All Over the Map: Writing on Buildings and Cities
Flora Samuel welcomes an exuberant attack on a sphere dominated by greed and lack of vision
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The Darwin Economy: Liberty, Competition, and the Common Good
Howard Davies admires the aims of a defender of government but questions his certainties
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Puppet: An Essay on Uncanny Life
Puppets are creepy. It tells you something that they are at the heart of Freud's brilliant and occasionally absurd reflections about the feeling of the uncanny, in his reading of the automaton...
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The Pursuit of Laziness: An Idle Interpretation of the Enlightenment
I had so much to do last weekend. Apart from the usual domestic chores, there was my next book to work on, a conference paper to complete, and new lectures to think about. And there was this review...
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Adventures of an Accidental Sociologist: How to Explain the World Without Becoming a Bore
Les Gofton is intrigued by the memoir of a scholar who finds modern life deeply disappointing
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The Puzzle of Left-handedness
The "puzzle" here, according to Rik Smits, is that while left-handedness is an enduring characteristic of humans, it has long been seen as an aberration, linked to all sorts of negativity and widely...
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To the Ends of the Earth: Scotland's Global Diaspora
With this book, Tom Devine, Scotland's best-known historian, completes a trilogy of surveys of Scotland at home and abroad. The Scottish Nation, 1700-2000 (1999) examined the rise of modern Scotland...
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The Consuming Instinct: What Juicy Burgers, Ferraris, Pornography, and Gift Giving Reveal about Human Nature
Another narrow Darwinian conception of economic behaviour tries Isabelle Szmigin's patience
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Æthelstan: The First King of England
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle described him as "lord of nobles, treasure-giver to men". The Welsh called him mechteyrn, "great king". The 12th-century historian William of Malmesbury said: "The whole of...
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A Little History of Philosophy
The continuing success of the slow food movement - the ethical, nutritional and aesthetic reaction to the meteoric rise of junk food during the 20th century - sadly appears to be accompanied by an...
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Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970-1990
Patrick Hannay reflects on the waste and diversion of energy by a movement that purported to cure a cultural malaise
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LondonBetween Heaven and Earth: Contemporary Art from the Centre of AsiaFor many in the West, if they think about the area at all, Afghanistan, Mongolia and the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan...
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The Pick - The Passenger
Credit: Catherine AshmoreThe PassengerEnglish National OperaWe are on a glitzy ocean liner in the early 1960s. Walter, a German diplomat, and his wife Liese are setting off to Brazil. Suddenly she is...
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I'm sorry, I'll write that again
"This could be the end for Lapping." That was the ominous response of Louise Bimpson, Corporate Director of Human ߣߣÊÓƵ, to the revelation that Gordon Lapping, head of our Department of Media and...
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Stapel diet of fraud
Miles Hewstone discusses a heinous data-faking scandal and the lessons that must be learned to stop the ‘betrayers of the truth’