All's Wells that ends well
Jennifer Wallace's approving profile of Peter Holland, the new director of the Shakespeare Institute of the University of Birmingham, (THES, "The luvvie director", December 26 1997) unfairly...
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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 novel that one might hesitate to show one's servants: "Ours is essentially...
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Genius, pure not simple
The Genius of Shakespeare
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Page-turning detective tales
The Book Trade and its Customers 1450-1900
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Cold war crisis in Camelot
The Kennedy Tapes
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Russia's road to modernity
Imperial and Soviet Russia
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Man's ascent in epidemic leaps
Plague, Pox and Pestilence - Epidemics and History
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The beast in the bottle
The Natural History of Alcoholism Revisited
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Defenders of the discordant
An Embarrassment of Tyrannies
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Into battle with massed prose
A History of the 20th Century
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The spectre set loose in DC
Firewall
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Nurturing neglected minds
Unpublished research suggests that adopted Romanian orphans can make up lost intellectual ground.Michael Rutter tells Julia Hinde how his findings shed light on the interplay of nature and nurture...
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A-mazing rat-robot man aims to mimic humans
Continuing our series on young researchers, Ayala Ochert meets Neil Burgess, the neuroscientist with his own line in laboratory rats It is a job that children surely dream of having when they grow up...
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It's not the meek who will inherit
The year is 2350 and humanity is divided into a genetically enriched elite and an educationally deprived lumpen mass who cannot even breed successfully with their gene-enhanced betters. Lee Silver...
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Edinburgh University commissions portrait photographs of its scholars
(Photograph) - Go to any ancient university and you will see, somewhere, portraits of its distinguished former scholars glowering down at you, writes Olga Wojtas. Now Edinburgh University has brought...