Recent Reviews

3 May 2008 (546 words)

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

17 April 2008 (559)

*The Age of Empires (Francis Joannès)
Mesopotamia in the First Millennium BC

5 April 2008 (611)

Under Three Flags (Benedict Anderson)
Anarchism and the Anti-Colonial Imagination

26 March 2008 (989)

Grandeur and Grit (Max Solling)
A History of Glebe

24 March 2008 (523)

On Evolution (John C. Avise)
- thirty years using molecular analysis in evolutionary biology

19 March 2008 (584)

The Porn Report (Alan McKee, Katherine Albury, Catharine Lumby)
- the production and consumption of pornography in Australia

11 March 2008 (442)

Music, Cognition, and Computerized Sound (Perry R. Cook)
An Introduction to Psychoacoustics

10 March 2008 (479)

The Lord of the Rings 1954-2004 (Wayne G. Hammond, Christina Scull)
Scholarship in Honor of Richard E. Blackwelder

3 March 2008 (310)

Reform and Reconstruction (Stephen Brooke)
Britain after the war, 1945-51

28 February 2008 (328)

Max Havelaar (Multatuli)
Or the Coffee Auctions of a Dutch Trading Company

20 February 2008 (503)

Standing Stones (Jean-Pierre Mohen)
Stonehenge, Carnac and the World of Megaliths

17 February 2008 (630)

H.M. Bark Endeavour (Ray Parkin)
- her voyage up the east coast of Australia

11 February 2008 (268)

*The General of the Dead Army (Ismail Kadare)
- on a macabre quest in Albania

3 February 2008 (571)

Saudi Arabia (Tim Niblock)
Power, Legitimacy and Survival

30 January 2008 (612)

Catastrophe Remembered (Nur Masalha)
Palestine, Israel and the Internal Refugees

28 January 2008 (657)

*The Revolution of Peter the Great (James Cracraft)
- a lively account of the changes he brought to Russia

20 January 2008 (703)

*Cancer: The Evolutionary Legacy (Mel Greaves)
- cellular biology and human evolution, history and society

19 January 2008 (164)

On Literature (Umberto Eco)
- an assortment of literary criticism

14 January 2008 (548)

**The Melancholy of Resistance (Laszlo Krasznahorkai)
- a small town falls apart with the showing of a whale

4 January 2008 (382)

Africa's Discovery of Europe: 1450-1850 (David Northrup)
- African perspectives on encounters with Europeans

28 December 2007 (180)

Nada (Carmen Laforet)
- a novel about a young woman in 1940s Barcelona

20 December 2007 (170)

Falling in Love (Patrick Hanan)
Stories From Ming China

19 December 2007 (593)

Egypt: An Economic Geography (Fouad N. Ibrahim, Barbara Ibrahim)
- a broad-ranging survey

3 December 2007 (392)

Once the Buddha Was a Monkey: Jatakamala (Arya Sura)
- morality tales about lives of the Buddha

20 November 2007 (400)

*Nine Suitcases (Béla Zsolt)
- a novel of the Holocaust in Hungary

7 November 2007 (801)

We are not French! (Maryon McDonald)
Language, Culture and Identity in Brittany

4 November 2007 (165)

The Terracotta Dog (Andrea Camilleri)
- a Sicilian detective takes a historical excursion

31 October 2007 (446)

Seafarers, Merchants and Pirates in the Middle Ages (Dirk Meier)
- the Baltic, the North Sea, the North Atlantic and Russian rivers

23 October 2007 (471)

Sacred Texts and Buried Treasures (William Wayne Farris)
Issues in the Historical Archaeology of Ancient Japan

16 October 2007 (128)

I Have the Right to Destroy Myself (Young-Ha Kim)
- art, sex, and death in Seoul

13 October 2007 (670)

Trafalgar in History (David Cannadine)
A Battle and its Afterlife

8 October 2007 (257)

Sheep-Rearing and the Wool Trade (Joan M. Frayn)
in Italy during the Roman Period

4 October 2007 (809)

*The City Builder (George Konrad)
- a planner's life in a provincial Eastern European town

3 October 2007 (882)

*The Emerald Planet (David Beerling)
How Plants Changed Earth's History

23 September 2007 (390)

Devil in the Mountain (Simon Lamb)
A Search for the Origin of the Andes

21 September 2007 (267)

*The Time of Miracles (Borislav Pekic)
- prophecy, blindness, uncleanliness, sin, faith, madness

9 September 2007 (605)

The Science and Politics of Global Climate Change (Dessler, Parson)
A Guide to the Debate

5 September 2007 (442)

*The Suns of Independence (Ahmadou Kourouma)
- a tale of Malinke tradition in an independent Africa

2 September 2007 (426)

Religion and African Civil Wars (Niels Kastfelt)
- papers on Southern Sudan, West Africa, and Southern Africa

19 August 2007 (489)

Cornish Cases (John Rule)
Essays in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Social History

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