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Shrinking Fast

Nicolas Walter Hans Eysenck H. B. Gibson (Peter Owen pp. 275, f11.95). Mindwatching Hans & Michael Eysenck (Michael Joseph pp. 224, L10.50). The biography of a psychologist......

Fiction

Back to the cradle Paul Ableman Creation Gore Vidal (Heinemann pp. 510, £8.95) Gore Vidal has always been interested in origins. In Julian, he dealt with the origins of......