“... Traditional ways of seeing the world were, Bucklow tells us, ‘under assault from political self-interest and expediency on one side, and from scientific speculations and discovery on the other’. ‘Assault’ suggests that not all that was being gained was good. One of the pleasures of Bucklow’s book is his delight in turning things round: linear ...”

“... other places. Later she seems to become disenchanted with this work: not only does her high-minded self-sacrifice come up against the grubby equivocations of real politics (she may have inadvertently helped Tito’s partisans locate a village where they massacred the inhabitants), she also realises that she’s left her children at the mercy of malevolent ...”

“... in the mystic pungence of Negro mammies’. At times, the degree to which she has built her self-worth on her race and lineage is mocked. She uses her family name to justify her drinking and wanton romancing: ‘She’s the wildest one of the Beggs, but she’s a thoroughbred.’ Elsewhere, Zelda lapses into uninflected Southern ...”

“... ambivalent: TV Buddha could be read as an image of the Zen concept of satori, in which the true self is seen without the interference of the intellect. He believed that new media had the potential to expand consciousness, and his works from the 1970s suggest a serious-absurd relationship between technology and the natural world. They seem to say that the ...”

“... hats, Air Max and Converse – trainers again – and understands the special commonality and self-pity peculiar to Scousers like her. ‘Did you know that people from Glasgow and Liverpool have a natural affinity,’ she says at one point, high as a kookaburra and giving it the verbals as she walks down the road. ‘It’s the Irish in them. That’s why ...”

“... to work with others and to be validated with and by them. ‘I’ve always struggled with self-esteem. I tried arguing with it, but I couldn’t hide from the support and the care that was there.’ At the end of the course students from Learning Together gave him a legal dictionary, and after he left Grendon one of the staff members visited him in ...”

“... Book in its entirety! If you attend to it intently, your daily comportment will no doubt become self-possessed . . . your heart will acquire natural gracefulness, and when you compose poems about the moon and the flowers, they will be imbued with feeling.The gist is: Shonagon is hot and/or marriageable. Be clever with words, like her!In the Meiji period ...”

“... Remember 1986? With a scratch of her pen, Margaret Thatcher ended the democratically elected self-government of English cities. She did it because some of the six ‘metropolitan authorities’, London especially, were daring to pursue their own un-Thatcherite policies. And she got away with it. In a constitutional republic, she would have been ...”

“... in the war-numbed Britain of the late 1940s.Still, I was glad to have bumped into his earlier self, up among the zombies. It made me feel less lonely as I ploughed my eccentric furrow, the purpose of which is sometimes unfathomable to me as well as to others. And, in an unexpected twist, it made me admire Frank even more, as I caught a glimpse of the ...”

“... achievements of Ian Allan forty years later.Allan’s story illustrates two propositions that self-help gurus like to preach. One, adversity exists to be vanquished. Two, the simplest ideas work best. Allan was the son of the clerk at Christ’s Hospital, a school in West Sussex with its own railway station. But he himself was sent to St Paul’s in ...”

“... lay behind this pact. The Beidan – the Moorish word for ‘whites’, still widely used as a self-description by the nomadic peoples of the Western Sahel – saw only one difference between themselves and the French: religion.This arrangement held up until the era of independence, when the Beidan feared that the departing coloniser would leave them at ...”

“... the spectacular Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty (2015); and Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up (2018). She has worked on two major reorganisations of the V&A’s ‘permanent’ display. (In this world ‘permanent’, as Wilcox writes, ‘can mean anything from a decade to a lifetime, while temporary, in museum time, often goes on for ...”

“... and car drivers to find their destinations automatically, and enables the existence of the new self-driving cars, in addition to its many military uses. Another Darpa project was the Aspen Movie Map, a virtual tour of Aspen provided by the first hypermedia system (four cameras rigged on the top of a car taking pictures every ten feet). This technology was ...”

“... grows little crystals in your eyes’ – tells RuPaul that she’ll combine a lip-sync with a ‘self-care tutorial’. Her drag, she explains, pits comedy against the difficulty of living with a chronic illness. The walk-through is often an emotional segment – before the lighter mood of the maxi challenge and runway show – and allows the queens to ...”

“... the Spiritual in Art (1911), in which he argued that the spiritual was an innate form of self-expression.The ‘astral paintings’ the spirit Amaliel commissioned from af Klint in 1906 became the first in her long-running Paintings for the Temple cycle, which she planned to exhibit in a museum temple built specially to house them. Primordial Chaos ...”