I know that my University of York colleagues regard my trip as the academic wheeze of all time. Round-the-world, ten countries, cruising conditions etc, etc. All true. But - and I expect no sympathy...
Well, I wasn't alone, and it should really have been an evening, but you know old Fidel. We were told 24 hours earlier that the Commandante would see us the next evening: a spontaneous gesture that...
Liz Doig reports on a scheme that offers a semester of study while travelling from the Bahamas to Japan. It might sound like a breeze but James Walvin (below and right) explains why it is not all...
The violent labour pains that accompany star birth have been revealed by a supercomputer study, writes Steve Farrar. In a cosmic feeding frenzy, nascent stars appear to battle with each other to...
The workings of life are bound up in the intricate folds of the long-chain polymers known as proteins. Yet science has been unable to predict how each one should shape up, writes Steve Farrar. Now a...
Social scientists with specialist knowledge of 'dangerous' peoples are increasingly valuable in the fight against terrorism, but is it ethical to spy on your subjects? Chris Bunting reports In...
Dying for the Gods
Trench Art
The Language of War
Peace and War on the Anglo-Cherokee Frontier, 1756-63
Eyewitnessing
Australia and the Global Trade System - Evolving Financial Markets and International Capital Flows
The Secret File of Joseph Stalin - Everyday Stalinism
The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
Lectures on the History of Moral Philosophy