Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Good viewing in Sofia

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Some great exhibitions recently here in Sofia You don’t often get to see collections of Nikola Tanev’s paintings – the last one was 5 y...
Monday, March 23, 2015

40 billion pounds' worth of social sciences????

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I have a love-hate relationship with the social sciences – grateful for the vistas its literature opened up to me at university in the ear...
Saturday, March 21, 2015

Seminal Books of the past - part II

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Apparently I’m not alone in my interest in making a list of “the key books of the century”….I’ve just unearthed the first of what promises...
Thursday, March 19, 2015

Key Books of the 20th Century - Part I

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For the past few days I’ve been engaged in a frustrating and probably useless task – trying to list the non-fiction books I think worthy o...
Monday, March 16, 2015

Raymond Williams - a voice never stilled

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Raymond Williams is a name to conjure with – at least for a Brit of my generation. In 1959 he produced a book “Culture and Society” whose...
Saturday, March 14, 2015

How governments have bought - and used up - time

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It’s significant that the best expositions of the global economic crisis and its causes do not come from economists……..somehow the frame...
Wednesday, March 11, 2015

The C word

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We don’t need anyone these days to tell us that we’re in a mess. Nor to explain why. The libraries are groaning with books on globalizatio...
Friday, March 6, 2015

An Etzioni resource

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Last week’s sad funeral at least gave me the chance to retrieve a package which had been waiting for me since November in my neighbour’s h...