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On , Thucydides And War Guilt

J. Enoch Powell Origins of the Peloponnesian War G. E. M. de Ste Croix (Duckworth £6.75) This is a very large book to be written about the 'war guilt' of the war which broke out......

Mood Music Of The Molecules

C. H. Waddington The Nature of Living Things Stephen Black (Seeker and Warburg/William Heinemann Medical Books £1.95) Stephen Black has written a valuable little book which is......