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The Machine In The Ghost

Peter Conrad The Exploring Spirit: America and the World Experience Daniel J. Boorstin, (BBC Publications £3.50) Trumbull: The Declaration of Independence Irma B. Jaffe (Allen......

Unnatural Acts

Sherban Cantacuzino The Idea of a Town: The Anthropology Of Urban Form in Rome, Italy and the Ancient World Joseph Rykwert (Faber and Faber £14.00) The influence of the ancient......