First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from a work by a well-travelled anthropologist: "I hate travelling and explorers." The winner receives a...
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Time to flag up a new cause?
Abraham Lincoln and the Forge of National Memory - Race and Reunion
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Ensuring natives got the rum deal
Crucible of War
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War tale with few heroes
The American Revolution
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Clouded view as two wars collide
A Great Civil War
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How bad taste shaped a nation
Comic Book Nation
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Join in the fight while leaning on lamppost
Public Intellectuals
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As free as a cabbage
Free to Die for their Country - Order of the President
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...and the Earth had one tongue
Language in Danger - The Power of Babel - Speak
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Trio who shunned a life of privilege
The Three Roosevelts
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A critical chorus of black voices
Black Feminist Cultural Criticism - Black Feminist Reader
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Even greats liked to make the flesh creep
Shadows in the Attic
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Locked in free market's embrace
India Unbound
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Laurie Taylor Column
Modularity is a sham. It transforms knowledge into a commodity - Bob Brecher, THES June 7 Maureen. Why is there this big question mark on the finals mark sheet next to Janet Gardiner? She's got...
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Leader: Europe needs research council to take on US
The European Union has always realised that research is a contributor to economic success and a machine for creating a community spirit. But its research spending has been largely confined to the...