March 2021 Issue Richard Heinberg Can Big Tech Save the World? How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need By Bill Gates Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future By Elizabeth Kolbert LR
June 2018 Issue Mark Maslin Poles Apart The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Groundbreaking Scientists and Their Conflicting Visions of the Future of Our Planet By Charles C Mann LR
October 2015 Issue Robert Mayhew Engineering the Skies The Planet Remade: How Geoengineering Could Change the World By Oliver Morton LR
April 2006 Issue Crispin Tickell Cutting Out Carbon The Weather Makers: The History and Future Impact of Climate Change By Tim Flannery LR
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Nick Harkaway, John le Carré's son, has gone back to the 1960s with a new novel featuring his father's anti-hero, George Smiley.
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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.
David Abulafia goes in search of the real El Cid.
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David Abulafia: Legends of the Phantom Rider - El Cid: The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval Mercenary by Nora Berend
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