This is the latest of several books on amber by George and Roberta Poinar and specifically looks at Cretaceous ambers (Lebanese, Burmese and Canadian) and what the inclusions can reveal about past...
ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL- Award winner: Robert BickersInstitution: University of BristolValue: ?34,707Treaty port China and its legacies, 1842-1999- Award winner: Bryan...
June Purvis on the mother of all resources
The reviewer's remarks on Ads to Icons: How Advertising Succeeds in a Multimedia Age (Books, June 22) illustrates the danger of skimming, not reading, a book. Winston Fletcher misrepresented the book...
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...
Talking Proper: The Rise of Accent as Social Symbol. Author Lynda Muggleston. Edition Second. Publisher Oxford University Press. Pages 368. Price ?17.99. ISBN 9780199250622.This history of the rise...
A quarter of male academics - but just 9 per cent of women - are paid more than ?50K. Melanie Newman reports.The number of academic staff earning more than ?50,000 a year has doubled in five years,...
ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCILThe Arts and Humanities Research Council has recently announced the first awards granted as part of the Beyond Text: Performances, Sounds, Images, Objects...
Winners of nine grants from a controversial Foreign Office-funded programme to help combat terrorism have been announced. Last year, The Times Higher revealed that the Economic and Social Research...
Byzantium
Ireland's economic boom brought equally impressive growth in higher education enrolment. But in a chillier fiscal climate, what awaits the Celtic Tiger's universities? Hannah Fearn reports
UK universities are missing a "golden opportunity" to set up campuses in the Middle East's Gulf states, according to an expert on higher education there. Chris Davidson is concerned that UK...
UK scholars are slowly but surely heading into the blogosphere. Zoe Corbyn reports
British Council makes the move from teacher training to supporting a cultural dialogue. Nick Holdsworth reports. The British Council is to change the focus of its work in Moscow after a period of...
European universities will need to shrink by 2020 or recruit large numbers of overseas students to adjust to demographic changes, researchers have said. A paper in the journal International Higher...