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Life On Earth

John Stewart Collis The Turning Point: Science, Society and the Rising Culture Fritjof Capra ( Wildwood House £9.50) I t has always seemed to me an extraord- i nary thing that......

Books

Doomed to destruction Patrick Marnham A most valuable quality for any writer who draws his material from the con- temporary world is the journalistic one, of 'being on the......