Random House

Book Reviews

• Adam and Eve and Pinch Me (Ruth Rendell)
• The Babes in the Wood (Ruth Rendell)
  - Inspector Wexford hunts missing children amid floods
• Cultural Materialism (Marvin Harris)
  The Struggle for a Science of Culture
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Mark Haddon)
  - an autistic teenager investigates the murder of a dog
• *D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths (Ingri D'Aulaire, Edgar Parin D'Aulaire)
  - one of the outstanding reworkings for children
• Doctored Evidence (Donna Leon)
  - set in Venice, an Inspector Brunetti novel
• The Ghosts of Cannae (Robert L. O'Connell)
  Hannibal and the Darkest Hour of the Roman Republic
• *Guns, Germs and Steel (Jared Diamond)
  The Fates of Human Societies
• Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman (Marjorie Shostak)
  - a woman's life on the edge of the Kalahari
• Not In Our Genes (Richard Lewontin, Steven Rose, Leon J. Kamin)
  Biology, Ideology and Human Nature
• Rendezvous at Kamakura Inn (Marshall Browne)
  - a Japanese policeman faces corruption, mystery and violence
• Snatched (Helen Vnuk)
  Sex and Censorship in Australia
• Underground (Suelette Dreyfus)
  Tales of Hacking, Madness and Obsession on the Electronic Frontier
• Village of Stone (Xiaolu Guo)
  - a childhood in a remote Chinese fishing village