Terra infirma
A royal commission has just concluded that we do not know much about the ground beneath our feet. Kam Patel unearths some disturbing facts about soil, and three experts explain why its degradation...
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Tongue twisting and yod-dropping
The Cambridge History of the English Language
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Less than Olympian Greeks
The Greek World - Time, Tradition and Society in Greek Archaeology - The Greeks
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The modernisation of mass murder
Confronting The Nazi Past - So Haben Wir Das Reich Verspielt - A History of Fascism 1914-45
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Sources for research funding in 1998
Each month this section will list funds available for academic researchers. Details should be submitted to research@thesis.co.uk EUROPEAN UNION www.cordis.lu and www.echo.lu www.europa.eu. int/comm/...
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The sound in the symbol
The World's Writing Systems - The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Writing Systems - The Origin and Early Development of the Chinese Writing System
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East is a cultural Eden
Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet." Rudyard Kipling was thinking of Europe and Asia when he wrote these verses. I quote them not just in continued amazement at what...
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Lessons in citizenship
In the shadows of the German occupation, Marc Bloch (1886-1944), the greatest of medievalists and co-founder of the Annales school of history, posed the essential question for democratic...
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Colonial writers lost in the post
Postcolonial studies is drowning in a tidal wave of jargon, conceptual inanities and political exhibitionism argues Russell Jacoby. Just when poststructuralism, postmodernism and deconstructionism...
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Pukka purveyors of martial arts
The Sepoy and the Raj - Fidelity and Honour - The Development of British Land Forces in South Asia, 1600-1947
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Sheer weight of numbers
Japan’s position at the top is being challenged by neighbours near and far intent on promoting and investing in their universities. Phil Baty reports. China is mounting a serious challenge to Japan’s...
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No Incas in Hastings
Jared Diamond asks why Europeans came to dominate and colonise the world and not the peoples of Africa, Australia or America? Eurasians, especially peoples of Europe and eastern Asia, have spread...
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All the European world's a stage
The World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre Volume One:
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Under-exploited assets
As we head for the "knowledge society" of the 21st century, British universities seem only half awake, argues Sir Geoffrey Holland. The National Advisory Council on Education and Training Targets is...
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Great theories, complicated world
Capital Mobility - Towards a New Bretton Woods