From the April 2015 Issue Experimenting in Tongues Scientific Babel: The Language of Science from the Fall of Latin to the Rise of English By Michael D Gordin LR
From the August 2011 Issue Man’s Best Friend Aping Mankind: Neuromania, Darwinitis and the Misrepresentation of Humanity By Raymond Tallis LR
From the July 2011 Issue Hit That Perfect Beat The Tribal Imagination: Civilization and the Savage Mind By Robin Fox LR
From the March 2012 Issue The Spotless Mind Memory: Fragments of a Modern History By Alison Winter LR
From the May 2012 Issue Surviving Darwin Wired for Culture: The Natural History of Human Cooperation By Mark Pagel LR
From the February 2013 Issue The First Sociologist Emile Durkheim: A Biography By Marcel Fournier (Translated by David Macey) LR
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In the nine centuries since his death, El Cid has been presented as a prototypical crusader, a paragon of religious toleration and the progenitor of a united Spain.
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