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Les Choix d'Henri Cartier-Bresson - Henri Cartier-Bresson
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Dangerous. Handle with extreme care
The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language
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A journey from armchair to ice-ridden seas
Voyages of Delusion
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Music outplays the mind
Beethoven
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novel admired by George Bernard Shaw: "Now, what I want is, Facts." * Entries, including postal...
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Near miss of an irascible Irishman
Charles Villiers Stanford
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Phew! Hybrids at high speed
Visible Deeds of Music
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Saint of the gutters with friends in high places
Mother Teresa
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Consigning God to ancient
The Biblical World
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Pilgrim's progress through division
The Body and the Blood
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Substrate of a nation's psyche
America's God
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An instant blend of brevity, belief and erudition
The Cambridge Illustrated History of Religions
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Laurie Taylor Column
I'm almost lost for words. I mean, what can one say about those remarks by the education secretary Charles Clarke? I got so angry I learnt them by heart. Try me. He said the state shouldn't throw...
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The higher purpose
The goal of university education is to help build a fairer, more just society, says Steven Schwartz. Twenty-eight years ago, the US educator Harlan Cleveland had this to say about the conflicting...
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Leader: Academe's great debate must address values
Who would have thought that a year-long debate on the future of higher education had culminated in a white paper less than four months ago? Parliament managed to debate the entire subject without the...