Vatican tells truth-seekers to keep the faith
Billed as the greatest-ever international higher education event, the Vatican's "university jubilee" began in Rome this week, the day before the publication of an uncompromising document, under the...
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The devil in disguise
While paying lip-service to anti-elitism, a 'new elite' is cashing in on a population of cultural semi-literates, argues George Walden In education as elsewhere, elites are fast becoming the enemy...
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Why I ... believe people are becoming more interested in studying death
Judith Wester Postgraduate researcher Lancaster University The study of death at an academic level has been taking place for more than 40 years, but is now emerging into a new subject area. Women's...
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from an exuberant Australian novel: " If there was a bishop, my mother would have him for tea. " The winner...
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Euphemism and power
New Labour, New Langauge - The Language War
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Sinking under fat America
State of the World 2000
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Story of one man and his theodolite
The Great Arc
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What's the matter with us?
The Shocking History of Phosphorus - Mendeleyev's Dream
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Diggers' Hall of Fame
Encyclopedia of Archaeology
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A dumping ground for the mind's battle with good and evil
Dictionary of World Myth
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Get out your anorak , it's a very dull day on Mars
The Cambridge Planetary Handbook
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Eyeballing Tracy
Encyclopedia of Hurricanes, Typhoons and Cyclones
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Siesta for sherry but not sangria
Encyclopedia of Contemporary Spanish Culture
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The historian with a walk-on part
Promise of a Dream
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Queer to liken past to present
Getting Medieval