Recently added articles from Contemporary Review:
THE MODERN MERCENARY.(War plc: The Rise of the New Corporate Mercenary)(Book review)
Sep 22, 2009; ... War plc: The Rise of the New Corporate Mercenary. Stephen Armstrong. Faber and Faber. [pounds sterling]14.99 p.b. vii + 255 pages. ISBN 978-0-571-24125-5. This is a racy, journalistic introduction to the little known but increasingly important world of private security companies ...
BEING ECCENTRIC AND BRITISH.(In Search of the English Eccentric)(Book review)
Sep 22, 2009; ... In Search of the English Eccentric. Henry Hemmings. John Murray. [pounds sterling]16.99. xi + 320 pages. ISBN 978-0-7195-2212-3. The English or, to stretch a point, the British, are rather like a hermit who lives up in the attic, rarely coming down to mingle with the rest of the ...
THE DIVINITY OF CHRIST.(Was Jesus God?)(Book review)
Sep 22, 2009; ... Was Jesus God? Richard Swinburne. Oxford University Press. [pounds sterling]9.99. vii + 175 pages. ISBN 978-0-19-920311-6. Richard Swinburne can be reckoned as either a philosophical theologian or an unusually theological philosopher. His chair at Oxford (1985-2002) was in the ...
HALF-A-CENTURY OF BRITISH ADVERTISING.(Powers of Persuasion: the Inside Story of British Advertising)(Book review)
Sep 22, 2009; ... Powers of Persuasion: the Inside Story of British Advertising. Winston Fletcher. Oxford University Press. [pounds sterling]16.99. vii + 288 pages. ISBN 978-0-19-922801-0. Advertising contributes around [pounds sterling]6.5 thousand million to the British economy, including ...
THE GREAT WAR EXAMINED.(The Last Great War: British Society and the First World War)(Book review)
Sep 22, 2009; ... The Last Great War: British Society and the First World War. Adrian Gregory. Cambridge University Press. [pounds sterling]45.00 (US$90.00). viii + 354 pages. ISBN 978-0-521-45037-9. In writing this book Mr Gregory set himself a mammoth task: to assess how the war affected ...