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Speaking Volumes: Frederick Bodmer's The Loom of Language
On Frederick Bodmer's The Loom of Language I have always had a thing about collecting books, encouraged no doubt by my father who, from an early age, would take me around junk shops and second-hand...
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Chains that bind
The Making of New World Slavery
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Out of grief's long shadow
Kennedy
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PC pundits and the Pax Americana
Encyclopaedia of US Foreign Relations
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Pennsylvania's polymath
Benjamin Franklin
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When apple pie still tasted good
Grand Expectations
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The mother of intervention
A Revolt Against Liberalism
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Swinging into reaction
Reassessing the Sixties - Making Peace with the 60s - A Tale of Two Utopias
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The struggle for equality
The latest figures show that 8 per cent of British professors are women, with older universities among the worst offenders. Sian Griffiths sorts the bad from the slightly better Ann Chant, head of...
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Get rich and save the world
Martin Ince outlines the increasingly influential views of Ernst von Weizsacker, who says we can produce more while using less resources Ernst von Weizsacker has a thing about yoghurt. Not just any...
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Is the truth out there?
Regarded with suspicion by thinkers on both the left and right, who accuse him of vagueness and relativism, Richard Rorty is continuing unabashed with his project to disprove the existence of...
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Proxy wars amid the groves
Richard Clogg explains the 1920s case of the London University professor forced to quit by his Greek paymasters and why the saga may be repeated elsewhere Some years ago I looked into the...
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Success in the stars
The joint Nasa/European Space Agency Cassini-Huygens mission to the planet Saturn will be launched this autumn. John Zarnecki, of Kent University, has spent the past seven years heading a team...
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Watch this space for a galaxy update
Are we on the verge of a new star trekking age to rival the Apollo era or is all the media coverage of comets, probes and life on Mars just fund-raising hype? Julia Hinde reports From comet Hale Bopp...