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A World History of Christianity
A World History of Christianity
Western universities must develop 'edutainment' on the Internet or be left behind, says Sa'ad Medhat. The Internet is redefining how we live, how we do business and how we spend our leisure time, but...
The European Union must guard against being over-ambitious in its plans to help reform vocational education and training in the former Eastern bloc. The warning came from Anne Jones, professor of...

The Harvard University geneticist Richard Lewontin's book consists of review essays originally published in the New York Review of Books between 1981 and 1993, with epilogues to bring them up to date...
Sikhism
Anyone who needs to communicate with India from abroad knows there has been a revolution in the past few years. Not long ago, it was difficult even to transmit a fax to India, let alone receive an...
SOUTH ASIAN ARCHAEOLOGY 1993. Edited by Asko Parpola and Petteri Koskikallio. Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia. 445pp (Volume one), 442pp (Volume two), $195.00 (both volumes). ISBN 951 41 0729 2. The 70...
Bill Watson bemoans the arrogance displayed by British academics and the business community towards Malaysia. When the prime minister of Malaysia speaks British business executives listen nervously,...
Tim Cornwell talks to an African entrepreneur whose dreams of providing an information network for much of the Third World are about to take off The "university of the air", as Noah Samara calls it,...
If a plant can cure cancer, Paul Alan Cox is willing to hang out of a helicopter to find it, writes Julia Hinde Paul Alan Cox has brought us natural shampoos and award-winning foot cream, he has...
The History of Cartography, Volume Two, Book One - The History of Cartography, Volume Two, Book Two
Pop Internationalism
Universities are waking up to the fact that their position as primary providers of post-secondary knowledge is under attack. Alison Goddard reports on challenges that lie ahead Seven years ago Sir...
The Problem of Nature
REPORTS FROM É«ºÐÖ±²¥ BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR É«ºÐÖ±²¥ ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE Is genetic modification of crops the hope for the future or a sure-fire route to bankruptcy? The issue was debated at this week's...