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Wendy Moore
Atomic Achievements
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By Dava Sobel
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Andrew Crumey
Confessions of an Alien Hunter
The Secret Life of the Universe: An Astrobiologist’s Search for the Origins and Frontiers of Life
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Charles Elliott
Is It a Bird? Is It a Flea?
Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life
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Piers Brendon
Bones of Contention
Impossible Monsters: Dinosaurs, Darwin and the War Between Science and Religion
By Michael Taylor
September 2023 Issue
Andrew Crumey
An Electromagnetic Personality
Einstein in Time & Space: A Life in 99 Particles
By Samuel Graydon
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Iain Bamforth
Getting High, Tripping Out
Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind
By Mike Jay
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March 2023 Issue
Daniel Rey
The God in the Machine
Magisteria: The Entangled Histories of Science and Religion
By Nicholas Spencer
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February 2023 Issue
A J Lees
When the Surgeon Met the Shrink
The Guru, the Bagman and the Sceptic: A Story of Science, Sex and Psychoanalysis
By Seamus O’Mahony
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December 2022 Issue
Steven Nadler
Confederacy of Deceivers?
The Kingdom of Darkness: Bayle, Newton, and the Emancipation of the European Mind from Philosophy
By Dmitri Levitin
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November 2022 Issue
Patricia Fara
Life’s Building Blocks
The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
By Siddhartha Mukherjee
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Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
All in the Genes
An Intimate History of Evolution: The Story of the Huxley Family
By Alison Bashford
May 2022 Issue
Dmitri Levitin
The G Word
Horizons: A Global History of Science
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Wendy Moore
Call the Doctress
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Patricia Fara
Tick Tock Travelogue
About Time: A History of Civilization in Twelve Clocks
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November 2020 Issue
Kate Wiles
Stars in Their Eyes
The Light Ages: A Medieval Journey of Discovery
By Seb Falk
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October 2020 Issue
Mathew Lyons
Breaking the Spell
The History of Magic: From Alchemy to Witchcraft, from the Ice Age to the Present
By Chris Gosden
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Roger Highfield
Smelling a Lab Rat
Science Fictions: Exposing Fraud, Bias, Negligence and Hype in Science
By Stuart Ritchie
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Cathy Gere
All in the Brain?
Mind Fixers: Psychiatry’s Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness
By Anne Harrington
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Felipe Fernández-Armesto
Papa Franz’s People
The Reinvention of Humanity: A Story of Race, Sex, Gender and the Discovery of Culture
By Charles King
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Mathew Lyons
In Neptune’s Vast Dominions
Sailing School: Navigating Science and Skill 1550–1800
By Margaret E Schotte
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In 1524, hundreds of thousands of peasants across Germany took up arms against their social superiors.
Peter Marshall investigates the causes and consequences of the German Peasants’ War, the largest uprising in Europe before the French Revolution.
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The Soviet double agent Oleg Gordievsky, who died yesterday, reviewed many books on Russia & spying for our pages. As he lived under threat of assassination, books had to be sent to him under ever-changing pseudonyms. Here are a selection of his pieces:
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Book reviews by Oleg Gordievsky
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The Soviet Union might seem the last place that the art duo Gilbert & George would achieve success. Yet as the communist regime collapsed, that’s precisely what happened.
@StephenSmithWDS wonders how two East End gadflies infiltrated the Eastern Bloc.
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Stephen Smith: From Russia with Lucre - Gilbert & George and the Communists by James Birch
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