Book Reviews
- Amir D. Aczel: God's Equation
Einstein, Relativity, and the Expanding Universe
- Benedict Anderson: Under Three Flags
Anarchism and the Anti-Colonial Imagination
- Robert F. Barsky: Noam Chomsky
A Life of Dissent
- David Bellos: Georges Perec**
A Life in Words
- Andrew Berry: Infinite Tropics*
An Alfred Russel Wallace Anthology
- Alain de Botton: The Art of Travel
- using artists and writers as guides to travel
- Janet Browne: Charles Darwin
Voyaging; The Power of Place
- Norman F. Cantor: Inventing the Middle Ages
The Lives, Works, and Ideas of the Great Medievalists of the Twentieth Century
- Gavan Daws, Marty Fujita: Archipelago: The Islands of Indonesia
From the Nineteenth-Century Discoveries of Alfred Russel Wallace to the Fate of Forests and Reefs in the Twenty-First Century
- Adrian Desmond, James Moore: Darwin*
- a narrative biography, in the context of social and scientific change
- Ross E. Dunn: The Adventures of Ibn Battuta
A Muslim Traveler of the 14th Century
- R.E. Elson: Suharto*
A Political Biography
- Miles Fairburn: Nearly Out of Heart and Hope
The Puzzle of a Colonial Labourer's Diary
- Carole Fink: Marc Bloch
A Life in History
- Richard G. Fox: Gandhian Utopia: Experiments with Culture
- did Gandhi matter? can individuals change history?
- Rick Gekoski: Tolkien's Gown
And Other Stories of Great Authors and Rare Books
- Sebastian de Grazia: Machiavelli in Hell
- an intellectual biography
- Leonard Gross: The Last Jews in Berlin
- the gripping stories of seven Holocaust survivors
- Bernard Guenée: Between Church and State*
The Lives of Four French Prelates in the Late Middle Ages
- Debra Hamel: Trying Neaira*
The True Story of a Courtesan's Scandalous Life in Ancient Greece
- Steve Hare: Penguin Portrait
Allen Lane and the Penguin Editors 1935-1970
- Robert Heilbroner: The Worldly Philosophers
The Lives, Times and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers
- Michael J. A. Howe: Genius Explained
- environment, personality, and hard work
- Ryszard Kapuscinski: The Emperor
- the end of Haile Selassie and his court
- Ernst Mayr, William B. Provine: The Evolutionary Synthesis
Perspectives on the Unification of Biology
- Patrick O'Brian: Joseph Banks*
- a biography of the botanist, explorer, and natural historian
- Abraham Pais, et al.: Paul Dirac
The Man and His Work
- C. Northcote Parkinson: The Life and Times of Horatio Hornblower
- a fictional biography of CS Forester's naval hero
- Julie Phillips: James Tiptree, Jr.
The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon
- Michael Pollak: Sense and Censorship
Commentaries on Censorship Violence in Australia
- Siobhan Roberts: King of Infinite Space
Donald Coxeter, the Man Who Saved Geometry
- Alex Ross: The Rest is Noise
Listening to the Twentieth Century
- J.L. Salcedo-Bastardo: Bolivar
A Continent and its Destiny
- Bruce Schechter: My Brain Is Open*
The Mathematical Journeys of Paul Erdös
- Marjorie Shostak: Nisa*
The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman
- Ruth Lewin Sime: Lise Meitner*
A Life in Physics
- John Waller: The Real Oliver Twist
Robert Blincoe: A Life That Illuminates a Violent Age
- B.H. Warmington: Nero
Reality and Legend
- Lawrence Weschler: Calamities of Exile
Three Nonfiction Novellas
- Sam Williams: Free as in Freedom
Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software
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