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Neil Dewar Harry Collins Gravity’s Kiss: The detection of gravitational waves MIT Press 2017 416pp £24.95 hbk The first news wasn’t really news, exactly, but rather the announcement that...
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Max Harris At the end of The Truman Show, an exhausted Truman Burbank raises a sail on the small boat he’s taken out to sea. He looks up, drinking in the sun. He’s just survived a terrifying storm....
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Oliver Eagleton Paul Mason Clear Bright Future : A Radical Defence of the Human Being Penguin Books 2019 368pp £20.00 For critics of neoliberalism, the policies of Thatcherism and Reaganism...
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