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Vol. 6 No. 8 · 3 May 1984

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Vol. 6 No. 8 · 3 May 1984

John Maynard Smith

Order out of Chaos: The Evolutionary Paradigm and the Physical Sciences by Ilya Prigogine and Isabelle Stengers

Letters

William Lamont, Roger Knight, J.I.M. Stewart, Charles Hope, James Darke, Jonathan Barnes, Colin Vines, Lindsay Waters, M.L. Reynolds, Bruce White

Hilary Putnam

Representing and Intervening: Introductory Topics in the Philosophy of Natural Science by Ian Hacking

Paul Seabright

What sort of people should there be? by Jonathan Glover

Stephen Knight

Poem: ‘Laughing Gas’

Oliver Sacks

Musical Ears

John Ziman

‘Subtle is the Lord’: The Science and Life of Albert Einstein by Abraham Pais
The Cosmic Code: Quantum Physics as the Language of Nature by Heinz Pagels
Philosophy and the New Physics by Jonathan Powers
Albert Einstein: The Centennial Symposium in Jerusalem edited by Gerald Holton and Yehuda Elkana

P.N. Furbank

Joseph Conrad: A Chronicle by Zdzislaw Najder, translated by Halina Carroll-Najder
Conrad under Familial Eyes edited by Zdzislaw Najder, translated by Halina Carroll-Najder

Richard Altick

The Letters of Anthony Trollope edited by John Hall
Anthony Trollope: Dream and Art by Andrew Wright

Donald Davie

The Making of the Reader: Language and Subjectivity in Modern American, English and Irish Poetry by David Trotter

Christopher Ricks

Swift: The Man, His Works and the Age: Vol III. Dean Swift by Irvin Ehrenpreis
Swift’s Tory Politics by F.P. Lock
Jonathan Swift: Political Writer by J.A. Downie
The Character of Swift’s Satire edited by Claude Rawson

Clive James

Poem: ‘The Philosophical Phallus’

Emma Tennant

Poem: ‘Zea the Siberian Tigress’

D.A.N. Jones

Finding the Centre: Two Narratives by V.S. Naipaul
A House for Mr Biswas by V.S. Naipaul

Valerie Pearl

The Age of Elizabeth: England Under the Later Tudors 1547-1603 by D.M. Palliser
After the Armada: Elizabethan England and the Struggle for Western Europe 1588-1595 by R.B. Wernham
The Defeat of the Spanish Armada by Garrett Mattingly
The First Elizabeth by Carolly Erickson
The Renaissance and Reformation in Scotland: Essays in Honour of Gordon Donaldson edited by Ian Cowan and Duncan Shaw

Daniel Eilon

Unlikely Stories, Mostly by Alasdair Gray
1982, Janine by Alasdair Gray
Spaceache by Snoo Wilson
Scorched Earth by Edward Fenton

Francis Spufford

Story: ‘Melchior’

A.J.P. Taylor

Diary: Magdalen College Portraits

Edmund Leach

The Human Cycle by Colin Turnbull

Tam Dalyell

The Unsinkable Aircraft-Carrier: American Military Power in Britain by Duncan Campbell

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