Life behind closed eyes
Continuing our series on the Big Science Questions, Stephen LaBerge looks at the role dreams play in our conscious and unconscious lives. Every night we enter another world, the world of dreams....
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Divided loyalties
'God will not forsake us.. Muslims will remain on this earth; they will not die out but will spread throughout the world. Judaism will die out. Christianity will die out. Hinduism will die out, and...
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Understanding Uncle Sam: getting to grips with the culture that the British just love to hate
Britain has a tradition of anti-Americanism while embracing much US culture. George McKay ponders this apparent contradiction and its place in American studies. I'm so bored with the USA! I'm so...
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Few cheers for rough justice
The Vote
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Old guard's happiness in an age of confusion
The CIAM Discourse on Urbanism, 1928-1960 - Le Corbusier
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Search for an African voice with which to say no
A Passage to Africa
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Elite citadels fall to dumb hordes
The New Idea of a University
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From the lab to the corridors of power
Science, Money and Politics
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Speaking volumes to the shelf-interested
Getting it Published
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The life and soul of social scenes
Peter Cox enters a world where kindness and imagination are king. The foreword to this book about Michael Young has a neat, ironic title: "Who? which? where? why?". Lord Young of Dartington has had...
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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 feminist double-act: "Is a pen a metaphorical penis?" The winner receives a £25 Blackwell's voucher...
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Aspirant v-cs take note and listen to your buildings
University Architecture - University Builders
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Crusader tries to awaken Japan
Japan's Past, Japan's Future
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Don't know what to buy your bishop for Xmas?
Christianity - Christ - Doubts and Loves
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Can a man and woman share a horse?
Commanding Right and Forbidding Wrong in Islamic Thought