Springboks pick up research pace
Spurred by the government, R&D in South Africa is booming, reports Karen MacGregor from Durban South Africans glorify their sporting abilities but otherwise tend to be deeply self-deprecating....
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Nurturing a jewel of the Caribbean
British research students are helping to develop sustainable forest use programmes in Guyana. Cath Cotton reports Guyana, once regarded as the jewel of the Caribbean, is facing political and economic...
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Wars: how to start and stop one
Strategic Coercion - Why Wars Happen
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Perfection in grenade throwing
Darwin Among the Machines
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God Fionn, folklore and phantoms
Dictionary of Celtic Mythology
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The maharajas' emasculation
The Princes of India in the Endgame of Empire, 1917-47
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Outcastes of Hindu apartheid
Viramma - The Untouchables
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High art by low down under
White Aborigines
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The changing face of ET
The Biological Universe
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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 the former president of Freedonia, aka Rufus T. Firefly: "Until I was four, I...
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Windrush and the mingling of Britain
Kunapipi - Empire Windrush - West Africans in Britain 1900-60 - Windrush
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Lesson in communal creativity
Chinua Achebe
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Three men on a mission
King Khama and the Great White Queen
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Insurgent Mexican
Economist and frustrated politician Jorge Castaneda tells Huw Richards that Latin America's neo-liberal consensus is leading to a divided, violent society. His solution is to tax the middle class to...