First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a work that focuses on a case of mistaken identity during America's struggle for independence. "It was...
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From Bar to bar-room floor
The Warden
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LBJ revealed and self-exposed
Flawed Giant
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Of prophets and angels
The Cambridge Apostles 1820-1914
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Luddites beware
Mathematics of Derivative Securities
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What ants tell us
Butterfly Economics
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Fanning Japan's discontent
The Ministry
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A 'soft' future of chipped lettuces
New Rules for the New Economy - 10 Ways the Network Economy is Changing Everything
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The original spin-doctor
Press chief turned academic Sir Bernard Ingham alerts Phil Baty to the spectre of Stalin in the government's publicity machine One day, the government will thank the soon-to-be-ex Treasury spin-...
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Higher Channels
John Davies casts an academically inclined eye over the week's broadcasting. (All times pm unless stated.). Pick of the week Revisiting recent history through the eye-witness accounts of key...
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Assailed by an old enemy
The first UK research into so-called Gulf war syndrome shows that symptoms have blighted many lives. But GWS does not exist as a unique condition. Simon Wessely reports The Gulf war of 1991 seemed to...
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Shakespeare, Milton, skin and ventriloquism
The English degree is a big favourite with students, but an increasing vocational spin is transforming how the subject is taught. Harriet Swain reports. William Shakespeare's victory over Charles...
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Who's in
Stephen Connor, professor of modern literature and theory at Birkbeck College, is working on books about skin and ventriloquism. Using evidence from literature and many other cultural areas, he is...
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Time to cast out voodoo therapy
Psychoanalysis may be on its deathbed, but some of its ideas are clinging on to cause real harm, says Frederick Crews For almost 20 years I have been arguing that Freudian psychoanalysis, for all its...
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The sad business school: From blueprint to spire
July 1996: Oxford University announces plans to start a business school and that its ethics committee has approved a Pounds 20 million donation towards it from entrepreneur Wafic Said (right)....