shops whose paper cups are marked by distinctive logos, you would generate 12.3kg of coffee cups. If, however,...
Philip Smallwood on a polemicist's progress
A Choice of Enemies by Lawrence Freedman, professor of war studies, King's College London. Public Affairs, £20.00, ISBN 9781586485184"Unlike many critics of the Bush administration, Freedman does not...
If we are what we eat, then the UK is a mutable feast of cultural diversity, says Jeremy MacClancy
Yeats was not an enthusiast for machinery and the modern world. When he agreed to talk and read his poems on BBC Radio in August 1931, he confessed to never having listened to anyone "speaking over...
This is an unusual and untypical book on social research methods, in which Glenn Firebaugh manages to buck the unwelcome trend within methods texts of creating "How to ..." guides, seasoned liberally...
FILM STUDIESDeleuze and the Cinemas of Performance: Powers of Affection.By Elena del Rio, assistant professor of film studies, University of Alberta. Edinburgh University Press, £55.00. ISBN...
This week’s competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from an action-adventure novel set in the heathery hills of Scotland:“I will begin the story of my...
Volunteering to edit a collection of your peers' work will bring you hard graft, especially when it comes to rounding up tardy contributors, as well as satisfaction.
Striking the balance between offering a complete annotated script of your lecture and making students take reams of notes is essential
The University of East Anglia is the only higher education institution to have been named in a list of the most influential bodies in environmentalism over the past 30 years. Its Climatic Research...
Nobel laureate Sir Martin Evans is visiting leading universities and research organisations in the US to promote links with Cardiff University. Sir Martin, director of Cardiff's School of Biosciences...
A person is four times more likely to suffer from depression, which will affect up to 25 per cent of the population at some point in their lives, if a close family member has also had it. The genetic...
The Educational Institute of Scotland is warning of a spate of employment tribunals if the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama proceeds with restructuring plans to combat a £600,000 shortfall....