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- 4 November 2009 (377 words)
- Under the Heel of the Dragon (Blaine Kaltman)
Islam, Racism, Crime, and the Uighur in China
- 31 October 2009 (334)
- Birth of the Chess Queen (Marilyn Yalom)
- powerful women and chess in medieval Europe
- 26 October 2009 (612)
- Vietnam: A Natural History (Sterling, Hurley, Minh)
- biogeography, flora and fauna, and conservation
- 21 October 2009 (173)
- Q.E.D. (Burkard Polster)
Beauty in Mathematical Proof
- 14 October 2009 (592)
- Japan to 1600 (William Wayne Farris)
A Social and Economic History
- 4 October 2009 (301)
- Bartleby & Co. (Enrique Vila-Matas)
- writers who "prefer not to"
- 1 October 2009 (486)
- Why Did You Leave the Horse Alone? (Mahmoud Darwish)
- "the premier poetic voice of the Palestinian people"
- 28 September 2009 (793)
- The Story of French (Jean-Benoît Nadeau, Julie Barlow)
From Charlemagne to The Cirque du Soleil
- 20 September 2009 (379)
- The Real Oliver Twist (John Waller)
Robert Blincoe: A Life That Illuminates a Violent Age
- 12 September 2009 (702)
- Martyrdom in Islam (David Cook)
- from its genesis to modern radicals
- 30 August 2009 (242)
- Little Man, What Now? (Hans Fallada)
- struggling to survive in Germany in the Great Depression
- 26 August 2009 (210)
- Plants Don't Drink Coffee (Unai Elorriaga)
- intertwined stories about insects, rugby, love + carpentry
- 23 August 2009 (692)
- Dirt (David R. Montgomery)
The Erosion of Civilizations
- 12 August 2009 (719)
- *A Little Primer of Tu Fu (David Hawkes)
- an introduction to classical Chinese poetry
- 22 July 2009 (470)
- MediaWiki (Daniel J. Barrett)
Wikipedia and Beyond
- 16 July 2009 (247)
- Tolkien's Gown (Rick Gekoski)
And Other Stories of Great Authors and Rare Books
- 10 July 2009 (354)
- *Khirbet Khizeh (S. Yizhar)
- evicting a Palestinian village in 1948
- 5 July 2009 (246)
- Bones, Rocks and Stars (Chris Turney)
The Science of When Things Happened
- 2 July 2009 (216)
- Women in a River Landscape (Heinrich Böll)
A Novel in Dialogues and Soliloquies
- 22 June 2009 (130)
- Hammerklavier (Yasmina Reza)
- a pointillist rumination on music, mortality and memory
- 21 June 2009 (863)
- *The Last Imaginary Place (Robert McGhee)
A Human History of the Arctic World
- 12 June 2009 (564)
- Proust and the Squid (Maryanne Wolf)
The Story and Science of the Reading Brain
- 7 June 2009 (318)
- Faded Portraits (E. Breton de Nijs)
A Novel of the Indies
- 27 May 2009 (656)
- Dangerous Sanctuaries (Sarah Kenyon Lischer)
Refugee Camps, Civil War, and the Dilemmas of Humanitarian Aid
- 24 May 2009 (245)
- Women Without Men (Shahrnush Parsipur)
A Novel of Modern Iran
- 18 May 2009 (397)
- Throwim Way Leg (Tim Flannery)
- a biologist's adventures in the New Guinea highlands
- 10 May 2009 (374)
- The Social Amoebae (John Tyler Bonner)
The Biology of Cellular Slime Molds
- 29 April 2009 (180)
- Guilt about the Past (Bernhard Schlink)
- the post-war German experience
- 26 April 2009 (525)
- The Red and the Black (Stendhal)
A Chronicle of the 19th Century
- 23 April 2009 (343)
- The Middle Path (Eric Lambin)
Avoiding Environmental Catastrophe
- 10 April 2009 (585)
- Bills of Rights in Australia (Byrnes, Charlesworth, McKinnon)
History, Politics and Law
- 5 April 2009 (767)
- *Medieval Islamic Medicine (Peter E. Pormann, Emilie Savage-Smith)
- origins, theory, practice, social context
- 29 March 2009 (893)
- Snake Oil Science (R. Barker Bausell)
The Truth About Complementary and Alternative Medicine
- 24 March 2009 (619)
- Mirror of the Indies (Rob Nieuwenhuys)
A History of Dutch Colonial Literature
- 21 March 2009 (401)
- The Photographs of Baldwin Spencer (Allen, Batty, Morton)
- Aboriginal photographs from 1894 to 1923
- 5 March 2009 (1119)
- **Debunking Economics (Steve Keen)
The Naked Emperor of the Social Sciences
- 4 March 2009 (458)
- Epidemics Laid Low (Patrice Bourdelais)
- a history of public health responses in Western Europe
- 25 February 2009 (232)
- *Black Parrot, Green Crow (Houshang Golshiri)
- short stories from modern Iran
- 19 February 2009 (571)
- The Black Swan (Nassim Nicholas Taleb)
The Impact of the Highly Improbable
- 13 February 2009 (937)
- Charles Darwin (Janet Browne)
Voyaging; The Power of Place
- 11 February 2009 (546)
- DNA, Words and Models (Robin, Rodolphe, Schbath)
Statistics of Exceptional Words
- 27 January 2009 (869)
- *A Natural History of Conifers (Aljos Farjon)
- evolution, systematics, biogeography, ecology, conservation
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