Vol. 3 No. 14 · 6 August 1981
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Vol. 3 No. 14 · 6 August 1981
Sean O’Faolain
Living and Dying in Ireland
Letters
Henri Tajfel, Geoffrey Hawthorn, John Maynard Smith, P.D. Juhl, Nigel Hamilton, Harry Cohen
John White
Poem: ‘Petite Chanson d’Irlande’
Peter Laslett
L’Amour en plus by Elisabeth Badinter. Flammarion (Paris), 372 pp., £6.80, May 1980, 2 08 064279 0 Mari et Femme dans la Société Paysanne by Martine Segalen. Flammarion, 211 pp., £6.30, May 1980, 2 08 210957 7
Thomas McKeown
The Unmasking of Medicine by Ian Kennedy. Allen and Unwin, 189 pp., £8.95, June 1981, 0 04 610016 4
Hans Keller
Sex: Facts, Frauds and Follies by Thomas Szasz. Blackwell, 194 pp., £8.95, July 1981, 0 631 12736 4
Mary-Kay Wilmers
Alice James by Jean Strouse. Cape, 367 pp., £9.95, February 1981, 0 224 01436 6 The Death and Letters of Alice James edited by Ruth Bernard Yeazell. California, 214 pp., £6.95, March 1981, 0 520 03745 6
A.W.F. Edwards
Statistics in Britain 1865-1930: The Social Construction of Scientific Knowledge by Donald MacKenzie. Edinburgh, 306 pp., £12.50, April 1981, 0 85224 369 3
Sheldon Rothblatt
English Culture and the Decline of the Industrial Spirit, 1850-1980 by Martin Wiener. Cambridge, 217 pp., £9.95, April 1981, 0 521 23418 2 Peaceful Conquest: The Industrialisation of Europe, 1760-1970 by Sidney Pollard. Oxford, 451 pp., £7.95, June 1981, 0 19 877093 6
C.H. Sisson
Experiences of an Optimist by John Redcliffe-Maud. Hamish Hamilton, 199 pp., £10.95, July 1981, 0 241 10569 2
John Harvey
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole. Allen Lane, 338 pp., £7.95, May 1981, 9780713914221 The Meeting at Telgte by Günter Grass, translated by Ralph Manheim. Secker, 147 pp., £5.95, June 1981, 0 436 18778 7 Six Problems for Don Isidro Parodi by Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy-Casares, translated by Norman Thomas di Giovanni. Allen Lane, 160 pp., £5.95, May 1981, 0 7139 1421 1 Penny Links by Ursula Holden. Eyre Methuen, 156 pp., £5.50, May 1981, 0 413 47210 8
Karl Miller
Peeping Tam
Rosalind Mitchison
The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle: Vol. VIII 1835-1836, Vol. IX 1836-1837 edited by Charles Sanders and Kenneth Fielding. Duke, 365 pp., £32.95, May 1981, 0 8223 0433 3
Colin Macleod
Homer on Life and Death by Jasper Griffin. Oxford, 218 pp., £12.50, July 1980, 0 19 814016 9 Homer by Jasper Griffin. Oxford, 82 pp., October 1980, 0 19 287532 9 Homer: The Odyssey translated by Walter Shewring. Oxford, 346 pp., £7.95, September 1980, 0 19 251019 3
John Dunn
How to make up your mind about the Bomb by Robert Neild. Deutsch, 144 pp., £2.95, May 1981, 0 233 97382 6
D.J. Enright
Poem: ‘Natural Species’
Caroline Moorehead
The Terror Network: The Secret War of International Terrorism by Claire Sterling. Weidenfeld, 357 pp., £7.95, June 1981, 0 297 77968 0
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