Russia's road to modernity
Imperial and Soviet Russia
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Man's ascent in epidemic leaps
Plague, Pox and Pestilence - Epidemics and History
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The beast in the bottle
The Natural History of Alcoholism Revisited
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Defenders of the discordant
An Embarrassment of Tyrannies
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Into battle with massed prose
A History of the 20th Century
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The spectre set loose in DC
Firewall
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First impressions
This week's First Impressions, the competition in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from a novel that one might hesitate to show one's servants: "Ours is essentially...
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Nurturing neglected minds
Unpublished research suggests that adopted Romanian orphans can make up lost intellectual ground.Michael Rutter tells Julia Hinde how his findings shed light on the interplay of nature and nurture...
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A-mazing rat-robot man aims to mimic humans
Continuing our series on young researchers, Ayala Ochert meets Neil Burgess, the neuroscientist with his own line in laboratory rats It is a job that children surely dream of having when they grow up...
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It's not the meek who will inherit
The year is 2350 and humanity is divided into a genetically enriched elite and an educationally deprived lumpen mass who cannot even breed successfully with their gene-enhanced betters. Lee Silver...
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Edinburgh University commissions portrait photographs of its scholars
(Photograph) - Go to any ancient university and you will see, somewhere, portraits of its distinguished former scholars glowering down at you, writes Olga Wojtas. Now Edinburgh University has brought...
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When justice is strained
Menachem Mautner tells John Davies how teachinglaw in Israel has been affected by the battle over the state's political future It is Menachem Mautner's regret that in Israel the law and its...
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I think, therefore I theorise
Geographer David Livingstone launches a five-part series in which leading academics and their postgraduates describe how theoretical approaches derived from French philosophy have transformed their...
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An Oksforder's blues
How has internationally renowned Yiddish expert Dovid Katz found himself jobless and penniless on a Welsh hillside? Dan Cohn-Sherbok tells his story Alone in a tiny cottage in North Wales one of the...
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I think, therefore I theorise
A five-part series in which leading academics and their postgraduates describe how theoretical approaches derived from French philosophy have transformed their subject Tracey Byrne is completing...