Please don't mention the war
British and German perceptions of each other are stuck in a time warp. We must move on from the second world war, says Richard Cockett I was invited to an unusual dinner party by a German girlfriend...
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Why do we fail to shed tiers?
Class is a very British obsession but for David Cannadine it is more about perception than economic statistics. Lucy Hodges reports. Class is a subject that obsesses us British. We use it as a lens...
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The day all chaos broke loose
Meteorologist Edward Lorenz nearly talked himself out of a job when he discovered chaos theory. Ayala Ochert meets the man who made long-range weather forecasting impossible. There's a great deal of...
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Fieldwork with Bo, Peep and their lost sheep
A mass suicide turned Robert Balch into an instant media star. Tim Cornwell hears how a Montana sociology professor infiltrated the notorious Heaven's Gate cult all in the name of research. A...
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In and out of this world
Fact and fun combine in Donna Haraway's work of literary pyrotechnics to describe our technoscientific world. Gail Vines reports. Donna Haraway's writing is flamboyant, funny, challenging - and not a...
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A voyage around V. S.
Conversations with V. S. Naipaul
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The future of an illusion
An Intelligent Person's Guide to Postwar Britain - Our Currency, Our Country - A Grand Illusion? An Essay on Europe
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Pessimism the Proustian way
How Proust Can Change Your Life
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Speaking Volumes: Stephen Poppel's Zionism in Germany 1897-1933: The Shaping of a Jewish Identity
On Stephen Poppel's Zionism in Germany 1897-1933: The Shaping of a Jewish Identity. The history and culture of British Jews count among the most dynamic research fields in Jewish studies. Yet as...
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Time with added colour
The Illustrated A Brief History of Time
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Where elephants may swim
The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
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Enlightened paths
The Oxford Dictionary of World Religions - A New Handbook of Living Religions
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A feminist murder of a myth
After Christianity
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The evil origin of the species
Radical Evil - Creating the Kingdom of Ends - Evil