Argument is hotting up over whether knowledge and information generated by universities should be made freely available or whether it should be regarded as an asset the university or the individual...
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from a Canadian cultural critic: "The medium, or process, of our time - electric technology - is...
Is it true that Christianity has no unified view? asks Richard Harries. The assumption running through this book is one that we have to take seriously: that we live in a postmodern world. In short,...
Writers in Conversation with Christopher Bigby - Unacknowledged Legislation
British Writing of the Second World War
The Tempest and Its Travels
The Collected Poems of Brian Morris
Lucretius and the Modern World
Impossible Theater - The Trickster-function in the Theatre of GarcÃa Lorca
Blackbird Singing
How can the public good of free access to information be balanced against the commercial necessity of paying for its creation? And what is the impact of the digital economy? In March 2001...
As South Africa prepares to lose more than 4 million people to Aids over the next decade, its universities appear to be the country's best hope for survival. Karen MacGregor reports. Like Banquo's...
Making the leap from adolescence to adulthood has never been more difficult, says social psychologist Terri Apter, which is why greater parental support is not only desirable, but essential. Parents...
In the fourth of our series on intellectual property issues, Stephen Phillips looks at commercialisation in the US, and Caroline Davis talks to a free information radical. The United States has...
Just as Iran's contemporary art scene was taking off, it was stifled by the Islamic revolution. Only now, writes Rose Issa, after years of war and religious restriction, is it blossoming. In 1997, I...