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Outlandish Knight: The Byzantine Life of Steven Runciman

Biographies & Memoirs

Dinshaw, Minoo

Historical

London: Allen Lane

Bad writing can't be blamed on the Internet, or on 'the kids today'. Good writing has always been hard: a performance requiring pretense, empathy, and a drive for coherence. In The Sense of Style, cognitive scientist and linguist Steven Pinker uses the latest scientific insights to bring us a style and usage guide for the 21st century. What do skilful writers know about the link between syntax and ideas? How can we overcome the Curse of Knowledge, the difficulty in imagining what it's like not to know something we do? And can we distinguish the myths and superstitions from rules that enhance clarity and grace? As Pinker shows, everyone can improve their mastery of writing and their appreciation of the art (yes, 'their').

Sense of Style The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century

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STEVEN PINKER

Words, Language & Grammar

Reporter: A Memoir

HERSH, Seymour M.

Arts & Literature

Freedom in a rocking boat: Changing values in an unstable society

Politics & Social Sciences

Vickers, Geoffrey (1894-)

Social Sciences

Emergence of the Middle East, 1914-24

Sachar, Howard M.

This book is about army intervention in politics, but more about politics than armies.  This in in the hope that, from an examination of the crises in politics, coup and counter-coup, there will grow, tentatively at least, a general theory of power for newly independent states which explains why they are so vulnerable to army interventions in politics.  It is not, accordingly, a book about the mechanics of armies and coups d'etat, their logistics and command structures, but about the way army interventions in politics reveal the nature of political power and its areas of failure in Africa.  The army coup d'etat is plainly a short-circuit of power conflicts in a situation where arms do the deciding..  What is the kind of conflict?  And what does the decision entail?

The barrel of a gun: Political power in Africa and the coup d'état

First, Ruth

Multinational Companies and the Third World

Turner, Louis

Marxism and History

<p>Text: English, German (translation)</p>

Helmut Fleischer

Ramsay MacDonald's political writings;

MacDonald, James Ramsay (1866-1937). Bernard Barker (Ed. )

Sword and the Sceptre: The Problems of Militarism in Germany v. 3

Ritter, Gerhard (1888-1967)

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