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EVOLUTION. By Mark Ridley. Blackwell Science +44 1865 206179 Pounds 29.50 inc VAT. - ISBN 0 86542 757 7. Macintosh/Windows CD The most revolutionary book of the 19th century was not Don Juan or even...
EVOLUTION. By Mark Ridley. Blackwell Science +44 1865 206179 Pounds 29.50 inc VAT. - ISBN 0 86542 757 7. Macintosh/Windows CD The most revolutionary book of the 19th century was not Don Juan or even...
Ezra Pound
Democracy and Green Political Thought
Rejected by his publishers and boycotted by his students, self-declared 'scientific racist' Chris Brand remains defiant. Olga Wojtas talks to him. As Chris Brand set out last week for a lunch...
Politics and the Constitution - Power and the People
Huw Richards sifts through the news that has filled our pages and reaches a remarkable conclusion. Plus ca change ... The appearance is admittedly different. Where today's THES readers are confronted...
Herman Melville
The McDonaldization of Society
Christina Preston reports on IT alliances between traditional teacher training institutions and schools. Information technology in education is on the electoral agenda. In January 1996 Gillian...
SUNDAY. The Italian academic year may not be intense but it is long, stretching from mid-September to the end of July. In Bologna it is usually stifling and humid by now, but clear sunshine and warm...
David Law asks whether quality assessment results could ever be used to produce a league table of the best teaching universities League tables are a national preoccupation in education. The research...
Revisions of history tend to be western. Now, in a new film, a Muslim academic is challenging the West's view of Pakistan's founder and of Mountbatten, India's last viceroy. Lucy Hodges reports....
SATURDAY. Up early to catch the train and tube from Northampton to Heathrow, thence to Budapest for a five-day visit to the Kecskemet Union of Colleges and Research (teacher education; engineering;...
REPORTS of the importance of English are commonplace. But the recent spate of news about English in Asia begs attention. In Hong Kong the University Grants Committee has proposed tougher English...
Indians make an enormous contribution to intellectual life today, particularly in economics and in the sciences. It is to be hoped that the recent election will not affect this adversely. On a recent...