Publication: Times Higher Education Circulation: 13297 Date: 09/07/2015 Readership: 39891 Type: Consumer Magazine Weekly . [ UK ] Size (cm²): 1 Display Rate (£/cm²): 10.79 AVE: 10.79 _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ er rea David Abulafia , professor of Mediterranean Academics, history, University of Cambridge Ruth Scurr's John Aubrey: My Own life (Chalco administrators and & Windus) brill iantly recontigurc~ the ~l rt of biography by using what aTC main ly his own senior sector figures words to creaTe 11 diary of the life of this extraordin ary 17th -centllry :1miquary who tell us about the two wrote and wrote, and ye t published vcry linle indeed in his OlVn li fet ime. This ),C;1I" Ill.Hks the books they plan to take 600lh anniversary of the P on\l~lIcse n Hlqllcst of Cellla, :lI1 d I sha ll return with profit :lIld on holiday: a new pleasure to Peter Ru ssc ll' ~ Prince Henry 'the Navlgator': A life, which cxplu<lcd the Illy ths must-read and a aboUT :1 national hefo whu, l'\'C n when painted classic worthy in darker coluurs, retains his fascination. Geoffrey Alderman , professor of politics and of a second look con temporary history, University of Buckingham ror Illy new book, I'm lookin,.; forward to reading Herlinde Paucr-Sflldcr and J. David Vclleman's sflld y, Konrad Morge n: The Conscience of a Nazi Judge (palgravc Macmillan). i\ lorgen was a judge :machcd to the 5S co un ~, in Am ir Alexander, adjunct associate profe ssor cha rge of pros{'cming crillles c(JlIllll iu ed in in the department of history at the University Nazi concentration C<11llpS. But he :lctluily of California , Los Angeles managcu to inuict camp officers for Illurder, I plan to reread Midlel Foucault's Th e Order anu ('ven attempted to obtain an :'IrreS I of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Scienc es, warrant for Adolf Eichma l1!1 . Morge n i. which ,Hgues tha t differellt historical periods surely the nearest we get If) :1 "good" Nnzi. organisc k110wlcdge differently and thl! ~ For 111 y old favourite, 1' 111 going 10 rere,lel produce different kinds of science. I rcad it A.J . P. Taylor's The Struggle for Mastery In Europe, for the ti rst timc 25 yea rs :'Igo, and it influ­ 1848·1918, fi rst published in 1954. Besides cnced everything I have done si nce. J also hope being the book that conhrmC!1 Taylor's to get to Massimo Buccian(ini and Michele position as Britain's le:lding diplom:ltic Ca merota's Galileo's Telescope: A European Story hisrorian of rh e posr- 1945 cr:l, lhis illCisiv(! (Harvard Univcrsiry Press). The Gulileo and cmincntly readable st'U dy has never ueen affai r is endlessly fascinating because one supersedcd. Nor C \' l'r wi ll be. can anually sce the transformation of an old wo rl d and the emergence o f a new one. By looking at Galileo's reception across Europe, this book adds a new dimension to thc siory. Rebecca Boden, director of the Centre for Organisational Research, University of Roehampton Brenda 1\lurphy's delightful book Brewi ng IdenUtles: Globalisatlon, Gulnness and the Production of Irlshness (peter Lang) should convince the holidaying academic th:'lt work can be fun. Murphy travels (he world, exploring the political economy of the velvet brew and its role in producing Irish l1:'1tional identity by imen 'iewing the people who m:lke it and sharing a pim with those who drink it. To return to earth, I'll turn to 1"l:1chiavelli's The Prince, the cl;lssic exposition on how governing might involve not just following the rules but bend ing them in order to stay in power - how apposite for the modern academy. 44 Times Higher Education 9 July 2015 Copyright material. Copying is only permitted under the terms of a Newspaper Licensing Agency agreement (www.nla.co.uk) , Copyright Licensing Agency agreement (www.cla.co.uk) or with written publisher permission. IPCB Tel: 020 7708 2113 - Fax: 020 7701 4489 [email protected] www.ipcb.co.uk BOOKS : Chris Brink, vice-chancellor, Newcastle University, winner of Outstanding l eadership and Management Team , Times Higher Education Leadershi p and Management Awards 20 15 I'm a logician, and 1'rn afraid it shows, so this summer 1 will look over the fence imo the world of rhetoric by reading M llrk Forsyth's Th e Elem ents of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase (Icon), which is ahout figures of speech, from :lI1aphoT<1 to zeugm<l . [ will also read Red Du st Road, rhe memoir of OUT professor of creative writing, Jilekie Kay, 011 adoption, cthuieit}' and identity, hecause I remain intrigued by the question of why the British find diversity so difficult'. Andy Clark, professor of logic and metaphysics, Michael Corballis, professor of psychology, University of Edinburgh University of Auckland, New Zealand Joanna Bryson , reader in intelligent systems, In Afte r Phrenology: Neural Reu se and th e Inter­ I am immersed in Michael S. Ga7.zalliga's University of Bath active Brain (M IT Press), Michael L Anderson Tales from Both Sides of the Brain: A life In There's a Japanese word for people like me displays the human brain as fundamentally Neuroscience (HarperCollins), on the "split­ with books stacked by their bed. Right now an o rg:H1 for the control of action_ This alters brain" stlldies in the [960s that created the I'm working hardest 011 how we should think abo ut the role of neural left brainlright brain cult that is sti ll with li S. Martin Ford's Ri se of the regions, and raises imporTant q uestions abOUT Bur it's not a scientific treatise or a po lemic; Robots: Technology and the the proper shape of Th e sciences of mind. it's a racy autobiographical aCCOlint of the Threat of a Jobless Future Susan Hurley's Consciousness In Action is a pl'l"sonal side of scientific life. On :1 related (Basic Books), which, wonderful, densely packed, rollrr-coaSTer ride theme, I'll be checking back on Marrin althou);h really of a book that presents a picture of thc mind Gardner's [964 classic, Th e Ambidextrous interestin!,;, hasn't yet and self as inextricablc from complex webs Universe, which set me off on the question of convinced me that artificial of perception and action. Published in 1998, why the two hands and the tlVO sides of the intelligence rather th;111 it remains far ahe'ld of its time. brain are a t once so alike and yet 50 different. financial polier is to blame for our in(;]"easin!,; income Annie Cohen-Solal , senior associate researcher, Debby Cotton , professor of higher ed ucation disparity. J started juall Labex TransferS, Ecole Normale Superieure, Pari s pedagogy and head of educational development, Didion's mcmoir Where I Was I will look fo rward to getting back to Jeremy Plymouth University From years a);o to get in touch Adelma n's Worldly Philosopher: The Odyssey of As an educational deve lo per ~l11d 5ustainability with my expat side, bur it's really Albert O. Hirschman (Princeton University Press), researcher, J sometimes strug!,;le to explain about how corruption explains a magnincent investigation and an essential the importance of understanding how know­ California's success. I'll try again, but 111:1y contribution to global research, written in ledge works in other disciplines , For this switch to her fi ction, as I did last sUll1mer most enjoyable prose, It unveils how Hi rsch­ reason, I'll be delvill!,; imo H.nvey j. Graff's when I read through A Book of Common Prayer. man - a migrant and a "{Jrlsscllr"' - forged new Undlsclplining Knowledge: Interdlsclplinarity in the pra..:tical routes to el'unomic development in Twentieth Century (Johns Hupkins University Carina Buckley, learn ing skills tutor, library and Columbia. In thl' same line - namely a vcry Press) - <1 book that explores the "myths, lea rnin g services, Southampton Solent University inllm'ative a nd un surpassed dOl'ument - my exaggerlltions and misullderstandings" that Myoid favourite is Arl ie Russell Hochschild's old favourite is james Agee and Walker Evans' surround interdisciplinal'ity. Linked to this, Th e Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human let Us Now Praise Famous Men, a book that I'll revisit Tony Becher and Paul R. Trowler's Feeling. In this grollndbreaking sHldy, I always keep by my bedside, a blunt report Academic Tribes and Territories: Intellectual Enquiry Hochschil d examined the emotions of flight on deep poverty and the "invisible ones" of and th e Cultures of Di sciplines - a fascinatin!,; attendants and considered where those Alabama in the 1930s. srudy of social relationships within and emutions came frurll. Her focu s 011 the between disciplines. Despite the diversincation corporatl' uwnership of feeli ngs :1l1d lhe clash of higher education since the book was with authenticity resonate stron!,;ly in this written, its insights remain as valid as ever. increasingly cllstomer service~oriented world. My nl'W book will bl' I ~oseillary Kerstin Dautenhahn, professor of artificial Sullivan's Stalin's Daughter: The Extraordinary intelligence, Univers ity of Hertford shire and Tumultuous life of Svetlana AUiluyeva [ am looking forward in late summer to (l-brperCollins), an accounr uf the horrors reading IVlurray Shanahan"s The Techn olo gical of a n,1[iOll sem through thl' tragedy uf an Singularity (M IT Pre ss), which promises individual. Alli luyeva was as Illllch a I'it:tim uf to introduce possible scenarios and their her father as <1ny Gulag inmate, and Sullivan consequences for a ncar (ur far) future treats her with ge ntl e but searching honesty, when intelligent ma chines may reach or go 9 July 2015 Tim es Hi her Education 45 heyond hUIll<111 :lbililic~, Still Edzard Ernst, emeritus professor of for work, but 31~o for plc;lsurc, complementary medicine, Uni ve rsity of Exeter [ would like to revisi t Rohert A devoted worshipper of Hitler, Jmcph j:l )' 1{lIsse ll's Th e Lemurs'legacy: Goebbcls became one of the main f'lcilit :ltors The Evolution of Power, Sell and love, of Nazi evil.