Falling in Love

Falling in LoveFalling in Love (1889) is a brilliant collection of essays by innovative Canadian writer Grant Allen. His wide ranging interests and unique, personal tone present science in a style that not only makes difficult concepts digestible to the average reader, but also presages the popularity of New Journalism in the latter half of the twentieth century. In the title essay, Allen moves from analysis of the evolutionary implications of love to a blistering

Following the UK’s departure from the European Union

a period in which a military regime embarked upon the construction of a new civic identity for an independent Egypt

Having described his death and long mummification process in his last book

argues that Britain’s small wars since 1945 were fought against the backdrop of an irrevocable decline in British power

A number of ethical and moral issues such as poverty

Even without having a premium price for organic dairy products

and the function of the feminine in Western metaphysics

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including symmetry in art and physics

London and Paris

It argues that the ‘comradely objects’ of Russian productivism were not just shabby copies of western commodities – they were agents of progressive social relations with a discernible inheritance from the 1920s avant-garde

It looks at factors that are shaping India’s foreign policy