Oil pollution monitor wins top green prize
A team of scientists developing a device for monitoring oil pollution has won the top prize in a new environmental award scheme. The instrument makes use of the latest advances in opto-electronics...
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Waste changes in the pipeline
Domestic waste water is a complex and delicate subject, particularly the various items which find their way into sewers and are technically known as "gross sanitary solids". These include sanitary...
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White males fight the freeze
White male professors at Northern Arizona University have brought a lawsuit claiming they are the victims of sex equality run amok. George Rudenbusch, an associate professor of philosophy, claims he...
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Hangings provoke student unrest
Security was stepped up at Nigerian universities this week as students staged a two-day boycott of lectures in protest at the executions of novelist Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight pro-Ogoni campaigners. In...
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A fudge too far
Einstein's Greatest Blunder? The Cosmological Constant and Other Fudge Factors in the Physics of the Universe - Perspectives in Astrophysical Cosmology
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Black mark on Weimar
Paper and Iron - Nazism, Fascism and the Working Class
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England's dark side
Black England
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Faith, hope and Chartism
The Early Feminists - Sin, Organised Charity and the Poor Law in Victorian England
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God's vicar in the Treasury
Gladstone, 1875-98 - Gladstone
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Ideas that added muscle to the empirebuilders
Lords of All The World
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In tune with the times
The Romantic Generation
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Modernisation without westernisation
Enlightenment's Wake
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On the verandas of power
The Ilberts in India 1882-1886
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Throne into disarray
The Hidden Writing - The Monarchy and the Constitution
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Voices of our age
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - One Hundred Years of Solitude - Rabbit Angstrom, The Four Novels - Catch 22 - The Periodic Table - Midnight's Children - The Adventure of Augie March - Song...