Book reviews by title: B
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- The Babel Guide to Hungarian Literature (Keenoy, Menkes-Ivry, Varga)
- a guide to fiction, drama, and poetry available in English
- The Babes in the Wood (Ruth Rendell)
- Inspector Wexford hunts missing children amid floods
- The Baburnama (Zahiruddin Babur)
Memoirs of Babur, Prince and Emperor
- Backup and Recovery (W. Curtis Preston)
Inexpensive Backup Solutions for Open Systems
- Baggara Arabs (Ian Cunnison)
Power and the Lineage in a Sudanese Nomad Tribe
- *The Balkans (Mark Mazower)
- beyond stereotypes: a short but insightful history
- *The Balkans 1804-1999 (Misha Glenny)
Nationalism, War and the Great Powers
- Balthasar's Odyssey (Amin Maalouf)
- a novel of signs and portents in the year 1666
- *Bandits on the Information Superhighway (Daniel J. Barrett)
- privacy, spams, scams, hoaxes, ...
- Bathsheba (Torgny Lindgren)
- an earthy, mytho-poetic novel about the later days of King David
- *Batik (Fiona Kerlogue)
Design, Style and History
- The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction (Justine Larbalestier)
- a feminist history, from the earliest magazines to the Tiptree Award
- *Be Faithful Unto Death (Zsigmond Móricz)
- the boarding school childhood of a Hungarian writer
- The Belgariad + the Malloreon (David Eddings)
- the popular fantasy series
- *Beowulf (Seamus Heaney)
- an effective verse translation
- Beriberi, White Rice, and Vitamin B (Kenneth J. Carpenter)
A Disease, a Cause, and a Cure
- Berlin Diaries (Ruth Andreas-Friedrich)
Berlin Underground, 1938-1945; Battleground Berlin
- The Best of Eddie Kantar (Eddie Kantar)
- bridge anecdotes
- *Between Church and State (Bernard Guenée)
The Lives of Four French Prelates in the Late Middle Ages
- **Between Two Worlds (Cemal Kafadar)
The Construction of the Ottoman State
- Beyond a Boundary (C.L.R. James)
- cricket and society in the West Indies
- Beyond Contact (Brian McConnell)
A Guide to SETI and Communicating With Alien Worlds
- Beyond Leichhardt (Glen McLaren)
Bushcraft and the Exploration of Australia
- Beyond the Fields We Know (Lord Dunsany)
- BGP4 (John W. Stewart III)
Inter-Domain Routing in the Internet
- The Bible in History (Thomas L. Thompson)
How Writers Create a Past
- A Bitter Revolution (Rana Mitter)
- China's May Fourth Movement and its legacy
- Blacklist (Sara Paretsky)
- PI Warshawski digs up some dirt from the 1950s
- Blockade Diary (Lidiya Ginzburg)
- life during the siege of Leningrad
- **Blood of Spain (Ronald Fraser)
An Oral History of the Spanish Civil War
- Body of Glass (Marge Piercy)
- original cyberpunk sf
- *The Bogus Buddha (James Melville)
- a superintendent Otani mystery, set in Japan
- Bolivar (J.L. Salcedo-Bastardo)
A Continent and its Destiny
- *Bones of Contention (Roger Lewin)
Controversies in the Search for Human Origins
- *Bonobo (Frans de Waal)
The Forgotten Ape
- The Book of Hrabal (Péter Esterházy)
- a scintillating novel set in communist Hungary
- The Book of Postfix (Ralf Hildebrandt, Patrick Koetter)
State-of-the-Art Message Transport
- Borders in Cyberspace (Brian Kahin, Charles Nesson)
Information Policy and the Global Information Infrastructure
- Bosnian Chronicle (Ivo Andric)
- a novel about Napoleon's consulate in Travnik, Bosnia
- Brainchildren (Daniel C. Dennett)
Essays on Designing Minds
- *Breadwinning (Melanie Nolan)
New Zealand Women and the State
- The Bretons (Patrick Galliou, Michael Jones)
- the history and archaeology of Brittany down to 1491
- Bridge in the Menagerie (Victor Mollo)
The Winning Ways of the Hideous Hog
- **The Bridge on the Drina (Ivo Andric)
- a novel of three centuries in eastern Bosnia
- *The Bridges of Medieval England (David Harrison)
Transport and Society 400-1800
- Bridges, Law and Power in Medieval England, 700-1400 (Alan Cooper)
- bridgework obligations and the power of kings
- Brightness Falls from the Air (James Tiptree Jr)
- aliens, time travel, genocide, torture, drugs
- Britannia Rules (C. Northcote Parkinson)
The Classic Age of Naval History 1793-1815
- The Broken Dice (Ivar Ekeland)
And Other Mathematical Tales of Chance
- Bronze Mirror + Manchu Palaces (Jeanne Larsen)
- novels of the Southern Song and Qing dynasties
- Buddhism, Diplomacy, and Trade (Tansen Sen)
The Realignment of Sino-Indian Relations, 600-1400
- The Buenos Aires Quintet (Manuel Vázquez Montalbán)
- tango and the disappeared: PI Pepe Carvalho in Argentina
- Bugs in Writing (Lyn Dupré)
A Guide to Debugging Your Prose
- *Bully for Brontosaurus (Stephen Jay Gould)
Further Reflections in Natural History
- Burke, Paine, Godwin and the Revolution Controversy (Marilyn Butler)
- English political writing from the end of the 18th century
- The Burning Blue (Paul Addison, Jeremy A. Crang)
A New History of the Battle of Britain
- The Byzantines (Guglielmo Cavallo)
- social history
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