Raisins in the rising dough
Predictions is a new mini-paperback series, priced at Pounds 2 each, in Weidenfeld and Nicolson's Phoenix imprint. In dimensions and length (fifty-odd pages apiece) it owes something to Penguin's...
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Brave new world
TO CONSTITUTE A NATION. A cultural history of Australia's constitution. By Helen Irving. 253pp. Cambridge University Press. Pounds 40. - 0 521 58417 5. THE AUSTRALIAN NATION. Its British and Irish...
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Fair dinkum?
THE AVENUE OF THE FAIR GO. A group tour of Australian political thought. By Donald Horne. 8pp. Sydney, NSW: HarperCollins. Paperback, Aus$24.94. - 0 7322 5867 7. The Avenue of the Fair Go begins with...
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A not so special relationship
THE CLASH. US-Japanese relations throughout history. By Walter LaFeber. 508pp. Norton. Pounds 22. - 0 393 03950 1. The binational polls that regularly measure the mood of United States-Japan...
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Driving in all directions
HIDDEN AGENDAS. By John Pilger. 687pp. Vintage. Paperback, Pounds 8.99. - 0 099 74151 2. We live, according to John Pilger, not in an "information age", but rather in a "media age", in which "the...
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The legacy of war
PHILOSOPHIES OF INTEGRATION. Immigration and the idea of citizenship in France and Britain. By Adrian Favell. 288pp. Macmillan. Pounds 45. - 0 333 688 5. COLONIAL MIGRANTS AND RACISM. Algerians in...
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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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Literal truth
The examiners' hoary dilemma about whether to mark down students who litter their papers with literals could prove especially difficult in one new degree course. De Montfort University, Lincoln is...
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Sold too cheap
Hard sell of the week came from the economist who despatched his latest publication to The THES accompanied by a letter opening: "I hope you will be interested in this working pap". Too modest by...
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Queen's Birthday honours
KCMG/DCMG Joseph Rotblat, professor, for services to international understanding. Knights Bachelor Philip Cohen, director, MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit and Royal Society research professor at the...
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Medics consider a flying fraud squad
Crackdown on clinical cheats GEORGE Alberti (pictured right) is the man entrusted by the General Medical Council to devise a scheme for sorting out clinical research fraud and misconduct. He said he...
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A rush for upward mobility
Colleges and institutes are lining up to become university colleges. Tony Tysome reports Higher education's most wannabe sector breathed a sigh of relief last week as the government gave its members...