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04 July 2008 | by Freeman Dyson is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences and a fellow of the Royal Society, London. He is the author of The Sun, the Genome and the Internet, Oxford University Press, 1999. NEW
Freeman Dyson challenges prevailing ideas about protecting the environment *A Question of Balance: Weighing the Options on Global Warming Policies, by William Nordhaus, Yale University Press. * Global Warming: Looking Beyond Kyoto, edited by Ernesto Zedillo, Yale Centre for the Study of Globalisation / Brookings Institution Press.
04 July 2008 | by Colin Golvan is a senior counsel at the Victorian Bar and was counsel for Harold Thomas in the case of Thomas v Brown.
Colin Golvan tells the story of conflicted loyalties and the origins of a flag
04 July 2008 | by Dan Balz is national political correspondent for The Washington Post. WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD
The most important issue rarely mentioned on the United States campaign trail this year is the gap between rich and poor in America
04 July 2008 | by Anabela Paiva is a journalist, director of a media-monitoring group at the Centre for Studies on Public Security and Citizenship in Rio de Janeiro, and author, with Silvia Ramos, of Media and Violence
Anabela Paiva on the criminals inside Brazil's police force * Elite da Tropa (Elite Squad), by Luiz Eduardo Soares, Andre Batista and Rodrigo Pimentel, Objetiva.
04 July 2008 | by Nicholas Carr is an author. His most recent book is The Big Switch: Rewiring the World from Edison to Google, Norton, 2008. ©2008 The Atlantic Monthly Group. Distributed by Tribune Media Services. ATL
Nicholas Carr suspects the high-speed cacophony of the internet is destroying his ability to concentrate on ideas
04 July 2008 | by Jonathan Yardley is a Pulitzer prize-winning literary critic. WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD
Jonathan Yardley on a weapon intended to make war less cruel *Mr Gatling's Terrible Marvel: The Gun That Changed Everything and the Misunderstood Genius Who Invented It, by Julia Keller, Viking.
04 July 2008 | by Elizabeth Pisani is an epidemiologist and the author of The Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels and the Business of AIDS, Norton 2008. PROSPECT
As the consequences of HIV infection diminish, new challenges face the health industry, writes Elizabeth Pisani
04 July 2008 | by Duncan Fallowell is the author of Going As Far As I Can, Profile, 2008, an account of his travels in New Zealand. NEW STATESMAN
Duncan Fallowell on the hidden story of a small museum in Paris *The Camondo Legacy: the Passions of a Paris Collector, edited by Marie-Noel de Gary, photographs by Jean-Marie del Moral, Thames & Hudson.
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