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The sky's night frights
Comets, Popular Culture and the Birth of Modern Cosmology
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Correction
The review of British Journal of Health Psychology ( THES , May 29) said the journal was available only on joint subscription with British Journal of Clinical Psychology. That was for the first year...
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Speaking volumes: Religion and the Rise of Modern Science
David Livingstone on Reijer Hooykaas's Religion and the Rise of Modern Science . It must have been May or early June. The year was 1975. I remember this because it was final honours examination...
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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 a French biologist with philosophical tendencies: "The difference between...
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On a Devon Road by Glyn Maxwell
Whatever thoughts there were for me on a Devon road, nothing knotted them suddenly to one spot like what lay up ahead, flopped and brownish, too much of it for a bird, too much for a fox; one wound...
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"Warrior in Armour, 1860"
(Photograph) - "Warrior in Armour, 1860" by Felice Beato; from Early Japanese Images by Terry Bennett (168pp. Rutland, VT: Tuttle; distributed in the UK by Biblios. Pounds 30. 0 8048 2029 5)
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Five Postcards by Les Murray
Having run herself up out of plush, the white-cheeked wallaby sits between her haunches like an old-country tailor behind her outstretched last yard, her tail, and hems it with black fingers. *...
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"In Schwabing, 1912"
"In Schwabing, 1912"; from Gabriele Muenter: The years of expressionism 1903-1920 by Reinhold Heller (184pp. Munich: Prestel; distributed in the UK by Biblios. Pounds 39.95. 3 7913 1866 7)
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Our man in Cairo
POLITICS AND DIPLOMACY IN EGYPT. The diaries of Sir Miles Lampson, 1935-1937. By Miles Lampson. Edited by M. E. Yapp 1,044pp. Oxford University Press / British Academy. Pounds 95. - 0 19 726155 8....
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The business of the poor
THE SOLIDARITIES OF STRANGERS. The English poor laws and the people, 1700 1948. By Lynn Hollen Lees. 373pp. Cambridge University Press. Pounds 45. - 0 521 57261 4. In 1829, Harriet Williams, a widow...
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Napoleon's escort
COCKBURN AND THE BRITISH NAVY IN TRANSITION. Admiral Sir George Cockburn, 1772-1853. By Roger Morriss. 338pp. University of Exeter Press. Pounds 35. - 0 85989 526 2. Sir George Cockburn is remembered...
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Distiller at work
THREADS OF TIME. A memoir. By Peter Brook. 241pp. Methuen. Pounds 17.99. - 0 413 69620 0. Not long after the formation of the International Centre for Theatre Research in Paris, Peter Brook took his...
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Memories are remade of this
REMIND ME WHO I AM, AGAIN. By Linda Grant. 301pp. Granta. Pounds 14.99. - 1 86207 171 3. Remind Me Who I Am, Again is about senile dementia, which seems to have replaced anorexia as the most written-...
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Biography
EDWARD HOPPER. An intimate biography. By Gail Levin. 695pp. Berkeley: University of California Press. Paperback, $19.95. - 0 520 21475 7. The word "intimate" has a slightly tawdry quality. In...