Where a single girl can meet a guerrilla
A survey of the internet's effect on societycovers lots of ground but leaves some holes, Richard Clayton writes. Manuel Castells is a sociology professor based in Berkeley, California, whose trilogy...
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'Fly' fishing in the shallows of cultural channels
Fourth Door Review
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One to read on the train
World Transport Policy and Practice
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Tackling scientific taboos
Consciousness and Emotion
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Breathing life into cult of the dead
Death and the Afterlife in Ancient Egypt - Akhenaten - Cleopatra of Egypt
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Clicked on to the code
LMS Journal of Computation & Mathematics
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Landscapes to colonise
The Artificial Empire
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Metamorphosis in a vibrant republic
Art in France 1900-1940 - Literature, Art and the Pursuit of Decay in Twentieth-Century France
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Space man mirroring nature
Constructing Modernity
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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 manifesto written in prison : "It has turned out fortunate for me today that Destiny appointed...
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Laurie Taylor
Morning, Maureen. MORNING, MAUREEN! Ah, Professor Lapping. Cat got your tongue? No, no. I was waiting for a fax from Dr Piercemuller about his conference expenses and got caught up in an article by...
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Leader: Free researchers from hand that feeds them
The Economic and Social Research Council held its annual meeting last week under the title Mind the Gap: The Role of Social-Science Research in Policy-making. The meeting, while stuffed with...
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Leader: Creating a new elite will damage whole sector
It is (at last) universally acknowledged that higher education needs more money - for research, pay, students and infrastructure. If extra cash is not forthcoming, disappointment will compound the...
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Letter: Clash of ideas 1
Thomas Meyer says the idea of a clash of civilisations - Islam and the West - plays into the hands of rightwing fundamentalists and segregationism ("A fundamental fallacy", THES , November 9). But...