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Hyperbolic

Peregrine Worsthorne The Great Fear David Caute (Seeker £9.95) No author would think of using the title 'Holocaust' for a book about the measures taken in the United States......

Idea-systems

Anthony Quinton Concepts and Categories: Philosophical Essays Isaiah Berlin (Hogarth Press £8.50) Before Sir Isaiah Berlin settled down to being the most imaginative,......