In the beginning were the Words
Anthony Freeman on the histories, myths and exegesis that grew into Judaeo-Christian Scriptures.
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Shakespear's Names
In early modern England, the name Helen referred to one individual: Helen of Troy, famed alike for her beauty, her sexual waywardness and for the waste and destruction that followed in her wake. The...
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Good Sex Illustrated
The family, in Tony Duvert's iconography, is the mainspring of oppression, "breeder of meat and whittler-down of men. As a 'producer' unit, it is ... capable only of destroying the children that it...
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The Book of the Week: Your Inner Fish
Michael Benton muses on our slippery past.
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The week in books
Turning Back the Clock: Hot Wars and Media Populism by Umberto Eco, director of the Scuola Superiore di Studi Umanistici, University of Bologna, translated by Alastair McEwen. Harvill Secker, £17.99...
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The myth of the universal remedy
Peter Sinclair finds the Washington Consensus isn't a reliable prescription for developing economies.
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The Design of Future Things
In Don Norman's latest book, whose title echoes that of his 1988 bestseller The Design of Everyday Things, he turns his attention to the increasing number of "smart" products that don't just react to...
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The Haunted Observatory: Curiosities from the Astronomer's Cabinet
William Herschel arrived in Hanoverian England as a penniless refugee who first eked out a meagre living as a professional musician. In 1766, his fortunes changed dramatically when his great talent...
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Published this week
ARCHAEOLOGY- The Tomb in Ancient Egypt: Royal and Private Sepulchres from the Early Dynastic Period to the RomansBy Aidan Dodson, research fellow of archaeology and anthropology, University of...
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First Impressions competition: 7 February 2008
This week’s competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a book about a small town who find their way of life threatened, with fatal consequences:"They shoot...
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Minimum English standard is set too low, tutors say
Study reports poor language skills can leave foreign students floundering. Melanie Newman writes.
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Research on physical activity
People who exercise appear to be biologically younger than their sedentary counterparts, research suggests.Physical activity has been shown to have a major impact on health: frequent exercisers...
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Nottingham Trent University - Huge bequest will boost research
A £7.65 million gift from the John and Lucille van Geest Foundation to Nottingham Trent University could be the largest donation to a post-1992 institution, according to the university. The donation...
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University of Leeds - Grant to help tie up string music
A £500,000 grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council for a project to gather, digitise and analyse a large collection of music published around 1840 until 1930 has been awarded to the...
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Glamorgan and Wales Institute, Cardiff - Small business survey awarded
The contract to undertake one of the UK's largest studies of small businesses has been awarded jointly to the Welsh Enterprise Institute at the University of Glamorgan Business School and Cardiff...