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Watching the sun go down
The Oxford History of the British Empire; Volume Three - The Oxford History of the British Empire; Volume Four - The Oxford History of the British Empire; Volume Five
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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 work that has nothing to do with GM foods: " You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has...
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Auden's affirming flame burns on
Later Auden
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Beleaguered people who gave birth to a nation
The Scottish Nation 1700-2000
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Getting back to fundamentals
Quantum State Diffusion - Testing Quantum Mechanics on New Ground
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Getting to the bottom of the man they loved to love
Walt Whitman
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Taking time out of existence
The End of Time
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Teaching on Venus
Feynman Lectures on Computation - Feynman Lectures on Gravitation
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The foundations of the real world
Understanding Quantum Mechanics
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The shy gazelle of anti-matter
Paul Dirac
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Higher Channels
John Davies scans the schedules (all times pm unless stated). Pick of the week Television programmes about musical history are rare, so despite its title, let us welcome Howard Goodall's Big Bangs (...
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When he's bard, he's pretty bard
Trendy academic attitudes to studying Shakespeare incense Frank Kermode. He tells Nick Groom why he's on the attack King's College, Cambridge, and the shadows are lengthening. In a tall little room...
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Sales are slow, but it supports my studies
All Big Issue sellers aren't 'down and out'. Alan Thomson reports on how universities are enrolling the homeless on degree courses Big Issue seller Alton Williams is tired, hungry and cold. Sales are...
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Wanted: cult of personality
Nigel Hamilton thinks it's a national scandal there are no degrees in biography. Universities, he argues, should study why biographies are now about people's private lives It's nobody's business but...