Books of revelation
Inebriated one-night stands, excruciating childhood crushes, entanglements and rows with peers ... What drives some academics, wonders Matthew Reisz, to turn confessional in print.
Inebriated one-night stands, excruciating childhood crushes, entanglements and rows with peers ... What drives some academics, wonders Matthew Reisz, to turn confessional in print.
Some academics routinely lecture to hundreds of students, but is this still the best way to teach? Tariq Tahir ponders the future of the lecture in an era of mass higher education.
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As an academic he enjoyed international renown in his field, and within the University of Cambridge he was known as a popular and dedicated college man.Graham Pollard, who has died aged 77, had a...

Star Maps
Iron Curtain
Privacy and Solitutude

The Roman Triumph
Bob Dylan
The Darfur Sultanate - Darfur's Sorrow
See the Virgin Blest
The Forgotten Prime Minister
Hypatia of Alexandria
Books on Fire
The New Time Travelers