The battle over biology
Kam Patel talks to veteran zoologist Edward O. Wilson, whose controversial classic, Sociobiology , is 25 years old. The Harvard zoologist Edward O. Wilson has few regrets about writing Sociobiology...
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A dime for your sterling thoughts
It may not be a macho pursuit, but John Driffill could not resist adapting a major American economics text for European readers. Writing textbooks is not an activity universally held in high esteem...
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Everyone online, but who pays?
Universities and publishers should cooperate more if tomorrow's students are to be as well served for 'textbooks' as today's, says Mark Bide.The day of the "electronic textbook" has yet to dawn,...
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Ethics of choice, freedom and utility
Development as Freedom
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novel by "Papa": " He lay flat on the brown, pine-needled floor of the forest, his chin on his...
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Death: the first gender bender
The Gender of Death
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Fighting, fornication and fiction
Gore Vidal
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Fingerprints of the Bard
Shakespeare's Language
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How Milton made the Fall a decidedly non-English event
Literary Imagination
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It didn't happen one night in Leningrad in 1945
The Guest from theFuture
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Kipling's something of a shadow
Rudyard Kipling
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Literary sense left for political points
The Politics of Jane Austen
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Orient your thoughts
Temenos Academy Review
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Poet with a passion for absinthe and a young Pole
Madder Music, Stronger Wine
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Rerouting the line from Pope to Shelley
Thomas Chatterton and Romantic Culture - The Making of Percy's 'Reliques'