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...“They’re complaining they are hitting the foothills of Mount Augustus,” says Matthew Allen, chief financial officer of Hastings, which has secured an A$140mn financing loan backed by the Australian government...
...Analogia: The Entangled Destinies of Nature, Human Beings and Machines, by George Dyson, Allen Lane, RRP£25, 304 pages Few writers could string together a coherent and compelling tale out of elements as...
...Martin Allen London N4, UK...
...The most famous bit of statistical methodology ever known is of course in the New Testament: “ And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should...
...Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy, by Serhii Plokhy, Allen Lane, RRP£20/Basic Books, RRP$32 Serhii Plokhy, a Harvard professor and prolific historian of Russia and Ukraine, is on top form in this fast-paced...
...Blame QE — letter from Martin Allen According to the evidence from antiquity, the main cause of excessive house prices is the substantial increase in the money supply due to high leverage and quantitative...
...Harvard professor David Edwards has pulled together partners and participants from a variety of fields — including Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, Fabrizio Hochschild, assistant secretary general of...
...Shortly after General Sam Houston’s army won independence for Texas from Mexico following the Battle of San Jacinto in 1836, the city of Houston was founded by brothers Augustus and John Allen....
...Germany: Memories of a Nation, by Neil MacGregor, Allen Lane RRP£30, 640 pages Reluctant Meister: How Germany’s Past is Shaping its European Future, by Stephen Green, Haus RRP£25/University of Chicago Press...
...A History of the World in 100 Objects, by Neil MacGregor, Allen Lane RRP£30, 738 pages Radio 4 listeners – and what intelligent, thoughtful Briton is not a Radio 4 listener?...
...There’s no shortage of witty lines, especially those of Augustus Gloop as he falls into the chocolate river, but Donald Sturrock’s libretto is otherwise short on sophistication and poetry....
...It is improbable, given his fastidiousness, that the architect Augustus Welby Pugin would have deigned to use that word....
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