Shopping a way of life? I'll buy that
Consumerism
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The extinction of Hydrocarbon Man?
Managing the Opil Wealth - The Carbon War
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Why it was fun to stay at the Y
Take the Young Stranger by the Hand
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First impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is by a trained architect whose novel is more celebrated than its hero: " The schoolmaster was leaving the...
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The writing's on the disc - but no one can yet read it
The Bronze Age Computer Disc
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Wrenches in the high-tech toolbox
The Golem at Large
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Women tied by jute and more
Women and labour in late Colonial India
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Getting by is all that counts in the village
Gao Village
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In theory, the glue that holds society together
Social Theory
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Blown away by thought of windy city
Department and Discipline
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Cooperative breeders....they really pay dividends
Single mums who sleep around may be employing an age-old strategy to protect their kids. Anne Sebba reports. Evolutionary biologist Sarah Blaffer Hrdy (pictured left)was invited in 1984 to a...
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Spare us a million, guv?
How do universities persuade benefactors to part with their cash? Phil Baty reports on the arts of fundraising and the newcomers to the game. Mike Smithson has been poached by Oxford University -...
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The dead (and live) poets' society
Is an Ulster mafia behind the appointment of Paul Muldoon (right) to Oxford's poetry professorship? No, says Valentine Cunningham. What a dizzying roller-coaster is Oxford University's relation with...
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Higher channels
John Davies picks programmes of interest to academics. (All times pm unless stated.) Pick of the week It's a big week for ambitious new Channel 4 series - on country life (Green and Pleasant Land,...