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Capitalism kills the soul
John Dunn analyses the funniest political philosopher in the world. Some titles carry the author's voice. Not, I think, Karl Marx's Theory of History: A Defence; History, Labour, and Freedom ; or...
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Awakenings in sleep
The Paradox of Sleep
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A complex warrior king
Frederick the Great
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Images of a distant paradise
Visions of an Island
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Documentary evidence of a life in the movies
John Grierson
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The roast turkey that made a chef d'oeuvre
The Apocalypse Now Book
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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 science fiction story about an island: "I do not propose to add anything to what has already been...
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What lies beneath the Scot's tartan?
Screening Scotland
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Cinema guide from within
The BFI Companion to German Cinema
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The good, the bad and the quixotic
Sergio Leone
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Around the world sketching, collecting and sitting on moss
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
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The first club Med
The First Fossil Hunters
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Laurie Taylor column
Corporate sponsor tries to block publication of academic research results that reflected unfavourably on product it paid to have tested - THES , January 5 Do come in, Doctor Bunting. Thank you, vice-...
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Letter: A Christmas cheer
I read with dismay the criticism of Kevin Warwick and his Royal Institution Christmas lectures (Soapbox, THES, December 22/29). With my youngest son, I attended all of the lectures and found them...