First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novel in French by an Irish playwright: " I am in my mother's room. It's I who live there now." The...
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Dreams of the bog in the bowels
Thoreau's Country - A Right to Roam
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A changeable outlook
Physics of the Environment and Climate - Atmosphere, Weather and Climate - Atmospheric Processes and Systems
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The works about water
Elements of Physical Hydrology
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Mapping the fragmented union
Russia in the Modern World
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All things odd and beautiful
The Ambonese Curiosity Cabinet - Voyages of Discovery
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Natural beauty of computer land
The Computational Beauty of Nature
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Meat and its role in controlling females
The Hunting Apes
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The survival of the fittest theory of immunology
The Generation of Diversity
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Digging up planted evidence
A Rum Affair
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Higher channels
John Davies surveys the schedules. (All times pm unless stated.) Pick of the week The latest institution to open its doors to the cameras is London's Tavistock Clinic, whose therapeutic practices...
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Your head in his hands
Stitching a man's head to a new body sounds like fiction, but Robert White believes it is possible - as does the paraplegic who has volunteered for the operation. Tim Cornwell reports Robert White...
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Turf battles and scholarly monopoly
David Cesarani, accused of 'academic fraud' and of cynically sabotaging Arthur Koestler's 'exclusive' biography, responds to his critics In May I was rung up from New York by Matthew Price, an...
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How the future began
Jonathan Weiner surveys the advances today's thinkers anticipate by 2099 Tibetan diviners emptied their minds and stared into lakes, mirrors, the flaming wicks of lamps, or the balls of their thumbs...
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I've got no energy, doctor
The public may fear nuclear power, but this week energy expert Ian Fells will demand new power stations in Britain. Kam Patel reports on the scientists ridiculing Labour's energy policy On the train...