First impressions
This week's First Impressions, the competition in which you have to identify a book from its openingsentence, comes from a novel whose eponymous hero became a synonym for US provincial conformism: "...
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Spinning out of control
The Global Age - Globalisation in Question
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Beyond pain and pleasure
Ethics, Evil and Fiction
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The great and the terrible
Russia
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Discreet rise of a bourgeois clan
The Beggar and the Professor
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Prescient and a little dusty
Nationalism and Independence
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Mother of all battleaxes
Agrippina
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Let them wear nylons
Parting the Curtain Propaganda
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The road between palace and forum
The History of Government from the Earliest Times
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Sensible story of Victorian folk
The Victorian World Picture
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All is safely gathered in
The Stations of the Sun
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Indian simmer
The Furies of Indian Communalism - Legacy of a Divided Nation
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Dearing needs to ensure equal support
Stella Parker and Richard Taylor plead for the needs of all in continuing education to be met The Universities Association for Continuing Education welcomes the Dearing committee's central commitment...
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A moderniser who couldn't modernise
As new Labour prepares for its first post-election conference the lives of two old Labourites are to be published. Brian Brivati to Kenneth Morgan about Jim Callaghan Being a vice chancellor was...