Eyes on the old East
The Ottoman Empire, 1300-1650 - The Ottoman Empire and Early Modern Europe. First edition
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Eyes on the old East
The Ottoman Empire, 1300-1650 - The Ottoman Empire and Early Modern Europe. First edition
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Picking through the 'bleached bones' of leviathan
Dorrik Stowe's hunt for Tethys, a lost ocean that once dominated the planet, takes leads him from the Dolomites to the Himalayas The Tethys Ocean once dominated the Earth. Its vast waters were party...
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Ice age ahead will sink us if we kill current of life
Brian Fagan warns that global warming could shut down the Gulf Stream, locking Europe in a savage winter and the Middle East in a scorching drought for as long as ten centuries. What would happen if...
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The measure of imperial rulers
Empires are built for a variety of motives -a quest for wealth, an urge to dominate, a wish to impose order on haphazard conquest, even a desire to do good. But, says Hugh Thomas, they do share one...
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The measure of imperial rulers
Empires are built for a variety of motives -a quest for wealth, an urge to dominate, a wish to impose order on haphazard conquest, even a desire to do good. But, says Hugh Thomas, they do share one...
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Can't stem progress
The UK could profit from the US' politicking with basic biomedical research, says Roger Pedersen If you've seen the movie The Graduate, you'll remember the scene in which the financier walks over to...
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Building bloc of clicks 'n' mortar
Online courses offered by a consortium of universities are attracting much interest in Asia and Europe. Geoff Maslen, in Melbourne, reports. The first specially developed courses to be delivered...
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Making the world a smaller place
Brussels, 23 Oct 2003 An Austrian company is set to revolutionise communication between Europe's citizens with the launch of a large round screen which allows one-to-one, real time, oral and visual...
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Making the world a smaller place
Brussels, 23 Oct 2003 An Austrian company is set to revolutionise communication between Europe's citizens with the launch of a large round screen which allows one-to-one, real time, oral and visual...
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Astronomers on virtual quest to map digital universe
Brussels, 03 Mar 2003 There is a huge, unexplored universe out there, but astronomers are breaking with centuries of tradition and turning away from their telescopes and towards their computers in...
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World Education Market 2003
"Advancing the Millennium of Learning" is the theme of this year's WEM conference and exhibition (Lisbon, Portugal: May 20-23, 2003), of which The É«ºÐÖ±²¥S is a media partner. Now in its fourth year, WEM...
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Proba workshop: small satellite yielding beautiful results
Paris, 25 Mar 2005 Photos In orbit for three and a half years now, ESA's smallest Earth Observation satellite is making a big contribution to science, a workshop heard this week. Proba applications...
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Developing nations join as market beckons
More than 50 universities in Africa, Latin America and Asia have formed the Southern Universities Network to prepare for competition in the higher education market. The network is the brainchild of...