James Russell: Plato's Alarm Clock [2018] hardback ZCCON but to her supporters

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'The plot burns through petrol

How Charts Lie examines contemporary examples ranging from election result infographics to global GDP maps and box office record charts

Tolstoy's genius and the power of his prose are made newly available to the contemporary reader

Christy Kinahan

James Russell: Plato's Alarm Clock [2018] hardback ZCCON but to her supportersWe all like to think we are pretty smart. New medical advances seem to come along every day; space travel suddenly doesn't seem so difficult; self driving cars are no longer a thing of the future . but if we were stranded on a desert island tomorrow, most of us wouldn't know how to catch a fish or start a fire, let alone rebuild all that extraordinary technology we now rely on. The truth is that we're not necessarily more clever than our ancestors, we