Princeton University Press

Book Reviews

• *Afghanistan (Thomas Barfield)
  A Cultural and Political History
• Arab Seafaring (George F. Hourani)
  In the Indian Ocean in Ancient and Early Medieval Times
• Celestial Encounters (Florin Diacu, Philip Holmes)
  The Origins of Chaos and Stability
• *Conservation (Monique Borgerhoff Mulder, Peter Coppolillo)
  Linking Ecology, Economics, and Culture
• Development Economics (Debraj Ray)
  - a textbook survey
• Devil in the Mountain (Simon Lamb)
  A Search for the Origin of the Andes
• Egypt, Canaan and Israel in Ancient Times (Donald B. Redford)
  - from prehistory to the destruction of Jerusalem in 586 BC
• Empire to Commonwealth (Garth Fowden)
  Consequences of Monotheism in Late Antiquity
• Empires of the Silk Road (Christopher I. Beckwith)
  A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present
• Extinction (Douglas H. Erwin)
  How Life on Earth Nearly Ended 250 Million Years Ago
• Famine: A Short History (Cormac Ó Gráda)
  - demography and political, economic and social history
• Fearless Symmetry (Avner Ash, Robert Gross)
  Exposing the Hidden Patterns of Numbers
• Hands (John Napier)
  - structure, function, and evolution; social and cultural roles
• *Insects and Flowers (Friedrich G. Barth)
  The Biology of a Partnership
• **The Languages of China (S. Robert Ramsey)
  - social, cultural, and historical background as well as linguistics
• The Long Thaw (David Archer)
  How Humans Are Changing the Next 100,000 Years of Earth's Climate
• Magical Mushrooms, Mischievous Molds (George W. Hudler)
  - fungi and their influence on our lives
• *The Mathematical Century (Piergiorgio Odifreddi)
  The 30 Greatest Problems of the Last 100 Years
• Meritocracy and Economic Inequality (Arrow, Bowles, Durlauf)
  - race, intelligence, schooling, and equality of opportunity
• **Microeconomics (Samuel Bowles)
  Behavior, Institutions, and Evolution
• A Natural History of Families (Scott Forbes)
  - evolutionary biology and medicine
• Perspectives in Ecological Theory (Roughgarden, May, Levin)
• *Plight of the Fortune Tellers (Riccardo Rebonato)
  Why We Need to Manage Financial Risk Differently
• The Social Amoebae (John Tyler Bonner)
  The Biology of Cellular Slime Molds
• The Tibetan Empire in Central Asia (Christopher I. Beckwith)
  A History of the Struggle for Great Power among Tibetans, Turks, Arabs, and Chinese during the Early Middle Ages