December 2008
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Civilisation
Books
When Poets and Chemists Fused
PAUL JOHNSONThe Age of Wonder by Richard Holmes
Duped by the Devil
ADAM ZAMOYSKIBehind Closed Doors: Stalin, the Nazis and the West by Lawrence Rees
Box of Tricks
MARK RONAN100 Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know by John D. Barrow
Raising the Tone
ROGER SCRUTONThe Triumph of Music by Tim Blanning
Only One Thing on Their Minds
KATE MALTBYSex and Sensuality in the Ancient World by Giulia Sissa
The Year of the Good Read?
JANE SHILLINGExotic Stew
ANTHONY THWAITEBooby Prize
JONATHAN FOREMANMost forwarded
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