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...The then-King Baudouin of Belgium spoke first, saying that the independence was the result of “the genius of King Léopold II”....
...In the 18th century, Maria Theresa and her son Joseph II pioneered an influential rationalist fusion of Enlightenment rule and centralised governance....
...The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister’s Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine, by Lindsey Fitzharris, Allen Lane, RRP£16.99/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, RRP$27, 304 pages Lucy Lethbridge is...
...Stalin, Vol II: Waiting for Hitler 1928–1941 , by Stephen Kotkin, Allen Lane, RRP£30/$40, 1,184 pages John Thornhill is a former FT Moscow bureau chief Join our online book group on Facebook at FTBooksCafe...
...Painted after his patron Giulio became pope, the clunky “Portrait of Clement VII” (1525-26), blending the massive figures of Michelangelo’s Sistine prophets with a reworking of Raphael’s “Julius II”, was...
...Mount Street Hospital, Preston, Lancashire (Grade II, 1872, RW Hughes) Once home to the town’s “destitute girls”, the orphanage closed in 1954, and was later converted into a convalescent home....
...Lenin on the Train, by Catherine Merridale, Allen Lane, RRP£25, 368 pages Historically Inevitable?...
...In Woody Allen’s Match Point (2005), a callow English go-getter (Jonathan Rhys Myers) moves up the storeys of ambition and perfidy....
...Most of the great museums of the world grew out of such collections – the unrivalled Kunstkammer of Rudolf II in Prague, for example, is the heart of Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum, while the collections...
...Like the closing years of the papacy of John Paul II, his long-serving predecessor, the reign of Pope Benedict XVI was marked, especially in its final phase, by an abiding impression of drift and internal...
...Presidential Leadership and the Creation of the American Era , by Joseph Nye, Princeton, RRP£19.95, 200 pages A thoughtful analysis of different styles of presidential leadership in foreign affairs....
...His reconstruction of the dispute with King Henry II that led to Becket’s murder is masterful and makes for a compelling read....
...Tell me about your mentor, Daniel Joseph Martinez. I wouldn’t say he was a mentor, because he was my friend....
...The Food of Spain, by Claudia Roden, Michael Joseph, RRP£35, 512 pages Roden is becoming a national treasure....
...Freefall: Free Markets and the Sinking of the Global Economy, by Joseph Stiglitz, Allen Lane RRP£9.99 A Nobel prize-winning economist, Stiglitz analyses the crisis from a Keynesian perspective, tracing...
...Jackie Wullschlager is the FT’s chief art critic and author of ‘Chagall: The Dream of Life’ (Allen Lane)...
...The Three Emperors: Three Cousins, Three Empires and the Road to World War One By Miranda Carter Fig Tree, £25 The parallel, interrelated lives of Kaiser Wilhelm II, George V and Nicholas II provide a grotesque...
...Lucien Hesse built the romano-gothic Torre Clementina used by film director René Clément for Les Félins ....
...The CEO Within: Why Inside-Outsiders are the Key to Succession Planning By Joseph L....
...So for every Hostel, there is a Before Sunrise, for every Hostel: Part II, a Before Sunset....
...A softly spoken Californian with receding, light-brown hair and Woody Allen-esque glasses, he has lived in London since the late 1980s and has a bookish innocence....
...Joseph, London JvdV: Joseph, I think the word “conflict” overstates the situation. Sure, companies need to make a profit – they must do so in order to survive, create jobs, and invest for the future....
...XVI: a Biography of Joseph Ratzinger by John L....
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