Half-baked ideas on cannibalism
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Speaking Volumes
Jaroslav Hasek's Good Soldier Svejk A sorry-looking Penguin on the shelf reminds me that I first read The Good Soldier Svejk and his Fortunes in the World War (1921-23), Jaroslav Hasek's picaresque...
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Ties that bind and tear
The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture - The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture - The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture
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The great and the not so good
The Oxford History of the British Empire - The Oxford History of the British Empire
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Taking it to the limits
Impossibility
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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 pseudonymous author whose burlesque on British chivalry is also a satire on modern technology and...
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Asia's deadly enigma
Question: which country suffers famine, launches missiles over its neighbours and prints counterfeit dollar bills? Answer: the secret Stalinist state of North Korea. Aidan Foster-Carter reports...
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Stylish theory kinda guy
Worldly Wise: 13. Economist Paul Krugman is pugnacious, contrary - and often right. He forecast East Asia's crisis and he has a controversial prescription. Huw Richards reports Economist Paul Krugman...
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Routes to the top: three students discuss different approaches to getting a first-class degree
Late starter Annie James is taking a masters degree in society, science and nature at Lancaster University, where last year she gained a first-class honours in applied social science and independent...
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A trip down mammary lane
Breasts have been feared and worshipped throughout history, seen as both nurturing and suffocating. Kate Worsley meets Marilyn Yalom, who has researched the meanings that they have had to carry over...
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Working from first principles
How can your students get first-class degrees? Successful graduate Peter Tolmie reveals how it is done Easter vacation. The middle of the night. All the heaters have gone off. The weight on your...
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Nuclear Acord
James Acord is the world's sole nuclear sculptor and the only individual licensed to work with radioactive materials. Kate Worsley reports on the man at Imperial College, London, struggling to turn...
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Battle of the oldies
Being old is good for a university, so when Durham advertised itself this week as "England's third oldest university", University College, London, immediately sought to put the record straight. While...
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Top job dilemma
Among the oldest rules of top jobs in academic - or, for that matter, any other - life is that it is very important to choose one's predecessor carefully. Follow somebody who was universally...
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Secret service search
Rumours persist about subterranean rubber rooms in the former MI6 headquarters in London, which are now home to the Qualifications, Curriculum and Assessment Authority (Antithesis, August 21). For...