Books and arts 文艺 A history of guerrilla warfare 游击战的历史 How the weak vanquish the strong 以弱胜强之道 Fighting an insurgency requires patience, restraint and a good public-relations strategy 平定叛乱需要耐心,克制和良

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Books and Arts; Book Review;The young and the restless; 文艺;书评;年轻与焦躁; British and American fiction gets off to a promising start in 2010; 2010年英美小说闪亮开篇; The Unnamed. By Joshua Ferris. 《莫名》,作者约书亚

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Books and Arts; Book Review;Russia and the West;Slip and slide 文艺;书评;俄罗斯与西方世界; 跌落并下滑; Change or Decay: Russia's Dilemma and the West's Response. By Lilia Shevtsova and Andrew Wood. 是变化还是衰退:俄罗斯

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Books and Arts; Book Review; Fundamental physics; Big bang; 文艺;书评;基础物理学;宇宙大爆炸; Popular physics has enjoyed a new-found regard. Now comes a brave attempt to inject mathematics into an otherwise fashionable subject 科

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Books and Arts; Book Review;Slavery in Africa;Gathered in the marketplace; 文艺;书评;非洲奴隶制;汇集于集市; The Last Slave Market: Dr John Kirk and the Struggle to End the African Slave Trade. By Alastair Hazell. 《最后的奴

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Books and Arts;Leonardo in London;Deciphering the da Vinci code; 文艺;李奥纳多在伦敦;解密达芬奇密码; A new show offers a rare opportunity to compare Leonardo da Vinci's paintings; 一个新展览为比较李奥纳多达芬奇

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Books and Arts; Book Review;New French film; Friends united;An unlikely comic hit; 文艺;书评;新法国电影;朋友一心;一部不大可能成为大片的喜剧; French film-makers are good at turning out silly comedies that foreigners

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Books and Arts; Book Review;Joseph Heller and his fiction;The first cut is the deepest; 文艺;书评;约瑟夫海勒和他的小说;一刀见血; Just One Catch: A Biography of Joseph Heller. By Tracy Daugherty. 《只有一条军规:约瑟夫

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Books and Arts; Book Review;Diana Athill's letters;Dear Edward; 文艺;书评;戴安娜阿西尔的信;致亲爱的爱德华; Instead of a Book: Letters to a Friend. By Diana Athill. 并不是一本书,只是些给朋友的信。戴安娜阿

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Books and Arts; Book Review;Politics in India; Iron lady; 文艺;书评;印度政治;铁娘子; Sonia Gandhi: An Extraordinary Life. By Rani Singh. 索尼娅甘地:非同寻常的一生;拉尼辛格著。 LAST year a supporter of Sonia Ga

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Books and Arts; Book Review; Culture on television; The cruellest cut; 文艺;书评;电视上的艺术;最粗鲁的裁汰; The South Bank Show: Final Cut. By Melvyn Bragg. 《南岸秀:最终裁汰》Melvyn Bragg著。 The South Bank Show

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Books and Arts; Book Review; Economic history;Centuries of trial and error;How economists rescued mankind from squalor and deprivation; 文艺;书评;经济学史;数百年的反复试验;经济学家们如何救人类于悲惨贫穷;

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Books and Arts; A father of modern photography;The hunter and his prey; 文艺;现代摄影之父;猎手与猎物; Henri Cartier-Bresson's photographs are on show in New York until June 28th; 亨利卡蒂埃布列松摄影展在纽约展出,截

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Books and Arts; Book Review;History of diplomacy;Dealing with the enemy; 文艺;书评;外交往事;应敌之策; George Kennan invented the American post-war policy of containment of the Soviet Union. His biography, 30 years in the making, f

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Books and Arts; Book Review;The English gentry;Happy landings; 文艺;书评;英国乡绅;一路顺风; The gentry: story of the English. By Adam Nicolson. 《乡绅:英国的故事》,亚当尼克森著。 Adam Nicolson has written many

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Still in Books and Arts; Book Review;Memoir of the Middle East;Scent of dreams; 文艺;书评;中东回忆录;梦之味; I Was Born There, I Was Born Here. By Mourid Barghouti. 《我在那里出生,我出生在这里》,穆里德巴尔

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Books and Arts;Artists and photographers;Point and paint 文艺;书评;艺术家和摄影师;瞬间与永恒; A long overdue study of the influence early photography had on painting; 早期摄影对绘画的影响,一项迟来的研究; I

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Still in Books and Arts;The Dead Sea scrolls;Voice of reason; 文艺;死海古卷;理性的声音; The Story of the Scrolls: The Miraculous Discovery and True Significance of the Dead Sea Scrolls. By Geza Vermes. 《古卷的故事:死海古卷

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Books and Arts; Book Review;American agribusiness;The power in the union; 文艺;书评;美国农业;工会的力量; Trampling Out the Vintage: Csar Chvez and the Two Souls of the United Farm Workers. By Frank Bardacke. 把葡萄踩在脚下:

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Still in Books and Arts; Book Review;Foreign interventions;When to hold and when to fold; 文艺;书评;来自外国的干扰;来自外国的干扰究竟该如何进退; Can Intervention Work? By Rory Stewart and Gerald Knaus. 《干预有用吗

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