The Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World By Barrington Moore Jr.Britain, the US and France became rich and free, while Germany, Russia and...
Although his days in the front line of humanitarian aid are past for James Orbinski, his passion for justice and human rights is undiminished, as Matthew Reisz discovers
Fiona Taylor gives full marks to an expose of beggary amid plenty
The development of military hardware that does not kill is proving elusive, as Russell Brown discovers
This book began badly for me, with one of those imaginative reconstructions that some people enjoy; in this case of Francois de Lorraine, second Duke de Guise, setting out from his principal...
Prior to picking up The Dawn of Green, I had been re-reading Edward Abbey's novel The Monkey Wrench Gang. First published in 1975, it concerns the activities of four misfits with a shared love of...
Housewife to acclaimed economist within a decade - not bad going, says Natalie Gold
The "making of American dance" bit of the title likely brings to mind a certain Martha, and indeed the legendary Graham figures significantly in Janet Mansfield Soares' biography. Its subject,...
"Gross," starts the preface to this curious collection on the strangeness of nature. Beetles that commit siblicide, toxic frogs, kleptoparasitism in birds, hallucinogenic plants, poisonous dragons,...
CULTURAL STUDIES- Gay Suburban Narratives in American and British Culture: Homecoming QueensBy Martin Dines, lecturer in suburban and cultural studies, Kingston University. Palgrave Macmillan, £50.00...
Police cars raced to our campus on Tuesday as news came through of a fatal stabbing following an outbreak of mob violence in the Senior Common Room of David Willetts College.According to unconfirmed...
We should learn from the American experience with fees, says Alan Ryan
Trust's long-term awards will put scientists, not their proposals, first. Zoe Corbyn reports
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