February 1994 Issue This is an incomplete listing of issue contents Jump to: Predators | Sickness and Death | General Predators Francis Wheen Deafened by Birtspeak Fuzzy Monsters: Fear and Loathing at the BBC By Chris Horrie and Steve Clarke Jane Charteris Still Disgusting The Book of Spiders: From Arachnophobia to the Love of Spiders By Paul Hillyard Sickness and Death Rosemary Dinnage The Rage of Dying How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter By Sherwin B Nuland LR General Hilary Mantel Monks Before Women Love and Marriage in the Middle Ages By Georges Duby Nicola Beauman A Horrid Shock Anglo-Indian Attitudes: The Mind of the Indian Civil Service By Clive Dewey Jonathan Foreman At the End of the Day, Bourgeois is Best Arguing Revolution: The Intellectual Left in Postwar France By Sunil Khilnani LR Alain de Botton Dismal Bumpkins Fathers and Daughters By Sue Sharpe
Francis Wheen Deafened by Birtspeak Fuzzy Monsters: Fear and Loathing at the BBC By Chris Horrie and Steve Clarke
Jane Charteris Still Disgusting The Book of Spiders: From Arachnophobia to the Love of Spiders By Paul Hillyard
Rosemary Dinnage The Rage of Dying How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter By Sherwin B Nuland LR
Nicola Beauman A Horrid Shock Anglo-Indian Attitudes: The Mind of the Indian Civil Service By Clive Dewey
Jonathan Foreman At the End of the Day, Bourgeois is Best Arguing Revolution: The Intellectual Left in Postwar France By Sunil Khilnani LR
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