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BIOLOGICAL SCIENCESWitness to ExtinctionBy Samuel Turvey, research fellow, Institute of Zoology, University of CambridgeOxford University Press, ?16.99ISBN 9780199549474In relating the plight of the...
BIOLOGICAL SCIENCESWitness to ExtinctionBy Samuel Turvey, research fellow, Institute of Zoology, University of CambridgeOxford University Press, ?16.99ISBN 9780199549474In relating the plight of the...
In restoring oratory and rhetoric to a central role in public life, Barack Obama has shown how words and bearing can touch lives and change minds. Tom Palaima traces his lineage from Cato to Martin...
Competitiveness index reveals 'new world order' as Europe and Asia gain. Hannah Fearn reports
(J) = Review forthcomingANTHROPOLOGY- Unstrange Minds: A Father Remaps the World of AutismBy Roy Richard Grinker, professor of anthropology, international affairs, and human sciences at the George...
ART AND DESIGN- Railways and the Western European CapitalsBy Micheline Nilsen, assistant professor of art history, University of Indiana. Palgrave Macmillan, ?45.00. ISBN 9780230607736Nilsen looks at...
Martin Mills finds an idealist at the apocalypse, but asks why one of our Dalai Lamas is missing
Devastating pandemics remain a threat to public health. Sir Gordon Duff heads the vigilant scientists who protect us.
GEOGRAPHY- The Columbia Gazetteer of the WorldEdited by Saul Cohen, specialist in political geography and university professor emeritus at Hunter College of the City University of New York. Columbia...
To suggest that the University of Melbourne follows the Bologna model ("Monash to focus overseas", October ) is to misunderstand developments here. Our Melbourne model, which includes a suite of high...
ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCILAward winner: Malcolm ValeInstitution: University of OxfordValue: ?721,073The Gascon Rolls 1317-1468Award winner: James HegartyInstitution: Cardiff UniversityValue...
World University Rankings 2008: find out who are the world's top 200.
Fellowships tempt rising research stars from abroad to UK to strike up long-term relations, writes Zoe Corbyn
Kent University's first visiting professor in tourism has brokered UN treaties on heritage and the environment. Unesco director of ecological and earth sciences Natarajan Ishwaran will be coming to...
Dropouts and cuts won't change Bolton's entrance policy, George Holmes tells Melanie Newman
Overseas student applications contribute to record enrolment figures. John Gill reports