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...In this year’s final, it’s Manchester City versus London’s Chelsea, Pep Guardiola against rival top manager Thomas Tuchel; Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the Abu Dhabi royal, against Russian-Israeli...
...However, there remains a large gap between current pledges and the steps required to achieve the rates of emissions cuts required to limit warming to safe levels by the end of the twenty first century....
...Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-first, by Frank Trentmann, Allen Lane, RRP£30/Harper, RRP$40 Ours are consumer societies....
...But no writer spoke more directly to the zeitgeist than the winner of the 2014 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award, Thomas Piketty, whose Capital in the Twenty-First Century arrived...
...… Capital in the Twenty-First Century, by Thomas Piketty translated by Arthur Goldhammer, Harvard University Press, RRP£29.95/ Belknap Press, RRP$39.95 The blockbuster success of the year....
...Bleeding Edge , by Thomas Pynchon, Jonathan Cape, RRP£20/Penguin, RRP$28.95 Set in Manhattan in early 2001, Pynchon’s latest novel is a thrilling ride through the first tech bubble, filled with “bleeding...
...Shi Cheng: Short Stories from Urban China, edited by Liu Deng, Carol Yinghua Lu and Ra Page, translated by Eric Abrahamsen, Nicky Harman, Julia Lovell, et al, Comma Press, RRP£9.99, 224 pages An anthology...
...Jason Miller as Father Damien Karras in The Exorcist (1973) and Father Andrew Kiernan (Gabriel Byrne) in Stigmata (1999) are supernatural heroes taking on the horrors of Satan et al....
...What really happened at Northern Rock, Royal Bank of Scotland et al? This gives you a clearer idea....
...The claim of more recent origin, that Thomas Hope was the first interior designer-decorator is also, simply, incorrect....
...Thomas Friedman famously followed the ordering, manufacturing, construction and distribution of his Dell laptop as the basis for his modern economic classic, The World is Flat, A Brief History of the Twenty-First...
...late 19th and early 20th centuries, as the world stumbles towards its first global war....
...He was a “working man of the theatre” - arguably (but not in every respect) superior to Dekker, Middleton, Jonson et al, and no different in kind. He lived in a real world....
...“These changes reflect the empowering sense of ownership,” says T.V....
...With his inimitable ability to translate complex foreign policy and economic issues, Friedman explains how the flattening of the world happened at the dawn of the twenty-first century; what it means to countries...
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