Book reviews by title: M
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- The M.I.P. Concise Indonesian Dictionary (J.D. McGarry)
For Students and Travellers
- Machiavelli in Hell (Sebastian de Grazia)
- an intellectual biography
- Macrohistory and Macrohistorians (Johan Galtung, Sohail Inayatulluh)
Perspectives on Individual, Social, and Civilizational Change
- *Magic in the Middle Ages (Richard Kieckhefer)
- an insightful study of medieval magic, demonic and natural
- Magical Mushrooms, Mischievous Molds (George W. Hudler)
- fungi and their influence on our lives
- The Mahabharata (R.K. Narayan)
- an accessible English abridgment
- Maia (Richard Adams)
- epic fantasy
- Maize and Grace (James C. McCann)
Africa's Encounter with a New World Crop 1500-2000
- The Major Transitions in Evolution (John Maynard Smith, Eörs Szathmáry)
- from prebiotic chemistry to the origins of society
- The Making and Breaking of Affectional Bonds (John Bowlby)
- The Making of Memory (Steven Rose)
From Molecules to Mind
- Making PCR (Paul Rabinow)
A Story of Biotechnology
- The Mammoth Book of Historical Detectives (Mike Ashley)
- thirty short stories
- Managing Internet Information Services (Cricket Liu et al.)
- Manila Ransomed (Nicholas Tracy)
The British Assault on Manila in the Seven Years War
- Map Addict (Mike Parker)
A Tale of Obsession, Fudge and the Ordnance Survey
- *Maps and Civilization (Norman J. W. Thrower)
Cartography in Culture and Society
- *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
- Marc Bloch (Carole Fink)
A Life in History
- *The Market System (Charles E. Lindblom)
What It Is, How It Works, and What To Make of It
- *Marks of Identity (Juan Goytisolo)
- youth between Franco's Spain and exile
- Martyrdom in Islam (David Cook)
- from its genesis to modern radicals
- **The Marx Family Saga (Juan Goytisolo)
- Karl Marx faces the failure of communism
- Massacre at Montségur (Zoé Oldenbourg)
- the Albigensian crusade; Simon de Montfort; the destruction of Catharism
- Masters of Rome (Colleen McCullough)
- epic historical fiction, from the Republic to the Empire
- Matigari (Ngugi wa Thiong'o)
- after independence, seeking truth and justice
- The Maul and the Pear Tree (P.D. James, T.A. Critchley)
The Ratcliffe Highway Murders 1811
- Max Havelaar (Multatuli)
Or the Coffee Auctions of a Dutch Trading Company
- Maximum RPM (Edward C. Bailey)
Taking the Red Hat Package Manager to the Limit
- *Maya Civilization (Peter Schmidt, Mercedes de la Garza, Enrique Nalda)
- glorious colour photographs and scholarly papers
- McSweeney's 15 (Dave Eggers)
- a special issue on contemporary Icelandic fiction
- *Measured Tones (Ian Johnston)
The Interplay of Physics and Music
- MediaWiki (Daniel J. Barrett)
Wikipedia and Beyond
- Medieval Callings (Jacques Le Goff)
- social history
- Medieval Comic Tales (Derek Brewer)
- an anthology
- *Medieval Iceland (Jesse L. Byock)
Society, Sagas, and Power
- *Medieval Islamic Medicine (Peter E. Pormann, Emilie Savage-Smith)
- origins, theory, practice, social context
- The Medieval Machine (Jean Gimpel)
The Industrial Revolution of the Middle Ages
- *Medieval Warfare (Maurice Keen)
A History
- *The Mediterranean (Fernand Braudel)
And the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II
- A Mediterranean Society (S.D. Goitein)
- the Jewish community in medieval Cairo
- Meet Me at Infinity (James Tiptree Jr)
- uncollected science fiction and nonfiction
- The Mekong (Milton Osborne)
Turbulent past, uncertain future
- **The Melancholy of Resistance (Laszlo Krasznahorkai)
- a small town falls apart with the showing of a whale
- Meritocracy and Economic Inequality (Arrow, Bowles, Durlauf)
- race, intelligence, schooling, and equality of opportunity
- Metamorphosis and Identity (Caroline Walker Bynum)
- medieval change, wonder, mixture, and hybridity
- *Metaphysics and the Origin of Species (Michael T. Ghiselin)
- species are logical individuals rather than classes; implications
- Mexico (Daniel C. Levy, Kathleen Bruhn)
The Struggle for Democratic Development
- Microbial Phylogeny and Evolution (Jan Sapp)
Concepts and Controversies
- Microcosmos (Lynn Margulis, Dorion Sagan)
Four Billion Years of Microbial Evolution
- The Middle Path (Eric Lambin)
Avoiding Environmental Catastrophe
- Midnight Convoy and Other Stories (S. Yizhar)
- alfalfa, the 1948 war, and childhood inspiration
- Migrations (Milos Tsernianski)
- a novel of Serbs in 18th century Austria
- *The Military Revolution (Geoffrey Parker)
Military Innovation and the Rise of the West 1500-1800
- Millennial Markers (Pamela J. Stewart, Andrew Strathern)
- papers on Pacific millenarianism
- Mind and Morals (Larry May, Marilyn Friedman, Andy Clark)
Essays on Ethics and Cognitive Science
- *Mind and Nature (Gregory Bateson)
A Necessary Unity
- The Mind of God (Paul Davies)
- can physics answer everything?
- Mirror of the Indies (Rob Nieuwenhuys)
A History of Dutch Colonial Literature
- The (Mis)behavior of Markets (Benoit Mandelbrot, Richard L. Hudson)
A Fractal View of Risk, Ruin, and Reward
- Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow (Peter Høeg)
- an atmospheric thriller set in Copenhagen and Greenland
- A Modern History of Hong Kong (Steve Tsang)
- a broad-ranging and readable account
- Modern Japan (Mikiso Hane)
- from the Meiji restoration to the economic miracle
- Modern Mongolia (Morris Rossabi)
From Khans To Commissars to Capitalists
- *Molecular Biology of the Gene (James D. Watson et al.)
- a comprehensive overview of the entire field of molecular genetics
- *Molecular Evolution (Roderic D. M. Page, Edward C. Holmes)
A Phylogenetic Approach
- *Molecular Mechanisms of Photosynthesis (Robert E. Blankenship)
- molecular detail in its broader context
- *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
- Mongolia: The Bradt Travel Guide (Jane Blunden)
- Mongolia: The Lonely Planet Travel Guide (Michael Kohn)
- The Monsters and the Critics (J.R.R. Tolkien)
And Other Essays
- The Moral Economy of Trade (Hans-Dieter Evers, Heiko Schrader)
Ethnicity and Developing Markets
- More Than a Living (Michael D. Lieber)
Fishing and the Social Order on a Polynesian Atoll
- The Mosaic Handbook (Dale Dougherty, Richard Koman, Paula Ferguson)
- before Internet Explorer, before Netscape, there was...
- Moving Pictures (Terry Pratchett)
- A Moving Target (William Golding)
- short pieces on travel and writing
- Much Ado About Religion (Bhatta Jayanta)
- a Sanskrit religious drama from 900 AD
- Much Sounding of Bugles (John Harris)
The Siege of Chitral, 1895
- Multicast Networking and Applications (C. Kenneth Miller)
- The Murder Farm (Andrea Maria Schenkel)
- a brutal murder in post-war Germany
- The Murder Room (P.D. James)
- a Dalgliesh mystery: classical detective fiction
- Murderous Science (Benno Müller-Hill)
Elimination by Scientific Selection of Jews, Gypsies, and Others in Germany, 1933-1945
- *Murderously Incorrect (Henry F. Mazel)
- off-beat New York PI Alex Rada gets involved with politics
- Music, Cognition, and Computerized Sound (Perry R. Cook)
An Introduction to Psychoacoustics
- *My Brain Is Open (Bruce Schechter)
The Mathematical Journeys of Paul Erdös
- *My Name is Red (Orhan Pamuk)
- murder and art in 16th century Istanbul
- The Mystery of Numbers (Annemarie Schimmel)
- an unstructured collection of numerological beliefs
- The Mystery of the Aleph (Amir D. Aczel)
Mathematics, the Kabbalah, and the Search for Infinity
- Mysticism in Java (Niels Mulder)
Ideology in Indonesia
- The Myth of the Holy Cow (D.N. Jha)
- the origins of cow veneration and vegetarianism in India
- Mythologies (Yves Bonnefoy)
- classical, Egyptian, European, Asian, American, African
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