Still seduced by the final theory
Brian Pippard looks for God between the arcs of a double rainbow. Steven Weinberg is a distinguished physicist who has found time in recent years to write for a more general readership, and his books...
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Taking stock of the market
The Case against the Global Economy and for a Turn Towards Localization - Private Planet
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Everything owes a debt to nothing
Zero - The Book of Nothing
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It's a funny business
Dr Strangelove's Game
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Opportunity knocks equality
The Cambridge Economic History of the United States, Volume II
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Era of alphabet soup for aliens
Regulating Financial Services and Markets in the 21st Century
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Measures of man
Measuring and Weighing in Ancient Times
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Growing pains of a fiscal colossus
The Cambridge Economic History of the United States, Volume III
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Right-hand men with the power to change destiny
Second Amongst Equals
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Fortunes and misfortunes of war
War and Underdevelopment. Volume One - War and Underdevelopment. Volume Two
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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 trilogy about war: "The sky over London was glorious, ochre and madder, as though a dozen tropical...
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Laurie Taylor column
Universities use "culturally narrow" selection criteria - Audit Office report, January 2002. Yes, come in. Mr Errol Constantine? That's right. Excellent. My name is Professor Lapping and this is Dr...
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Letter: Maths cock-ups count
Mathematics A-level incidents these days seem to be mirroring my university experiences. In my finals, I was faced with a seemingly straightforward question that I couldn't do. I now know that it...
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Letter: Pleasure without pain
The view expressed in "Stuck through with spears and smiling" (Books, THES , January 4) is not correct about the human appreciation of a work of art. Any good artist tries to express the emotions -...