1. Integrated Dental Treatment Planning: A Case-Based Approach by Elizabeth J. Kay, Ann C. Shearer, Andrea M. Bridgman and Gerald M. Humphris. Oxford University Press, £25.99 ISBN 9780198528890.2....
Sex in the academy dates back to Socrates, but universities today still struggle to deal with the issue. Alan Ryan considers the conundrum of student-staff relationships.
Academic Shakespeare is shattered. In place of the assumptions of transcendent greatness, universality and entirety, iconoclastic Shakespeare rejects canonical status, eschews ideas of organic...
Alex Danchev tackles an unsettling subject
John Milton: Poet, Pamphleteer and Patriot by Anna Beer, Bloomsbury, £20.00, ISBN 9780747584254."Anna Beer's (lecturer in literature and a fellow of Kellogg College, Oxford) biography is scholarly,...
This week’s competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a sea-faring voyage of self-discovery:"Of all the things that drive men to sea, the most common...
Daniel Levitin’s This Is Your Brain on Music was written for the general reader, and it is to his credit that many parts of this book are interesting and stimulating. I can see how it might help to...
Anthropology• At ÌÇÐÄVlog in the Chinese Diaspora: Memories, Identities and Belongings By Khun Eng Kuah-Pearce, associate professor, head of the department of sociology and honorary academic director of...
The Technology Strategy Board has £1bn to invest in industry-focused R&D, writes Zoe Corbyn.
The Wellcome TrustAwards made for new clinical and joint basic/clinical PhD programmes as part of a £40 million investment in postgraduate biomedical research training, and designed for clinicians...
Sue Palmer is keen to work on improving police communications skills and to dispel the view that they are all 'thickies'.
The University of Teesside's Janice Webster has been named one of the UK's most enterprising academics. The accolade was awarded by UPBEAT, a project funded by the ÌÇÐÄVlog Funding Council...
Study says university collections are not meeting the needs of the Google generation, writes John Gill
Jack Kirby and Delovan Ghasoor, students at Goldsmiths, University of London, will next week take part in a 'recycled fashion show' to highlight environmental issues and raise money for charity...
Philip Esler vows to set up a task force to make a solid 'empirical case' for the arts and humanities' substantial economic impact. Zoe Corbyn reports.