Clocks, time and the big hand of God
At Home in the Universe
At Home in the Universe
Holding up a Mirror
Stalin's Letters to Molotov, 1925-1936
The Spivak Reader
What is an anthropologist doing in a genetics lab? Jon Turney asks Paul Rabinow to explain. If I was patient enough, I always learned something from things they didn't like." So says Paul Rabinow...
Historian Jonathan Clark exudes an air of patrician gentility, but the feeling she arouses in his peers are not always so exquisite. Simon Targett talks to a controversial conservative. Jonathan...
Capital Mobility - Towards a New Bretton Woods
Rallings and Thrasher, the brash young turks of election punditry, tell Simon Targett how they will beat the pollsters in predicting the result of the next general election Unless you happen to be a...
In the mid-1600s, two determined Quaker women left their husbands and children behind and set out for Rome. Their extra-ordinary mission was to convert the Pope. Instead they found themselves...
He has the appetite of a horse, the memory of an elephant and the confidence of a mountain goat - and he is arguably Europe's most successful politician. Huw Richards asks academics to assess the...
Supporters of comprehensives are to meet in Oxford this month to combat what they see as a right-wing propaganda campaign to discredit a successful state system. Lucy Hodges charts the history of the...
The History of Cartography, Volume Two, Book One - The History of Cartography, Volume Two, Book Two
The O.J. Simpson trial: judicial proceeding or popular entertainment? Wendy Lesser on the cameras in the courtroom. It would be either foolish or disingenuous to suggest that fascination with the...
The bicentenaries of two of France's most prestigious grandes ecoles, l'Ecole Polytechnique last spring and Ulm (l'Ecole Normale Superieure) this autumn, have been the occasion of much celebration...
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