The sound of the upper classes falling off their perch echoes in the political necropolis
Liberals - The Strange Death of Tory England - A Companion to Contemporary Britain 1939-2000
Liberals - The Strange Death of Tory England - A Companion to Contemporary Britain 1939-2000
When Computers Were Human
Brute Force
Electronic Brains
The Essential Turing - Alan Turing's Automatic Computing Engine
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a utopian work: "Up at the League, says a friend, there had been a brisk conversational discussion, as...
Doing Our Own Thing
Minimal Semantics
The Cambridge Companion to Saussure
Deadline: 24/11/2005
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