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- 4 January 2009 (502 words)
- The Turnpike Road System in England 1663-1840 (William Albert)
- development, administration, finance; repair and transport costs
- 3 January 2009 (220)
- The Lecture (Lydie Salvayre)
- a comic extravaganza of a monologue
- 1 January 2009 (257)
- *Aboriginal Art (Wally Caruana)
- brief description and analysis of 200 works, with photographs
- 23 December 2008 (457)
- Lords and Lemurs (Alison Jolly)
Mad Scientists, Kings with Spears, and the Survival of Diversity in Madagascar
- 10 December 2008 (333)
- War Trash (Ha Jin)
- the story of a Chinese prisoner-of-war in Korea
- 8 December 2008 (755)
- Artificial Sunshine (Maureen Dillon)
A Social History of Domestic Lighting
- 29 November 2008 (346)
- Outlaws of the Marsh (Shi Nai'an, Luo Guanzhong)
- an abridgement of the classic Chinese novel
- 21 November 2008 (278)
- *Soul of the Desert (Philippa Nikulinsky, Stephen D Hopper)
- botanical and zoological illustrations from Australian deserts
- 15 November 2008 (521)
- Development Economics (Debraj Ray)
- a textbook survey
- 10 November 2008 (454)
- Much Sounding of Bugles (John Harris)
The Siege of Chitral, 1895
- 2 November 2008 (230)
- Kipling Stories (Rudyard Kipling)
Twenty-eight Exciting Tales by the Master Storyteller
- 1 November 2008 (291)
- Uncommon People (Eric Hobsbawm)
Resistance, Rebellion, and Jazz
- 22 October 2008 (623)
- The Anatomy of Fascism (Robert O. Paxton)
- a historical approach
- 11 October 2008 (250)
- The Truth About the Savolta Case (Eduardo Mendoza)
- violence and intrigue in 1918 Barcelona
- 2 October 2008 (361)
- Violence in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1800 (Julius R. Ruff)
- a wide-ranging survey
- 28 September 2008 (274)
- *Reads Like a Novel (Daniel Pennac)
- teaching and learning a love of reading
- 20 September 2008 (528)
- Germany in Transit (Deniz Göktürk, David Gramling, Anton Kaes)
Nation and Migration 1955-2005
- 4 September 2008 (430)
- Book of the Three Dragons (Kenneth Morris)
- a fantasy based on medieval Welsh stories
- 28 August 2008 (301)
- In Search of Kazakhstan (Christopher Robbins)
The Land that Disappeared
- 27 August 2008 (230)
- For Bread Alone (Mohamed Choukri)
- a bleak childhood and youth in Morocco
- 21 August 2008 (217)
- The Making and Breaking of Affectional Bonds (John Bowlby)
A Secure Base (John Bowlby)
- 16 August 2008 (491)
- Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction (John Rieder)
- explorations in the ideological background of early sf
- 10 August 2008 (338)
- Death Comes for the Archbishop (Willa Cather)
- a novel of the Catholic Church in 19th century New Mexico
- 29 July 2008 (590)
- *Infinite Tropics (Andrew Berry)
An Alfred Russel Wallace Anthology
- 27 July 2008 (130)
- Tainted Blood (Arnaldur Indridason)
- an Icelandic murder mystery
- 25 July 2008 (266)
- What We Know About Childcare (Clarke-Stewart, Allhusen)
- a survey of research into childcare in the United States
- 16 July 2008 (282)
- The Logic of Life (Tim Harford)
Uncovering the New Economics of Everything
- 14 July 2008 (729)
- The Strange Case of the Broad Street Pump (Sandra Hempel)
John Snow and the Mystery of Cholera
- 2 July 2008 (240)
- *The Prince (Hushang Golshiri)
- a dark novel about the Qajari lords of Isfahan
- 30 June 2008 (591)
- American Agriculture in the Twentieth Century (Bruce L. Gardner)
How it Flourished and What it Cost
- 25 June 2008 (912)
- *The History of the Countryside (Oliver Rackham)
The classic history of Britain's landscape, flora and fauna
- 15 June 2008 (801)
- Maize and Grace (James C. McCann)
Africa's Encounter with a New World Crop 1500-2000
- 11 June 2008 (112)
- The Laughing Policeman (Maj Sjöwall, Per Wahlöö)
- a mass murder mystery set in 1967 Stockholm
- 9 June 2008 (318)
- Banana (Dan Koeppel)
The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World
- 3 June 2008 (516)
- King of Infinite Space (Siobhan Roberts)
Donald Coxeter, the Man Who Saved Geometry
- 29 May 2008 (243)
- *The First World War (Hew Strachan)
A New Illustrated History
- 26 May 2008 (351)
- Fatelessness (Imre Kertesz)
- a teenager in Buchenwald concentration camp
- 19 May 2008 (973)
- **A Fragile Balance (Christopher Dickman)
The extraordinary story of Australian marsupials
- 16 May 2008 (140)
- Baikal (Peter Matthiessen)
Sacred Sea of Siberia
- 3 May 2008 (546)
- Allah is Not Obliged (Ahmadou Kourouma)
- the story of a child soldier in West Africa
- 30 April 2008 (720)
- Sheep and Man (M.L. Ryder)
- a comprehensive study of sheep in human history
- 22 April 2008 (512)
- Blockade Diary (Lidiya Ginzburg)
- life during the siege of Leningrad
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