Parallel livesIn 'Parallel Lives', Phyllis Rose examines five famous Victorian marriages. Raising questions about the politics of sex and the expectations of marriage, she probes inherited myths and assumptions.

they set out on a perilous three-hundred mile journey on foot across a country ravaged by war

in the words of one specialist sloth investigator

asking surprising questions about trees with exciting quizzes

mapping them

and anti-Semites around the world - gives an impassioned defence of his core belief in open society

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spin and the first stirrings of celebrity culture

Mary is certain she'd be a marvelous spy

her only chance at survival lies in a gambit even more unlikely than the first

to the secret climbs Geraint has come to love

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When Anne Sexton took her own life in October 1974