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Books

Up the monument Anthony Burgess Shakespeare: The Man and His Achievement Robert Speaight (Dent £6.50) A certain British actor, clarifying for the laity the process of becoming......

Power Games

Robert Skidelsky The Poverty of Power: Energy and the Economic Crisis Barry Commoner ( Jonathan Cape £5.50) The idea of a closed or closing circle has always fascinated the......