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Classic work on Cain vs Abel
Beowulf - Beowulf
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Where can a man wee in Japan?
The Donald Richie Reader
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The turtles and exiles sharing an island hell
Turtle Island
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Savour the taste of Egypt's ancient mummies
Belzoni's Travels
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Cruel cuts for excising PM
Elspeth Huxley
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is taken from a semi-autobiographical book in which the author's friends, including W. H. Auden, appear under...
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Playing Pooh sticks on a grand scale
Frank Kingdon Ward's Riddle of the Tsangpo Gorges
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Laurie Taylor column
Vice-chancellors plan to charter special first-class train carriages to convey them to their annual residential meeting in Aberystwyth - THES , July 5. ACADEMIC INNOVATIONS PLC We are pleased to...
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Leader: Paper points to action on fees and funding
An autumn white paper is a sensible way to address the interlinked problems of student support and higher education funding. Why ministers ever thought they could be resolved separately is a mystery...
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Leader: Science journals get caught in the rush to publish
The ingredients of the timebomb threatening Bell Labs and the journals that published its disputed findings on novel materials include scientists under pressure for results, published preferably in a...
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Have you packed the porter?
Early guidebooks to Greece told of hazardous melons and handy haberdashers. Mary Beard tracks how travel trends have changed in the first of our summer series on tourism In September 1886, a letter...
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Old Marxist still sorting global fact from fiction
Historian Eric Hobsbawm has seen his subject shed its conservatism. He says history is finally free to examine the totality of man's progression from caveman to controller of the internet age - and...
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Making 'madness' more about all of us
Rufus May believes his openness as a 'mad' psychologist helps his students break down barriers in mental health You could say that I have had two careers in psychiatry. The first was fairly short-...
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'Playing God' in shades of grey
The comforting certainties of what is natural are constantly being eroded. But we must keep our heads, argues Mary Warnock, and remember that as the brightest animal humans have a duty to modify...