Vani Borooah (Ulster) and John Mangan (Queensland): Multiculturalism versus Assimilation: Attitudes towards Immigrants in Western Countries. From the International Journal of Transdisciplinary Research, William Bostock (Tasmania): Beyond the Realms of the Specialists: The Challenge of the Generalized Issue; and Robert Howell (CSRI): Choosing Ethical Theories and Principles and Applying Them to the Question: "Should the Seas Be Owned? From New York, Jonathan van Meter on the lure of the Jersey Shore: What has made America fall in love with the Cote Crass?; and the MTA has a simple, not very expensive ticket for improving how the city gets around: Revolutionize the bus — but can even the most sensible ideas get implemented these days? From Curve, when it comes to domestic violence, lesbians are far from safe; and an article on lesbian-on-lesbian rape: The rarely spoken about threat lesbians face, from one another. A review of Secret Language: Codes, Tricks, Spies, Thieves, and Witchcraft by Barry Blake. A review of Laura Vanderkam's 168 Hours: You Have More Time Than You Think. Wild, hairy, folks who fought griffons and nomads — have paleontologists unearthed mythic figures of folklore? Shakespeare never had any guarantee that his name would be remembered to history — or, indeed, that four hundred years on academics would still be mining his sonnets for veiled references to premature hair-loss. A review of The Man Who Ate His Boots: The Tragic History of the Search for the Northwest Passage by Anthony Brandt. From Invention and Technology, a special issue on steam engines. What's with steampunk? A bizarre subculture that romanticises Victorian-era machines and Jules Verne is steadily entering the mainstream.
