University life for professors and lecturers has changed beyond recognition in the last few decades. In these witty and perceptive essays Robert Foley explores the landscape of modern academic life and shows how these changes have moved academics from their Ivory Towers to the more impoverished Ivory Flats.

Robert Foley is an anthropologist and evolutionary biologist. He is Emeritus Leverhulme Professor of Human Evolution at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of King’s College Cambridge and the British Academy. Professor Foley has published numerous papers and books on human evolution, ecology, and behaviour, and is a recognised authority in his field.