First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from Chloe from Ohio: " 124 was spiteful. " The winner receives a £25 Blackwell's book voucher and the...
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The strange case of the detective novel
Detective Fiction and the Rise of Forensic Science
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A brutal corrective to coerciveness
Sovereign Virtue
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A present to California, from the little people of Stone Age Britain
The Triumph of the Moon
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Fossil shore lines show recent Flood
Noah's Flood
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Battering ram of humanity at gate of Fortress Europe
The Uninvited
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The physics of divorce, Dante, detection and erotic outburst
The Genius of Science
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Ringing the changes
A good academic needs a good specialism -a subject to base his career on. But what happens if after a decade of, say, Labour Party history, he develops a fascination with the cultural significance of...
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Something to put the wind back in your cerebral sails
Alain Gadian is spending a year researching wild winds on desolate islands. In the second of our series on sabbaticals, he explains why some academics switch jobs after taking a break from the...
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Funding that sought after sabbatical
The Leverhulme Trust, which considers requests from all academic fields, is spending more than Pounds 2.5 million on two schemes to give hard-pressed academics time for research. The Leverhulme Study...
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A new subject is just a subtle shift away
An academic "can get typecast" and feel "pigeon-holed" by staying within one narrow specialism in order to climb the careerladder, says John Ramsden, professor of modern historyat Queen Maryand...
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A party animal with a social phobia
Can psychotherapy help apes as well as people? Steve Farrar reports on the case of a bonobo that breaks new research ground Harry Prosen will never forget the first time he met Brian. It was not as...
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College pension funds put your money where your ethics are
Tobacco companies could be hit as pension funds inch towards ethical investment. Gideon Burrows reports From this month, university employees will be able to find out if their pension contributions...
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Agony aunt
Q Most students have gone home and on my desk is a backlog of work. The trouble is, I don't feel motivated with summer here. What can I do? A Plan to give yourself a break - but not until you have...