First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novelist who was once a merchant seaman: "It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone...
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A voyage from the sailboat to the bikini
The Mediterranean in History
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One more amble over the Sonderweg
A History of Modern Germany since 1815
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What beans means to a medieval priest
The Measure of Multitude
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Ram-bo is here to stir the mob
'Photos of the Gods'
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An incantation of ancestral voices
Rabinal Achi
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Blood is not the only social bond
The House in Southeast Asia
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The dreaming spires cast their shadow
The Ceremonial Animal
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Images of the edge of survival
Tribal Asia
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Fury over PhD for child-sex research
A row has erupted over Glasgow University's decision to award a doctorate for a thesis that describes "positive" experiences of sex between children and adults based on interviews with paedophiles...
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'I feel goldsmiths is a place I really have something to contribute to'
Geoffrey Crossick is off to Goldsmiths, having had an exciting time overseeing the changes at the AHRB Geoffrey Crossick, chief executive of the Arts and Humanities Research Board, is to replace the...
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On the move...
* The Association of Business Schools has appointed Arthur Francis , professor and dean of Bradford University's School of Management, its chair. * Mike King , former professor in the department of...
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Fur flies over MRC merger
Anna Fazackerley reports on threats to resign and accusations of 'coercion' by MRC chief Members of the Medical Research Council's governing body have threatened to resign if MPs attack plans to...