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Books
Once and future town
18 September 2008

Pompeii: the Life of a Roman Town

Mary Beard

Profile Books, 416pp, £25

Books
I should rococo
21 August 2008

Casanova

Ian Kelly

Hodder & Stoughton, 403pp, £20

Politics
Signs of the times
08 May 2008

An exhibition of posters and photographs from the Paris rebellion is irresistible, but tricky out of

Books
Vorsprung durch Technik
01 May 2008

Love and Sex With Robots: the Evolution of Human-Robot Relationships
David Levy

Books
The enemies of promise
13 March 2008

George Gissing: a Life

Paul Delany Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 444pp, £25

Books
Master of all trades
13 November 2006

The Last Man Who Knew Everything

Andrew Robinson Oneworld, 288pp, £17.99

Lifestyle
Baby Boomers: and the illusion of perpetual youth
30 October 2006

Greedy, trivial, venal, cosseted . . . The postwar generation of children grew up protected by cosy

Ideas
Decoding da Vinci
18 September 2006

He was the original Renaissance man: master painter, an inventor of flying machines and weapons of w

Ideas
Master minds
28 November 2005

What makes a genius? Certainly not going on a creativity course and learning to "think outside the b

Music and Performance
Wot's so great about yoof?
10 October 2005

As the Young@Heart Chorus prepares to astound London with its ancient cast, whose ages range from 73

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