WILL STONE fact-checks the colourful life of Ozzy Osbourne
Smart Machines and Service Work: Automation in an Age of Stagnation
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JAMES CROSSLEY applauds a lucid biography of the German radical preacher who reemerged as a hero in the GDR
Prizes all round: the Bard hands plaudits to the Miners Gala, OT&JC, Joe Solo, Black Sabbath’s frontman and the Lionesses
Star cartoonist JAMIE BRITTON is in awe of a graphic novel of epic proportions that explores class, religion and globalisation via the strange cultivation of Ginseng in the US Midwest
GUILLERMO THOMAS is intrigued by a history of the Middle East that demonstrates how promising post colonial beginnings were snuffed out by Western imperialist interests
MARIA DUARTE recommends the intricate study of a high-performance and highly dysfuntional German family
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But it also being heeded in the university sector, chiefly in its business schools where the managerial class is incubated.
Hope and fear divide responses to the vista of robots marching over the horizon.
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