Recent Reviews

26 February 2019 (369 words)

Flip the System UK (Lucy Rycroft-Smith, JL Dutaut)
A Teachers' Manifesto

7 January 2019 (632)

The Dutch Republic (Jonathan I. Israel)
Its Rise, Greatness, and Fall 1477-1806

24 December 2018 (757)

*Bike Nation (Peter Walker)
How Cycling Can Save the World
Bikenomics (Elly Blue)
How Bicycling Can Save the Economy

10 December 2018 (509)

Genomic Quirks: The Search for Spelling Errors (Ramesh Hariharan)
- nine cases show how genomics is changing modern medicine

9 December 2018 (352)

*Walker Stories (Walker Books)
- a lovely set of thirty early readers

8 November 2018 (509)

*The Alphonse Courrier Affair (Marta Morazzoni)
- a comedy of manners in a French village

31 October 2018 (1126)

Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts (Christopher de Hamel)
- the histories and lives of twelve medieval books

17 September 2018 (173)

*Tari: the Little Balinese Dancer (Pamela Noensie)
- death and the passing on of traditional culture

17 September 2018 (667)

The Populist Temptation (Barry Eichengreen)
Economic Grievance and Political Reaction in the Modern Era

16 August 2018 (799)

The Oceans: A Deep History (Eelco J. Rohling)
- ocean chemistry in its broadest context

16 August 2018 (203)

Cuneiform (Irving Finkel, Jonathan Taylor)
- writing and literacy in ancient Mesopotamia

2 July 2018 (639)

*A Course in Enumeration (Martin Aigner)
- the power of combinatorics

26 June 2018 (365)

Re:Cyclists (Michael Hutchinson)
200 Years on Two Wheels

15 May 2018 (506)

*With a Mighty Hand (Amy Ehrlich)
The Story in the Torah

9 May 2018 (779)

The Dutch and their Delta (Jacob Vossestein)
Living below sea level

16 March 2018 (420)

Lingo (Gaston Dorren)
A Language Spotter's Guide to Europe

13 March 2018 (642)

*Against Marriage (Clare Chambers)
An Egalitarian Defence of the Marriage-Free State

12 March 2018 (152)

The Painter of Signs (R.K. Narayan)
- infatuation and commitment in small town India

15 February 2018 (1327)

Gilgamesh (Herbert Mason)
A Verse Narrative
Gilgamesh (David Ferry)
A New Rendering in English Verse
Gilgamesh (Stephen Mitchell)
A New English Version
Myths from Mesopotamia (Stephanie Dalley)
Creation, The Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others
*The Epic of Gilgamesh (Andrew George)

13 February 2018 (246)

Son of Man (Yi Mun-yol)
- a theological-historical detective novel

5 February 2018 (328)

**Man Tiger (Eka Kurniawan)
- joy amid the darkness in small town Java

24 January 2018 (371)

Questioning Minds (Yung-Hee Kim)
Short Stories by Modern Korean Women Writers

9 January 2018 (463)

Stasiland (Anna Funder)
Stories From Behind the Berlin Wall

8 January 2018 (328)

The General (C.S. Forester)
- a short novel of the British Army in the Great War

21 December 2017 (516)

Chinese Poetic Writing (François Cheng, Jerome P. Seaton)
With an Anthology of Tang Poetry

4 December 2017 (408)

*How Languages Work (Carol Genetti)
An Introduction to Language and Linguistics

28 November 2017 (353)

The Little Book of Black Holes (Steven S. Grubser, Frans Pretorius)
- from basic physics to collision observations

9 November 2017 (1075)

How Not to Network a Nation (Benjamin Peters)
The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet

9 November 2017 (506)

*The Climate Modelling Primer (Kendal McGuffie, Ann Henderson-Sellers)
- models + motivations, components + links, more

28 October 2017 (528)

*The Shape of Space (Jeffrey R. Weeks)
- the geometry and topology of surfaces and three-manifolds

18 October 2017 (1568)

The Gods of Olympus (Barbara Graziosi)
A History
Classical Mythology (Helen Morales)
A Very Short Introduction

7 September 2017 (261)

Arts and Society in Flanders and the Netherlands (Luc Devoldere)
The Low Countries Yearbook 2014

6 September 2017 (270)

Oia in Santorini (Kadio Kolymva)
A journey in space and time

28 August 2017 (826)

The Moral Economy (Samuel Bowles)
Why Good Incentives are no Substitute for Good Citizens

23 August 2017 (180)

Mirage: An Anonymous Novel (Patrick Hanan)
- a Chinese novel from 1804

22 August 2017 (872)

*D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths (Ingri D'Aulaire, Edgar Parin D'Aulaire)
- one of the outstanding reworkings for children
Atticus the Storyteller's 100 Greek Myths (Lucy Coats)
- all the favourite stories, adapted for 4-8 year olds

26 July 2017 (149)

Outwitting History (Aaron Lansky)
How a Young Man Rescued a Million Books and Saved a Vanishing Civilisation

11 July 2017 (425)

The Little Water-Sprite (Otfried Preussler)
The Little Witch (Otfried Preussler)
*The Robber Hotzenplotz (Otfried Preussler)
The Little Ghost (Otfried Preussler)

26 June 2017 (471)

The Future of Silence (Bruce Fulton, Ju-Chan Fulton)
Fiction by Korean Women
Wayfarer (Bruce Fulton, Ju-Chan Fulton)
New Fiction by Korean Women

29 May 2017 (675)

We, the Navigators (David Lewis)
The Ancient Art of Landfinding in the Pacific

25 May 2017 (613)

Spell It Out (David Crystal)
The Singular Story of English Spelling

11 May 2017 (294)

Missing (Walter de la Mare)
- three modernist short stories

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