First Impressions
This week's First Impressions, the competition in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from a 19th-century novelist and friend of Dickens: "It was a dark and stormy...
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Troubled meeting of minds
Education in a Research University - Academic Duty
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The rise of the gentleman medic
Charitable Knowledge
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Speaking Volumes: Games People Play
Michael Webster on Eric Berne's Games People Play . Just as there are tunes that can never be driven permanently out of the head, there are ideas that survive in the memory long after their...
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Peeping in people's houses
Encyclopedia of the Vernacular Architecture of the World
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Japan's architectural bullies
Architecture and Authority in Japan
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Principles and pastiche in Islam
An Architecture for People - The Mosque and the Modern World
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Beware cul-de-sac concepts
Britain's Cities - Planning for Urban Quality - The New Urban Frontier - Planning Europe's Capital Cities
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Well-informed relative works wonders with buried jewels
Britannica CD 98 Multimedia Edition
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Our global urban bungles
Cities for a Small Planet
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The City's golden grasshopper
The Royal Exchange
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Hideaway hides
The battlelines over furs in fashion have shifted since the 1980s. Julia Emberley reports on the latest twists in the debate People trash it, treasure it, fight over it. People wear it, trap it, skin...
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A Stone Age mind-blower
Steven Pinker's deconstruction of the mind suggests that our 20th century leisure pursuits are driven by primitive genetic imperatives. Tim Cornwell reports Steven Pinker is a movie buff - or was, he...
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Learned outsiders
Refugees from Central Europe have had a huge impact on British historiography since 1945. Peter Alter reflects on the reasons for their success The two greatest historians of the postwar era, Elton...
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The value of sitting
What is an academic's role on a parliamentary committee? Anthony King tells of his work on the Nolan Committee on Standards in Public Life Three years ago I met my wife in a London restaurant before...