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Fodder For Thought

Peter Levi The Case for Animal Rights Tom Regan (RKP £17.95) W hat historians talk about is history; mathematicians are condemned to co mmunicate only in numbers and t h erefore......

Books

A bull returns to the ring Shiva Naipaul The Rock of the Wind: A Return to Africa Denis Hills (Andre Deutsch £8.95) T have learned one bitter truth, that we .1.Africans however......