The Global Environment
Deadline: 31/10/2001
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The first true Europeans
Larissa Bonfante enjoys an eclectic culture spanning 1,200 years. The Greeks of the international period of the 8th and 7th centuries BC considered the Etruscans, or Tyrrhenians as they called them,...
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Inhabitants of a world on the wane
The Other Side of Eden
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A pursuit of power, not peace
The Iron Wall
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Friends to aid all Christian reflection
The Oxford Companion to Christian Thought - The Oxford Illustrated History of the Bible
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Mummy sequels
The Royal Mummies - The Tomb of Tut.ankh.Amen - Conversations with Mummies - Tutankhamun - The Tomb of Iouiya and Touiyou with The Funeral Papyrus of Iouiya
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Reflection of the national soul
British Social Attitudes
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A cat and frogs in tiny taffeta pants
Quantum Evolution
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Dark matter in a world of supersymmetric sparticles
Supersymmetry
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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 novel by a poet, dramatist and scientist: "How happy I am to have come away! Dearest friend, how...
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If you're this low, the only way is up
Surveys have placed South Africa last out of 40 for its maths and science provision, but through a distance-learning initiative Pretoria University is on a mission to turn the situation around. Karen...
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Acts of healing a nation
In the dark days of Milosevic's regime, four women in Belgrade created theatre amid the destruction. Noel Witts explores their bid to help Serbia regain its sense of humanity. Belgrade's sense of...
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Defenders of The Ring up in arms at myth in the making
The film of Tolkien's classic is courting controversy but creating a mythology, say Bill Welden and Jo Alida Wilcox. Once upon a time, in the rash boldness of his youth, J. R. R. Tolkien set out to...
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Looking for well-read men in blue
Has higher education crossed the thin blue line? Chris Bunting investigates the UK's first BSc in policing, while Liz Doig visits Bramshill's international training facility. Anthony Forde looks like...