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How To Move And Shake The World

Nigel Spivey THE TIPPING POINT by Malcolm Gladwell Little, Brown, £14.99, pp. 279 T his is a small book. The size is impor- tant, because the argument here is that small things......

They Came, They Saw, They Left

Peter Vansittart THE VISITORS: CULTURE SHOCK IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN by Rupert Christiansen Chatto, £20, pp. 272 T he Victorians welcomed and appre- ciated the alien with......