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1 April 2024 (184 words): The Pastor (Hanne Ørstavik)
- finding herself in far-northern Norway
18 March 2024 (529): Going to Church in Medieval England (Nicholas Orme)
- parish churches: people, practices, paraphernalia, ...
12 February 2024 (597): The Indus (Andrew Robinson)
- a mysterious "lost" civilisation
12 November 2023 (199): Insurrecto (Gina Apostol)
- metafiction and massacre: scripting the Philippines
9 November 2023 (241): The Matter of Everything: A History of Discovery (Suzie Sheehy)
- from Röntgen to the Large Hadron Collider
1 October 2023 (129): *When I Sing, Mountains Dance (Irene Sola)
- renewal and compassion after violence in the Catalan Pyrenees
19 September 2023 (187): Scots & Catalans (J.H. Elliott)
- a history of two nations within states
3 July 2023 (518): Before Religion (Brent Nongbri)
A History of a Modern Concept
19 June 2023 (175): Women Dreaming (Salma)
- a divorce in a poor Muslim village in Tamil Nadu
30 March 2023 (515): Edible Insects and Human Evolution (Julie J. Lesink)
- ethnography, primatology, paleontology, nutrition, ...
23 March 2023 (333): Cycling for Sustainable Cities (Ralph Buehler, John Pucher)
The Politics of Cycling Infrastructure (Peter Cox, Till Koglin)
Spaces and (In)Equality
24 February 2023 (114): Dear Reader (Paul Fournel)
- an old-fashioned publisher faces change
9 February 2023 (477): Emergent Tokyo (Jorge Almazan)
- yokochō alleyways, zakkyo buildings, undertrack infills, ankyo streets + dense low-rise neighbourhoods
6 January 2023 (368): In the City of Bikes (Pete Jordan)
The Story of the Amsterdam Cyclist
4 January 2023 (153): Still Born (Guadalupe Nettel)
- a novel of many motherhoods
7 December 2022 (438): About Our Schools: Improving on Previous Best (Brighouse, Waters)
- the past, present and future of the English school system
26 November 2022 (351): The Golden Rhinoceros (François-Xavier Fauvelle)
Histories of the African Middle Ages
1 November 2022 (288): Bolt From the Blue (Jeremy Cooper)
- an epistolary novel of London's avant-garde art scene
25 October 2022 (591): Empires of the Word (Nicholas Ostler)
A Language History of the World
15 September 2022 (242): Three Apples Fell from the Sky (Narine Abgaryan)
- life revives in an Armenian mountain village
1 September 2022 (635): In Praise of Walking (Shane O'Mara)
The New Science of How We Walk and Why It's Good for Us
8 August 2022 (157): Surreal Numbers (D.E. Knuth)
- a lightly dramatised exploration
6 July 2022 (451): Amsterdam: A Brief Life of the City (Geert Mak)
- from polders to provocations
27 June 2022 (405): How Dead Languages Work (Coulter H. George)
- a linguistic, historical + literary potpourri covering six languages
25 May 2022 (714): **The Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs (Camilla Townsend)
- using indigenous Nahuatl sources
26 April 2022 (280): The Road to Middle-Earth (Tom Shippey)
J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century (Tom Shippey)
5 April 2022 (365): *Atlas of the Invisible (James Cheshire, Oliver Uberti)
Maps and Graphics That Will Change How You See the World
3 March 2022 (234): The Travelling Cat Chronicles (Hiro Arikawa)
- a road-trip around Japan with a cat
8 February 2022 (717): Fire and Ice (Natalie Starkey)
The Volcanoes of the Solar System
26 January 2022 (205): Autumn Rounds (Jacques Poulin)
- an exceptionally gentle novel, a quiet romance
3 January 2022 (299): Tomb of Sand (Geetanjali Shree)
- from family comedy to the politics of partition
17 December 2021 (309): The Pursuit of Italy (David Gilmour)
A History of a Land, Its Regions and Their Peoples
15 November 2021 (268): *Manaschi (Hamid Ismailov)
- a Kyrgyz story, modern and traditional
18 October 2021 (401): Britain Begins (Barry Cunliffe)
- from the Ice Age to the Norman Conquest
3 September 2021 (318): **Lectures on the Philosophy of Mathematics (Joel David Hamkins)
- from numbers and rigor to incompleteness and set theory
2 September 2021 (157): The English Civil Wars 1640-1660 (Blair Worden)
- a straightforward but insightful account
7 August 2021 (351): *Combinatorics and Graph Theory (Harris, Hirst, Mossinghoff)
- from the elementary to the infinite
31 July 2021 (293): Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 (Cho Nam-Joo)
- a woman's life in modern South Korea
14 July 2021 (647): The Miracle Pill (Peter Walker)
Why a sedentary world is getting it all wrong
23 June 2021 (211): Everything Like Before (Kjell Askildsen)
- stories of estrangement and misunderstanding
6 June 2021 (265): *Tokyo Ueno Station (Yu Miri)
- down and out in Tokyo and Fukushima
18 May 2021 (659): *Jellyfish: A Natural History (Lisa-Ann Gershwin)
- a fascinating survey with stunning photos
27 April 2021 (539): Viruses, Plagues, and History (Michael B. A. Oldstone)
Past, Present, and Future
Viruses: A Very Short Introduction (Dorothy H. Crawford)
15 April 2021 (540): Across the Bridge (Henry Gee)
Understanding the Origin of the Vertebrates
29 March 2021 (547): Turning Points (Mark A. Noll)
Decisive Moments in the History of Christianity
24 March 2021 (576): Salt Water (Josep Pla)
- stories of the north Catalan coast
1 March 2021 (796): Mathematics in Ancient Egypt (Annette Imhausen)
A Contextual History
4 February 2021 (988): **Army Ants (Daniel J.C. Kronauer)
Nature's Ultimate Social Hunters
2 February 2021 (607): Lying For Money (Dan Davies)
How Legendary Frauds Reveal the Workings of Our World
11 January 2021 (218): *The Writer's Map (Huw Lewis-Jones)
An Atlas of Imaginary Lands
4 January 2021 (441): *Trees: Their Natural History (Peter A. Thomas)
- the challenges of being a tree
4 January 2021 (128): *Difficult Light (Tomás González)
- age and memory; pain, suffering, love and joy
7 December 2020 (228): Beyond Global Warming (Syukuro Manabe, Anthony J. Broccoli)
How Numerical Models Revealed the Secrets of Climate Change
30 November 2020 (301): *Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture (Apostolos Doxiadis)
- a novel of obsession and mathematics
25 November 2020 (598): Transport Matters (Iain Docherty, Jon Shaw)
- seventeen essays on a range of UK issues
19 November 2020 (581): State and Religion in China (Anthony C. Yu)
Historical and Textual Perspectives
11 November 2020 (250): The Treasure of the Spanish Civil War (Serge Pey)
- powerful stories of childhood and exile
13 October 2020 (499): Elements of Mathematics: From Euclid to Gödel (John Stillwell)
- "elementary" and its boundary with "advanced"
2 October 2020 (292): *Iran: A Modern History (Abbas Amanat)
- from the Safavids to the Islamic Revolution
25 September 2020 (672): Building the Cycling City (Melissa Bruntlett, Chris Bruntlett)
The Dutch Blueprint for Urban Vitality
12 September 2020 (537): End of the Megafauna (Ross D. E. MacPhee)
The Fate of the World's Hugest, Fiercest, and Strangest Animals
9 September 2020 (789): Vincent's Starry Night and Other Stories (Michael Bird)
A Children's History of Art
A Journey Through Art (Aaron Rosen)
A Global History
8 September 2020 (1091): Mastery in Primary Mathematics (Tom Garry)
- a mastery approach to teaching mathematics teaching
Mastery Mathematics for Primary Teachers (Robert Newell)
29 July 2020 (378): *Visual Complex Analysis (Tristram Needham)
- a genuinely geometric perspective
22 July 2020 (316): Babel (Gaston Dorren)
Around the World in Twenty Languages
6 July 2020 (680): Children's Picturebooks (Martin Salisbury, Morag Styles)
The Art of Visual Storytelling
10 June 2020 (678): Life: The First Four Billion Years (Martin Jenkins)
- an illustrated overview for children
A World of Plants (Martin Jenkins)
- a children's introduction to botany
5 June 2020 (499): Beautiful Geometry (Eli Maor, Eugen Jost)
- art illustrating classical results
Math Art: Truth, Beauty, and Equations (Stephen Ornes)
- the maths behind some contemporary art + artists
Bilder der Mathematik (Georg Glaeser, Konrad Polthier)
- visualisation for understanding
27 May 2020 (920): The Invisible Killer (Gary Fuller)
The Rising Global Threat of Air Pollution and How We Can Fight Back
Clearing the Air (Tim Smedley)
The Beginning and the End of Air Pollution
21 May 2020 (291): The Origins of the Anglo-Saxons (Jean Manco)
Decoding the Ancestry of the English
5 May 2020 (238): The Stolen Bicycle (Wu Ming-Yi)
- a spiralling exploration of memory and history in Taiwan
24 April 2020 (484): Music by the Numbers (Eli Maor)
From Pythagoras to Schoenberg
10 April 2020 (291): The Doll's Alphabet (Camilla Grudova)
- dark and grimy but strangely uplifting short stories
7 April 2020 (431): *Darwin's Rival (Christiane Dorion, Harry Tennant)
Alfred Russel Wallace and the Search for Evolution
27 March 2020 (563): Second-Hand Time: The Last of the Soviets (Svetlana Alexievich)
- twenty oral histories from 1991 to 2012
17 March 2020 (937): *Until the Lions: Echoes From The Mahabharata (Karthika Naïr)
- poetry with subaltern perspectives within the Indian epic
16 March 2020 (615): The Armourer's House (Rosemary Sutcliff)
- an eight year old moves to Henry VIII's London
24 February 2020 (372): The Hills Reply (Tarjei Vesaas)
- prose poetry, coming of age in Norwegian landscapes
18 February 2020 (447): Animal Science (Nicola Davies)
Poo; Extreme Animals; What's Eating You?; Just the Right Size; Talk, Talk, Squawk!; Deadly!
10 February 2020 (880): **Arithmetic (Paul Lockhart)
- a deep look at elementary mathematics
15 January 2020 (140): *The Scent of Buenos Aires (Hebe Uhart)
- distinctive character-centred short stories
8 January 2020 (500): **Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (Olga Tokarczuk)
- three centuries ago Janina would have been burned as a witch
11 December 2019 (316): Strange Language (Mari Jose Olaziregi)
An Anthology of Basque Short Stories
10 December 2019 (1838): How I Wish I'd Taught Maths (Craig Barton)
Lessons Learned from Research, Conversations with Experts, and 12 Years of Mistakes
20 November 2019 (520): A Kitchen in the Corner of the House (Ambai)
- short stories celebrating the lives of Indian women
24 October 2019 (909): *Mesopotamia: The Invention of the City (Gwendolyn Leick)
- ten cities over five millennia
1 October 2019 (651): *A Change of Time (Ida Jessen)
- facing widowhood in a Danish country town
17 September 2019 (1314): Bringing Words to Life (Isabel L. Beck, Margaret G. McKeown, Linda Kucan)
Robust Vocabulary Instruction
5 September 2019 (826): Who We Are and How We Got Here (David Reich)
Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past
Ancestral Journeys (Jean Manco)
The Peopling of Europe from the First Venturers to the Vikings
23 July 2019 (513): *How To Fold It (Joseph O'Rourke)
The Mathematics of Linkages, Origami, and Polyhedra
17 July 2019 (360): *Obabakoak (Bernardo Atxaga)
- a metafictional short story collection
11 July 2019 (269): An English Murder (Cyril Hare)
- a classic murder mystery with a political twist
1 July 2019 (737): Many Ramayanas (Paula Richman)
The Diversity of a Narrative Tradition in South Asia
10 June 2019 (739): Agents of Empire (Noel Malcolm)
Knights, Corsairs, Jesuits and Spies in the Sixteenth-Century Mediterranean World
7 June 2019 (657): *The Passage to Europe (Luuk Van Middelaar)
How a Continent Became a Union
25 May 2019 (498): The Indo-European Controversy (Asya Pereltsvaig, Martin W. Lewis)
Facts and Fallacies in Historical Linguistics
23 May 2019 (1493): *The Horse, The Wheel, and Language (David W. Anthony)
How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World
10 April 2019 (758): *The Future of Fusion Energy (Jason Parisi, Justin Ball)
- the science, engineering, history and politics
25 March 2019 (320): The Enlightened Economy (Joel Mokyr)
Britain and the Industrial Revolution 1700-1850
4 March 2019 (500): *Mathematics and Its History (John Stillwell)
- core ideas of mathematics, in their historical context
26 February 2019 (366): 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 (355): *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 (1328): 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
26 April 2017 (1035): Projective Geometry (H.S.M. Coxeter)
- an elementary approach emphasizing geometric intuition
Projective Geometry: An Introduction (Rey Casse)
- a formal, coordinate-based approach
4 April 2017 (508): Jenny Linsky and the Cat Club (Esther Averill)
- stories about a little black cat who lives in New York
30 March 2017 (799): *The Vital Question (Nick Lane)
Why is life the way it is?
9 March 2017 (536): The Structure of Soviet History (Ronald Grigor Suny)
Essays and Documents
9 March 2017 (287): The Human Jungle (Cho Chongnae)
- Korean expats doing business in China
20 February 2017 (566): Elliptic Tales (Avner Ash, Robert Gross)
Curves, Counting, and Number Theory
31 January 2017 (862): *Music, Language, and the Brain (Aniruddh D. Patel)
- links in rhythm, melody, syntax, meaning, evolution
31 January 2017 (450): *The Empress of Weehawken (Irene Dische)
- an acerbically funny German-American life
6 December 2016 (412): Approaches to Teaching The Story of the Stone (Dream of the Red Chamber) (Schonebaum, Lu)
- historical + cultural contexts, intertextuality, afterlives, pedagogy
5 December 2016 (641): Travel Fast or Smart? (David Metz)
A Manifesto for an Intelligent Transport Policy
29 November 2016 (608): Fractals: A Very Short Introduction (Kenneth Falconer)
- the obvious starting point for lay readers
Fractals (Hans Lauwerier)
Endlessly Repeated Geometrical Figures
21 November 2016 (393): *Another Man's City (Ch'oe In-ho)
- is K stuck inside a virtual reality?
14 November 2016 (849): Finnish Lessons 2.0 (Pasi Sahlberg)
What can the world learn from educational change in Finland?
7 November 2016 (1237): Fractal Geometry (Kenneth Falconer)
Mathematical Foundations and Applications
*Fractals Everywhere (Michael F. Barnsley)
- the power of iterated function systems
A Tale of Two Fractals (A.A. Kirillov)
- the Sierpinksi and Apollonian gaskets
7 November 2016 (276): Chinese Rhyme-Prose (Burton Watson)
Poems in the Fu Form from the Han and Six Dynasties Periods
25 October 2016 (276): The Mathematics of Various Entertaining Subjects (Beineke, Rosenhouse)
Research in Recreational Math
24 October 2016 (954): Rereading the Stone (Anthony C. Yu)
Desire and the Making of Fiction in Dream of the Red Chamber
17 October 2016 (620): Octopus: The Ocean's Intelligent Invertebrate (Mather, Anderson, Wood)
- natural history, behaviour, life-cycle
10 October 2016 (1331): *The Lagoon (Armand Marie Leroi)
How Aristotle Invented Science
29 September 2016 (899): The Importance of Being Little (Erika Christakis)
What Preschoolers Really Need From Grownups
27 September 2016 (758): An Introduction to Children's Literature (Peter Hunt)
- a lively and opinionated history
30 August 2016 (756): **The Symmetries of Things (Conway, Burgiel, Goodman-Strauss)
- repeating patterns, from the plane to higher dimensions
22 August 2016 (272): Lonesome You (Park Wan-Suh)
- short stories about aging and being old
22 August 2016 (1273): *End of Empire (David P. Chandler, Robert Cribb, Li Narangoa)
100 Days in 1945 that Changed Asia and the World
16 August 2016 (255): Harlequin's Costume (Leonid Yuzefovich)
- a political murder mystery in 1871 St Petersburg
25 July 2016 (1020): Buddhism and Islam on the Silk Road (Johan Elverskog)
- contact, understanding, idolatry, jihad, halal
14 July 2016 (418): Are Trams Socialist? (Christian Wolmar)
Why Britain Has No Transport Policy
6 July 2016 (285): My Kind of Girl (Buddhadeva Bose)
- "Is the memory of happiness that has passed, happy or sad?"
4 July 2016 (239): The Book of Gaza (Atef Abu Saif)
- ten short stories by writers from Gaza
28 June 2016 (252): On the Abolition of All Political Parties (Simone Weil)
- and Milosz on "The Importance of Simone Weil"
7 June 2016 (1161): Mathematics and Art (Lynn Gamwell)
A Cultural History
31 May 2016 (448): Fractals, Chaos, Power Laws (Manfred Schroeder)
Minutes from an Infinite Paradise
24 May 2016 (782): Pterosaurs: Natural History, Evolution, Anatomy (Mark P. Witton)
- a gloriously illustrated survey of pterosaur science
12 May 2016 (1090): *On the Wing (David E. Alexander)
Insects, Pterosaurs, Birds, Bats and the Evolution of Animal Flight
10 May 2016 (446): The First Crusade (Peter Frankopan)
The Call From the East
3 May 2016 (316): Pavane for a Dead Princess (Park Min-Gyu)
- blunt and subtle, love story and social critique
26 April 2016 (791): The Invention of Nature (Andrea Wulf)
The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science
20 April 2016 (375): Azalea: Journal of Korean Literature & Culture (David R. McCann)
Volume 1: 2008; Volume 8: 2015
14 April 2016 (681): *Euler's Gem (David S. Richeson)
The Polyhedron Formula and the Birth of Topology
29 March 2016 (656): Urban Transport Without the Hot Air (Steve Melia)
Sustainable Solutions for UK Cities
29 March 2016 (756): *Moscow Stations (Venedikt Yerofeev)
- a tragi-comic existentialist masterpiece
17 March 2016 (313): *The Fortress (Mesa Selimovic)
- surviving the politics of Ottoman Bosnia
15 March 2016 (436): Symmetry (Hermann Weyl)
- group theory, art, architecture, biology
9 March 2016 (346): Pushkin's Second Wife (Yuri Druzhnikov)
And Other Micronovels
3 March 2016 (458): Thing Explainer (Randall Munroe)
Complicated Stuff in Simple Words
23 February 2016 (589): Confucianism as a World Religion (Anna Sun)
Contested Histories and Contemporary Realities
22 February 2016 (1951): Chaos and Fractals (David P. Feldman)
An Elementary Introduction
*Fractals and Chaos (Paul S. Addison)
An Illustrated Course
*Chaos and Fractals (Heinz-Otto Peitgen, Hartmut Jürgens, Dietmar Saupe)
New Frontiers of Science
28 January 2016 (876): *A Writer at War (Antony Beevor, Luba Vinogradova)
Vasily Grossman with the Red Army 1941-1945
27 January 2016 (444): K2 and Patricia (Hans Olav Lahlum)
The Human Flies; Satellite People
26 January 2016 (678): *The Fractal Geometry of Nature (Benoit B. Mandelbrot)
- a casebook and a manifesto
25 January 2016 (1015): The Gluten Lie (Alan Levinovitz)
And Other Myths about What you Eat
11 January 2016 (506): Measuring the World (Daniel Kehlmann)
- a comic historical novel about Gauss and von Humboldt
22 December 2015 (547): Korea: The Impossible Country (Daniel Tudor)
- aspects of South Korean culture and society
17 December 2015 (946): *The Box (Marc Levinson)
How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
14 December 2015 (2034): The Cambridge Companion to Children's Literature (Grenby, Immel)
- sixteen essays
The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (Daniel Hahn)
- an encyclopedia covering authors in English and their work
The Routledge Companion to Children's Literature (David Rudd)
- theory and critical approaches
1 December 2015 (1127): Trusting What You're Told (Paul L. Harris)
How Children Learn from Others
12 November 2015 (1139): Poor Numbers (Morten Jerven)
How We are Misled by African Development Statistics and What to do About It
5 November 2015 (481): **The Illicit Happiness of Other People (Manu Joseph)
- meaning and madness in a middle class Madras family
4 November 2015 (1969): *On Stalin's Team (Sheila Fitzpatrick)
The Years of Living Dangerously in Soviet Politics
29 October 2015 (412): Winter Journeys (Georges Perec)
- an inventive Oulipian medley
12 October 2015 (1550): Inequality: What Can Be Done? (Anthony B. Atkinson)
- a pragmatic analysis with practical suggestions
28 September 2015 (1325): **The Case of Comrade Tulayev (Victor Serge)
- the outstanding novel of Stalin's purges
17 September 2015 (436): Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking (Daniel C. Dennett)
- meaning, evolution, consciousness, and free will
17 September 2015 (1210): A History of German (Joseph Salmons)
What the Past Reveals About Today's Language
7 September 2015 (907): *An Unnatural History of Emerging Infections (Barrett, Armelagos)
- subsistence, settlement, and social organisation
14 August 2015 (665): City Cycling (John Pucher, Ralph Buehler)
- cycling as everyday urban transport, worldwide
13 August 2015 (701): Writing and Literacy in Chinese, Korean and Japanese (Taylor, Taylor)
- their scripts and how they are learned and used
30 July 2015 (279): No One Writes Back (Jang Eun-Jin)
- around Korea with a blind guide-dog
13 July 2015 (1141): **Geometry Revealed (Marcel Berger)
A Jacob's Ladder to Modern Higher Geometry
30 June 2015 (747): Tundra-Taiga Biology (R.M.M. Crawford)
Human, Plant, and Animal Survival in the Arctic
29 June 2015 (644): GDP: A Brief But Affectionate History (Diane Coyle)
- changing definitions and applications
22 June 2015 (368): Descent (Dovid Bergelson)
- a modernist shtetl novel
4 June 2015 (400): Gamma (Julian Havil)
Exploring Euler's Constant
1 June 2015 (698): Trans-Saharan Africa in World History (Ralph A. Austen)
- Maghreb, Sudan and Sahara; Islam, empires and trade
20 May 2015 (746): Dinosaurs: A Concise Natural History (Fastovsky, Weishampel)
- an accessible overview of dinosaur systematics + biology
11 May 2015 (763): The University of Oxford (G.R. Evans)
A New History
11 May 2015 (364): Lud-in-the-Mist (Hope Mirrlees)
- a striking fantasy novel from 1926
31 March 2015 (424): Stonedial (George Konrád)
- a multi-faceted novel wound around modern Hungarian history
26 March 2015 (691): The Prism of Grammar (Tom Roeper)
How Child Language Illuminates Humanism
17 March 2015 (267): In Red (Magdalena Tulli)
- love, commerce and war in an imaginary Polish town
9 March 2015 (1335): A History of the Peoples of Siberia (James Forsyth)
Russia's North Asian Colony 1581-1990
Siberia: A History of the People (Janet M. Hartley)
- settlers and soldiers; exiles and explorers
9 March 2015 (835): *Once Upon a Time (Marina Warner)
A Short History of Fairy Tale
26 February 2015 (887): The Formation of Islam (Jonathan Berkey)
Religion and Society in the Near East, 600-1800
18 February 2015 (485): The Red Room: Stories of Trauma in Contemporary Korea (Fulton, Fulton)
- stories by Pak Wan-so, O Chong-hui and Im Ch'or-u
2 February 2015 (391): Emil and the Detectives (Erich Kästner)
- children bring a thief to justice in Berlin in 1929
20 January 2015 (373): Anna Edes (Dezso Kosztolanyi)
- a tragicomic indictment of bourgeois morality
12 January 2015 (753): Count Like An Egyptian (David Reimer)
A Hands-On Introduction to Ancient Mathematics
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Seven Tales of Jewish Life Before, During, and After Nazi Occupation
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Why Everything You've Been Told About Genetics, Talent and Intelligence is Wrong
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Studies in Language, Literature and Society
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If You Can't Read Latin Yet
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The Acta Koreana Anthology of Short Fiction from Korea
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Fieldnotes of a Tropical Biologist
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How the Horse has Changed Civilisations
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Analysis and Practice
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Human Reciprocity and Its Evolution
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Inside the Fifties' Soviet Dream
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German Short Stories 1; German Short Stories 2; Short Stories in German
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Abstract Models for Literary History
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Buddhism and the Literary Arts in Medieval Japan
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19 April 2012 (332): German Quickly (April Wilson)
A Grammar for Reading German
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The Making of Wales (John Davies)
- landscapes, settlements, buildings
16 April 2012 (466): The March of the Musicians (Per Olov Enquist)
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A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
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- a broad-ranging survey of its contemporary politics
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How the World's Poor Live on $2 a Day
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28 November 2011 (1986): **The Story of the Stone (Cao Xueqin)
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Behavior, Institutions, and Evolution
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A Study of Jewish Identity Politics
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A Concise Guide
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Grand Theories and Failed Revolutions in Physics and Cosmology
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3 October 2011 (675): Oxford (Jan Morris)
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22 September 2011 (771): *The Making of the British Landscape (Francis Pryor)
How We Have Transformed the Land, from Prehistory to Today
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The End of the Church of England
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The Conquests that Changed the Face of Europe
22 August 2011 (1683): Empires of the Silk Road (Christopher I. Beckwith)
A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present
19 August 2011 (226): *Ferdydurke (Witold Gombrowicz)
- a comedy of pedagogy and identity
18 August 2011 (870): *Schooling in Western Europe (Mary Jo Maynes)
- the introduction of mass elementary education
12 August 2011 (759): Religions of the Silk Road (Richard Foltz)
Premodern Patterns of Globalization
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25 July 2011 (422): Ireland: A History (Thomas Bartlett)
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A History 600-2000
12 July 2011 (208): Niki: The Story of a Dog (Tibor Déry)
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24 June 2011 (776): Digital Atlas of Indonesian History (Robert Cribb)
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18 June 2011 (870): Buddhism in the Modern World (Steven Heine, Charles S. Prebish)
Adaptations of an Ancient Tradition
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An Ambiguous Colonization 1858-1954
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11 June 2011 (276): Talking about Detective Fiction (P.D. James)
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25 May 2011 (317): The Arabian Nightmare (Robert Irwin)
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20 May 2011 (622): *Mr. Mani (A.B. Yehoshua)
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16 May 2011 (324): A Tranquil Star (Primo Levi)
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12 May 2011 (224): A Country Doctor's Notebook (Mikhail Bulgakov)
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A Cultural and Political History
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18 April 2011 (291): *Modern Infectious Disease Epidemiology (Johan Giesecke)
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11 April 2011 (352): The Complete Review: A Site History (M.A. Orthofer)
Eleven Years, 2500 Reviews
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28 March 2011 (629): Climate Change and Climate Modeling (J. David Neelin)
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Animal Behavior in East Africa
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Changes in Egyptian Society from 1950 to the Present
28 February 2011 (880): *Selected Letters of Charles Darwin (Frederick Burkhardt)
Origins; Evolution
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17 February 2011 (253): The Fuller Memorandum (Charles Stross)
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29 January 2011 (616): *Stories of Your Life and Others (Ted Chiang)
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Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming
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Forestry and Timber in a Scandinavian Perspective
8 January 2011 (388): Cambodia (Michael Freeman)
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6 January 2011 (259): Detective Story (Imre Kertesz)
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26 December 2010 (791): Famine: A Short History (Cormac Ó Gráda)
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21 December 2010 (224): Turkish Gambit (Boris Akunin)
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17 December 2010 (544): *The Mathematical Century (Piergiorgio Odifreddi)
The 30 Greatest Problems of the Last 100 Years
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A View from the Dreaming Spires and the Satanic Mills
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17 November 2010 (273): Journey by Moonlight (Antal Szerb)
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15 November 2010 (866): Celestial Encounters (Florin Diacu, Philip Holmes)
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A Bayesian Approach to the Analysis of Financial Stress
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9 February 2010 (610): Fireflies, Honey, and Silk (Gilbert Waldbauer)
- human uses of insects
4 February 2010 (312): Austerity Britain, 1945-1951 (David Kynaston)
- a social history of post-war Britain
31 January 2010 (339): Map Addict (Mike Parker)
A Tale of Obsession, Fudge and the Ordnance Survey
16 January 2010 (570): Eurasian Crossroads (James A. Millward)
A History of Xinjiang
3 January 2010 (225): Wonder (Hugo Claus)
- collaboration and confusion in post-war Flanders
1 January 2010 (200): Puppet Theater in Contemporary Indonesia (Jan Mrazek)
New Approaches to Performance Events
31 December 2009 (329): Under the Volcano (Cameron Forbes)
The Story of Bali
21 December 2009 (349): Harvest of the Suburbs (Andrea Gaynor)
An Environmental History of Growing Food in Australian Cities
15 December 2009 (179): Angkor (Dawn Rooney)
Cambodia's Wondrous Khmer Temples
13 December 2009 (418): The Myth of the Holy Cow (D.N. Jha)
- the origins of cow veneration and vegetarianism in India
5 December 2009 (407): Works Along the Way (Gisli Sigurdsson)
- notable Icelandic architecture in concrete
3 December 2009 (266): *Angkor (Michael D. Coe)
And the Khmer Civilization
2 December 2009 (451): *The Blind Owl (Sadegh Hedayat)
- "there are sores which slowly erode the mind in solitude"
27 November 2009 (172): River of Time (Jon Swain)
- a memoir of Cambodia and Vietnam at war
4 November 2009 (377): Under the Heel of the Dragon (Blaine Kaltman)
Islam, Racism, Crime, and the Uighur in China
31 October 2009 (334): Birth of the Chess Queen (Marilyn Yalom)
- powerful women and chess in medieval Europe
26 October 2009 (612): Vietnam: A Natural History (Sterling, Hurley, Minh)
- biogeography, flora and fauna, and conservation
21 October 2009 (173): Q.E.D. (Burkard Polster)
Beauty in Mathematical Proof
14 October 2009 (592): Japan to 1600 (William Wayne Farris)
A Social and Economic History
4 October 2009 (301): Bartleby & Co. (Enrique Vila-Matas)
- writers who "prefer not to"
1 October 2009 (486): Why Did You Leave the Horse Alone? (Mahmoud Darwish)
- "the premier poetic voice of the Palestinian people"
28 September 2009 (793): The Story of French (Jean-Benoît Nadeau, Julie Barlow)
From Charlemagne to The Cirque du Soleil
20 September 2009 (379): The Real Oliver Twist (John Waller)
Robert Blincoe: A Life That Illuminates a Violent Age
12 September 2009 (703): Martyrdom in Islam (David Cook)
- from its genesis to modern radicals
30 August 2009 (242): Little Man, What Now? (Hans Fallada)
- struggling to survive in Germany in the Great Depression
26 August 2009 (272): *Plants Don't Drink Coffee (Unai Elorriaga)
- intertwined stories about insects, rugby, love + carpentry
23 August 2009 (692): Dirt (David R. Montgomery)
The Erosion of Civilizations
12 August 2009 (758): *A Little Primer of Tu Fu (David Hawkes)
- an introduction to classical Chinese poetry
22 July 2009 (470): MediaWiki (Daniel J. Barrett)
Wikipedia and Beyond
16 July 2009 (247): Tolkien's Gown (Rick Gekoski)
And Other Stories of Great Authors and Rare Books
10 July 2009 (354): *Khirbet Khizeh (S. Yizhar)
- evicting a Palestinian village in 1948
5 July 2009 (246): Bones, Rocks and Stars (Chris Turney)
The Science of When Things Happened
2 July 2009 (216): Women in a River Landscape (Heinrich Böll)
A Novel in Dialogues and Soliloquies
22 June 2009 (130): Hammerklavier (Yasmina Reza)
- a pointillist rumination on music, mortality and memory
21 June 2009 (863): *The Last Imaginary Place (Robert McGhee)
A Human History of the Arctic World
12 June 2009 (564): Proust and the Squid (Maryanne Wolf)
The Story and Science of the Reading Brain
7 June 2009 (316): Faded Portraits (E. Breton de Nijs)
A Novel of the Indies
27 May 2009 (656): Dangerous Sanctuaries (Sarah Kenyon Lischer)
Refugee Camps, Civil War, and the Dilemmas of Humanitarian Aid
24 May 2009 (246): Women Without Men (Shahrnush Parsipur)
A Novel of Modern Iran
18 May 2009 (397): Throwim Way Leg (Tim Flannery)
- a biologist's adventures in the New Guinea highlands
10 May 2009 (374): The Social Amoebae (John Tyler Bonner)
The Biology of Cellular Slime Molds
29 April 2009 (180): Guilt about the Past (Bernhard Schlink)
- the post-war German experience
26 April 2009 (525): The Red and the Black (Stendhal)
A Chronicle of the 19th Century
23 April 2009 (343): The Middle Path (Eric Lambin)
Avoiding Environmental Catastrophe
10 April 2009 (585): Bills of Rights in Australia (Byrnes, Charlesworth, McKinnon)
History, Politics and Law
5 April 2009 (767): *Medieval Islamic Medicine (Peter E. Pormann, Emilie Savage-Smith)
- origins, theory, practice, social context
29 March 2009 (893): Snake Oil Science (R. Barker Bausell)
The Truth About Complementary and Alternative Medicine
24 March 2009 (619): Mirror of the Indies (Rob Nieuwenhuys)
A History of Dutch Colonial Literature
21 March 2009 (401): The Photographs of Baldwin Spencer (Allen, Batty, Morton)
- Aboriginal photographs from 1894 to 1923
5 March 2009 (1119): *Debunking Economics (Steve Keen)
The Naked Emperor of the Social Sciences
4 March 2009 (458): Epidemics Laid Low (Patrice Bourdelais)
- a history of public health responses in Western Europe
25 February 2009 (232): *Black Parrot, Green Crow (Houshang Golshiri)
- short stories from modern Iran
19 February 2009 (571): *The Black Swan (Nassim Nicholas Taleb)
The Impact of the Highly Improbable
13 February 2009 (937): Charles Darwin (Janet Browne)
Voyaging; The Power of Place
11 February 2009 (546): DNA, Words and Models (Stéphane Robin, François Rodolphe, Sophie Schbath)
Statistics of Exceptional Words
27 January 2009 (869): *A Natural History of Conifers (Aljos Farjon)
- evolution, systematics, biogeography, ecology, conservation
26 January 2009 (306): Censoring Culture (Robert Atkins, Svetlana Mintcheva)
Contemporary Threats to Free Expression
12 January 2009 (337): Iron Kingdom (Christopher Clark)
The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947
4 January 2009 (503): The Turnpike Road System in England 1663-1840 (William Albert)
- development, administration, finance; repair and transport costs
3 January 2009 (218): The Lecture (Lydie Salvayre)
- a comic extravaganza of a monologue
1 January 2009 (257): *Aboriginal Art (Wally Caruana)
- brief description and analysis of 200 works, with photographs
23 December 2008 (458): Lords and Lemurs (Alison Jolly)
Mad Scientists, Kings with Spears, and the Survival of Diversity in Madagascar
10 December 2008 (332): War Trash (Ha Jin)
- the story of a Chinese prisoner-of-war in Korea
8 December 2008 (755): Artificial Sunshine (Maureen Dillon)
A Social History of Domestic Lighting
29 November 2008 (346): Outlaws of the Marsh (Shi Nai'an, Luo Guanzhong)
- an abridgement of the classic Chinese novel
21 November 2008 (278): *Soul of the Desert (Philippa Nikulinsky, Stephen D Hopper)
- botanical and zoological illustrations from Australian deserts
15 November 2008 (520): Development Economics (Debraj Ray)
- a textbook survey
10 November 2008 (454): Much Sounding of Bugles (John Harris)
The Siege of Chitral, 1895
2 November 2008 (230): Kipling Stories (Rudyard Kipling)
Twenty-eight Exciting Tales by the Master Storyteller
1 November 2008 (291): Uncommon People (Eric Hobsbawm)
Resistance, Rebellion, and Jazz
22 October 2008 (623): The Anatomy of Fascism (Robert O. Paxton)
- a historical approach
11 October 2008 (250): The Truth About the Savolta Case (Eduardo Mendoza)
- violence and intrigue in 1918 Barcelona
2 October 2008 (361): Violence in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1800 (Julius R. Ruff)
- a wide-ranging survey
28 September 2008 (274): *Reads Like a Novel (Daniel Pennac)
- teaching and learning a love of reading
20 September 2008 (528): Germany in Transit (Deniz Göktürk, David Gramling, Anton Kaes)
Nation and Migration 1955-2005
4 September 2008 (430): Book of the Three Dragons (Kenneth Morris)
- fantasy based on medieval Welsh stories
28 August 2008 (301): In Search of Kazakhstan (Christopher Robbins)
The Land that Disappeared
27 August 2008 (230): For Bread Alone (Mohamed Choukri)
- a bleak childhood and youth in Morocco
21 August 2008 (217): The Making and Breaking of Affectional Bonds (John Bowlby)
A Secure Base (John Bowlby)
16 August 2008 (491): Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction (John Rieder)
- explorations in the ideological background of early sf
10 August 2008 (338): Death Comes for the Archbishop (Willa Cather)
- a novel of the Catholic Church in 19th century New Mexico
29 July 2008 (590): *Infinite Tropics (Alfred Russel Wallace)
An Alfred Russel Wallace Anthology
27 July 2008 (130): Tainted Blood (Arnaldur Indridason)
- an Icelandic murder mystery
25 July 2008 (266): What We Know About Childcare (Clarke-Stewart, Allhusen)
- a survey of research into childcare in the United States
16 July 2008 (284): The Logic of Life (Tim Harford)
Uncovering the New Economics of Everything
14 July 2008 (729): The Strange Case of the Broad Street Pump (Sandra Hempel)
John Snow and the Mystery of Cholera
2 July 2008 (239): *The Prince (Hushang Golshiri)
- a dark novel about the Qajari lords of Isfahan
30 June 2008 (591): American Agriculture in the Twentieth Century (Bruce L. Gardner)
How it Flourished and What it Cost
25 June 2008 (912): *The History of the Countryside (Oliver Rackham)
The classic history of Britain's landscape, flora and fauna
15 June 2008 (801): Maize and Grace (James C. McCann)
Africa's Encounter with a New World Crop 1500-2000
9 June 2008 (318): Banana (Dan Koeppel)
The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World
3 June 2008 (516): King of Infinite Space (Siobhan Roberts)
Donald Coxeter, the Man Who Saved Geometry
29 May 2008 (243): *The First World War (Hew Strachan)
A New Illustrated History
26 May 2008 (351): Fatelessness (Imre Kertesz)
- a teenager in Buchenwald concentration camp
19 May 2008 (973): *A Fragile Balance (Christopher Dickman)
The extraordinary story of Australian marsupials
16 May 2008 (140): Baikal (Peter Matthiessen)
Sacred Sea of Siberia
3 May 2008 (546): Allah is Not Obliged (Ahmadou Kourouma)
- the story of a child soldier in West Africa
30 April 2008 (722): 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 (522): 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 (549): **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 (Kim Young-Ha)
- 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 (808): *The City Builder (George Konrád)
- a planner's life in a provincial Eastern European town
3 October 2007 (879): *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 (491): Cornish Cases (John Rule)
Essays in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Social History
15 August 2007 (341): The Emperor (Ryszard Kapuscinski)
- the end of Haile Selassie and his court
11 August 2007 (546): *Marks of Identity (Juan Goytisolo)
- youth between Franco's Spain and exile
4 August 2007 (166): Erdös on Graphs (Fan Chung, Ron Graham)
His Legacy of Unsolved Problems
30 July 2007 (228): Lives of the Planets (Richard Corfield)
A Natural History of the Solar System
29 July 2007 (150): The Dwarf (Cho Se-hui)
- stories from the dark side of 1970s South Korea
25 July 2007 (582): *An Introduction to Nervous Systems (Ralph J. Greenspan)
- an evolutionary approach to neurobiology
29 May 2007 (613): Backup and Recovery (W. Curtis Preston)
Inexpensive Backup Solutions for Open Systems
20 May 2007 (333): Wild Borneo (Nick Garbutt, J. Cede Prudente)
The wildlife and scenery of Sabah, Sarawak, Brunei and Kalimantan
9 May 2007 (197): *Arrow of God (Chinua Achebe)
- an Ibo priest and his village face change
6 May 2007 (474): The Bretons (Patrick Galliou, Michael Jones)
- the history and archaeology of Brittany down to 1491
5 May 2007 (510): The Great War (Marc Ferro)
- with a focus on the socialist movements
2 May 2007 (1362): *Evolutionary Pathways in Nature (John C. Avise)
- applications of comparative phylogenetics
28 April 2007 (281): *This Blinding Absence of Light (Tahar ben Jelloun)
- surviving incarceration in a secret Moroccan prison
21 April 2007 (627): *Secret Weapons (Thomas Eisner, Maria Eisner, Melody Siegler)
Defenses of Insects, Spiders, Scorpions, and Other Many-Legged Creatures
15 April 2007 (378): *On Thrones of Gold (James R. Brandon)
Three Javanese Shadow Plays
11 April 2007 (202): Liquidation (Imre Kertesz)
- a metafictional literary mystery
6 April 2007 (843): *The Bridges of Medieval England (David Harrison)
Transport and Society 400-1800
4 April 2007 (937): James Tiptree, Jr. (Julie Phillips)
The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon
29 March 2007 (210): The Curious Casebook of Inspector Hanshichi (Okamoto Kido)
- detective stories set in Edo Japan
23 March 2007 (661): Financing the First World War (Hew Strachan)
- gold, taxation, domestic and foreign borrowing
20 March 2007 (350): Adam's Fallacy (Duncan K. Foley)
A Guide to Economic Theology
11 March 2007 (314): *Be Faithful Unto Death (Zsigmond Móricz)
- the boarding school childhood of a Hungarian writer
27 February 2007 (530): Bridges, Law and Power in Medieval England, 700-1400 (Alan Cooper)
- bridgework obligations and the power of kings
24 February 2007 (365): *The Prince of Fire (Radmilla J. Gorup, Nadezda Obradovic)
An Anthology of Contemporary Serbian Short Stories
18 February 2007 (611): *Batik (Fiona Kerlogue)
Design, Style and History
11 February 2007 (214): The Emperor's Coloured Coat (John Biggins)
- the adventures of an Austrian naval lieutenant in 1912-1914
3 February 2007 (756): The Ancient Olympics (Nigel Spivey)
- history, archaeology, mythology, politics, ...
29 January 2007 (173): Shipwrecks (Akira Yoshimura)
- a story of a poor coastal village in medieval Japan
21 January 2007 (539): Suite Française (Irène Némirovsky)
- a novel of France in 1940-1941
13 January 2007 (926): A Natural History of Families (Scott Forbes)
- evolutionary biology and medicine
10 January 2007 (139): Rendezvous at Kamakura Inn (Marshall Browne)
- a Japanese policeman faces corruption, mystery and violence
26 December 2006 (1057): **For Love of Insects (Thomas Eisner)
- the grand synthesis of a veteran scientist
25 December 2006 (196): The Wind-up Bird Chronicle (Haruki Murakami)
- a Japanese mix of fantasy and historical fiction
20 December 2006 (764): A Bitter Revolution (Rana Mitter)
- China's May Fourth Movement and its legacy
13 December 2006 (303): The Noodle Maker (Ma Jian)
- dark tales of love and violence in "Open Door" China
29 November 2006 (388): An Intelligent Person's Guide to History (John Vincent)
- a contrarian approach to British historiography
27 November 2006 (426): A Sailor of Austria (John Biggins)
- the exploits of an Austro-Hungarian submarine commander
25 November 2006 (434): *Rhythms of Life (Russell Foster, Leon Kreitzman)
The Biological Clocks that Control the Daily Lives of Every Living Thing
14 November 2006 (730): *The Norsemen in the Viking Age (Eric Christiansen)
- a descriptive survey staying close to the evidence
3 November 2006 (389): *The Total Library (Jorge Luis Borges)
Non-Fiction 1922-1986
25 October 2006 (418): New Zealand Historical Atlas (Malcolm McKinnon)
- novel and innovative visualisations
25 October 2006 (902): Evolution of the Insects (David Grimaldi, Michael S. Engel)
- fossils, phylogenetics, and evolutionary biology
21 October 2006 (527): The First World War in Africa (Hew Strachan)
- Togoland, the Cameroons, South-West Africa, East Africa
18 October 2006 (265): Dumb Luck (Vu Trong Phung)
- a comic satire of late-colonial Vietnam
4 October 2006 (415): *The Pea and the Sun (Leonard M. Wapner)
- a popular presentation of the Banach-Tarski Theorem
29 September 2006 (667): Forgotten Armies (Christopher Bayly, Tim Harper)
The Fall of British Asia, 1941-1945
22 September 2006 (332): Season of Migration to the North (Tayeb Salih)
- a story of sexual obsession in Britain and Sudan
17 September 2006 (1045): *Conservation (Monique Borgerhoff Mulder, Peter Coppolillo)
Linking Ecology, Economics, and Culture
12 September 2006 (302): DNS in Action (Libor Dostálek, Alena Kabelová)
A detailed and practical guide to DNS implementation, configuration, and administration
9 September 2006 (755): *Inbreeding, Incest, and the Incest Taboo (Wolf, Durham)
The State of Knowledge at the Turn of the Century
30 August 2006 (568): *A Dictionary of Maqiao (Han Shaogong)
- a pointillist novel of rural China
17 August 2006 (673): A Plague of Sheep (Elinor G.K. Melville)
Environmental Consequences of the Conquest of Mexico
15 August 2006 (772): Network Algorithmics (George Varghese)
An Interdisciplinary Approach to Designing Fast Networked Devices
13 August 2006 (321): Voyage to the End of the Room (Tibor Fischer)
- an entertaining and inventive novel
9 August 2006 (779): *A Prehistory of the North (John F. Hoffecker)
Human Settlement of the Higher Latitudes
31 July 2006 (345): Television (Jean-Philippe Toussaint)
- a procrastinating academic gives up watching television
26 July 2006 (692): To Feed a Nation (Keith Farrer)
A history of Australian food science and technology
22 July 2006 (322): The Buenos Aires Quintet (Manuel Vázquez Montalbán)
- tango and the disappeared: PI Pepe Carvalho in Argentina
12 July 2006 (581): Asian Honey Bees (Benjamin P. Oldroyd, Siriwat Wongsiri)
Biology, Conservation and Human Interactions
8 July 2006 (371): Daughters of Earth (Justine Larbalestier)
Feminist Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century
27 June 2006 (459): *Poor Things (Alasdair Gray)
- a socialist neo-Gothic novel
20 June 2006 (1214): A Modern History of Hong Kong (Steve Tsang)
- a broad-ranging and readable account
13 June 2006 (447): Manila Ransomed (Nicholas Tracy)
The British Assault on Manila in the Seven Years War
12 June 2006 (825): Infections and Inequalities (Paul Farmer)
The Modern Plagues
7 June 2006 (456): *Text Processing in Python (David Mertz)
- a good mix of basic ideas and concrete examples
28 May 2006 (713): Shinto (Thomas P. Kasulis)
The Way Home
26 May 2006 (619): Extinction (Douglas H. Erwin)
How Life on Earth Nearly Ended 250 Million Years Ago
18 May 2006 (330): Matigari (Ngugi wa Thiong'o)
- after independence, seeking truth and justice
14 May 2006 (588): Italian Colonialism in Eritrea, 1882-1941 (Tekeste Negash)
Policies, Praxis and Impact
3 May 2006 (567): The Gamelan Digul and the Prison Camp Musician Who Built It (Margaret J. Kartomi)
An Australian Link with the Indonesian Revolution
30 April 2006 (1333): **The Aesthetics of Resistance (Peter Weiss)
- art and politics in pre-WWII Germany and Spain
16 April 2006 (301): Forgotten Empire (John Curtis, Nigel Tallis)
The World of Ancient Persia
15 April 2006 (553): *The Evolution of Plants (K.J. Willis, J.C. McElwain)
- fossils, phylogenetics, environments, biogeography, ...
8 April 2006 (247): The Murder Room (P.D. James)
- a Dalgliesh mystery: classical detective fiction
5 April 2006 (204): *Plant Biochemistry (Hans-Walter Heldt)
- detailed but broad-ranging and well-motivated
30 March 2006 (824): The Art of Travel (Alain de Botton)
- using artists and writers as guides to travel
22 March 2006 (657): Insects and Human Life (Brian Morris)
- insects in the social and cultural life of Malawi
19 March 2006 (440): *A Student's Introduction to English Grammar (Huddleston, Pullum)
- using the latest linguistic research
14 March 2006 (508): *Mongolia: Museum Highlights (Hal Fischer)
Important Works of Art from the Collections of the Zanabazar Museum of Fine Arts, Bogd Khan Palace Museum, and Choijin-Lama Temple Museum
12 March 2006 (747): Nearly Out of Heart and Hope (Miles Fairburn)
The Puzzle of a Colonial Labourer's Diary
3 March 2006 (555): *The Company of Ghosts (Lydie Salvayre)
- a madwoman remembering Vichy; her teenage daughter; a process-server
9 February 2006 (347): Much Ado About Religion (Bhatta Jayanta)
- a Sanskrit religious drama from 900 AD
8 February 2006 (512): The Name Must Not Go Down (Joseph Ketan)
Political Competition and State-Society Relations in Mt Hagen, Papua New Guinea
4 February 2006 (237): The Twelve Chairs (Ilya Ilf, Evgeny Petrov)
- a satirical novel of Soviet Russia in the 1920s
25 January 2006 (1252): *Leaves from an Autumn of Emergencies (Samuel Hideo Yamashita)
Selections from the Wartime Diaries of Ordinary Japanese
23 January 2006 (660): *The Century of Revolution: 1603-1714 (Christopher Hill)
- a broad-ranging history of 17th century England
17 January 2006 (440): **How to Quiet a Vampire (Borislav Pekic)
- a psychological and philosophical novel of totalitarianism
11 January 2006 (363): River of Gods (Ian McDonald)
- science fiction in a 2047 India
10 January 2006 (196): The Book of Hrabal (Péter Esterházy)
- a scintillating novel set in communist Hungary
30 December 2005 (891): The Fate of Africa (Martin Meredith)
A History of 50 Years of Independence
29 December 2005 (144): Straight, Bent and Barbara Vine (Garry Disher)
- short Australian crime fiction
23 December 2005 (731): 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
17 December 2005 (403): *Old English and its Closest Relatives (Orrin W. Robinson)
A Survey of the Earliest Germanic Languages
14 December 2005 (598): The Art of Being a Parasite (Claude Combes)
- explorations in evolutionary biology and ecology
13 December 2005 (242): The Return of Philip Latinowicz (Miroslav Krleza)
- an artist in a Danubian backwater
7 December 2005 (211): The Presence of Whales (Frank Stewart)
Contemporary Writings on the Whale
26 November 2005 (329): *Essentials of Epidemiology in Public Health (Aschengrau, Seage III)
- a non-mathematical introduction for health scientists
23 November 2005 (454): The Yacoubian Building (Alaa Al Aswany)
- a novel of violence and corruption in Cairo
21 November 2005 (352): Introduction to Conservation Genetics (Frankham, Ballou, Briscoe)
- a nicely presented undergraduate text
18 November 2005 (566): Microbial Phylogeny and Evolution (Jan Sapp)
Concepts and Controversies
15 November 2005 (343): The Evolving Coast (Richard A. Davis Jr)
- an overview of coastal forms and processes
11 November 2005 (195): War With the Newts (Karel Capek)
- sweeping science fiction satire
9 November 2005 (400): Defying Male Civilization (Mary Nash)
Women in the Spanish Civil War
6 November 2005 (961): **The Art of Bird Photography (Arthur Morris)
The Complete Guide to Professional Field Techniques
5 November 2005 (112): The Korean War (Peter Lowe)
- a brief overview from a British perspective
31 October 2005 (360): **Waiting for the Wild Beasts to Vote (Ahmadou Kourouma)
- the life story of an African dictator
23 October 2005 (198): McSweeney's 15 (Dave Eggers)
- a special issue on contemporary Icelandic fiction
17 October 2005 (578): Varieties of Javanese Religion (Andrew Beatty)
An Anthropological Account
15 October 2005 (1113): *A Song of Ice and Fire (George R.R. Martin)
A Game of Thrones; A Clash of Kings; A Storm of Swords
5 October 2005 (427): *Art of Edo Japan (Christine Guth)
The Artist and the City 1615-1868
3 October 2005 (508): *Swallowing Clouds (A. Zee)
A Playful Journey through Chinese Culture, Language, and Cuisine
28 September 2005 (251): Life on Air (David Attenborough)
Memoirs of a Broadcaster
21 September 2005 (365): Modern Mongolia (Morris Rossabi)
From Khans To Commissars to Capitalists
14 September 2005 (211): The World of Nagaraj (R.K. Narayan)
- a loveable but ineffectual dilettante in small-town India
10 September 2005 (239): Tangled Trees (Roderic D.M. Page)
Phylogeny, Cospeciation, and Coevolution
6 September 2005 (261): South of the Border, West of the Sun (Haruki Murakami)
- teenage romance and angst; a midlife crisis
29 August 2005 (452): Tajos (Ronald Fraser)
The Story of a Village on the Costa del Sol
23 August 2005 (313): River Processes (André Robert)
An Introduction to Fluvial Dynamics
15 August 2005 (244): *Trees on a Slope (Hwang Sun-won)
- a novel of the Korean war
8 August 2005 (358): An End to Suffering (Pankaj Mishra)
The Buddha in the World
28 July 2005 (202): Inventing Flight (John D. Anderson Jr)
The Wright Brothers and Their Predecessors
24 July 2005 (460): Mongolia: The Bradt Travel Guide (Jane Blunden)
Mongolia: The Lonely Planet Travel Guide (Michael Kohn)
12 June 2005 (621): *The Last Burden (Upamanyu Chatterjee)
- a merciless dissection of an Indian family
5 June 2005 (553): The Book of Postfix (Ralf Hildebrandt, Patrick Koetter)
State-of-the-Art Message Transport
1 June 2005 (338): *Fourier Optics: An Introduction (E.G. Steward)
- for those with a maths/physics background
1 June 2005 (297): Balthasar's Odyssey (Amin Maalouf)
- a novel of signs and portents in the year 1666
30 May 2005 (557): Bronze Mirror + Manchu Palaces (Jeanne Larsen)
- novels of the Southern Song and Qing dynasties
23 May 2005 (548): Poverty Reduction in Mongolia (Keith Griffin)
- analysis based on a 2001 UNDP study
23 May 2005 (238): Inspector Anders (Marshall Browne)
The Wooden Leg of Inspector Anders; Inspector Anders and the Ship of Fools
13 May 2005 (813): **The Confusions of Pleasure (Timothy Brook)
Commerce and Culture in Ming China
4 May 2005 (188): Guerilla Season (Paul Thomas)
- a comic thriller about terrorism in New Zealand
2 May 2005 (520): Himalaya (David Zurick, P.P. Karan)
Life on the Edge of the World
30 April 2005 (300): *English, August (Upamanyu Chatterjee)
- a comic novel about working for the Indian government
26 April 2005 (706): *Voices From Chernobyl (Svetlana Alexievich)
The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
13 April 2005 (583): Vignettes From the Late Ming (Yang Ye)
A Hsiao-p'in Anthology
6 April 2005 (258): Village of Stone (Xiaolu Guo)
- a childhood in a remote Chinese fishing village
3 April 2005 (485): Buddhism, Diplomacy, and Trade (Tansen Sen)
The Realignment of Sino-Indian Relations, 600-1400
27 March 2005 (558): Iron Council (China Mieville)
- an inventive but otherwise disappointing fantasy
22 March 2005 (594): Historiography in the Twentieth Century (Georg G. Iggers)
From Scientific Objectivity to the Postmodern Challenge
20 March 2005 (676): The Wombat (Barbara Triggs)
Common Wombats in Australia
9 March 2005 (268): Historical Dictionary of Indonesia (Robert Cribb, Audrey Kahin)
- a broadly useful reference work
7 March 2005 (311): *Night (Vedrana Rudan)
- a Croatian woman sounds off
3 March 2005 (445): The Adventures of Ibn Battuta (Ross E. Dunn)
A Muslim Traveler of the 14th Century
9 February 2005 (388): Thank You For Not Reading (Dubravka Ugresic)
Essays on Literary Trivia
5 February 2005 (467): *The Legends of Khasak (O.V. Vijayan)
- interwoven stories of life and death in a South Indian village
27 January 2005 (366): **Oulipo Compendium (Harry Mathews, Alastair Brotchie)
- people, works, and forms, with extensive examples
25 January 2005 (695): A Mediterranean Society (S.D. Goitein)
- the Jewish community in medieval Cairo
24 January 2005 (332): Postfix: The Definitive Guide (Kyle D. Dent)
- a fast, secure Mail Transfer Agent
18 January 2005 (272): Photography: A Crash Course (Dave Yorath)
- a potted history of photography and photographers
16 January 2005 (230): Natural Novel (Georgi Gospodinov)
- a comedy in fragments
10 January 2005 (622): Spain and the Great Powers in the Twentieth Century (Balfour, Preston)
- from 1898 to Felipe Gonzalez
7 January 2005 (505): Snow (Orhan Pamuk)
- an novel about a coup in a provincial Turkish town
4 January 2005 (409): In the Rose Garden of the Martyrs (Christopher De Bellaigue)
A Memoir of Iran
2 January 2005 (289): Silk Road (Jeanne Larsen)
- a fantasy novel set in Tang China
30 December 2004 (258): The Great Depression (Robert S. McElvaine)
America, 1929-1941
22 December 2004 (400): **Kaddish for a Child Not Born (Imre Kertesz)
- the introspective monologue of an Auschwitz survivor
20 December 2004 (482): Obscenity, Blasphemy, Sedition (Peter Coleman)
The Rise and Fall of Literary Censorship in Australia
15 December 2004 (276): Chinese Letter (Svetislav Basara)
- an existentialist comedy
11 December 2004 (618): Ideogram (J. Marshall Unger)
Chinese Characters and the Myth of Disembodied Meaning
29 November 2004 (506): Migrations (Milos Tsernianski)
- a novel of Serbs in 18th century Austria
23 November 2004 (499): *The Geology of Australia (David Johnson)
- an excellent introduction for the lay reader
19 November 2004 (201): A Good Hanging and Other Stories (Ian Rankin)
- twelve Inspector Rebus stories
14 November 2004 (255): The Babel Guide to Hungarian Literature (Keenoy, Menkes-Ivry, Varga)
- a guide to fiction, drama, and poetry available in English
8 November 2004 (242): *The Houses of Belgrade (Borislav Pekic)
- a man looks back on a life obsessed by his houses
1 November 2004 (653): The Highland Clearances (Eric Richards)
People, Landlords and Rural Turmoil
25 October 2004 (342): *The Carnal Prayer Mat (Li Yu)
- the classic Chinese erotic novel
20 October 2004 (318): *Trying Neaira (Debra Hamel)
The True Story of a Courtesan's Scandalous Life in Ancient Greece
16 October 2004 (403): *A Tomb for Boris Davidovich (Danilo Kis)
- dark stories of revolutionaries betrayed
11 October 2004 (613): Cyber Criminals on Trial (Russell G. Smith, Peter Grabosky, Gregor Urbas)
- the prosecution and judicial handling of computer crime
6 October 2004 (174): The Descendants of Cain (Hwang Sun-won)
- love and greed as land reform tears apart a Korean village
4 October 2004 (383): *Molecular Mechanisms of Photosynthesis (Robert E. Blankenship)
- molecular detail in its broader context
21 September 2004 (303): The Secret History of Modernism (C.K. Stead)
- looking back at life as a student in 1950s London
19 September 2004 (556): *The Kirghiz and Wakhi of Afghanistan (M. Nazif Shahrani)
Adaptation to Closed Frontiers and War
13 September 2004 (271): Farewell Anatolia (Dido Sotiriou)
- a panoramic tale of the end of Greek Asia Minor
8 September 2004 (449): Ideas That Shaped Buildings (Fil Hearn)
- architectural theory from Vitruvius to deconstructivism
7 September 2004 (172): Annihilation (Piotr Szewc)
- a one day tour of a Polish-Jewish town in the 1930s
2 September 2004 (505): Historical Atlas of Islam (Malise Ruthven, Azim Nanji)
- disappointing: uneven and in places inaccurate
1 September 2004 (240): The End of A Family Story (Peter Nadas)
- memories of childhood woven into a complex tapestry
29 August 2004 (361): *The Honey Bee (James L. Gould, Carol Grant Gould)
- senses, communication, navigation, learning, and more
18 August 2004 (469): *Garden, Ashes (Danilo Kis)
- a lyrical childhood in wartime Hungary
18 August 2004 (351): Creating Cool Web Sites with HTML, XHTML and CSS (Dave Taylor)
- an introduction to authoring web pages
15 August 2004 (340): The New Penguin History of Scotland (R.A. Houston, W.W.J. Knox)
From the Earliest Times to the Present Day
10 August 2004 (376): The Polish Complex (Tadeusz Konwicki)
- personal and national angsts intertwine
8 August 2004 (432): *Australian Marine Habitats in Temperate Waters (Graham J. Edgar)
- an elegant ecological overview
3 August 2004 (626): Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany (Richard Bessel)
Comparisons and Contrasts
30 July 2004 (279): Pavel's Letters (Monika Maron)
- discovering grandparents lost to the Holocaust
28 July 2004 (509): Rebellion to Integration (Audrey Kahin)
West Sumatra and the Indonesian Polity
25 July 2004 (231): Novel Without a Name (Duong Thu Huong)
- a North Vietnamese soldier's story
15 July 2004 (298): America's War in Vietnam (Larry H. Addington)
A Short Narrative History
10 July 2004 (289): *Skylark (Dezso Kosztolanyi)
- a novel of provincial life in 1899 Hungary
3 July 2004 (281): *The Culture of Lies (Dubravka Ugresic)
- literature, culture and ex-Yugoslav nationalisms
29 June 2004 (345): The Treaty of Waitangi (Claudia Orange)
- its 1840 making and subsequent history
23 June 2004 (258): Meritocracy and Economic Inequality (Arrow, Bowles, Durlauf)
- race, intelligence, schooling, and equality of opportunity
21 June 2004 (295): *The Life of an Amorous Woman (Ihara Saikaku)
- stories of Japan's 17th century Floating World
19 June 2004 (462): Snatched (Helen Vnuk)
Sex and Censorship in Australia
8 June 2004 (421): **The Periodic Table (Primo Levi)
- stories of a chemist working with elements
5 June 2004 (563): *Rise, Ye Sea Slugs! (Robin D. Gill)
- 900 sea cucumber haiku, with translations and commentary
2 June 2004 (458): The Chinese Vernacular Story (Patrick Hanan)
- Feng Menglong, Ling Menchu, Li Yu, ...
31 May 2004 (652): Beriberi, White Rice, and Vitamin B (Kenneth J. Carpenter)
A Disease, a Cause, and a Cure
25 May 2004 (364): *A History of Modern Palestine (Ilan Pappe)
One Land, Two Peoples
24 May 2004 (1619): *The Ants (Bert Hölldobler, Edward O. Wilson)
- ant ecology, ethology and evolutionary biology
18 May 2004 (340): The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Mark Haddon)
- an autistic teenager investigates the murder of a dog
10 May 2004 (398): Spain's Golden Fleece (Carla Rahn Philips, William D. Philips Jr)
Wool Production and the Wool Trade from the Middle Ages to the Nineteenth Century
7 May 2004 (275): *If Not Now, When? (Primo Levi)
- a novel of Jewish partisans in Russia and Poland in WWII
28 April 2004 (319): Stories from a Ming Collection (Feng Menglong)
The Art of the Chinese Storyteller
26 April 2004 (654): Principles of Health Economics for Developing Countries (William Jack)
- an abstract but accessible survey
24 April 2004 (330): Core CSS (Keith Schengili-Roberts)
Cascading Style Sheets
19 April 2004 (315): *Aké (Wole Soyinka)
- an enchanting childhood in a West Nigerian town
7 April 2004 (372): *Loving Sabotage (Amélie Nothomb)
- a tale of childhood love and war
4 April 2004 (501): Good Times and Bad Times in Rural Java (Jan Breman, Gunawan Wiradi)
- krismon and the socioeconomics of two Javanese villages
30 March 2004 (367): The Wallet of Kai Lung (Ernest Bramah)
- baroque comic tales of a fantastic China
25 March 2004 (367): *Icelandic Bird Guide (Jóhann Óli Hilmarsson)
- a must for bird-watchers visiting Iceland
20 March 2004 (669): Shivaji (James W. Laine)
Hindu King in Islamic India
17 March 2004 (228): *Homesickness (Murray Bail)
- an Australian tour group in a surreal world
13 March 2004 (221): An Introduction to the Biology of Vision (James T. McIlwain)
- the anatomy and neuroscience of the eye and the brain
10 March 2004 (199): The Wings (Yi Sang)
- dark Korean stories of love, sex, and illness
6 March 2004 (338): *Molecular Evolution (Roderic D. M. Page, Edward C. Holmes)
A Phylogenetic Approach
2 March 2004 (488): The Rise of Cities in North-West Europe (Adriaan Verhulst)
- the 4th to 12th centuries, from the Meuse to the Scheldt
29 February 2004 (333): **Death and the Dervish (Mesa Selimovic)
- a spiritual crisis amidst Ottoman Bosnian politics
16 February 2004 (228): The Record of the Black Dragon Year (Peter H. Lee)
- popular fiction from the 16th century Japanese invasion of Korea
16 February 2004 (361): All Quiet on the Western Front (Erich Maria Remarque)
- the classic novel of the First World War
11 February 2004 (366): Slapping on the Writs (Brian Walters)
Defamation, Developers and Community Activism
5 February 2004 (303): Heart of Spain (Robert Capa)
Photographs of the Spanish Civil War
4 February 2004 (218): *Our Twisted Hero (Yi Mun-yol)
- a struggle for power in a Korean classroom
2 February 2004 (722): *Islamic Art (Robert Irwin)
Art, Architecture and the Literary World
26 January 2004 (291): In the Wilderness (Manuel Rivas)
- magic and the mundane in a Galician village
22 January 2004 (693): *Animal Social Complexity (Frans B. M. de Waal, Peter L. Tyack)
Intelligence, Culture, and Individualized Societies
19 January 2004 (506): The Last Jews in Berlin (Leonard Gross)
- the gripping stories of seven Holocaust survivors
15 January 2004 (609): Life on Other Worlds (Steven J. Dick)
The 20th-Century Extraterrestrial Life Debate
5 January 2004 (394): *Marat/Sade (Peter Weiss)
The persecution and assassination of Marat as performed by the inmates of the asylum of Charenton under the direction of the Marquis de Sade
1 January 2004 (578): The Anarchists in the Russian Revolution (Paul Avrich)
- fifty contemporary documents
30 December 2003 (230): Hadrian the Seventh (Frederick Rolfe)
- an outcast writer becomes pope
26 December 2003 (377): History of the Inca Realm (María Rostworowski de Diez Canseco)
- an ethnohistorical overview
23 December 2003 (216): *Vermeer's Milkmaid (Manuel Rivas)
- superb Galician short stories
22 December 2003 (363): Envisioning the Future (Marleen S. Barr)
Science Fiction and the Next Millennium
17 December 2003 (265): Python in a Nutshell (Alex Martelli)
A Desktop Quick Reference
15 December 2003 (809): Captives (Linda Colley)
Britain, Empire and the World 1600-1850
8 December 2003 (955): *Australian Snakes (Richard Shine)
A Natural History
1 December 2003 (747): **The Marx Family Saga (Juan Goytisolo)
- Karl Marx faces the failure of communism
1 December 2003 (1114): *The Art of UNIX Programming (Eric S. Raymond)
- thirty years of development wisdom
19 November 2003 (317): Early India (Romila Thapar)
From the Origins to AD 1300
16 November 2003 (225): The Circumcision (György Dalos)
- a Jewish orphan in post-war Hungary faces a choice
11 November 2003 (197): Angels of the Universe (Einar Már Gudmundsson)
- the story of an Icelandic schizophrenic
3 November 2003 (551): *The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (Edward R. Tufte)
- the classic work on statistical graphics
27 October 2003 (751): *Dr Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation (Olivia Judson)
The Definitive Guide to the Evolutionary Biology of Sex
19 October 2003 (553): *The Poet (Yi Mun-yol)
- a marginal poet in 19th century Korea
15 October 2003 (475): The Road to Wigan Pier (George Orwell)
- mining towns, class and socialism in 1930s Britain
13 October 2003 (981): *Development as Freedom (Amartya Sen)
- broad-ranging popular economics
6 October 2003 (440): A History of Iraq (Charles Tripp)
- politics from the Ottomans to Saddam Hussein
1 October 2003 (209): The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (Alexander McCall Smith)
- Botswana's only female private investigator at work
18 August 2003 (578): Firewalls and Internet Security (Cheswick, Bellovin, Rubin)
Repelling the Wily Hacker
13 August 2003 (485): The Fish Can Sing (Halldór Laxness)
- an eccentric childhood in early 20th century Reykjavik
11 August 2003 (204): Scottish Medieval Churches (Richard Fawcett)
The Ecclesiastical Architecture of the 12th to 16th Centuries
11 August 2003 (294): Blacklist (Sara Paretsky)
- PI Warshawski digs up some dirt from the 1950s
6 August 2003 (890): Regulating Racism (Luke McNamara)
Racial Vilification Laws in Australia
4 August 2003 (291): *Declares Pereira (Antonio Tabucchi)
- a political awakening in 1938 Portugal
30 July 2003 (818): *Cosmos Latinos (Andrea L. Bell, Yolanda Molina-Gavilán)
An Anthology of Science Fiction from Latin America and Spain
28 July 2003 (289): An Introduction to Old English (Richard Hogg)
- a historical account, setting the language in context
23 July 2003 (378): Talking About O'Dwyer (C.K. Stead)
- fifty years to resolve a Maori curse from World War II
20 July 2003 (1008): *The History of Iceland (Gunnar Karlsson)
- from settlement to the present
16 July 2003 (211): The Immaculate Deception (Iain Pears)
- a mystery of Italian art and politics
13 July 2003 (372): Magical Mushrooms, Mischievous Molds (George W. Hudler)
- fungi and their influence on our lives
10 July 2003 (417): *The Garden of Secrets (Juan Goytisolo)
- 28 storytellers collaborate on the story of a Spanish poet
2 July 2003 (337): The Pyramid (Ismail Kadare)
- a parable of life under communism
30 June 2003 (970): Writing Systems (Florian Coulmas)
An introduction to their linguistic analysis
25 June 2003 (212): The Sound of Waves (Yukio Mishima)
- a simple love story set on a small Japanese island
23 June 2003 (626): After Jihad (Noah Feldman)
America and the Struggle for Islamic Democracy
18 June 2003 (502): The Cassini Division (Ken MacLeod)
- anarchism, socialism, and capitalism in the 24th century
16 June 2003 (189): The Year of the Flood (Eduardo Mendoza)
- love strikes a nun in a Spanish village
10 June 2003 (551): Ring of Seasons (Terry G. Lacy)
Iceland - Its Culture and History
5 June 2003 (1044): *The Ecology of Language Evolution (Salikoko S. Mufwene)
- creoles, biological parallels, and socioeconomic history
2 June 2003 (251): *The Welsh Sonata (James Hanley)
- love and loss in a Welsh mining district
27 May 2003 (451): *The Faculty of Useless Knowledge (Yury Dombrovsky)
- a novel of Stalin's 1937 terror
21 May 2003 (1017): *Forbidding Wrong in Islam (Michael Cook)
- the history of an injunction
15 May 2003 (310): Fields of Glory (Jean Rouaud)
- a novel of old age, memory, and the Great War
12 May 2003 (702): The Languages of the World (Kenneth Katzner)
- sample texts, translations and background for 200 languages
7 May 2003 (646): **The Earthsea Trilogy (Ursula K. Le Guin)
A Wizard of Earthsea; The Tombs of Atuan; The Farthest Shore
5 May 2003 (854): From Airline Reservations to Sonic the Hedgehog (Martin Campbell-Kelly)
A History of the Software Industry
30 April 2003 (267): **The Viceroy of Ouidah (Bruce Chatwin)
- a short but powerful novel of West Africa
28 April 2003 (602): Conquerors' Road (Osmar White)
An Eyewitness Account of Germany 1945
27 April 2003 (821): *The Shaping of History (Judith Binney)
Essays from The New Zealand Journal of History
16 April 2003 (677): **Ka (Roberto Calasso)
- a superb synthesis of Hindu mythology
14 April 2003 (436): Google Hacks (Tara Calishain, Rael Dornfest)
100 Industrial Strength Tips and Tools
12 April 2003 (184): The Scapegoat (Daniel Pennac)
- crime fiction set in the Belleville quarter of Paris
9 April 2003 (210): The Ocean (James Hanley)
- five men in a lifeboat
7 April 2003 (883): The Burning Blue (Paul Addison, Jeremy A. Crang)
A New History of the Battle of Britain
2 April 2003 (226): Eucalyptus (Murray Bail)
- an Australian fairy tale, a love story
31 March 2003 (528): Psychology and Law (Andreas Kapardis)
- witnesses, juries, sentencing, detecting deception, policing, ...
26 March 2003 (328): *The Death of the Body (C.K. Stead)
- a clever, entertaining metafiction
24 March 2003 (639): Defying Hitler (Sebastian Haffner)
- a German's story, 1914 to 1933
19 March 2003 (500): *The Discovery of Heaven (Harry Mulisch)
- a large but lively novel of ideas
13 March 2003 (777): *Insects and Flowers (Friedrich G. Barth)
The Biology of a Partnership
10 March 2003 (187): *Night's Lies (Gesualdo Bufalino)
- on the eve of execution, four prisoners tell tales of deceit
9 March 2003 (356): Wild Fiordland (Neville Peat, Brian Patrick)
Discovering the Natural History of a World Heritage Area
3 March 2003 (664): Three (Georges Perec)
Which Moped? The Exeter Text. A Gallery Portrait.
26 February 2003 (494): Berlin Diaries (Ruth Andreas-Friedrich)
Berlin Underground, 1938-1945; Battleground Berlin
29 January 2003 (940): *The Market System (Charles E. Lindblom)
What It Is, How It Works, and What To Make of It
27 January 2003 (258): Fear and Trembling (Amélie Nothomb)
- a comic tale about working for a Japanese corporation
13 January 2003 (364): Highways to a War (Christopher J. Koch)
- a novel about a war photographer in Vietnam and Cambodia
9 January 2003 (367): 100 Ways of Seeing an Unequal World (Bob Sutcliffe)
- graphical presentations of different forms of inequality
8 January 2003 (377): Scenes from the Life of a Best-selling Author (Michael Krüger)
- funny short stories about books and writing
2 January 2003 (775): **China, Empire of the Written Symbol (Cecilia Lindqvist)
- Chinese history and culture through written characters
19 December 2002 (196): The Babes in the Wood (Ruth Rendell)
- Inspector Wexford hunts missing children amid floods
18 December 2002 (706): Environmental Histories of New Zealand (Eric Pawson, Tom Brooking)
- papers on ecology, economics, conservation, and ideas
9 December 2002 (743): **The Sorrow of Belgium (Hugo Claus)
- an adolescence in Flanders during World War II
4 December 2002 (621): *The Oxford Companion to Food (Alan Davidson)
- a gloriously erudite encyclopedia of biology, culture, history
2 December 2002 (394): *Caught (Henry Green)
- a 1943 novel of firefighters in the London Blitz
27 November 2002 (543): Mysticism in Java (Niels Mulder)
Ideology in Indonesia
20 November 2002 (307): *The Assault (Harry Mulisch)
- a Dutch novel about recovery from wartime trauma
18 November 2002 (717): *Shapes of Time (Kenneth J. McNamara)
The Evolution of Growth and Development
11 November 2002 (288): Spring Flowers, Spring Frost (Ismail Kadare)
- a mythological comedy in post-communist Albania
6 November 2002 (500): *The Neanderthal's Necklace (Juan Luis Arsuaga)
In Search of the First Thinkers
30 October 2002 (241): Ports of Call (Amin Maalouf)
- family, love and war, in France and the Middle East
28 October 2002 (820): *A History of the New Zealanders (James Belich)
Making Peoples; Paradise Reforged
21 October 2002 (702): Changed Identities (Mai Yamani)
The Challenge of the New Generation in Saudi Arabia
14 October 2002 (577): *The Inner Quarters (Patricia Buckley Ebrey)
Marriage and the Lives of Chinese Women in the Sung Period
2 October 2002 (314): Shadow Theatre in Java (Alit Djajasoebrata)
The Puppets, Performance and Repertoire
30 September 2002 (381): Meet Me at Infinity (James Tiptree Jr)
- uncollected science fiction and nonfiction
25 September 2002 (620): Small Pieces Loosely Joined (David Weinberger)
{a unified theory of the web}
23 September 2002 (624): The Admiral's Baby (Laurens van der Post)
- a British officer in Java, 1945 to 1947
16 September 2002 (769): *My Name is Red (Orhan Pamuk)
- murder and art in 16th century Istanbul
10 September 2002 (264): Classical Javanese Dance (Clara Brakel-Papenhuyzen)
The Surakarta tradition and its terminology
9 September 2002 (1056): The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction (Justine Larbalestier)
- a feminist history, from the earliest magazines to the Tiptree Award
2 September 2002 (228): Akhenaten, Dweller in Truth (Naguib Mahfouz)
- a novel of ancient Egypt
29 August 2002 (634): *Women in Late Antiquity (Gillian Clark)
Pagan and Christian Lifestyles
26 August 2002 (853): The Emergence of a National Economy (Howard Dick et al.)
An Economic History of Indonesia, 1800-2000
21 August 2002 (203): *René Leys (Victor Segalen)
- a mystery set in Peking in 1911, at the end of Manchu China
20 August 2002 (606): The Salian Century (Stefan Weinfurter)
- the German monarchy, 1024 to 1125
13 August 2002 (954): *Patterns and Processes of Vertebrate Evolution (Robert L. Carroll)
- connecting paleontology with the rest of biology
7 August 2002 (560): *Respected Sir; Wedding Song; The Search (Naguib Mahfouz)
- three short novels by the great Egyptian writer
29 July 2002 (677): **The Life and Adventures of Trobadora Beatrice as Chronicled by Her Minstrel Laura (Irmtraud Morgner)
- socialist magical realism from East Germany
17 July 2002 (361): The Worldly Philosophers (Robert Heilbroner)
The Lives, Times and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers
15 July 2002 (298): Tlooth (Harry Mathews)
- wildly inventive games with language, narrative, and ideas
10 July 2002 (1283): God is Dead (Steve Bruce)
Secularization in the West
8 July 2002 (202): A Short History of Roman Law (Olga Tellegen-Couperus)
- suitable for those with no background in Roman history
3 July 2002 (522): Islam and the Malay-Indonesian World (Peter G. Riddell)
- theology, exegesis, and religious thinkers
1 July 2002 (382): **Independent People (Halldór Laxness)
- the epic story of an Icelandic sheep farmer
24 June 2002 (440): *Georges Perec and Paris (Mark Rappolt)
- criticism, poetry, fiction, architecture, photography
17 June 2002 (868): *Conquest and Colonisation (Brian Golding)
The Normans in Britain, 1066-1100
28 May 2002 (535): SSH, The Secure Shell (Daniel J. Barrett, Richard E. Silverman)
The Definitive Guide
23 May 2002 (657): Gamelan Stories (Judith Becker)
Tantrism, Islam, and Aesthetics in Central Java
15 May 2002 (1044): The Economics of World War II (Mark Harrison)
Six Great Powers in International Comparison
13 May 2002 (435): A Primer of Romance Philology (J. Keith Atkinson)
A beginner's guide to the Romance languages of medieval France and Spain
7 May 2002 (224): Eat Me (Linda Jaivin)
- a comedy about the sex lives of four Sydney women
6 May 2002 (1013): **Postmodern Pooh (Frederick Crews)
- biting parody of modern literary criticism
29 April 2002 (899): *Empires (Susan E. Alcock et al.)
Perspectives from Archaeology and History
17 April 2002 (637): *The Other Wind (Ursula K. Le Guin)
- Earthsea revisited
15 April 2002 (292): The Lecherous Academician (Ling Mengchu)
- four stories from Ming China
8 April 2002 (960): *Breadwinning (Melanie Nolan)
New Zealand Women and the State
31 March 2002 (209): Embers (Sándor Márai)
- looking back at the intensities and obsessions of youth
27 March 2002 (370): World Atlas of Coral Reefs (Spalding, Ravilious, Green)
- reef geography, geology, ecology, and conservation
25 March 2002 (461): *Lofting (Alma Marceau)
- an intelligent erotic novel
21 March 2002 (950): *Suharto (R.E. Elson)
A Political Biography
19 March 2002 (528): Free as in Freedom (Sam Williams)
Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software
12 March 2002 (411): A History of New Zealand (Keith Sinclair)
- a classic, with five editions since 1959
28 February 2002 (499): The Great Arc (John Keay)
The Dramatic Tale of How India Was Mapped and Everest Was Named
25 February 2002 (208): **Grendel (John Gardner)
- an original and provoking philosophical novel
31 January 2002 (451): The New Chemistry (Nina Hall)
- an overview of research and applications
30 January 2002 (351): *The Age of Extremes (Eric Hobsbawm)
The Short Twentieth Century 1914-1991
28 January 2002 (460): *The Culture of Sex in Ancient China (Paul Rakita Goldin)
- copulation imagery, Confucianism, and the politics of sexuality
28 January 2002 (108): Arabesques (Susan Shwartz)
More Tales of the Arabian Nights
22 January 2002 (331): The New Cambridge Handbook of Contemporary China (Colin Mackerras)
- politics, people, economics, geography, minorities, ...
17 January 2002 (506): Metamorphosis and Identity (Caroline Walker Bynum)
- medieval change, wonder, mixture, and hybridity
14 January 2002 (1515): *The Balkans 1804-1999 (Misha Glenny)
Nationalism, War and the Great Powers
*The Balkans (Mark Mazower)
- beyond stereotypes: a short but insightful history
8 January 2002 (357): Mexico (Daniel C. Levy, Kathleen Bruhn)
The Struggle for Democratic Development
2 January 2002 (256): The Inquisitor (Catherine Jinks)
- a murder mystery set in medieval France
31 December 2001 (379): Children of the French Empire (Owen White)
Miscegenation and Colonial Society in French West Africa 1895-1960
24 December 2001 (244): A Few Green Leaves (Barbara Pym)
- a delicately painted English village miniature
17 December 2001 (309): Language and the Internet (David Crystal)
- a linguist on Netspeak: email, chat, virtual worlds, and the Web
10 December 2001 (1189): **The Complete Sagas of Icelanders (Viðar Hreinsson)
- Icelandic tales of Viking Age feuds, legal conflicts, love affairs
5 December 2001 (443): *Beowulf (Seamus Heaney)
- an effective verse translation
3 December 2001 (310): The Shape of Snakes (Minette Walters)
- a compelling and original murder mystery
28 November 2001 (740): *Homepage Usability (Jakob Nielsen, Marie Tahir)
50 Websites Deconstructed
26 November 2001 (319): On History (Eric Hobsbawm)
- and history's connections to politics and society; 20 pieces
19 November 2001 (725): Genius Explained (Michael J. A. Howe)
- environment, personality, and hard work
14 November 2001 (224): *Gödel's Proof (Ernest Nagel, James R. Newman)
- a readable popular explanation of the Incompleteness Theorem
12 November 2001 (454): *Horatio Hornblower (C.S. Forester)
- classic age-of-sail naval fiction
5 November 2001 (670): Archaeology, Language, and History (John Edward Terrell)
Essays on Culture and Ethnicity
24 October 2001 (440): The Taliban (Peter Marsden)
War, Religion and the New Order in Afghanistan
23 October 2001 (370): *The Grand Sophy (Georgette Heyer)
- a Regency romance by the founder of the genre
22 October 2001 (1080): The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia (Nicholas Tarling)
- a genuinely regional approach, with 20 chapters by specialists
7 October 2001 (202): Adam and Eve and Pinch Me (Ruth Rendell)
3 October 2001 (543): *Central Banking in Theory and Practice (Alan S. Blinder)
- lectures by an ex-Vice-Chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve Board
1 October 2001 (841): *Magic in the Middle Ages (Richard Kieckhefer)
- an insightful study of medieval magic, demonic and natural
18 September 2001 (668): *The Physics of Information Technology (Neil Gershenfeld)
- a graduate or higher undergraduate text
17 September 2001 (487): *Medieval Warfare (Maurice Keen)
A History
12 September 2001 (507): Dennett's Philosophy (Don Ross, Andrew Brook, David Thompson)
A Comprehensive Assessment
5 September 2001 (313): *Measured Tones (Ian Johnston)
The Interplay of Physics and Music
3 September 2001 (611): The Ethiopians (Richard Pankhurst)
A History
13 August 2001 (787): It Ain't Necessarily So (Richard Lewontin)
The Dream of the Human Genome and Other Illusions
8 August 2001 (408): Acts of the Apostles (John F. X. Sundman)
- an infotech conspiracy thriller with real tech
6 August 2001 (940): *Early Intelligence (Lise Eliot)
How the Brain and Mind Develop in the First Five Years of Life
2 August 2001 (413): The Concert (Ismail Kadare)
- a comedy of communist manners; the end of the Albania-China alliance
30 July 2001 (974): Medieval Comic Tales (Derek Brewer)
- an anthology
Cuckolds, Clerics, and Countrymen (John DuVal, Raymond Eichmann)
Medieval French Fabliaux
23 July 2001 (833): No Logo (Naomi Klein)
Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies
9 July 2001 (648): The Baburnama (Zahiruddin Babur)
Memoirs of Babur, Prince and Emperor
2 July 2001 (916): **Lord of Light (Roger Zelazny)
- epic science fiction using Hindu and Buddhist themes
29 June 2001 (612): *African Civilizations (Graham Connah)
An Archaeological Perspective
19 June 2001 (666): Proudly Serving My Corporate Masters (Adam Barr)
What I Learned in Ten Years as a Microsoft Programmer
13 June 2001 (342): *The Cambridge Illustrated History of China (Patricia Buckley Ebrey)
- an attractive, accessible, and scholarly general history
30 May 2001 (1259): **Digital Copyright (Jessica Litman)
- intellectual property and the Internet
29 May 2001 (386): *Ancient History (M.I. Finley)
Evidence and Models
21 May 2001 (501): *The Coiled Spring (Ethan Bier)
- a nice introduction to developmental biology
19 May 2001 (617): Ethiopia: Power and Protest (Gebru Tareke)
Peasant Revolts in the Twentieth Century
14 May 2001 (154): Thinks... (David Lodge)
- a romantic comedy of manners in a provincial English university
14 May 2001 (198): *Therapy (David Lodge)
- a sitcom script-writer suffers a mid-life crisis
7 May 2001 (626): *Studying Human Origins (Raymond Corbey, Wil Roebroeks)
Disciplinary History and Epistemology
6 May 2001 (432): The Constant Gardener (John Le Carré)
- a thriller about the drug industry in Africa
26 April 2001 (446): Beyond Contact (Brian McConnell)
A Guide to SETI and Communicating With Alien Worlds
18 April 2001 (402): Democratic Politics and Economic Reform in India (Rob Jenkins)
- the persistence of liberal economic reform in the 1990s
17 April 2001 (882): Life at the Extremes (Frances Ashcroft)
The Science of Survival
13 April 2001 (196): *The Wrench (Primo Levi)
- superb fiction about the life of an Italian working man
4 April 2001 (266): *Imperial China 900-1800 (F.W. Mote)
- with a focus on political institutions and systems of government
26 March 2001 (399): *The Song of Songs (Ariel Bloch, Chana Bloch)
- a compelling translation of the great Hebrew love poem
21 March 2001 (670): **Historical Atlas of Indonesia (Robert Cribb)
- learned and lavish
12 March 2001 (398): St. Agatha's Breast (T.C. Van Adler)
- an irreverent tale of murder, sex, and art in a Roman monastery
11 March 2001 (843): *A History of Inner Asia (Svat Soucek)
- from the coming of Islam
5 March 2001 (229): Holy Fire (Bruce Sterling)
- a future dominated by a gerontocratic medical-industrial complex
4 March 2001 (361): SSL and TLS (Eric Rescorla)
Designing and Building Secure Systems
12 February 2001 (1053): The Bible in History (Thomas L. Thompson)
How Writers Create a Past
11 February 2001 (267): From Gutenberg to the Global Information Infrastructure (Christine L. Borgmann)
- all about digital libraries
30 January 2001 (493): Species (Robert A. Wilson)
New Interdisciplinary Papers
27 January 2001 (209): Southern Exposure (Michael Molasky, Steve Rabson)
Modern Japanese Literature From Okinawa
22 January 2001 (356): *101 Sonnets (Don Paterson)
From Shakespeare to Heaney
16 January 2001 (246): The Mahabharata (R.K. Narayan)
- an accessible English abridgment
The Ramayana (R.K. Narayan)
- an accessible English abridgment
8 January 2001 (836): *An Introduction to Pidgins and Creoles (John Holm)
- a text for linguistics students, but reasonably accessible
2 January 2001 (523): **Annals of the Former World (John McPhee)
- travels across the United States with geologists
26 December 2000 (512): *Caste, Society and Politics in India (Susan Bayly)
From the Eighteenth Century to the Modern Age
18 December 2000 (418): *Secrets and Lies (Bruce Schneier)
Digital Security in a Networked World
6 December 2000 (492): Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (J.K. Rowling)
- a fine children's fantasy, but somewhat over-hyped
4 December 2000 (583): *Little Penguin (Colin Stahel, Rosemary Gales)
Fairy Penguins in Australia
30 November 2000 (309): The Mystery of the Aleph (Amir D. Aczel)
Mathematics, the Kabbalah, and the Search for Infinity
26 November 2000 (878): Promiscuity (Tim Birkhead)
An Evolutionary History of Sperm Competition and Sexual Conflict
23 November 2000 (574): Fire in the Sea: The Santorini Volcano (Walter L Friedrich)
Natural History and the Legend of Atlantis
4 November 2000 (388): *Interconnections (Radia Perlman)
Bridges, Routers, Switches, and Internetworking Protocols
4 November 2000 (257): A Tale of False Fortunes (Enchi Fumiko)
- love and politics in 10th century Japan
30 October 2000 (459): The Road to Oxiana (Robert Byron)
- travels in Persia and Afghanistan in the 1930s
23 October 2000 (703): **Disposable People (Kevin Bales)
- a passionate but scholarly study of modern slavery
21 October 2000 (820): *The French Idea of Freedom (Dale Van Kley)
The Old Regime and The Declaration of Rights of 1789
9 October 2000 (479): Language Death (David Crystal)
- threats to languages and approaches to revitalization
27 September 2000 (139): The Wild Numbers (Philibert Schogt)
- a novel about a mathematician
4 September 2000 (432): *Think Unix (Jon Lasser)
- an introduction to Unix for smart people
2 September 2000 (733): *Islam (John L. Esposito)
The Straight Path
30 August 2000 (566): *Poverty - A History (Bronislaw Geremek)
- with a focus on late medieval and early modern Europe
23 August 2000 (421): Web Application Development with PHP 4.0 (Ratschiller, Gerken)
PHP Pocket Reference (Rasmus Lerdorf)
19 August 2000 (275): The Maul and the Pear Tree (P.D. James, T.A. Critchley)
The Ratcliffe Highway Murders 1811
13 August 2000 (704): The Origins of Music (Nils L. Wallin, Björn Merker, Steven Brown)
- towards an evolutionary musicology
2 August 2000 (1028): **On the Road of the Winds (Patrick Vinton Kirch)
An Archaeological History of the Pacific Islands before European Conquest
24 July 2000 (388): Information Liberation (Brian Martin)
Challenging the Corruptions of Information Power
23 July 2000 (366): Environmental Evolution (Margulis, Matthews, Haselton)
Effects of the Origin and Evolution of Life on Planet Earth
16 July 2000 (378): *Inside Indonesia (Gerry van Klinken)
- a quarterly covering politics, culture, and the environment
12 July 2000 (514): *The Aztecs (Michael E. Smith)
- archaeology and social history
4 July 2000 (275): Calculating God (Robert J. Sawyer)
- the aliens have landed, and they are creationists...
3 July 2000 (350): The Mekong (Milton Osborne)
Turbulent past, uncertain future
1 July 2000 (710): *Crimes Against Humanity (Geoffrey Robertson)
The Struggle for Global Justice
17 June 2000 (307): *The Cathedral and the Bazaar (Eric S. Raymond)
Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary
Open Sources (Chris DiBona, Sam Ockman, Mark Stone)
Voices from the Open Source Revolution
17 June 2000 (234): *Maya Civilization (Peter Schmidt, Mercedes de la Garza, Enrique Nalda)
- glorious colour photographs and scholarly papers
17 June 2000 (265): *The Lost Chronicles of the Maya Kings (David Drew)
- a nice introduction to Mayan history and society
6 June 2000 (353): An Inordinate Fondness for Beetles (Arthur V. Evans, Charles L. Bellamy)
- taxonomy, anatomy, ecology, and connections with humans
3 June 2000 (264): The State of the Art (Iain M. Banks)
- short science fiction
29 May 2000 (565): The Major Transitions in Evolution (John Maynard Smith, Eörs Szathmáry)
- from prebiotic chemistry to the origins of society
19 May 2000 (348): *The Cluetrain Manifesto (Rick Levine et al.)
The End of Business as Usual
6 May 2000 (417): Diaspora (Greg Egan)
- science fiction, but more science than fiction
30 April 2000 (338): Envisioning the City (David Buisseret)
Six Studies in Urban Cartography
21 April 2000 (868): *The Cambridge History of Ancient China (Loewe, Shaughnessy)
From the Origins of Civilization to 221 B.C.
5 April 2000 (227): *The Fifth Queen (Ford Madox Ford)
- a novel about Henry VIII's fifth wife, Katharine Howard
2 April 2000 (250): Archipelago: The Islands of Indonesia (Gavan Daws, Marty Fujita)
From the Nineteenth-Century Discoveries of Alfred Russel Wallace to the Fate of Forests and Reefs in the Twenty-First Century
31 March 2000 (334): **Designing Web Usability (Jakob Nielsen)
The Practice of Simplicity
12 March 2000 (476): Terror in the Mind of God (Mark Juergensmeyer)
The Global Rise of Religious Violence
5 March 2000 (143): The Green Iguana (Rob Goodfellow)
- vignettes of life as an Australian expatriate in Bali and Java
26 February 2000 (281): *Trade and Civilisation in the Indian Ocean (K.N. Chaudhuri)
An Economic History from the Rise of Islam to 1750
26 February 2000 (136): Arab Seafaring (George F. Hourani)
In the Indian Ocean in Ancient and Early Medieval Times
20 February 2000 (269): Language Myths (Laurie Bauer, Peter Trudgill)
- 21 common misconceptions about language corrected
20 February 2000 (391): The End of Ancient Christianity (R.A. Markus)
- changes in Western Christianity in the fourth through sixth centuries
6 February 2000 (201): Python Essential Reference (David M. Beazley)
- useful printed documentation
6 February 2000 (305): *Origins of Life (Freeman Dyson)
- a short, slightly idiosyncratic look at abiogenesis
26 January 2000 (343): *The Shorter Science and Civilisation in China: 3 (Joseph Needham)
- nautical technology and the compass
22 January 2000 (577): Darwinism Comes to America (Ronald L. Numbers)
- creationism and religion in the United States
12 January 2000 (329): National Integration in Indonesia (Christine Drake)
- spatial analysis of the 1980 census
12 January 2000 (430): **Regional Dynamics of the Indonesian Revolution (Audrey Kahin)
- an unusually appealing essay collection on 1945-50
8 January 2000 (274): *The Cockroach Papers (Richard Schweld)
A Compendium of History and Lore
31 December 1999 (134): XML Pocket Reference (Robert Eckstein)
31 December 1999 (424): *Legends (Terry Pratchett et al.)
- short fiction by five leading fantasy novelists
27 December 1999 (219): God's Equation (Amir D. Aczel)
Einstein, Relativity, and the Expanding Universe
26 December 1999 (527): Tower of Babel (Robert T. Pennock)
The Evidence Against the New Creationism
16 December 1999 (309): The Voice of the Nightingale (Sabine Felmy)
A Personal Account of Wakhi Culture in Hunza
27 November 1999 (373): *The New Solar System (Beatty, Petersen, Chaikin)
- a comprehensive overview aimed at educated non-specialists
17 November 1999 (193): Salman the Solitary (Yashar Kemal)
- childhood fantasies, fears, and ecstasies in the Anatolian mountains
17 November 1999 (147): The French-Speaking Pacific (Christian Jost)
Population, Environment and Development Issues
31 October 1999 (338): The Cathars (Malcolm Lambert)
- a solid academic survey
24 October 1999 (316): *Joseph Banks (Patrick O'Brian)
- a biography of the botanist, explorer, and natural historian
20 October 1999 (385): Evolutionary Catastrophes (Vincent Courtillot)
The Science of Mass Extinctions
13 October 1999 (284): The Way of the Pathans (James W. Spain)
- hospitality, revenge, and sanctuary in Pakistan and Afghanistan
The Pathan Borderland (James W. Spain)
- an ethnic group of 20 million, on the Pakistan/Afghanistan border
30 September 1999 (340): From Brains to Consciousness (Steven Rose)
Essays on the New Sciences of the Mind
26 September 1999 (673): **The Languages of China (S. Robert Ramsey)
- social, cultural, and historical background as well as linguistics
15 August 1999 (335): *The Evolution of Communication (Marc D. Hauser)
- neurobiological, ontogenetic, adaptive, and psychological approaches
9 August 1999 (402): Love and Limerence (Dorothy Tennov)
The Experience of Being in Love
9 August 1999 (197): Linux in a Nutshell (Ellen Siever)
29 July 1999 (195): *The Bogus Buddha (James Melville)
- a superintendent Otani mystery, set in Japan
25 July 1999 (200): Language Play (David Crystal)
- by adults and children
19 July 1999 (529): The Greeks (Jean-Pierre Vernant)
- the social history of ancient Greece
The Byzantines (Guglielmo Cavallo)
- a social history
The Egyptians (Sergio Donadoni)
- the social history of ancient Egypt
Medieval Callings (Jacques Le Goff)
- social history
18 July 1999 (387): Pakistan in the Twentieth Century (Lawrence Ziring)
A Political History
Pakistan - A Dream Gone Sour (Roedad Khan)
- a high-ranking civil servant looks back
A History of the Peoples of Pakistan (J. Hussain)
Towards Independence
20 June 1999 (135): Removing the Spam (Geoff Mulligan)
Email Processing and Filtering
20 June 1999 (410): *Medieval Iceland (Jesse L. Byock)
Society, Sagas, and Power
14 June 1999 (164): The First Eagle (Tony Hillerman)
- Jim Chee finds a Hopi eagle poacher next to a dead police officer
6 June 1999 (287): **Proofs from THE BOOK (Martin Aigner, Günter M. Ziegler)
- mathematical results that are beautiful, accessible, and profound
16 May 1999 (462): **After the Greening (Mary E. White)
- a geological and botanical history of Australia
12 May 1999 (290): Dolphin Societies (Karen Pryor, Kenneth S. Norris)
Discoveries and Puzzles
29 April 1999 (317): Painting by Numbers (JoAnn Wypijewski)
Komar and Melamid's scientific guide to art
19 April 1999 (459): The Rise and Rule of Tamerlane (Beatrice Forbes Manz)
- a struggle for power in 14th century Central Asia
17 April 1999 (1182): The Untouchables (Oliver Mendelsohn, Marika Vicziany)
Subordination, Poverty and the State in Modern India
10 April 1999 (337): *Taking Wing (Pat Shipman)
Archaeopteryx and the Evolution of Bird Flight
14 March 1999 (238): *Kristin Lavransdatter (Sigrid Undset)
- a family saga set in medieval Norway
13 March 1999 (185): BGP4 (John W. Stewart III)
Inter-Domain Routing in the Internet
7 March 1999 (348): Practical Visionaries (Susan Blackburn)
A Study of Community Aid Abroad
7 March 1999 (414): The Holocene (Neil Roberts)
An Environmental History
28 February 1999 (406): Racial Theories (Michael Banton)
- Cuvier, Morton, Nott, Smith, Knox, Vogt, Cox, Bonacich, ...
14 February 1999 (964): Word Crimes (Joss Marsh)
Blasphemy, Culture, and Literature in Nineteenth-Century England
14 February 1999 (172): Advanced Internet Technologies (Uyless Black)
DHCP (Berry Kercheval)
A Guide to Dynamic TCP/IP Network Configuration
2 February 1999 (541): **The Computational Beauty of Nature (Gary William Flake)
Computer Explorations of Fractals, Chaos, Complex Systems, and Adaptation
27 January 1999 (1295): *Cells, Embryos, and Evolution (John Gerhart, Marc Kirschner)
Towards a Cellular and Developmental Understanding of Phenotypic Variation and Evolutionary Adaptability
23 January 1999 (1042): Intellectual Impostures (Alan Sokal, Jean Bricmont)
Postmodern Philosophers' Abuse of Science
23 January 1999 (441): *Distributed Algorithms (Nancy A. Lynch)
- for a deep understanding of formal methods
13 January 1999 (163): Paul Dirac (Abraham Pais et al.)
The Man and His Work
10 January 1999 (274): Kea, Bird of Paradox (Judy Diamond, Alan B. Bond)
The Evolution and Behavior of a New Zealand Parrot
25 December 1998 (471): **Human Diversity (Richard Lewontin)
- the realities of human biological variation
10 November 1998 (557): Stopping Spam (Alan Schwartz, Simson Garfinkel)
5 November 1998 (418): *My Brain Is Open (Bruce Schechter)
The Mathematical Journeys of Paul Erdös
28 October 1998 (317): Fall 1998
Fall Books 1998
26 October 1998 (243): The Traditional Architecture of Indonesia (Barry Dawson, John Gillow)
- rumah adat across the archipelago
18 October 1998 (228): Multicast Networking and Applications (C. Kenneth Miller)
13 October 1998 (133): *Murderously Incorrect (Henry F. Mazel)
- off-beat New York PI Alex Rada gets involved with politics
13 October 1998 (228): Hornet's Nest (Patricia Cornwell)
- a combined police-procedural and romance
The Cold Hard Fax (Leslie O'Kane)
- a frivolously light-hearted mystery
10 October 1998 (526): The English Languages (Tom McArthur)
3 October 1998 (221): From the Lower Deck (Henry Baynham)
The Old Navy 1780-1840
23 September 1998 (192): A Dog's Head (Jean Dutourd)
22 September 1998 (275): Reports of the National Center for Science Education
- defending the teaching of evolution
9 September 1998 (815): Lifelines (Steven Rose)
Biology, Freedom, Determinism
24 August 1998 (333): Calamities of Exile (Lawrence Weschler)
Three Nonfiction Novellas
22 August 1998 (1052): *The Creationists (Ronald L. Numbers)
The Evolution of Scientific Creationism
17 August 1998 (505): *Sacred Mountains of the World (Edwin Bernbaum)
- religion and spirituality; glorious photographs
29 July 1998 (325): Sendmail (Bryan Costales, Eric Allman)
- the bat book: the world's most popular MTA explained
29 July 1998 (330): Api Dalam Sekam (Rob Goodfellow)
The New Order and the Ideology of Anti-Communism
18 July 1998 (332): The Evolutionary Synthesis (Ernst Mayr, William B. Provine)
Perspectives on the Unification of Biology
1 July 1998 (319): Darwin's Dreampond (Tijs Goldschmidt)
Drama in Lake Victoria
24 June 1998 (582): **The Art of Computer Programming (Donald E. Knuth)
Fundamental Algorithms; Seminumerical Algorithms; Sorting and Searching
21 June 1998 (334): Beyond a Boundary (C.L.R. James)
- cricket and society in the West Indies
11 June 1998 (339): Windows on Meteorology (Eric K. Webb)
Australian Perspective
11 June 1998 (590): Murderous Science (Benno Müller-Hill)
Elimination by Scientific Selection of Jews, Gypsies, and Others in Germany, 1933-1945
6 June 1998 (349): *Atmospheric Science (John M. Wallace, Peter V. Hobbs)
An Introductory Survey
29 May 1998 (286): Australian Mountains (Tyrone Thomas, Sven Klinge)
The Best 100 Walks
24 May 1998 (360): Nuclear Rites (Hugh Gusterson)
A Weapons Laboratory at the End of the Cold War
13 May 1998 (160): The Legend of Bouvines (Georges Duby)
- the ideology of peace, war, and battle in the 12th century
13 May 1998 (311): Effective Perl Programming (Joseph N. Hall)
Writing Better Programs With Perl
4 May 1998 (574): The Rise and Fall of Languages (R.M.W. Dixon)
- an overview of linguistics by a prominent but idiosyncratic linguist
25 April 1998 (431): The Ok Tedi Settlement (Glenn Banks, Chris Ballard)
Issues, Outcomes and Implications
19 April 1998 (351): The Roman Empire and its Germanic Peoples (Herwig Wolfram)
- Visigoths, Vandals, Ostrogoths, Burgundians, ...
6 April 1998 (207): Land of the Tiger (Valmik Thapar)
A Natural History of the Indian Subcontinent
6 April 1998 (684): Brainchildren (Daniel C. Dennett)
Essays on Designing Minds
19 March 1998 (527): Macrohistory and Macrohistorians (Johan Galtung, Sohail Inayatulluh)
Perspectives on Individual, Social, and Civilizational Change
11 March 1998 (919): *The Ovary of Eve (Clara Pinto-Correia)
Egg and Sperm and Preformation
8 March 1998 (299): Making PCR (Paul Rabinow)
A Story of Biotechnology
28 February 1998 (323): **Islandia (Austin Tappan Wright)
- gentle romance and captivating fantasy
21 February 1998 (413): Privacy on the Line (Whitfield Diffie, Susan Landau)
The Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption
10 February 1998 (68): Untimely Death (Fred Yager, Jan Yager)
- a fast-paced psychological thriller set in Manhattan
10 February 1998 (97): The Luck of the Vails (E.F. Benson)
- a turn of the century mystery set among the English aristocracy
8 February 1998 (671): Internet Besieged (Dorothy E. Denning, Peter J. Denning)
Countering Cyberspace Scofflaws
Web Security (Rohit Khare)
A Matter of Trust
8 February 1998 (354): *Essential Cell Biology (Bruce Alberts et al.)
An Introduction to the Molecular Biology of the Cell
7 February 1998 (202): A Stanislaw Lem Reader (Peter Swirski, Stanislaw Lem)
- interviews, essays, and bibliographies
4 February 1998 (208): The Lighter Side of Gravity (Jayant V. Narlikar)
- a popular introduction to the physics behind astronomy
26 January 1998 (546): The Forgotten Cause of the Civil War (Lawrence R. Tenzer)
A New Look at the Slavery Issue
25 January 1998 (746): *Metaphysics and the Origin of Species (Michael T. Ghiselin)
- species are logical individuals rather than classes; implications
18 January 1998 (131): Cross-Cultural Filmmaking (Ilisa Barbash, Lucien Taylor)
A Handbook for Making Documentary and Ethnographic Films and Videos
3 January 1998 (404): Millennial Markers (Pamela J. Stewart, Andrew Strathern)
- papers on Pacific millenarianism
29 December 1997 (485): Artificial Life (Christopher Langton)
- articles from the first three issues of the journal
23 December 1997 (1718): *Guns, Germs and Steel (Jared Diamond)
The Fates of Human Societies
12 December 1997 (630): Coordinating the Internet (Brian Kahin, James H. Keller)
- governance, domain names, and interconnection agreements
7 December 1997 (249): Penguin Portrait (Steve Hare)
Allen Lane and the Penguin Editors 1935-1970
6 December 1997 (482): **Blood of Spain (Ronald Fraser)
An Oral History of the Spanish Civil War
6 December 1997 (154): The Argonautika (Apollonios Rhodios)
The Story of Jason and the Quest for the Golden Fleece
30 November 1997 (523): *The Song of the Dodo (David Quammen)
Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions
26 November 1997 (708): The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language (David Crystal)
- a broad survey aimed at a popular audience
26 November 1997 (154): Absolution by Murder (Peter Tremayne)
- a Sister Fidelma mystery set around the Synod of Whitby in 664 AD
16 November 1997 (930): *Database Backed Web Sites (Philip Greenspun)
The Thinking Person's Guide to Web Publishing
10 November 1997 (702): *Century of Genocide (Samuel Totten, William S. Parsons, Israel W. Charny)
Eyewitness Accounts and Critical Views
9 November 1997 (247): The Electronic Privacy Papers (Bruce Schneier, David Banisar)
Documents on the Battle for Privacy in the Age of Surveillance
31 October 1997 (258): Maximum RPM (Edward C. Bailey)
Taking the Red Hat Package Manager to the Limit
27 October 1997 (409): *Bones of Contention (Roger Lewin)
Controversies in the Search for Human Origins
19 October 1997 (148): Tao Te Ching (Lao Tzu, Ursula K. Le Guin)
- "true words aren't charming; charming words aren't true"
19 October 1997 (206): The Monsters and the Critics (J.R.R. Tolkien)
And Other Essays
15 October 1997 (362): *Torn Shapes of Desire (Mary Anne Mohanraj)
Internet Erotica
12 October 1997 (363): Electrical Machines, Drives, and Power Systems (Theodore Wildi)
- an undergraduate text with little mathematics
9 October 1997 (348): Noam Chomsky (Robert F. Barsky)
A Life of Dissent
27 September 1997 (344): Sex, Laws, and Cyberspace (Jonathan Wallace, Mark Mangan)
Freedom and Censorship on the Frontiers of the Online Revolution
17 September 1997 (572): **Between Two Worlds (Cemal Kafadar)
The Construction of the Ottoman State
13 September 1997 (327): Microcosmos (Lynn Margulis, Dorion Sagan)
Four Billion Years of Microbial Evolution
10 September 1997 (329): Antigonos the One-Eyed (Richard A. Billows)
And the Creation of the Hellenistic State
6 September 1997 (412): *The Simple Science of Flight (Henk Tennekes)
From Insects to Jumbo Jets
28 August 1997 (658): **The Evolutionary Biology of Plants (Karl J. Niklas)
- evolution makes sense of otherwise unconnected areas of botany
17 August 1997 (804): Sacred Art of the Earth (Maureen Korp)
Ancient and Contemporary Earthworks
13 August 1997 (276): English as a Global Language (David Crystal)
- its use, history, and culture
13 August 1997 (226): DNS and BIND (Paul Albitz, Cricket Liu)
31 July 1997 (354): Censorship (Kaye Healey)
- an Australian school resource
28 July 1997 (279): Underground (Suelette Dreyfus)
Tales of Hacking, Madness and Obsession on the Electronic Frontier
12 July 1997 (413): **This Earth of Mankind (Pramoedya Ananta Toer)
- the Buru Quartet: novels of colonial Indonesia
6 July 1997 (208): The Contemporary History of Latin America (Tulio Halperín Donghi)
- politics and economics from the early 19th century
5 July 1997 (226): The Development of Nomadism in Ancient Northeast Africa (Karim Sadr)
- a deft and suggestive combination of theory and evidence
3 July 1997 (477): *Bonobo (Frans de Waal)
The Forgotten Ape
22 June 1997 (331): The Broken Dice (Ivar Ekeland)
And Other Mathematical Tales of Chance
21 June 1997 (240): Lineland (Jules Siegel, Christine Wexler)
Mortality and Mercy on the Internet's Pynchon-L@Waste.Org Discussion List
21 June 1997 (104): The Golden Ocean (Patrick O'Brian)
- the son of a poor Irish clergyman sails around the world with Anson
15 June 1997 (467): The Future of Academic Freedom (Louis Menand)
- philosophical, legal, and ethical perspectives
8 June 1997 (554): *Snakes (Harry W. Greene)
The Evolution of Mystery in Nature
8 June 1997 (268): A Gift of Fire (Sara Baase)
Social, legal, and ethical issues for computers and the Internet
3 June 1997 (185): Massacre at Montségur (Zoé Oldenbourg)
- the Albigensian crusade; Simon de Montfort; the destruction of Catharism
3 June 1997 (180): The Albigensian Crusades (Joseph R. Strayer, Carol Lansing)
- a political history of southern France in the early 13th century
30 March 1997 (714): The Aubrey/Maturin books (Patrick O'Brian)
- a naval lieutenant and a penniless physician meet at Port Mahon in 1801...
23 March 1997 (162): South From Granada (Gerald Brenan)
- settling in an Andalusian village with 2000 books
19 March 1997 (354): *The Military Revolution (Geoffrey Parker)
Military Innovation and the Rise of the West 1500-1800
12 March 1997 (548): Borders in Cyberspace (Brian Kahin, Charles Nesson)
Information Policy and the Global Information Infrastructure
5 March 1997 (433): The Sadeian Woman (Angela Carter)
And the Ideology of Pornography
2 March 1997 (244): Pemberley (Emma Tennant)
A Sequel to Pride and Prejudice
Presumption (Julia Barrett)
An Entertainment
1 March 1997 (646): *The Secret Museum (Walter Kendrick)
Pornography in Modern Culture
27 February 1997 (297): *The Scientific Revolution (Steven Shapin)
- science in 17th century Europe
15 February 1997 (412): The Cerebral Code (William H. Calvin)
Thinking a Thought in the Mosaics of the Mind
12 February 1997 (308): Giving Offense (J.M. Coetzee)
Essays on Censorship
30 January 1997 (406): *Programming Python (Mark Lutz)
27 January 1997 (329): *How to Set Up and Maintain a Web Site (Lincoln D. Stein)
- now dated, but it was a great book
27 January 1997 (132): *English Landscapes (W.G. Hoskins)
- decoding the historical layers in rural landscapes
26 January 1997 (536): Political Oppositions in Industrialising Asia (Garry Rodan)
- 1996 studies of opposition movements in individual countries
24 January 1997 (293): The Art of Electronic Publishing (Sandy Ressler)
The Internet and Beyond
22 January 1997 (193): The Life and Times of Horatio Hornblower (C. Northcote Parkinson)
- a fictional biography of CS Forester's naval hero
Devil to Pay (C. Northcote Parkinson)
22 January 1997 (125): Britannia Rules (C. Northcote Parkinson)
The Classic Age of Naval History 1793-1815
19 January 1997 (810): Inventing the Middle Ages (Norman F. Cantor)
The Lives, Works, and Ideas of the Great Medievalists of the Twentieth Century
15 January 1997 (516): **Faces in the Clouds (Stewart Guthrie)
A New Theory of Religion
12 January 1997 (358): HAL's Legacy (David G. Stork)
2001's Computer as Dream and Reality
31 December 1996 (207): *Soldier of the Mist (Gene Wolfe)
- historical fantasy set in classical Greece, during the Persian Wars
23 December 1996 (190): Democracy and Participation in Athens (R.K. Sinclair)
- the literary and epigraphical evidence
7 December 1996 (636): **Political Islam (Joel Beinin, Joe Stork)
Essays from Middle East Report
7 December 1996 (217): Oulipo (Warren F. Motte Jr)
A Primer of Potential Literature
1 December 1996 (320): *Reinventing Darwin (Niles Eldredge)
The Great Evolutionary Debate
30 November 1996 (468): World Wide Web Journal (The World Wide Web Consortium)
Fourth International World Wide Web Conference Proceedings; Key Specifications of the World Wide Web; The Web After Five Years; Building an Industrial Strength Web
30 November 1996 (303): *Heroic Legends of the North (Edward R. Haymes, Susann T. Samples)
An Introduction to the Nibelung and Dietrich Cycles
24 November 1996 (201): Disobedience (Michael Drinkard)
- a three-stranded novel wrapped around the history of California
19 November 1996 (447): Spengler's Future (John J. Reilly)
- an exploration of the cycles of world history
13 November 1996 (440): Climbing Mount Improbable (Richard Dawkins)
- a popular introduction to evolution
3 November 1996 (346): Darwin's Laboratory (Roy McCleod, Philip F. Rehbock)
Evolutionary Theory and Natural History in the Pacific
30 October 1996 (280): Inequality Reexamined (Amartya Sen)
- equality in political and economic philosophy
24 October 1996 (413): *The Greco-Persian Wars (Peter Green)
- an accessible history
19 October 1996 (669): Immortal Engines (George Slusser, Gary Westfahl, Eric S. Rabkin)
Life Extension and Immortality in Science Fiction and Fantasy
12 October 1996 (436): What is Life? The Next Fifty Years (Michael P. Murphy, Luke A.J. O'Neill)
Speculations on the Future of Biology
12 October 1996 (377): *Active Java (Adam Freeman, Darrel Ince)
Object-Oriented Programming for the World Wide Web
7 October 1996 (419): *Computer Networks (Larry L. Peterson, Bruce S. Davie)
A Systems Approach
1 October 1996 (401): **Georges Perec (David Bellos)
A Life in Words
1 October 1996 (471): *The Futurological Congress (Stanislaw Lem)
- an inventive science fiction comedy
23 September 1996 (880): The Engine of Reason, the Seat of the Soul (Paul M. Churchland)
A Philosophical Journey into the Brain
14 September 1996 (175): Developing SGML DTDs (Eve Maler, Jeanne El Andaloussi)
From Text to Model to Markup
14 September 1996 (170): Calling Crow (Paul Clayton)
- the Spanish are raiding for slaves on the North American coast
8 September 1996 (514): *In the Wake of Chaos (Stephen H. Kellert)
- what chaos theory is, and what it is not
21 August 1996 (212): *Professor Martens' Departure (Jaan Kross)
21 August 1996 (228): Learning the bash Shell (Cameron Newham, Bill Rosenblatt)
11 August 1996 (414): *Reindeer Moon (Elizabeth Marshall Thomas)
- a Paleolithic coming of age novel
The Animal Wife (Elizabeth Marshall Thomas)
- an abduction disrupts a Paleolithic hunter-gatherer band
10 August 1996 (293): Masters of Rome (Colleen McCullough)
- epic historical fiction, from the Republic to the Empire
8 August 1996 (107): The Flanders Panel (Arturo Perez-Reverte)
8 August 1996 (105): Dark Provenance (Michael David Anthony)
- a mystery set amidst English Church politics
7 August 1996 (234): *King Hereafter (Dorothy Dunnett)
- a historical novel about the real Macbeth
28 July 1996 (582): The Lions of Al-Rassan (Guy Gavriel Kay)
28 July 1996 (340): *A Void (Georges Perec)
- a lipogram, a novel written without using the letter e
26 July 1996 (382): Beyond Leichhardt (Glen McLaren)
Bushcraft and the Exploration of Australia
21 July 1996 (480): *Between Church and State (Bernard Guenée)
The Lives of Four French Prelates in the Late Middle Ages
19 July 1996 (2074): *Darwin's Dangerous Idea (Daniel C. Dennett)
Evolution and the Meanings of Life
14 July 1996 (444): Superdistribution (Brad Cox)
Objects as Property on the Electronic Frontier
13 July 1996 (160): The Conspiracy and Other Stories (Jaan Kross)
- Estonia in the Second World War
1 July 1996 (328): *Islands (H.W. Menard)
- and atolls, banks, and guyots
30 June 1996 (268): *Maps and Civilization (Norman J. W. Thrower)
Cartography in Culture and Society
23 June 1996 (538): Mind and Morals (Larry May, Marilyn Friedman, Andy Clark)
Essays on Ethics and Cognitive Science
22 June 1996 (322): Understanding Relativity (Leo Sartori)
A Simplified Approach to Einstein's Theories
22 June 1996 (546): Tehanu (Ursula K. Le Guin)
The Last Book of Earthsea
10 June 1996 (236): Bosnian Chronicle (Ivo Andric)
- a novel about Napoleon's consulate in Travnik, Bosnia
8 June 1996 (297): *Style (Joseph M. Williams)
Toward Clarity and Grace
5 June 1996 (357): *The Defeat of the Spanish Armada (Garrett Mattingly)
- a popular account of the dramatic events of 1587 and 1588
30 May 1996 (333): **Strandloper (Alan Garner)
- an Australian convict escapes and joins the Aborigines
30 May 1996 (288): *Imperfect Paradise (Shen Congwen)
- short stories paint a portrait of China before the Revolution
12 May 1996 (633): Who Killed Jesus? (John Dominic Crossan)
Exposing the Roots of Anti-Semitism in the Gospel Story of the Death of Jesus
12 May 1996 (161): TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 3 (W. Richard Stevens)
TCP for Transactions, HTTP, NNTP, and the UNIX Domain Protocols
12 May 1996 (187): Sense and Censorship (Michael Pollak)
Commentaries on Censorship Violence in Australia
26 April 1996 (684): *Lise Meitner (Ruth Lewin Sime)
A Life in Physics
23 April 1996 (425): The Language Instinct (Steven Pinker)
The New Science of Language and Mind
21 April 1996 (412): Religion: A Humanist Interpretation (Raymond Firth)
- essays on the essentially human character of religious phenomena
8 April 1996 (625): Scholarly Publishing (Robin P. Peek, Gregory B. Newby)
The Electronic Frontier
8 April 1996 (178): *Dinosaur in a Haystack (Stephen Jay Gould)
- his seventh volume of essays; still getting better!
6 April 1996 (384): Review (Immanuel Wallerstein)
- a journal of economies, historical systems, and civilizations
30 March 1996 (218): *The Mediterranean (Fernand Braudel)
And the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II
27 March 1996 (544): *Bandits on the Information Superhighway (Daniel J. Barrett)
- privacy, spams, scams, hoaxes, ...
23 March 1996 (245): The Czar's Madman (Jaan Kross)
- von Bock is a friend of Tsar Alexander I, but also an idealist...
23 March 1996 (162): All Souls (Javier Marías)
- a Spanish novel about an Oxford don
14 March 1996 (1064): *The Creation of History in Ancient Israel (Marc Zvi Brettler)
- the biblical authors and their presentations of the past
7 March 1996 (345): README.1ST (Ronald C. Turner, Timothy A. Douglass, Audrey J. Turner)
SGML for Writers and Editors
3 March 1996 (796): Knowing Music, Making Music (Benjamin Brinner)
Javanese Gamelan and the Theory of Musical Competence and Interaction
25 February 1996 (656): Civilizing Cyberspace (Steven E. Miller)
Policy, Power, and the Information Superhighway
13 February 1996 (302): The Computer User's Survival Guide (Joan Stigliani)
- preventing and coping with RSI, eyestrain, stress, and radiation
11 February 1996 (686): Mythologies (Yves Bonnefoy)
- classical, Egyptian, European, Asian, American, African
5 February 1996 (920): Companion Encyclopedia of Anthropology (Tim Ingold)
Humanity, Culture and Social Life
4 February 1996 (155): A Moving Target (William Golding)
- short pieces on travel and writing
26 January 1996 (310): *Love Songs of the New Kingdom (John L. Foster)
- ancient Egyptian love poems
23 January 1996 (474): *The Outer Reaches of Life (John Postgate)
- bacteria in extreme environments
21 January 1996 (437): The Spanish Cockpit (Franz Borkenau)
An Eyewitness Account of the Spanish Civil War
19 January 1996 (243): Explorers of South-East Asia (Victor T. King)
- Mouhot, Bock, Burns, Nieuwenhuis, Garnier, and Scott
18 January 1996 (300): *IPv6: The New Internet Protocol (Christian Huitema)
7 January 1996 (491): A Lapse of Memory (Victor Segalen)
- a novel about the destruction of traditional religion in Tahiti
5 January 1996 (235): *The Laughter of Aphrodite (Peter Green)
A Novel about Sappho of Lesbos
2 January 1996 (357): Poles Apart (Galen Rowell)
Parallel Visions of the Arctic and Antarctic
1 January 1996 (252): *Dance of the Tiger (Björn Kurtén)
A Novel of the Ice Age
29 December 1995 (197): The Mammoth Book of Historical Detectives (Mike Ashley)
- thirty short stories
18 December 1995 (670): Permutation City (Greg Egan)
- science fiction with cellular automata
18 December 1995 (302): Clear and Present Danger (Tom Clancy)
- for afficionados of military hardware; not my cup of tea
15 December 1995 (836): Empire to Commonwealth (Garth Fowden)
Consequences of Monotheism in Late Antiquity
10 December 1995 (136): The Crying Room (Chris McLeod)
9 December 1995 (586): Public Access to the Internet (Brian Kahin, James Keller)
7 December 1995 (225): *Judge Dee (Robert van Gulik)
- stories about a famous Chinese detective-magistrate
29 November 1995 (255): **The Bridge on the Drina (Ivo Andric)
- a novel of three centuries in eastern Bosnia
27 November 1995 (312): *August 1914 (Alexander Solzhenitsyn)
- a fictional account of the battle of Tannenberg
25 November 1995 (781): Cyberspace: First Steps (Michael Benedikt)
- information representations and virtual reality interfaces
24 November 1995 (247): The Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax (Geoffrey K. Pullum)
And Other Irreverent Essays on the Study of Language
24 November 1995 (202): Tuttle's Concise Indonesian Dictionary (A.L.N. Kramer, Willie Koen)
The M.I.P. Concise Indonesian Dictionary (J.D. McGarry)
For Students and Travellers
4 November 1995 (204): IPng (Scott O. Bradner, Allison Mankin)
Internet Protocol Next Generation
4 November 1995 (268): King Jesus (Robert Graves)
- mythological musings dressed up as a novel
Count Belisarius (Robert Graves)
- a historical novel about Justinian's great general
Homer's Daughter (Robert Graves)
- a novel about a woman writing part of the Odyssey
28 October 1995 (309): Marc Bloch (Carole Fink)
A Life in History
21 October 1995 (1003): *A Soviet Heretic (Yevgeny Zamyatin)
- essays on Russian literature from the decade after the Revolution
On Literature and Art (Leon Trotsky)
- a literary critic as well as a revolutionary and a political theorist
14 October 1995 (621): Indonesia Handbook (Bill Dalton)
Indonesia (Peter Turner et al.)
- the Lonely Planet travel guide
12 October 1995 (369): Bugs in Writing (Lyn Dupré)
A Guide to Debugging Your Prose
7 October 1995 (532): A Fisherman of the Inland Sea (Ursula K. Le Guin)
- eight science fiction short stories
6 October 1995 (819): Dreadnought (Robert K. Massie)
Britain, Germany and the Coming of the Great War
30 September 1995 (252): Networking Personal Computers with TCP/IP (Craig Hunt)
Computer Crime (David Icove, Karl Seger, William VonStorch)
A Crimefighter's Handbook
25 September 1995 (197): The Romans (Andrea Giardina)
- a social history
25 September 1995 (220): *Axiomatic (Greg Egan)
- hard science fiction stories, drawing on physics, biology, computing
14 September 1995 (207): What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew (Daniel Pool)
From Fox Hunting to Whist - the Facts of Daily Life in 19th-Century England
9 September 1995 (272): Rabbits and Spaghetti (Bill Bunbury)
Captives and Comrades: Australians, Italians and the War
9 September 1995 (278): LaTeX (Leslie Lamport)
A Document Preparation System
The LaTeX Companion (Michel Goosens, Frank Mittelbach, Alexander Samarin)
3 September 1995 (147): *The Sorrow of War (Bao Ninh)
- a novel by a North Vietnamese soldier
3 September 1995 (967): A Scientific Model of Social and Cultural Evolution (Robert Bates Graber)
- modelling the demographic basis of sociocultural change
26 August 1995 (92): Snow Crash (Neal Stephenson)
- a fast-paced near-future cyberpunk thriller
26 August 1995 (534): *Always Coming Home (Ursula K. Le Guin)
- fictional ethnography: stories and poetry from a far-future California
20 August 1995 (384): *The Great Human Diasporas (Cavalli-Sforza, Cavalli-Sforza)
The History of Diversity and Evolution
19 August 1995 (951): **Civilization and Capitalism 15th-18th Century (Fernand Braudel)
- a social and economic history of the shaping of the modern world
11 August 1995 (549): *Killing Time (Paul Feyerabend)
- a controversial philosopher of science looks back at his life
6 August 1995 (305): The Invention of Tradition (Eric Hobsbawm, Terence Ranger)
- essays on the recent construction of symbolic and ceremonial traditions
6 August 1995 (156): *Arab Historians of the Crusades (Francesco Gabrieli)
- excerpts from nineteen Islamic writers
30 July 1995 (756): The Future Does Not Compute (Stephen L. Talbott)
- emotionally stirring but intellectually vacuous
19 July 1995 (271): The USENET Handbook (Mark Harrison)
A User's Guide to Netnews
19 July 1995 (250): The Discarded Image (C.S. Lewis)
An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature
19 July 1995 (231): Tales of the Field (John Van Maanen)
On Writing Ethnography
11 July 1995 (557): *Conceptual Issues in Evolutionary Biology (Elliott Sober)
- a mix of classic papers and more recent material
6 July 1995 (392): The Descent of the Child (Elaine Morgan)
Human Evolution From a New Perspective
1 July 1995 (342): Universal Compression and Retrieval (Rafail Krichevsky)
1 July 1995 (87): The Culture of Contentment (John Kenneth Galbraith)
20 June 1995 (143): Wife to Mr. Milton (Robert Graves)
- a novel of the English Civil War
20 June 1995 (234): TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 2 (Gary R. Wright, W. Richard Stevens)
The Implementation
20 June 1995 (111): River Road to China (Milton Osborne)
The Mekong River Expedition, 1866-73
20 June 1995 (245): Internetworking with TCP/IP, Volume I (Douglas E. Comer)
Principles, Protocols and Architecture
8 June 1995 (280): *Creation (Gore Vidal)
- the grandson of Zoroaster meets Buddha, Gosala, Lao Tse and Confucius
8 June 1995 (345): Casting the Net (Peter H. Salus)
From ARPANET to Internet and Beyond
24 May 1995 (194): Ancestors (Jan Ryan)
Chinese in Colonial Australia
18 May 1995 (66): Helena (Evelyn Waugh)
- a dull and tendentiously Catholic novel about Constantine's mother
18 May 1995 (260): Using Email Effectively (Linda Lamb, Jerry Peek)
18 May 1995 (310): Running Linux (Matt Welsh, Lar Kaufman)
18 May 1995 (177): Fictional Space (Tom Shippey)
Essays on Contemporary Science Fiction
13 May 1995 (324): Network Security (Charlie Kaufman, Radia Perlman, Mike Speciner)
PRIVATE Communication in a PUBLIC World
30 April 1995 (348): Linux Journal
The Monthly Magazine of the Linux Community
30 April 1995 (987): CyberSociety (Steven G. Jones)
Computer-Mediated Communication and Community
14 April 1995 (332): *The Wet and the Dry (Patrick Vinton Kirch)
Irrigation and Agricultural Intensification in Polynesia
14 April 1995 (195): A History of Russia (Nicholas V. Riasanovsky)
- Kievan, Appanage, Muscovite, Imperial, and Soviet Russia
5 April 1995 (278): *Vocabulary Building in Indonesian (Soenjono Dardjowidjojo)
An Advanced Reader
25 March 1995 (292): X User Tools (Linda Mui, Valerie Quercia)
25 March 1995 (126): Flicker (Theodore Roszak)
4 March 1995 (855): *Mind and Nature (Gregory Bateson)
A Necessary Unity
8 February 1995 (151): The Norton Book of Science Fiction (Ursula K. Le Guin, Brian Attebery)
North American science fiction, 1960-1990
8 February 1995 (273): The Future of the Internet Protocol (Carl Malamud)
8 February 1995 (273): *Ape, Man, Apeman: Changing Views since 1600 (Corbey, Theunissen)
Evaluative Proceedings of a Symposium at Leiden, 28 June - 1 July 1993
30 January 1995 (501): Managing Internet Information Services (Cricket Liu et al.)
26 January 1995 (191): PGP: Pretty Good Privacy (Simson Garfinkel)
- encryption for everyone
24 January 1995 (420): The Mystery of Numbers (Annemarie Schimmel)
- an unstructured collection of numerological beliefs
24 January 1995 (167): The Charioteer (Mary Renault)
14 January 1995 (291): The Place Where Souls Are Born (Thomas Keneally)
A Journey to the Southwest
14 January 1995 (771): *The Coevolutionary Process (John N. Thompson)
- specialization and coevolution
3 January 1995 (145): *The Dragon (Yevgeny Zamyatin)
Fifteen Stories
3 January 1995 (183): Talking to Strange Men (Ruth Rendell)
3 January 1995 (343): Computer-Related Risks (Peter G. Neumann)
- if anything can go wrong, it probably will
1 December 1994 (570): A Quarter Century of Unix (Peter H. Salus)
- from Space Travel to Plan 9 and Linux
27 November 1994 (544): The Nature of Selection (Elliott Sober)
Evolutionary Theory in Philosophical Focus
24 November 1994 (99): *One Minute Stories (István Örkeny)
- Hungarian stories "while the soft-boiled egg is boiling"
24 November 1994 (772): Chance and Necessity (Jacques Monod)
An Essay on the Natural Philosophy of Modern Biology
19 November 1994 (422): Roman Law and Comparative Law (Alan Watson)
19 November 1994 (212): Learning the vi Editor (Linda Lamb)
19 November 1994 (429): Egypt, Canaan and Israel in Ancient Times (Donald B. Redford)
- from prehistory to the destruction of Jerusalem in 586 BC
16 November 1994 (403): The Moral Economy of Trade (Hans-Dieter Evers, Heiko Schrader)
Ethnicity and Developing Markets
16 November 1994 (229): **Her Smoke Rose up Forever (James Tiptree Jr)
- dark, powerful science fiction stories about sex and death
16 November 1994 (93): Brightness Falls from the Air (James Tiptree Jr)
- aliens, time travel, genocide, torture, drugs
8 November 1994 (400): The Mosaic Handbook (Dale Dougherty, Richard Koman, Paula Ferguson)
- before Internet Explorer, before Netscape, there was...
8 November 1994 (220): Catilina's Riddle (Steven Saylor)
- a mystery set during the Catiline Conspiracy
31 August 1994 (1326): **Weapons of the Weak (James C. Scott)
Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance
25 August 1994 (438): Gigabit Networking (Craig Partridge)
16 August 1994 (267): Usenet: Netnews for Everyone (Jenny A. Fristrup)
14 August 1994 (161): *The French Revolution (George Rudé)
- a modern marxist interpretation
14 August 1994 (151): Agent of Byzantium (Harry Turtledove)
- alternative history, with a powerful 13th century Byzantine empire
4 August 1994 (226): Imperialism and Biblical Prophecy, 750-500 BCE (David Aberbach)
- the Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold
4 August 1994 (263): Computer Networks (Andrew S. Tanenbaum)
- what are these things called RFCs anyway?
28 July 1994 (307): The NIV Study Bible
28 July 1994 (140): Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow (Peter Høeg)
- an atmospheric thriller set in Copenhagen and Greenland
28 July 1994 (171): Internetworking with TCP/IP, Volume II (Comer, Stevens)
Design, Implementation, and Internals
28 July 1994 (103): The Girl in a Swing (Richard Adams)
30 June 1994 (143): The Elements of Style (William Strunk, E.B. White)
- a classic but dated guide to English style
30 June 1994 (441): TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1 (W. Richard Stevens)
The Protocols
30 June 1994 (161): The Silver Pigs (Lindsey Davis)
- private informer Marcus Didius Falco uncovers a conspiracy
Arms of Nemesis (Steven Saylor)
- a murder mystery set during the Spartacist revolt in 70 BC
10 June 1994 (163): *Roadside Picnic (Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky)
World's End (Joan D. Vinge)
10 June 1994 (39): Don Juan in Melanesia (Peter Lawrence)
22 May 1994 (239): Quarantine (Greg Egan)
- a novel about quantum mechanics: stop collapsing those wave functions!
10 May 1994 (384): The Sykaos Papers (E.P. Thompson)
- an alien is studied by military anthropology
28 April 1994 (617): The Making of Memory (Steven Rose)
From Molecules to Mind
28 April 1994 (227): The Last Mile to Huesca (Judith Keene)
An Australian Nurse in the Spanish Civil War
8 April 1994 (551): The Origins of Agriculture (David Rindos)
An Evolutionary Perspective
2 April 1994 (274): The Daughter of Time (Josephine Tey)
- a policeman in hospital takes up the case of Richard III
The Princes in the Tower (Alison Weir)
- whodunnit: Richard III or Henry VII?
28 March 1994 (395): *Tigana (Guy Gavriel Kay)
A Song for Arbonne (Guy Gavriel Kay)
28 March 1994 (700): The Online User's Encyclopedia (Bernard Aboba)
Bulletin Boards and Beyond
25 March 1994 (223): In a Free State (V.S. Naipaul)
- stories about individuals in foreign countries, coping with alien cultures
12 March 1994 (372): **The King David Report (Stefan Heym)
- a very funny novel about the politics of history in the 10th century BC
Bathsheba (Torgny Lindgren)
- an earthy, mytho-poetic novel about the later days of King David
12 March 1994 (126): *Kamus Indonesia-Inggris (John M. Echols, Hassan Shadily)
An Indonesian-English Dictionary
2 March 1994 (1597): Cultural Materialism (Marvin Harris)
The Struggle for a Science of Culture
21 February 1994 (620): More Than a Living (Michael D. Lieber)
Fishing and the Social Order on a Polynesian Atoll
14 February 1994 (199): Hidup Berwarna (George Quinn)
Introductory Readings in Modern Indonesian and Malay Literature
11 February 1994 (417): *The Knight and Death (Leonardo Sciascia)
Three Novellas
Daughter of Silence (Morris West)
- legal fiction with a dash of mystery
31 January 1994 (120): *Captain Swing (Eric Hobsbawm, George Rudé)
- the 'little people' assert themselves; English agrarian unrest in 1830
31 January 1994 (113): A Heap of Ashes (Pramoedya Ananta Toer)
- short stories: a writer's life in Indonesian history
14 January 1994 (132): Learning Bahasa Indonesia Without Teacher (Amin Singgih)
14 January 1994 (111): Henderson's Dictionary of Biological Terms (Eleanor Lawrence)
4 January 1994 (403): *The Secret History (Donna Tartt)
- a novel about a classical Greek class in an American college
4 January 1994 (360): Programming Perl (Larry Wall, Randal L. Schwartz)
- between the shell and the deep blue C
4 January 1994 (236): Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman (Marjorie Shostak)
- a woman's life on the edge of the Kalahari
4 January 1994 (1939): Gandhian Utopia: Experiments with Culture (Richard G. Fox)
- did Gandhi matter? can individuals change history?
19 December 1993 (235): Doomsday Book (Connie Willis)
- parallel plagues in Oxford in 1348 and 2054
15 December 1993 (844): The Mind of God (Paul Davies)
- can physics answer everything?
8 December 1993 (144): Hands (John Napier)
- structure, function, and evolution; social and cultural roles
8 December 1993 (219): Goodbye to All That (Robert Graves)
- an autobiography at thirty: from public school to the Great War
23 November 1993 (255): Fearful Symmetry (Ian Stewart, Martin Golubitsky)
Is God a Geometer?
23 November 1993 (1035): A Place for Strangers (Tony Swain)
Towards a History of Australian Aboriginal Being
17 November 1993 (311): The Two Cultures (C.P. Snow)
- science versus the humanities
15 November 1993 (868): Reflection (Dennis Merrit)
- the interconnectedness of all things?
10 November 1993 (130): Great Tales of Detection (Dorothy L. Sayers)
Nineteen Stories
4 November 1993 (401): Arena Magazine
- a journal of Australian politics and current affairs
18 October 1993 (127): Modern Japan (Mikiso Hane)
- from the Meiji restoration to the economic miracle
18 October 1993 (480): *Elbow Room (Daniel C. Dennett)
The Varieties of Free Will Worth Wanting
18 October 1993 (249): **Conversation in the Cathedral (Mario Vargas Llosa)
- a novel about power and politics in Peru in the early 1950s
14 October 1993 (135): The Female Animal (Irene Elia)
- reproduction, courtship, lactation, gestation, ...
13 October 1993 (140): The Homeric Narrator (Scott Richardson)
- narratorial presence in the Iliad and Odyssey
11 October 1993 (282): *The Pooh Perplex (Frederick Crews)
- hilariously funny literary criticism of Winnie the Pooh
30 September 1993 (519): *First Contact (Bob Connolly, Robin Anderson)
- culture clash in the New Guinea highlands
23 September 1993 (1113): The Indonesian Killings 1965-1966 (Robert Cribb)
Studies from Java and Bali
14 September 1993 (537): Human Biology (G.A. Harrison et al.)
An Introduction to Human Evolution, Variation, Growth and Adaptability
13 September 1993 (141): Figures of Earth (James Branch Cabell)
12 September 1993 (1414): The Dynamics of Evolution (Albert Somit, Steven A. Peterson)
The Punctuated Equilibrium Debate in the Natural and Social Sciences
30 August 1993 (247): Genetics, Speciation and the Founder Principle (Giddings, Kaneshiro, Anderson)
- essays on founder effects, genetic revolutions, karyotype evolution, ...
28 August 1993 (697): Neutral Models in Biology (Matthew H. Nitecki, Antoni Hoffman)
- in genetics, ecology, evolution, and paleontology
27 August 1993 (2002): *The Historical Jesus (John Dominic Crossan)
The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant
29 July 1993 (235): The Shout and Other Stories (Robert Graves)
- English, Roman, and Majorcan stories
27 July 1993 (197): Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Indonesia (Chandler, Ricklefs)
Essays in Honour of Professor J.D. Legge
26 July 1993 (436): The Dialectical Biologist (Richard Levins, Richard Lewontin)
- essays on evolution, genetics, and the politics of biology
23 July 1993 (1120): The Medieval Machine (Jean Gimpel)
The Industrial Revolution of the Middle Ages
21 July 1993 (119): To Bid or Not to Bid (Larry Cohen)
The Law of Total Tricks
28 June 1993 (2633): A Critical and Cultural Theory Reader (Antony Easthope, Kate McGowan)
- my take on postmodernism and cultural studies
18 June 1993 (241): Maia (Richard Adams)
- epic fantasy
11 June 1993 (150): Grass (Sheri S. Tepper)
- ecological science fiction
9 June 1993 (753): Creating Indonesian Cultures (Paul Alexander)
3 June 1993 (266): Totemism (Claude Lévi-Strauss)
26 May 1993 (138): Society in Crisis (J.H.M. Salmon)
France in the Sixteenth Century
26 May 1993 (557): *Darwin (Adrian Desmond, James Moore)
- a narrative biography, in the context of social and scientific change
20 May 1993 (143): Pigeon House and Beyond (The Budawang Committee)
A Guide to the Budawang Range and Environs
17 May 1993 (249): **Anthropological Studies of Religion (Brian Morris)
An Introductory Text
10 May 1993 (780): Anthropological Approaches to the Study of Religion (Michael Banton)
- essays by Geertz, Turner, Spiro, Bradbury, and Winter
10 May 1993 (140): *A Fire Upon the Deep (Vernor Vinge)
- inventive and appealing space opera
30 April 1993 (348): The World's Religions (Ninian Smart)
Old Traditions and Modern Transformations
20 April 1993 (136): Bolivar (J.L. Salcedo-Bastardo)
A Continent and its Destiny
19 April 1993 (137): An Introduction to Historical Linguistics (Terry Crowley)
- a straightforward text
16 April 1993 (85): Vineland (Thomas Pynchon)
14 April 1993 (96): Standard Indonesian Made Simple (Liaw Yock Fang)
11 April 1993 (680): *Consciousness Explained (Daniel C. Dennett)
- assorted bogeymen are summarily dispatched
7 April 1993 (297): Body of Glass (Marge Piercy)
- original cyberpunk sf
24 March 1993 (504): **Woman on the Edge of Time (Marge Piercy)
- parallel conflicts in a far-future utopia and a present mental hospital
24 March 1993 (37): Postcards From Babel (Jill Hadfield)
- a satire on British society under Thatcher
23 March 1993 (113): Premodern Japan (Mikiso Hane)
A Historical Survey
11 March 1993 (271): Strange Ground (Henry Maurer)
An Oral History of Americans in Vietnam 1945-1975
3 March 1993 (305): The Evolution of the Polynesian Chiefdoms (Patrick Vinton Kirch)
25 February 1993 (414): *The Alexander Trilogy (Mary Renault)
- Alexander the Great's childhood and final years; conflicts after his death
12 February 1993 (210): Science and its Fabrication (Alan Chalmers)
9 February 1993 (84): *The Tao is Silent (Raymond M. Smullyan)
9 February 1993 (193): Indonesia: The Rise of Capital (Richard Robison)
- the development of local capitalists
7 February 1993 (365): The Faded Sun (C.J. Cherryh)
- science fiction with compelling aliens
1 February 1993 (269): The Sicilian Vespers (Steven Runciman)
A History of the Mediterranean World in the Later Thirteenth Century
1 February 1993 (239): The First Urban Christians (Wayne A. Meeks)
The Social World of the Apostle Paul
19 January 1993 (193): Machiavelli in Hell (Sebastian de Grazia)
- an intellectual biography
14 January 1993 (399): The Raw and the Cooked (Claude Lévi-Strauss)
Introduction to a Science of Mythology: 1
7 January 1993 (207): Agricultural Involution (Clifford Geertz)
The Processes of Ecological Change in Indonesia
20 November 1992 (754): Comparing Muslim Societies (Juan R. I. Cole)
Knowledge and the State in a World Civilization
10 November 1992 (315): The External Trade of the Loango Coast 1576-1870 (Phyllis M. Martin)
The Effects of Changing Commercial Relations on the Vili Kingdom of Loango
9 November 1992 (157): Trial and Error (Edward J. Larson)
The American Controversy Over Creation and Evolution
6 November 1992 (404): **How Monkeys See the World (Dorothy L. Cheney, Robert M. Seyfarth)
Inside the Mind of Another Species
30 October 1992 (134): Approaches to the History of Spain (Jaime Vicens Vives)
- short essays on topics from prehistory to the civil war
16 October 1992 (527): **Ontogeny and Phylogeny (Stephen Jay Gould)
- the history of recapitulation; developmental timing and evolution
8 October 1992 (73): Evolution (P.J. Greenwood, P.H. Harvey, M. Slatkin)
Essays in honour of John Maynard Smith
2 October 1992 (401): *Chemical Evolution (Stephen F. Mason)
Origin of the Elements, Molecules, and Living Systems
28 September 1992 (672): Baggara Arabs (Ian Cunnison)
Power and the Lineage in a Sudanese Nomad Tribe
25 September 1992 (189): Small World (David Lodge)
- an academic comedy, parodying literary theories
7 September 1992 (167): Very Good, Jeeves! (P.G. Wodehouse)
27 August 1992 (51): The Best of Eddie Kantar (Eddie Kantar)
- bridge anecdotes
25 August 1992 (63): Witches Abroad (Terry Pratchett)
25 August 1992 (128): Africa in the Iron Age (Roland Oliver, Brian M. Fagan)
c. 500 B.C. to A.D. 1400
20 August 1992 (140): Tristes Tropiques (Claude Lévi-Strauss)
- travels in Brazil: "I hate travelling and explorers"
12 August 1992 (204): Penguin Atlas of African History (Colin McEvedy)
11 August 1992 (112): Eaters of the Dead (Michael Crichton)
- the Beowulf story from the perspective of an Arab traveler
10 August 1992 (102): The Nuer (E.E. Evans-Pritchard)
A Description of the Modes of Livelihood and Political Institutions of a Nilotic People
10 August 1992 (124): The Concept of Utopia (Ruth Levitas)
- Marxist theory: Mannheim, Sorel, Bloch, Morris, and Marcuse
10 August 1992 (107): *Animal Farm (George Orwell)
- political allegory in a farmyard fable
4 August 1992 (125): Electromagnetic Processes in Dispersive Media (Melrose, McPhedran)
A Treatment Based on the Dielectric Tensor
3 August 1992 (133): Homage to Catalonia (George Orwell)
- a volunteer's first-hand account of the Spanish civil war
27 July 1992 (94): The View from Afar (Claude Lévi-Strauss)
- essays and talks on topics anthropological
24 July 1992 (112): In Search of Southeast Asia (D. J. Steinberg)
A Modern History
21 July 1992 (39): Moving Pictures (Terry Pratchett)
16 July 1992 (65): The Philippine Political and Economic Situation in View of 1992 (David, Okamura)
16 July 1992 (860): An Introduction to Modern Political Theory (Norman P. Barry)
- rational-individualist nonsense
Everyday Politics in the Philippines (Benedict J. Tria Kerkvliet)
Class and Status Relations in a Central Luzon Village
14 July 1992 (204): *Dancing at the Edge of the World (Ursula K. Le Guin)
Thoughts on Words, Women, Places
14 July 1992 (123): Agrarian Revolution (Sabino Garcia Padilla Jr)
Peasant Radicalisation and Social Change in Bicol
11 July 1992 (1164): The Belgariad + the Malloreon (David Eddings)
- the popular fantasy series
6 July 1992 (96): The Comparative Method in Evolutionary Biology (Harvey, Pagel)
5 July 1992 (78): Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (David Hume)
3 July 1992 (107): Three Dialogues on Knowledge (Paul Feyerabend)
26 June 1992 (92): Perspectives in Ecological Theory (Roughgarden, May, Levin)
24 June 1992 (148): *Molecular Biology of the Gene (James D. Watson et al.)
- a comprehensive overview of the entire field of molecular genetics
14 June 1992 (74): Quiddities (W.V. Quine)
An Intermittently Philosophical Dictionary
11 June 1992 (673): Oxford Surveys in Evolutionary Biology 1 (Richard Dawkins, M. Ridley)
- sex, signalling, fireflies, epistasis, hierarchy, phylogeny, and more
11 June 1992 (273): Deterring Democracy (Noam Chomsky)
- an indictment of American imperialism
10 June 1992 (73): Improve Your Opening Leads (Hugh Kelsey, John Matheson)
- an intermediate bridge book
10 June 1992 (90): *Adventures in Card Play (Hugh Kelsey, Geza Ottlik)
- the most advanced book on bridge play ever?
4 June 1992 (224): Sexual Honesty (Shere Hite)
By Women for Women
3 June 1992 (72): *Evolutionary Genetics (John Maynard Smith)
- a readable introductory text
31 May 1992 (99): The First Salute (Barbara W. Tuchman)
A View of the American Revolution
22 May 1992 (107): Burke, Paine, Godwin and the Revolution Controversy (Marilyn Butler)
- English political writing from the end of the 18th century
14 May 1992 (81): Gossip from the Forest (Thomas Keneally)
- a novel about the signing of the armistice that ended WWI
13 May 1992 (92): The Early History of the Ancient Near East (Hans J. Nissen)
9000 - 2000 B.C.
11 May 1992 (189): Not In Our Genes (Richard Lewontin, Steven Rose, Leon J. Kamin)
Biology, Ideology and Human Nature
8 May 1992 (82): The Natural History Reader in Evolution (Niles Eldredge)
5 May 1992 (70): Use of Weapons (Iain M. Banks)
4 May 1992 (102): The Genetic Basis of Evolutionary Change (Richard Lewontin)
30 April 1992 (84): Callahans (Spider Robinson)
Time Travelers Strictly Cash; Callahan's Lady
17 April 1992 (183): *Bully for Brontosaurus (Stephen Jay Gould)
Further Reflections in Natural History
13 April 1992 (80): Callahan's Crosstime Saloon (Spider Robinson)
6 April 1992 (207): Wonderful Life (Stephen Jay Gould)
The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
1 April 1992 (102): The Difference Engine (William Gibson, Bruce Sterling)
- a steam-driven information age in 19th century Britain
1 April 1992 (98): After Duwagan (J. Peter Brosius)
Deforestation, Succession and Adaption in Upland Luzon, Philippines
27 March 1992 (78): Bridge in the Menagerie (Victor Mollo)
The Winning Ways of the Hideous Hog
26 March 1992 (44): The Hittites (J.G. Macqueen)
And their contemporaries in Asia Minor
23 March 1992 (137): Out of the Desert? (William H. Stiebing Jr)
Archaeology and the Exodus/Conquest Narratives
23 March 1992 (95): Earth (David Brin)
23 March 1992 (51): Atheis (Achdiat K. Mihardja)
20 March 1992 (108): Beyond the Fields We Know (Lord Dunsany)
17 March 1992 (88): Evolution and the Theory of Games (John Maynard Smith)
- game theory in population genetics and ethology
16 March 1992 (103): The Foundations of Artificial Intelligence (Partridge, Wilks)
A Sourcebook
16 March 1992 (162): Consider Phlebas (Iain M. Banks)
- the first Culture novel - elegant and intelligent space opera
12 March 1992 (89): Definitely Maybe (Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky)
10 March 1992 (146): Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle (Stephen Jay Gould)
Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time
10 March 1992 (81): Jack the Bodiless (Julian May)
9 March 1992 (53): Nero (B.H. Warmington)
Reality and Legend
3 March 1992 (131): Studies in Indonesian History (Elaine McKay)
2 March 1992 (81): The Penguin History of Canada (Kenneth McNaught)
- politicians, parties, wars, constitutional changes, ...
28 February 1992 (82): The Scars of Evolution (Elaine Morgan)
What Our Bodies Tell Us about Human Origins