The cloud men vs the counters
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The sky's night frights
Comets, Popular Culture and the Birth of Modern Cosmology
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Correction
The review of British Journal of Health Psychology ( THES , May 29) said the journal was available only on joint subscription with British Journal of Clinical Psychology. That was for the first year...
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Speaking volumes: Religion and the Rise of Modern Science
David Livingstone on Reijer Hooykaas's Religion and the Rise of Modern Science . It must have been May or early June. The year was 1975. I remember this because it was final honours examination...
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Our man in Cairo
POLITICS AND DIPLOMACY IN EGYPT. The diaries of Sir Miles Lampson, 1935-1937. By Miles Lampson. Edited by M. E. Yapp 1,044pp. Oxford University Press / British Academy. Pounds 95. - 0 19 726155 8....
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The business of the poor
THE SOLIDARITIES OF STRANGERS. The English poor laws and the people, 1700 1948. By Lynn Hollen Lees. 373pp. Cambridge University Press. Pounds 45. - 0 521 57261 4. In 1829, Harriet Williams, a widow...
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Napoleon's escort
COCKBURN AND THE BRITISH NAVY IN TRANSITION. Admiral Sir George Cockburn, 1772-1853. By Roger Morriss. 338pp. University of Exeter Press. Pounds 35. - 0 85989 526 2. Sir George Cockburn is remembered...
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Distiller at work
THREADS OF TIME. A memoir. By Peter Brook. 241pp. Methuen. Pounds 17.99. - 0 413 69620 0. Not long after the formation of the International Centre for Theatre Research in Paris, Peter Brook took his...
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Memories are remade of this
REMIND ME WHO I AM, AGAIN. By Linda Grant. 301pp. Granta. Pounds 14.99. - 1 86207 171 3. Remind Me Who I Am, Again is about senile dementia, which seems to have replaced anorexia as the most written-...
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Biography
EDWARD HOPPER. An intimate biography. By Gail Levin. 695pp. Berkeley: University of California Press. Paperback, $19.95. - 0 520 21475 7. The word "intimate" has a slightly tawdry quality. In...
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Cultural Studies
A CENTURY OF ARTS AND LETTERS. John Updike, editor. 346pp. New York: Columbia University Press; distributed in the UK by Wiley. Pounds 32.50. - 0 231 10248 8. It is the centenary of the American...
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Literature
CONTEMPORARY JEWISH WRITING IN BRITAIN AND IRELAND. An anthology. Bryan Cheyette, editor. 336pp. Halban. Pounds 25 (paperback, Pounds 10.99). - 1 870015 68 1. Launching a series entitled Jewish...
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Politics
THE TRIAL OF DEMOCRACY. Black suffrage and northern Republicans, 1860-1910 411pp. By Xi Wang. Athens: University of Georgia Press; distributed in the UK by Eurospan. Pounds 51.95. - 0 8203 1837 X....
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Social Studies
WHERE THERE IS EVIL. By Sandra Brown. 312pp. Macmillan. Pounds 16.99. - 0 333 72185 3. In 1992, Sandra Brown found herself suddenly faced with the claim that her father was a child murderer. Brown...
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Dick Bird
NEVER THE SAME AGAIN. A history of the VSO. 206pp. Cambridge: Lutterworth. Pounds 25 (paperback, Pounds 15). - 0 7188 2975 1. I am sure young Americans would learn a good deal in this country...