Wars: how to start and stop one
Strategic Coercion - Why Wars Happen
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Perfection in grenade throwing
Darwin Among the Machines
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God Fionn, folklore and phantoms
Dictionary of Celtic Mythology
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The maharajas' emasculation
The Princes of India in the Endgame of Empire, 1917-47
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Outcastes of Hindu apartheid
Viramma - The Untouchables
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High art by low down under
White Aborigines
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The changing face of ET
The Biological Universe
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First impressions
This week's First Impressions, the competition in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from the former president of Freedonia, aka Rufus T. Firefly: "Until I was four, I...
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Windrush and the mingling of Britain
Kunapipi - Empire Windrush - West Africans in Britain 1900-60 - Windrush
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Lesson in communal creativity
Chinua Achebe
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Three men on a mission
King Khama and the Great White Queen
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Pseuds warning
WHY do you commission book reviews from people who believe that any amount of pretentious nonsense is acceptable, providing that it is written badly enough? Edward Neill's review of Queer Forster (...
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Transfer market troubles
John Hudson asks "what is wrong with (the) academic 'transfer market'" induced by recent research assessment exercises (THES, July 31)? I would like to offer two related answers. The first is that it...
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Transfer market troubles
John Hudson's comparison of the football and so-called "academic transfer market" completely ignores the effect of any transfer market on the "customers" of these activities. The football transfer...