Harpoons, ropes and fisher folk
Sea Hunters of Indonesia
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Anthropologising the West
Essays on the Anthropology of Reason
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Small but perfectly formed
Degrees of Freedom - Life at Small Scale
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Decomposers in life's recycle
In the Company of Mushrooms
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Findings of a lost world
Evolution and Extinction of Dinosaurs - Dinosaurs of the East Coast
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The ultimate lawbreakers
Volcanoes
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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 a doctor who defied a dictator: "One hot spring evening, just as the sun was...
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Chairs
Coventry University. Professorships: B. Hocking, international relations; C. Hoskyns, European studies; J. Lorimer, physical chemistry; D. Walton, applied chemistry. Sheffield Hallam University Clive...
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Honorary degrees
Queen's University, Belfast. The following honorary degrees have been awarded. DSc: Erwin Gabathuler, Sir James Chadwick professor of experimental physics, visiting scientist at Cern (1991-92),...
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Fellowships
Rose Bruford College. Honorary fellowships: Simon Callow, actor; Bill Bryden, director; Freddie Jones, actor; Corinne Rodriguez, casting consultant. Fellowship: Gary Oldman, actor. New College,...
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This life: the artificial one
The quest to create life-like creatures out of silicon chips, wires and wheels is well under way and may one day culminate in the creation of a virtual human. Kam Patel reports Last week artificial...
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The fringe dwellers
Will history vindicate three academics whose controversial views on Darwin and Einstein are scorned by the scientific community? Ayala Ochert investigates If a literary expert were to suggest that...
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Stuck on sundews
In the first of a series on young researchers, Julia Hinde goes looking for the origins of Drosera with plant evolutionist Alastair Culham Those with a passion for plants need not look far for botany...
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Life as a field study
Mark Redman is a rustic, holistic academic. He lives in the country, champions organic farming and lectures on and in bucolic bliss. Gail Vines reports from deepest Dorset The academic life is often...
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Reel fantasies, real crimes
Andrea Dworkin describes how she, Catharine MacKinnon and Linda Lovelace battled to prove that pornographers were similar in kind to the Ku Klux Klan In fall 1983 Catharine MacKinnon and I co-taught...