Brutality management
As the carnage in Bosnia ends, Richard Clogg asks if there are lessons in an earlier episode of ethnic engineering. Twenty miles of carts I with exhausted, staggering men, women and children,...
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Visions of a synchronised continent
This week's Royal Society 'Science in Society' meeting, Science Funding: The European Dimension, covered both national and EU-wide issues. You can hear it all at THESIS, The THES Internet Service (...
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Sex as a method
In the second of our series on young researchers, Julia O'Connell Davidson tells Harriet Swain how using sex as a teaching aid led her to study the murky world of prostitution For Julia O'Connell...
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Branded an outcast
The dismissal of Christopher Brand will not end speculation on the link between race and intelligence. Julia Hinde reports Last Friday's decision by Edinburgh University to sack self-proclaimed "...
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Bill's coherent foreign adventure
US Foreign Policy after trhe Cold War
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Informers and aliens in our midst
"We took no notice of these pedestrians. We didn't know if they felt sorry for us or if they were laughing at us. But doubtless we no longer existed for them, because they wished us not to exist, so...
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Sharp-edged fuzziness
As the world's pictures are digitised and powerful interests jockey for electronic rights, Charles Oppenheim explores the maze surrounding ownership of diverse works, Roy McKeown describes progress...
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Intellectual seeding
Ravi Dayal charts the progress of the world's third largest publisher of books in English No one quite knows how many publishers of books there are in India, but estimates place the number at about...
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Orienting the map of the world
The History of Cartography, Volume Two, Book One - The History of Cartography, Volume Two, Book Two
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Absorbing ideas via porous borders
Cultural Internationalism and World Order
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Quality rap for institute
Southampton Institute's extensive links with overseas colleges are criticised in an audit report from the Higher Education Quality Council due to be published next month. This comes at a time when...
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Ancestral thoughts
The Prehistory of the Mind - The Prehistory of Sex
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Iceman cometh through the window
Archaeology
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Ancient Africa and the cargo jet cult
Trade Routes
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Far Orient expressed
It is hard to write down reactions to a dictionary. We do not read dictionaries, but rather collect the right tools from them for all our various mining ventures. To that end, the Dictionary of Art...