Cooked- A Natural History of Transformation
By Michael Pollan
- Thu
- Oct 3, 2013
- Updated: 1:19am
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The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, among other things, were stark reminders of how little Americans knew about the rest of the world.
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Daniel Davis is director of research at the University of Manchester Collaborative Centre for Inflammation Research, and The Compatibility Gene deals with just such a targeted area of study: the...
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The story of how Empty Mansions came to be, in the words of Bill Dedman, one of its two authors, begins with "an exercise in American aspiration".
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On January 23, 1960, Swiss explorer Jacques Piccard set down at the deepest depths of the ocean, 10,911 metres below the surface.
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"Whose world is more demented?" Simon Doonan asks. "The world of the insane or the world of the insanely fashionable?" In his new memoir, The Asylum, Doonan shows the line is hard to draw,...
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Cloud Atlas is that rare novel that balances seemingly incompatible opposites. The story is addictively readable - David Mitchell mixes adventure stories, thrillers, science fiction and the...
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Hong Kong post-rock band tfvsjs have released their first album 10 years into their musical career - and it's worth the wait.
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Thomas Pynchon is, to put it mildly, a hard man to pin down. There is, of course, his admirable refusal to publicise his books.
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Tim Cope was a little known 25-year-old Australian adventurer when he set out on his 10,000-kilometre journey across the Eurasian steppe on horseback, retracing the hoof-steps of Mongol warrior...
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No one but the jurors can say which of six short-listed books will receive the Man Booker Prize for fiction on October 15, but one thing for certain is the Americans are coming into the...
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Flanked by vintage sports cars and glamorous flight attendants, author William Boyd on Wednesday unveiled the new James Bond novel Solo in which he opts for a 1960s settings for 007’s exploits.
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