Does eye come before see?
Darwin and Design
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Maps, myths and empires
Making History, Drawing Territory
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Big Book is not key to universe
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time and the Texture of Reality
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A catalogue of disasters - from Noah to Nasa in 30 chapters
Perilous Planet Earth
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Hopefully not the last word on infinity
A Brief History of Infinity - Everything and More
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It's not all sunny in the Rainbow Nation
Beyond the Miracle
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The global killer that will not die
The Return of the White Plague
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The lone genius is more linked than he thinks
Sex, Botany and Empire - Pandora's Breeches
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Miracle with bitter twist
The Mould in Dr Florey's Coat
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First impressions
This week's competition, in which you must identify a book from its opening sentence, is from an account of a trip with a four-legged travelling companion: "In a little place called Le Monastier, in...
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What gets you going first thing?
Rhythms of Life
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An explosive past that still shocks to the very core
Three Mile Island
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Laurie Taylor column
Inbox - Maureen Lupping14@wanadoo... Dear Maureen URGENT. Please don't disregard this email because of the name and address. This is Gordon Lapping here in France. LAPPING. I couldn't get through to...
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Leader: Tightening up or dumbing down?
When is a move to improve courses an incitement to dumb down assessment standards? Answer: when academics think it is. On the face of it, Middlesex University's policy of instituting a review and...
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Leader: UK faces testing times
Cambridge's tests of thinking skills (TSAs) are too new for anyone to be certain that they are a better predictor of subsequent academic success than A levels, but the early signs are promising....