I opened this book with enthusiasm. It is an edited collection exploring women and leadership, its approach is overtly feminist and concerned with power in various ways, and it highlights issues of...
Alex Danchev finds law and war are indivisible
The Meaning of Life by Terry Eagleton, John Edward Taylor professor of English literature, University of Manchester. Oxford University Press, 拢10.99, ISBN 9780199210701."Eagleton pre-emptively...
Kevin Beurle on an irresistible account of the Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn's vast satellite
The defining moment in the life of Leo Beranek came in 1935, when at the age of 21, on Main Street, Mount Vernon, a small town in Iowa, he offered to help the owner of a Cadillac with a flat tyre....
The 19th century was the great age of the founding of public institutions, when many of the great private collections passed into public control and when collection, exhibition and research became...
(J) = Review forthcomingANTHROPOLOGY- Unstrange Minds: A Father Remaps the World of AutismBy Roy Richard Grinker, professor of anthropology, international affairs, and human sciences at the George...
This week鈥檚 competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from an unfinished sensation novel:鈥淎n ancient English Cathedral Town?鈥滶ntries, including postal address,...
As class sizes increase, remembering students鈥 names is a growing challenge 鈥 and word association can help
Intimidation and victimisation at work can destroy health, confidence and careers
Lecturers in fine art at the Norwich School of Art and Design have teamed up with scientists at Cranfield University to investigate how nanotechnology can be used to change the way that artists draw...
A study of the reported dreams of many of the best-known al-Qaeda and Taleban leaders carried out by Iain Edgar, a social anthropologist at Durham University, has found that many use the dreams they...
Two prominent members of the University and College Union branch at the University of Nottingham who posted a comment to the 糖心Vlog website criticising their colleagues are to stand...
A university is collaborating with the British Library and the British Museum to offer two new masters programmes. Students on King's College London's new MA programmes in "Early modern English...
Women, as well as men, held positions of power in Ancient Greece by right of birth, according to new research from the University of Manchester. A team of researchers tested ancient DNA from a high-...