Students are textual creatures
Books are the basic tool of education, and in buying them students seek value for money, says John Davies. My ideal book would be not too heavy, have a nice cover, a clear contents page with chapters...
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Supertext:The textbook that changed my life
It is perhaps an indication of what a sad, empty life I have led that I have in my time memorised, word for word, two textbooks. The first was a history textbook that I used at school, the title, and...
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Textbook guide
Welcome to the first THES Textbook Guide . The provision of materials for teaching and learning is a subject of great debate in higher education. This new guide will be exclusively devoted to...
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Beyond the looking glass
On Reflection
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Credit, shared human right
Banker to the Poor
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Integers, not eggs for breakfast
The Man Who Loved Only Numbers
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Rulers of a nation in decline
The Tories - An Appetite for Power
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An urbane view of barbarism
The Oxford History of the 20th Century
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Divide and rule in the land of the Raj
Ancient Rights and Future Comfort
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A theory of growing concerns
Wealth to Power
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Wealth and health map
Contours of Death and Disease in Early Modern England
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The search for pole position
Nansen
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A loyal royal who was a perfect foil
Eleanor of Provence
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Bad lands and swollen glands
Human Demography and Disease
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a brassy satire without a hero. "While the present century was in its teens, and on one sunshiny...