The Green land with good marks
The New Germans
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The long chains of slavery
The Black Diaspora
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The political art of Athenian wit
Greek Comedy and Ideology
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The shifting ways of words
The Language of Politics in Seventeenth-Century England - Machiavellian Rhetoric
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Who needs toothpaste anyway?
Science for the Earth
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from a writer who was active in the Voluntary Euthanasia Society: "Our hypnotic enslavement to the numerical aspects of reality has dulled our perception of non-...
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Speaking Volumes: The Ego and the Id
Nicholas Tucker on Sigmund Freud's The Ego and the Id . I first encountered Sigmund Freud's The Ego and the Id as a schoolboy, appropriately enough in Hampstead Public Library. My explosively...
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Honorary degrees
STAFFORDSHIRE UNIVERSITY. DLitt: Ken Loach, film director; Tom Paulin, poet and critic; George Rodger, documentary photographer. DSc: Eric Hassall, chairman of the British Geological Survey Board,...
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Grants
UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL. Research contracts. Dr I. Harvey, Pounds 99,896 from the South-West Regional Health Authority (a study of factors associated with variation in prescribing costs among general...
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Fellowships
UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE. Christopher Hutchison, department of biological sciences at the University of Dundee, has been awarded a Wellcome Trust Research Leave Fellowship. LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES...
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Appointments
HERTFORD COLLEGE, OXFORD. Walter Bodmer, director-general of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, has been appointed principal of the college from September 1, 1996. WOOLWICH COLLEGE. Geoff Pine,...
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Water and troubled oil
Greenpeace may have won the political battle to stop Shell sinking its oil platform, Brent Spar, at sea but it has not won the scientific debate argues Tony Rice. Brent Spar is safely at anchor in...
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Events
FREDERICK DOUGLASS. To celebrate the 150th anniversary of Frederick Douglass's first trip to Britain, The David Bruce Centre for American Studies at Keele University will host an international...
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Chairs
ROYAL POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL SCHOOL. The following titles have been conferred on: Paola Camici, consultant clinical scientist, now professor of cardiovascular pathophysiology; Raj Thakker, Medical...
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Awards
THE BRITISH ACADEMY. Burkitt Medal for Biblical Studies - Professor A. van der Woude. Derek Allen Prize (in Musicology) - P. Holman. Grahame Clark Medal - Dr J. Coles. Kenyon Medal for Classical...