Violence - Six Sideways Relections
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Zizek argues that the physical violence we see is often generated by the systemic violence that...
Overcoming Speechlessness
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Poet Alice Walker writes of her personal encounters with the cruelty and horror in Rwanda, Eastern...
A River in the Sky
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1910. Having brought Egypt firmly under her thumb, Amelia Peabody turns her attention to a harder...
Behold the Man
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Meet Karl Glogauer, time traveller and unlikely Messiah. When he finds himself in Palestine in the...
Ever Glorious: The Front Line Letters of the Crookenden Brothers, 1936 -46
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The Crookenden brothers - Henry, Napier and Spencer - were born into a military dynasty. Their...
The Land Agent
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"A genuine tour-de-force" - Lesley McDowell on 'An Exquisite Sense of What Is Beautiful'. Palestine,...
Toscanini: Musician of Conscience
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Arturo Toscanini (1867-1957) was famed for his dedication, photographic memory, explosive temper and...
Robin Cook: Principles and Power
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Robin Cook's early death robbed British politics of one of its most distinctive and principled...
Jesus in the Jewish World
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Geza Vermes is the greatest living Jesus scholar. In this collection of occasional pieces, he...
Devils on Horses: In the Words of the Anzacs in the Middle East 1916-19
Terry Kinloch and Christopher Pugsley
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Reunited with their horses in Egypt after the shattering experience of Gallipoli (a story recounted...