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...being too expensive, the problem, argues Christophers, is that saving the planet is not sufficiently profitable....
...APRIL Our Lives in Their Portfolios: Why Asset Managers Own the World by Brett Christophers (Verso) In this follow-up to Rentier Capitalism, Christophers turns his attention to the new masters of the universe...
...Hurdy Gurdy by Christopher Wilson, Faber £14.99 It’s 1349 and a plague is on the march....
...Like authors and games developers before him, from Christopher Evans’s 1993 novel Aztec Century to the Europa Universalis games, Binet dwells on the “what ifs?”...
...Christopher de Bellaigue is author of ‘The Islamic Enlightenment: The Modern Struggle Between Faith and Reason’ (Vintage) Civilisations: How Do We Look / The Eye of Faith by Mary Beard Profile, RRP£15,...
...Age of Anger: A History of the Present, by Pankaj Mishra, Allen Lane, RRP£20, 416 pages Published in the US by Farrar, Straus and Giroux next month Christopher de Bellaigue’s ‘The Islamic Enlightenment...
...Read alongside Christopher Ricks’s magisterial two-volume annotated complete works for Eliot in surround sound....
...Sudjic, Allen Lane, RRP£25, 240 pages Vertical: The City from Satellites to Bunkers, by Stephen Graham, Verso, RRP£20/$29.95, 416 pages A Burglar’s Guide to the City, by Geoff Manaugh, Farrar, Straus and Giroux...
...The Gardener and the Carpenter: What the New Science of Child Development Tells Us About the Relationship Between Parents and Children, by Alison Gopnik, The Bodley Head, RRP£18.99/Farrar, Straus & Giroux...
...Purity, by Jonathan Franzen, Fourth Estate, RRP£20 / Farrar, Straus & Giroux, RRP$28, 576 pages Illustration by Shonagh Rae...
...Conducting the Brahms Symphonies: From Brahms to Boult, by Christopher Dyment, Boydell Press, RRP£25 In his preface Dyment wonders if he is merely a “fossil hunter”....
...Christopher Isherwood, in his catty roman à clef Lions and Shadows (1938), lampooned him as the more gooselike “Stephen Savage”, a 6ft adult baby prone to trip over carpets....
...Rachel Cusk’s Outline (Faber/Farrar, Straus & Giroux) falls into neither camp....
...… Decoded: A Novel, by Mai Jia, translated by Olivia Milburn and Christopher Payne, Allen Lane, RRP£18.99/ Farrar, Straus and Giroux, RRP$26 Twelve years after it was published in China, this best-selling...
...: Salvation: the belief at the heart of the Calvinist approach / From Christopher Robbins...
...Readers could draw comfort from the fact that similar landmarks have often produced enduring works – think Simon Schama’s Citizens, published for the bicentenary of the French Revolution – and in Christopher...
...Selections by Andrew Hill … Lionel Barber, Editor of the Financial Times There are many good books that mark next year’s centenary of the outbreak of the first world war, notably Christopher Clark’s The...
...The Right-Hand Shore, by Christopher Tilghman, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, RRP$27, 368 pages More than a decade after his novel Mason’s Retreat, which told the story of life on the eponymous Maryland ranch...
...Her translation of Swann’s Way won awards but it also attracted surprisingly harsh criticism, including a review from Christopher Hitchens, who felt it too “close” – overly literal or unpoetic....
...In Christopher Meyer’s D.C....
...He is currently writing a book on statecraft and the practice of US foreign policy (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006)...
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