First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from a regal-sounding work by a satirist born in Bengal: " As I write, highly civilised human beings are...
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The threat posed by insensate power lust
The Rape of the Constitution? - Controlling the State
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When common sense and philosophy fail...
An Anatomy of Thought
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Things that were better not left unsaid
The Harvard Guide to Psychiatry
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Deep into the bison's eye
The Cave at Altamira
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Nomads who left few clues
Scythian Gold
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Looking eastwards for links to three cultures
Aegean Art and Architecture
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Woken by deciphering kiss
The Lost Chronicles of the Maya Kings
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Unlocking the past with a ceramic key
The Maya Vase Book, Volumes I-V
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Wannabe wanaks' power rise
Rethinking Mycenaean Palaces
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Dynastic upheavals in the shadow of the pharaohs
The Kingdom of Kush
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Digs to the glory of Marx
The Golden Age of Chinese Archaeology
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Destiny is not forged in bronze
Gods and Heroes of the European Bronze Age
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From hunter-gatherer to a fat bloke with bad teeth
Skeletons in our Closet
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Making a song and dance of Athens
Performance Culture and Athenian Democracy