Dying for a fag? Yes, says critic
Cigarette advertisers are capitalising on images of entrapment and oblivion, a Scottish academic claims. Alastair McIntosh of Edinburgh University's Centre for Human Ecology argues +that the health...
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Skull's odyssey tracked
The 400th anniversary of Descartes' birth near Tours has seen the traditional commemorative publications. But one biographer, retired medical professor Emile Aron, found that he spent much of his two...
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Academic sympathy for transsexuals
Deirdre McCloskey's excellent piece on gender transitions in academia (THES, August 23) implies that transsexuals face a particularly tough time in Britain. While she is correct that the position of...
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Bard-mouthing the Scots
Jennifer Wallace reports on the 'new' Shakespeare play. They were all distinctly underwhelmed at the International Shakespeare conference at Stratford. Radio 4's Today programme ran a story on the...
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from the work of an author and poet who was the first English writer to receive the Nobel prize for literature in 1907: "He crossed his hands on his lap and smiled, as a...
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Speaking Volumes: The Unity of Law and Morality
Zenon Bankowski on Michael Detmold's The Unity of Law and Morality . It was a long journey. I couldn't concentrate. The train was hot and the book was weighing me down with its complexities. Why had...
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A lapidary lyricist
Wordsworth and the Geologists
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Distant sounds of crashing banks
Banking, Currency, and Finance in Europe Between the Wars
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Making sure of one's ventifacts
The New Penguin Dictionary of Geology
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Striking a chord of avant-garde beauty
Aspects of Complexity in Recent British Music
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The canny bankers of Auld Reekie
Bank of Scotland
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The trouble with ethnic blending
Democracy and Authoritarianism in South Asia - A Nation in Turmoil
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Treasure houses as tools of power
Civilising Rituals
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Dead Clever
Part EIGHT: the story so far... Henry has Toni write the lead story for University Focus, exposing the dead student fraud. Before sending the proofs to the printer, he puts Toni's byline on the story...