UCL Bookshelf

In the Shadow Of Hitler

Dominique Fourniol — 2011-06-01T14:16:34Z

Dr Rebecca Haynes and Professor Martyn Rady (both UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies) co-edit a new book, In the Shadow of Hitler: Personalities of the Right in Central and Eastern Europe.

Award-winning book on France and England’s aggressively intimate relationship

Lara J Carim — 2011-02-21T11:09:39Z

The quintessentially English author Chaucer is more French than most of us realise, argues Ardis Butterfield (UCL English) in her award-winning book The Familiar Enemy (Oxford University Press).

Controlling Uncertainty: Decision Making and Learning in Complex WorldsLinks:

Neil D Rodger — 2010-12-07T11:07:50Z

In her latest book Controlling Uncertainty: Decision Making and Learning in Complex Worlds Dr Magda Osman (UCL Psychology & Language Sciences) discusses current research about how we can control the uncertain world around us.

UK tax system imposes unnecessary costs on the economy

Neil D Rodger — 2010-11-29T15:03:38Z

A recent review co-edited by UCL'S Professor Richard Blundell has found that the UK tax system imposes unnecessary costs on the economy.

Bringing Up Baby: a unique American dream of independence

Neil D Rodger — 2010-11-26T15:27:59Z

Dr Peter Swaab (UCL English) has written a book about the 1938 film Bringing Up Baby as part of the BFI Film Classics series.

UCL’s Nick Lane wins the 2010 Royal Society Prize for Science Books

Neil D Rodger — 2010-10-22T13:40:57Z

Dr Nick Lane (UCL Genetics, Evolution and Environment) has won the 2010 Royal Society Prize for Science Books.

What makes civilization?

Neil D Rodger — 2010-09-16T09:45:32Z

In his latest book What Makes Civilization?, Dr David Wengrow (UCL Archaeology) provides a new account of the start of civilization in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq).

Popular Ghosts: Exploring the space between

Rachel Lister — 2010-06-11T13:26:49Z

Haunting has long been a theme in popular culture, and Popular Ghosts goes further to establish ghosts within the cultural imagination and to explore what it is that makes this space so compelling now.

UCL Royal Literary Fund Fellow awarded the Ondaatje Prize

Rachel Lister — 2010-05-26T11:02:52Z

Ian Thomson, one of UCL's Royal Literary Fund (RLF) Fellows, has been awarded the Ondaatje Prize for his book about Jamaica, The Dead Yard.

Liberating Learning: secondary education under the spotlight

Lara J Carim — 2010-04-22T08:19:04Z

How would teachers, philosophers, historians and captains of industry change today’s secondary education?

Bartlett professor unveils vision of 'Smartcity'

James M Kay — 2010-02-17T14:32:51Z

Could enlightened urban planning and design help us re-imagine our cities as tapestries of green urban space ripe for agricultural development?

Data Soliloquies

Fiona Davidson — 2010-02-10T10:40:30Z

Data Soliloquies rose from a fruitful collaboration between Martin John Callanan and Richard Hamblyn, during their terms as artist and writer in residence at the UCL Environment Institute.

Medicinema: merging medicine and the big screen

Rachel Lister — 2010-01-15T10:51:22Z

Medicinema is a new book in which Brian Glasser (UCL Medical School) explores what film tells us about medicine and its practitioners.

Bartlett book: a decade of daring design and ideas

James M Kay — 2009-07-07T11:37:39Z

A magicians’ theatre fit for Houdini, an opium refinery floating on the Thames and a home designed for, and inhabited by, the weather – that's just a tiny sample of the mind-expanding ideas to be found in a new book from the UCL Bartlett School of Architecture.

UrbanBuzz launches final publication

Nicholas W Tyndale — 2009-06-03T11:43:54Z

UCL celebrated its UrbanBuzz: Building Sustainable Communities programme with the launch of a publication, ‘The Complete UrbanBuzz’, on 2 June 2009.

Staying Maasai?

MISS Dragana Obradovic — 2009-05-14T13:44:52Z

Staying Maasai? Livelihoods, Conservation and Development in East African Rangelands (Springer 2009), a book co-edited by Professor Katherine Homewood (UCL Anthropology), brings together thirty years of research on East Africa’s iconic Maasai people. The contributing authors present arguments for significant changes in the region’s policies affecting Maasailand – the Maasai heartland straddling the Kenya–Tanzania border – and its communities.

Launch of ‘The Children of Craig-y-nos’: a tuberculosis history

Lara J Carim — 2009-05-05T12:58:59Z

The Children of Craig-y-nos: Life in a Welsh Tuberculosis Sanatorium, 1922-1959, co-authored by Dr Carole Reeves of the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, was launched on 1 May at Craig-y-nos Castle.

Dr Ralph Wilde awarded prestigious international law book prize

MISS Dragana Obradovic — 2009-04-07T11:35:46Z

Dr Ralph Wilde (UCL Laws), a Reader in public international law, has been awarded the American Society of International Law (ASIL) Certificate of Merit for his book International Territorial Administration: How Trusteeship and the Civilizing Mission Never Went Away, published by Oxford University Press in 2008.

Henry Hitchings (UCL English PhD, 2002): ‘How to Really Talk About Books You Haven’t Read’

unknown — 2008-12-08T15:04:58Z

Published November 2008 (London: John Murray, 2008; 262 pp; ISBN 978-1-84854-009-5)

As its title suggests, this book is concerned, in the words of Henry Hitchings, with ‘particular books and authors that we are often expected to know about’, and ‘with real strategies for dealing with the holes in our knowledge’. Its ostensible purpose is, of course, to teach us how to get away with pretending that we have read books which we haven’t, but it also reads as if it was Hitchings’s attempt at inspiring us to embark on the other, more obvious and yet more time-consuming, way of ‘dealing with the holes in our knowledge’. This is, of course, entirely intentional; as Hitchings declares in the conclusion: ‘In my own sneaky way, I have, I’d like to think, suggested that there are reasons to read the books I’ve mentioned in these pages’.

Mark Maslin, ‘Global Warming: A Very Short Introduction’ (2nd edn)

unknown — 2008-11-27T11:34:06Z

Published 27 November 2008 (Oxford, OUP: 2008, 176 pp.; ISBN 978-0-19-954824-8; £7.99 RRP)

‘Politics of Culture in Liberal Italy’

Clare Bowerman — 2008-11-01T15:11:46Z

Dr Axel Korner, reader in Modern European History at UCL’s Department of History, analyses Italians’ changing relationship with their new nation state and the monarchy from the 1850s to the 1920s.

Birmingham book reveals city's design drivers

Clare Bowerman — 2008-10-17T13:26:46Z

In his debut book ‘Birmingham: Shaping The City’ UCL Bartlett alumnus (2004) Ben Flatman presents a unique assessment of the redevelopment and regeneration of England’s second city.

’The Evolution of Designs’

Fiona Davidson — 2008-08-01T11:43:39Z

‘The Evolution of Designs – Biological Analogy in Architecture and the Applied Arts’ by Professor Philip Steadman (UCL Bartlett School) tells the history of the many analogies that have been made between the evolution of organisms and the human production of artefacts, especially buildings.

'Cities Design and Evolution'

unknown — 2008-07-01T13:16:44Z

Why are modern cities often uglier and less fit for purpose than traditionally-evolved older ones? That’s the question raised and answered by Stephen Marshall in his new book ‘Cities Design and Evolution’.

Cities in Modernity

Fiona Davidson — 2008-06-26T16:08:17Z

In ‘Cities in Modernity: Representations and Productions of Metropolitan Space, 1840-1930’, historical geographer Dr Richard Dennis (UCL Geography) explores what made cities ‘modern’ in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.