Books & Publishing

Every semester of every academic year, college campuses experience tragedies (and many more near-tragedies) involving excessive use of alcohol. A...

Author of Teaching With Classroom Response Systems discusses the way a popular technology is changing instruction.

Shakespeare wrote one of the most savage plays in the canon. Scott McLemee visits the dark side.

Scholarly groups line up against open access legislation, but anthropologists ask whether researchers' views are being represented.

Entire scholarly books are starting to appear -- without permission -- on Web sites that flaunt their violation of traditional copyright laws.

Although he isn't a fraternity brother, Nicholas L. Syrett has immersed himself in the world of Greek history. Syrett, an...

What if everything you learned about fighting plagiarism was doomed to failure? Computer software, threats on the syllabus, pledges of...

Many educators worry that the ability of the United States to produce enough scientists will fall short unless a more...