On Edmund Leach's Political Systems of Highland Burma. What is the most influential book I have ever read? No contest: it has to be Edmund Leach's Political Systems of Highland Burma. My copy is the...
The New Cambridge Medieval History
Moshe Sharett - Ben-Gurion's Spy
This week's First Impressions comes from a novel published under a pseudonym a few weeks before the author's suicide: "It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and...
What will the sciences look like in 1997 and who will be the people to watch? Graham Lawton, in the final part of the series, spots the projects to watch CELL DIVISION In Cell division is a delicate...
What will the sciences look like in 1997 and who will be the people to watch? Graham Lawton, in the final part of the series, spots the projects to watch SOLAR NEUTRINO EXPERIMENT Some 6,800 feet...
What is British art? Marcia Pointon thinks the answer should be found in the new Tate Gallery The Tate Gallery is facing its greatest challenge since the collection opened its doors to the public in...
What will the sciences look like in 1997 and who will be the people to watch? Graham Lawton, in the final part of the series, spots the projects to watch The big biological news of 1996 looks likely...
What will the sciences look like in 1997 and who will be the people to watch? Graham Lawton, in the final part of the series, spots the projects to watch The new year will be one of celebration for...
Jonathan Benthall examines zakat, the Muslim tradition of alms-giving It is a mass-produced plastic model of the octagonal Dome of the Rock shrine in Jerusalem. Two circular strips of paper glued...
Warwick University has agreed to subject itself to the intrusions of a fly-on-the-wall radio series. But Simon Midgley finds the natives sanguine about such exposure In a rare warts-and-all...
It's the story of a desperate gamble, of suspense and of survival in a cut-throat world. And that's just the course. Tony Tysome meets some of the budding writers on Liverpool John Moores University'...
Privy Counsellor Eric Forth, MP for Mid Worcestershire and minister of state, Department for Education and Employment. Knights Bachelor Thomas Leon Blundell, FRS, for services to the Biotechnology...
LAST week's research assessments show that despite complaints of limited resources, many British academics are doing terrific research. This week and next, The THES is looking at where the best...
Institutions should help hard-up graduates pay the spiralling cost of attending their graduation ceremonies, argues Gail Chester. Across the country over the last few months, new graduates should...