Forebears for several ages
Colin Renfrew's archaeology textbook is so popular people want him to autograph copies. Such success, he tells Nicholas Saunders, depends on avoiding 'boffinry'. For the best part of three decades,...
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Supertext: The textbook that changed my life
If, in some cataclysm, all of scientific knowledge were to be destroyed, and only one sentence passed on to the next generations of creatures, what statement would contain the most information in the...
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A reference that should be sought
English lecturer Rob Pope, talks about the writing of his textbook, The English Studies Book . In the current climate for academics in higher education, the question of whether to write a textbook...
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Three years in the making of a useful text
Publisher Moira Taylor recalls the trials, tribulations and triumphs involved in the creation of The English Studies Book . Rob Pope was an obvious choice as a textbook author because of his...
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Rights of passage on ocean of words
Copyright law in the electronic age must reconcile the expectations of users and creators, writes John Davies. The laws of God, the laws of man, He may keep that will and can; Not I: let God and man...
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A force beyond reason
The Roots of Romanticism
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No theory, but lots of character
Heinrich von Kleist
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Samurai who was never satisfied
The Films of Akira Kurosawa
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We laughed till we died
Life is Beautiful
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The new wave and beyond
Projections 9 - Agnés Varda - Coline Serreau - Diane Kurys - François Truffaut - Luc Besson
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Mirror, mirror, off the wall
Fassbinder
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Pondering the imponderables
Seventy Light Years
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Calypso cricket or winded Windies?
The Development of West Indian Cricket, Volume One - The Development of West Indian Cricket, Volume Two
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Blackness in a great imagination
The Letters of Charles Dickens Volume Ten - Oxford Reader's Companion to Dickens