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3 May 2008 (546 words): Allah is Not Obliged (Ahmadou Kourouma)
- the story of a child soldier in West Africa
30 April 2008 (720): Sheep and Man (M.L. Ryder)
- a comprehensive study of sheep in human history
22 April 2008 (512): Blockade Diary (Lidiya Ginzburg)
- life during the siege of Leningrad
17 April 2008 (559): *The Age of Empires (Francis Joannès)
Mesopotamia in the First Millennium BC
5 April 2008 (611): Under Three Flags (Benedict Anderson)
Anarchism and the Anti-Colonial Imagination
26 March 2008 (989): Grandeur and Grit (Max Solling)
A History of Glebe
24 March 2008 (523): On Evolution (John C. Avise)
- thirty years using molecular analysis in evolutionary biology
19 March 2008 (584): The Porn Report (Alan McKee, Katherine Albury, Catharine Lumby)
- the production and consumption of pornography in Australia
11 March 2008 (442): Music, Cognition, and Computerized Sound (Perry R. Cook)
An Introduction to Psychoacoustics
10 March 2008 (479): The Lord of the Rings 1954-2004 (Wayne G. Hammond, Christina Scull)
Scholarship in Honor of Richard E. Blackwelder
3 March 2008 (310): Reform and Reconstruction (Stephen Brooke)
Britain after the war, 1945-51
28 February 2008 (328): Max Havelaar (Multatuli)
Or the Coffee Auctions of a Dutch Trading Company
20 February 2008 (503): Standing Stones (Jean-Pierre Mohen)
Stonehenge, Carnac and the World of Megaliths
17 February 2008 (630): H.M. Bark Endeavour (Ray Parkin)
- her voyage up the east coast of Australia
11 February 2008 (268): *The General of the Dead Army (Ismail Kadare)
- on a macabre quest in Albania
3 February 2008 (571): Saudi Arabia (Tim Niblock)
Power, Legitimacy and Survival
30 January 2008 (612): Catastrophe Remembered (Nur Masalha)
Palestine, Israel and the Internal Refugees
28 January 2008 (657): *The Revolution of Peter the Great (James Cracraft)
- a lively account of the changes he brought to Russia
20 January 2008 (703): *Cancer: The Evolutionary Legacy (Mel Greaves)
- cellular biology and human evolution, history and society
19 January 2008 (164): On Literature (Umberto Eco)
- an assortment of literary criticism
14 January 2008 (548): **The Melancholy of Resistance (Laszlo Krasznahorkai)
- a small town falls apart with the showing of a whale
4 January 2008 (382): Africa's Discovery of Europe: 1450-1850 (David Northrup)
- African perspectives on encounters with Europeans
28 December 2007 (180): Nada (Carmen Laforet)
- a novel about a young woman in 1940s Barcelona
20 December 2007 (170): Falling in Love (Patrick Hanan)
Stories From Ming China
19 December 2007 (593): Egypt: An Economic Geography (Fouad N. Ibrahim, Barbara Ibrahim)
- a broad-ranging survey
3 December 2007 (392): Once the Buddha Was a Monkey: Jatakamala (Arya Sura)
- morality tales about lives of the Buddha
20 November 2007 (400): *Nine Suitcases (Béla Zsolt)
- a novel of the Holocaust in Hungary
7 November 2007 (801): We are not French! (Maryon McDonald)
Language, Culture and Identity in Brittany
4 November 2007 (165): The Terracotta Dog (Andrea Camilleri)
- a Sicilian detective takes a historical excursion
31 October 2007 (446): Seafarers, Merchants and Pirates in the Middle Ages (Dirk Meier)
- the Baltic, the North Sea, the North Atlantic and Russian rivers
23 October 2007 (471): Sacred Texts and Buried Treasures (William Wayne Farris)
Issues in the Historical Archaeology of Ancient Japan
16 October 2007 (128): I Have the Right to Destroy Myself (Young-Ha Kim)
- art, sex, and death in Seoul
13 October 2007 (670): Trafalgar in History (David Cannadine)
A Battle and its Afterlife
8 October 2007 (257): Sheep-Rearing and the Wool Trade (Joan M. Frayn)
in Italy during the Roman Period
4 October 2007 (809): *The City Builder (George Konrad)
- a planner's life in a provincial Eastern European town
3 October 2007 (882): *The Emerald Planet (David Beerling)
How Plants Changed Earth's History
23 September 2007 (390): Devil in the Mountain (Simon Lamb)
A Search for the Origin of the Andes
21 September 2007 (267): *The Time of Miracles (Borislav Pekic)
- prophecy, blindness, uncleanliness, sin, faith, madness
9 September 2007 (605): The Science and Politics of Global Climate Change (Dessler, Parson)
A Guide to the Debate
5 September 2007 (442): *The Suns of Independence (Ahmadou Kourouma)
- a tale of Malinke tradition in an independent Africa
2 September 2007 (426): Religion and African Civil Wars (Niels Kastfelt)
- papers on Southern Sudan, West Africa, and Southern Africa
19 August 2007 (489): Cornish Cases (John Rule)
Essays in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Social History
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 (475): 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 (714): 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 (441): *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 (507): *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 (556): 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 (328): 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 intense 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 (487): *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 (257): 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 (485): 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 (564): *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 (185): 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 (493): 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
22 January 2003 (620): The Civilization of Angkor (Charles Higham)
- a history of Cambodia to 1431
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 (782): **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 (308): *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 (1055): 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, urbanism, 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 (1042): 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 (942): *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 (1257): **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 (433): 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 (498): 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 (564): *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 (261): 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 (460): 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 (283): 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 (672): **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)
- 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 (273): **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 (345): 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 (350): 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 (320): **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 (152): 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 (573): **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 (802): Sacred Art of the Earth (Maureen Korp)
Ancient and Contemporary Earthworks
13 August 1997 (277): English as a Global Language (David Crystal)
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 (117): *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)