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A View From The Other Shore

J. M. ROBERTS The European Renaissance since 1945 Maurice Crouzet (Thames and Hudson 35s) This book must suffer by being launched in the wake of Richard Mayne's tour de force.......

An Acute Sense Of The General Good

A. R. PREST Papers on Planning and Economic Manage- ment Ely Devons edited Sir Alec Cairn- cross (Manchester University Press 60s) Ely Devons first made his mark on a national......