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“... for urban uses. The process of creative destruction, which shuttered so many TVEs, is described in Daniel Buck’s Constructing China’s Capitalism. Buck focuses on Shanghai and the surrounding ‘rural’ areas, which are now highly developed. This region, along with the Pearl River Delta studied by Hsing, is one of ...”

“... camera saw me and gave me a name: ‘old man’. I took a step and was labelled again: ‘young buck, young man’. With each movement the algorithm flickered between categories: I was ‘sleeper, slumberer’ – right – then, for an epiphanic flash, ‘Pharaoh, Pharaoh of Egypt’, before I was ‘old man’ again.There is, of course, no justice in the ...”

“... after Greene had stood on an underground platform contemplating suicide, the US Supreme Court in Buck v. Bell ruled in favour of the forced sterilisation of ‘mental defectives’, including epileptics. ‘It is better for all the world,’ Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr wrote, ‘if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime or to let ...”

“... their detractors and supporters became tangled in a phoney war of information and disinformation, buck-passing and pusillanimity, which occupies the next two hundred depressing pages. The cast is huge, and even Monacan royalty has a bit part: ‘I eat it in doughnuts with the Prince,’ Doumenge has said, as evidence for the benign properties of ...”

“... getting beaten up in the Bronx, his thwarted romance with a gentile girl and his friendship with Buck, the son of right-wing German immigrants, in whose basement the boys built a fully functional sailing boat. Years later, at the start of the war, Eisner runs into Buck in a New York cafeteria; the conversation gets off to ...”

“... but he doesn’t delve into it. Fans pieced together his backstory.Before 1999, Doom, born Daniel Dumile in 1971, was known as Zev Love X, and was a Black nationalist ‘conscious’ MC. With his brother Subroc and a DJ known as Onyx the Birthstone Kid, he formed the group KMD (‘Kausing Much Damage’). In 1993, while crossing the Long Island ...”

“... mountains of schoolbooks which, with a nose for marketing that modern publishers must envy, Thomas Buck and Roger Daniel shovelled forth to meet the demands of England’s extraordinarily expansive network of grammar schools. Of the six thousand copies of Evaldus Gallus’s Pueriles confabulatiunculae they turned out in ...”

“... in the dead of the night and knocked me up. (‘My mother’s a Jew, my father’s a bird,’ Buck Mulligan sings in Ulysses.)Pregnancy begins as speculation. This exhibition reminds us that for most of history – before it was possible to pee on a stick and wait for a pink line, or to see a foetus via ultrasound – doctors had no failsafe way of ...”

“... translate Ulysses into German, French and Italian. How, for instance, do you translate into German Buck Mulligan’s remark, ‘And going forth he met Butterly’ (a parody of the Gospel report – Matthew 26.75 – of the repentant Peter: ‘Going forth he wept bitterly’)? What difference, and how many differences, does it make if you translate it as: Und ...”

“... Britain more or less washed its hands of the country from the start. Kenya initially seemed to buck the trend. For a start, the settlers were fewer and sillier, and the official British policy – hard-won by Labour governments and the more liberal imperialists in the Colonial Office – proclaimed ‘native paramountcy’: giving precedence, that is, to ...”

“... religion led to the discontinuance of many lock hospitals and to an attack on what Bishop Daniel Wilson called the ‘licensed brothels’ which made ‘sinning safe’. The health of the troops aroused renewed concern after the Crimean War and Indian Mutiny had resulted in large numbers of men being sent overseas. Florence Nightingale’s ...”

“... Mary Beard, Jonathan Coe, Tom Crewe, William Davies, Sionaidh Douglas-Scott, Lorna Finlayson, Daniel Finn, Katrina Forrester, Jeremy Harding, Daisy Hildyard, Colin Kidd, James Meek, Ferdinand Mount, Jan-Werner Müller, Jonathan Parry, David RuncimanNeal Ascherson‘On​ 17 June poor France fell. That day, as we trudged past Greenwich … a tug skipper ...”

“... empowered them to make the barbarian deserts bloom. ‘The elect are a wrathful people,’ Elder Daniel Parker said, ‘because they are the natural enemies of the non-elect.’ When the Indians arrived, ten of the Parker men were working in the fields about a mile away. Six men, including James and Silas Parker, both Texas Rangers, were still at the ...”

“... judicious biography of Nixon or the recollections of Averell Harriman, Richard Holbrooke or Daniel Davidson. Mr Isaacson has added some extra but exiguous detail to the story. By shopping on both sides of the street, and betraying the side he notionally worked for, Kissinger helped the Nixon campaign in its secret effort to destabilise the Paris peace ...”

“... old time’s sake?’ ‘You’re joking.’ He said the third book was by his former colleague Daniel Domscheit-Berg. ‘This will be a complete smear,’ he said. ‘The guy is working from hatred of us and he will seek to make it as damaging as possible.’ ‘Embarrassing or damaging?’ ‘Both probably. He has chatroom stuff ...”