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*Aboriginal Art (Wally Caruana)
- brief description and analysis of 200 works, with photographs
Absolution by Murder (Peter Tremayne)
- a Sister Fidelma mystery set around the Synod of Whitby in 664 AD
*Active Java (Adam Freeman, Darrel Ince)
Object-Oriented Programming for the World Wide Web
Acts of the Apostles (John F. X. Sundman)
- an infotech conspiracy thriller with real tech
Adam and Eve and Pinch Me (Ruth Rendell)
Adam's Fallacy (Duncan K. Foley)
A Guide to Economic Theology
The Admiral's Baby (Laurens van der Post)
- a British officer in Java, 1945 to 1947
Advanced Internet Technologies (Uyless Black)
*Adventures in Card Play (Hugh Kelsey, Geza Ottlik)
- the most advanced book on bridge play ever?
The Adventures of Ibn Battuta (Ross E. Dunn)
A Muslim Traveler of the 14th Century
**The Aesthetics of Resistance (Peter Weiss)
- art and politics in pre-WWII Germany and Spain
Africa in the Iron Age (Roland Oliver, Brian M. Fagan)
c. 500 B.C. to A.D. 1400
Africa's Discovery of Europe: 1450-1850 (David Northrup)
- African perspectives on encounters with Europeans
*African Civilizations (Graham Connah)
An Archaeological Perspective
After Duwagan (J. Peter Brosius)
Deforestation, Succession and Adaption in Upland Luzon, Philippines
After Jihad (Noah Feldman)
America and the Struggle for Islamic Democracy
**After the Greening (Mary E. White)
- a geological and botanical history of Australia
*The Age of Empires (Francis Joannès)
Mesopotamia in the First Millennium BC
*The Age of Extremes (Eric Hobsbawm)
The Short Twentieth Century 1914-1991
Agent of Byzantium (Harry Turtledove)
- alternative history, with a powerful 13th century Byzantine empire
Agrarian Revolution (Sabino Garcia Padilla Jr)
Peasant Radicalisation and Social Change in Bicol
Agricultural Involution (Clifford Geertz)
The Processes of Ecological Change in Indonesia
*Aké (Wole Soyinka)
- an enchanting childhood in a West Nigerian town
Akhenaten, Dweller in Truth (Naguib Mahfouz)
- a novel of ancient Egypt
The Albigensian Crusades (Joseph R. Strayer, Carol Lansing)
- a political history of southern France in the early 13th century
*The Alexander Trilogy (Mary Renault)
- Alexander the Great's childhood and final years; conflicts after his death
All Quiet on the Western Front (Erich Maria Remarque)
- the classic novel of the First World War
All Souls (Javier Marías)
- a Spanish novel about an Oxford don
Allah is Not Obliged (Ahmadou Kourouma)
- the story of a child soldier in West Africa
*Always Coming Home (Ursula K. Le Guin)
- fictional ethnography: stories and poetry from a far-future California
America's War in Vietnam (Larry H. Addington)
A Short Narrative History
American Agriculture in the Twentieth Century (Bruce L. Gardner)
How it Flourished and What it Cost
The Anarchists in the Russian Revolution (Paul Avrich)
- fifty contemporary documents
The Anatomy of Fascism (Robert O. Paxton)
- a historical approach
Ancestors (Jan Ryan)
Chinese in Colonial Australia
*Ancient History (M.I. Finley)
Evidence and Models
The Ancient Olympics (Nigel Spivey)
- history, archaeology, mythology, politics, ...
Angels of the Universe (Einar Már Gudmundsson)
- the story of an Icelandic schizophrenic
*Angkor (Michael D. Coe)
And the Khmer Civilization
Angkor (Dawn Rooney)
Cambodia's Wondrous Khmer Temples
*Animal Farm (George Orwell)
- political allegory in a farmyard fable
*Animal Social Complexity (Frans B. M. de Waal, Peter L. Tyack)
Intelligence, Culture, and Individualized Societies
The Animal Wife (Elizabeth Marshall Thomas)
- an abduction disrupts a Paleolithic hunter-gatherer band
**Annals of the Former World (John McPhee)
- travels across the United States with geologists
Annihilation (Piotr Szewc)
- a one day tour of a Polish-Jewish town in the 1930s
Anthropological Approaches to the Study of Religion (Michael Banton)
- essays by Geertz, Turner, Spiro, Bradbury, and Winter
**Anthropological Studies of Religion (Brian Morris)
An Introductory Text
Antigonos the One-Eyed (Richard A. Billows)
And the Creation of the Hellenistic State
*The Ants (Bert Hölldobler, Edward O. Wilson)
- ant ecology, ethology and evolutionary biology
*Ape, Man, Apeman: Changing Views since 1600 (Corbey, Theunissen)
Evaluative Proceedings of a Symposium at Leiden, 28 June - 1 July 1993
Api Dalam Sekam (Rob Goodfellow)
The New Order and the Ideology of Anti-Communism
Approaches to the History of Spain (Jaime Vicens Vives)
- short essays on topics from prehistory to the civil war
*Arab Historians of the Crusades (Francesco Gabrieli)
- excerpts from nineteen Islamic writers
Arab Seafaring (George F. Hourani)
In the Indian Ocean in Ancient and Early Medieval Times
Arabesques (Susan Shwartz)
More Tales of the Arabian Nights
Archaeology, Language, and History (John Edward Terrell)
Essays on Culture and Ethnicity
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
Arena Magazine
- a journal of Australian politics and current affairs
The Argonautika (Apollonios Rhodios)
The Story of Jason and the Quest for the Golden Fleece
Arms of Nemesis (Steven Saylor)
- a murder mystery set during the Spartacist revolt in 70 BC
*Arrow of God (Chinua Achebe)
- an Ibo priest and his village face change
The Art of Being a Parasite (Claude Combes)
- explorations in evolutionary biology and ecology
**The Art of Bird Photography (Arthur Morris)
The Complete Guide to Professional Field Techniques
**The Art of Computer Programming (Donald E. Knuth)
Fundamental Algorithms; Seminumerical Algorithms; Sorting and Searching
*Art of Edo Japan (Christine Guth)
The Artist and the City 1615-1868
The Art of Electronic Publishing (Sandy Ressler)
The Internet and Beyond
The Art of Travel (Alain de Botton)
- using artists and writers as guides to travel
*The Art of UNIX Programming (Eric S. Raymond)
- thirty years of development wisdom
Artificial Life (Christopher Langton)
- articles from the first three issues of the journal
Artificial Sunshine (Maureen Dillon)
A Social History of Domestic Lighting
Asian Honey Bees (Benjamin P. Oldroyd, Siriwat Wongsiri)
Biology, Conservation and Human Interactions
*The Assault (Harry Mulisch)
- a Dutch novel about recovery from wartime trauma
Atheis (Achdiat K. Mihardja)
*Atmospheric Science (John M. Wallace, Peter V. Hobbs)
An Introductory Survey
The Aubrey/Maturin books (Patrick O'Brian)
- a naval lieutenant and a penniless physician meet at Port Mahon in 1801...
*August 1914 (Alexander Solzhenitsyn)
- a fictional account of the battle of Tannenberg
Austerity Britain, 1945-1951 (David Kynaston)
- a social history of post-war Britain
*Australian Marine Habitats in Temperate Waters (Graham J. Edgar)
- an elegant ecological overview
Australian Mountains (Tyrone Thomas, Sven Klinge)
The Best 100 Walks
*Australian Snakes (Richard Shine)
A Natural History
*Axiomatic (Greg Egan)
- hard science fiction stories, drawing on physics, biology, computing
*The Aztecs (Michael E. Smith)
- archaeology and social history
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
Baikal (Peter Matthiessen)
Sacred Sea of Siberia
*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
Banana (Dan Koeppel)
The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World
*Bandits on the Information Superhighway (Daniel J. Barrett)
- privacy, spams, scams, hoaxes, ...
Bartleby & Co. (Enrique Vila-Matas)
- writers who "prefer not to"
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
Bills of Rights in Australia (Byrnes, Charlesworth, McKinnon)
History, Politics and Law
Birth of the Chess Queen (Marilyn Yalom)
- powerful women and chess in medieval Europe
A Bitter Revolution (Rana Mitter)
- China's May Fourth Movement and its legacy
*Black Parrot, Green Crow (Houshang Golshiri)
- short stories from modern Iran
*The Black Swan (Nassim Nicholas Taleb)
The Impact of the Highly Improbable
Blacklist (Sara Paretsky)
- PI Warshawski digs up some dirt from the 1950s
*The Blind Owl (Sadegh Hedayat)
- "there are sores which slowly erode the mind in solitude"
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
Bones, Rocks and Stars (Chris Turney)
The Science of When Things Happened
*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
Book of the Three Dragons (Kenneth Morris)
- a fantasy based on medieval Welsh stories
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
Calamities of Exile (Lawrence Weschler)
Three Nonfiction Novellas
Calculating God (Robert J. Sawyer)
- the aliens have landed, and they are creationists...
Callahan's Crosstime Saloon (Spider Robinson)
Callahans (Spider Robinson)
Time Travelers Strictly Cash; Callahan's Lady
Calling Crow (Paul Clayton)
- the Spanish are raiding for slaves on the North American coast
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language (David Crystal)
- a broad survey aimed at a popular audience
*The Cambridge History of Ancient China (Loewe, Shaughnessy)
From the Origins of Civilization to 221 B.C.
The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia (Nicholas Tarling)
- a genuinely regional approach, with 20 chapters by specialists
*The Cambridge Illustrated History of China (Patricia Buckley Ebrey)
- an attractive, accessible, and scholarly general history
*Cancer: The Evolutionary Legacy (Mel Greaves)
- cellular biology and human evolution, history and society
*Captain Swing (Eric Hobsbawm, George Rudé)
- the 'little people' assert themselves; English agrarian unrest in 1830
Captives (Linda Colley)
Britain, Empire and the World 1600-1850
*The Carnal Prayer Mat (Li Yu)
- the classic Chinese erotic novel
A Case of Two Cities (Qiu Xiaolong)
An Inspector Chen Mystery
The Cassini Division (Ken MacLeod)
- anarchism, socialism, and capitalism in the 24th century
*Caste, Society and Politics in India (Susan Bayly)
From the Eighteenth Century to the Modern Age
Casting the Net (Peter H. Salus)
From ARPANET to Internet and Beyond
Catastrophe Remembered (Nur Masalha)
Palestine, Israel and the Internal Refugees
The Cathars (Malcolm Lambert)
- a solid academic survey
*The Cathedral and the Bazaar (Eric S. Raymond)
Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary
Catilina's Riddle (Steven Saylor)
- a mystery set during the Catiline Conspiracy
*Caught (Henry Green)
- a 1943 novel of firefighters in the London Blitz
*Cells, Embryos, and Evolution (John Gerhart, Marc Kirschner)
Towards a Cellular and Developmental Understanding of Phenotypic Variation and Evolutionary Adaptability
Censoring Culture (Robert Atkins, Svetlana Mintcheva)
Contemporary Threats to Free Expression
Censorship (Kaye Healey)
- an Australian school resource
*Central Banking in Theory and Practice (Alan S. Blinder)
- lectures by an ex-Vice-Chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve Board
*Century of Genocide (Samuel Totten, William S. Parsons, Israel W. Charny)
Eyewitness Accounts and Critical Views
*The Century of Revolution: 1603-1714 (Christopher Hill)
- a broad-ranging history of 17th century England
The Cerebral Code (William H. Calvin)
Thinking a Thought in the Mosaics of the Mind
Chance and Necessity (Jacques Monod)
An Essay on the Natural Philosophy of Modern Biology
Changed Identities (Mai Yamani)
The Challenge of the New Generation in Saudi Arabia
The Charioteer (Mary Renault)
Charles Darwin (Janet Browne)
Voyaging; The Power of Place
*Chemical Evolution (Stephen F. Mason)
Origin of the Elements, Molecules, and Living Systems
Children of the French Empire (Owen White)
Miscegenation and Colonial Society in French West Africa 1895-1960
**China, Empire of the Written Symbol (Cecilia Lindqvist)
- Chinese history and culture through written characters
Chinese Letter (Svetislav Basara)
- an existentialist comedy
The Chinese Vernacular Story (Patrick Hanan)
- Feng Menglong, Ling Menchu, Li Yu, ...
The Circumcision (György Dalos)
- a Jewish orphan in post-war Hungary faces a choice
*The City Builder (George Konrad)
- a planner's life in a provincial Eastern European town
**Civilization and Capitalism 15th-18th Century (Fernand Braudel)
- a social and economic history of the shaping of the modern world
Civilizing Cyberspace (Steven E. Miller)
Policy, Power, and the Information Superhighway
Classical Javanese Dance (Clara Brakel-Papenhuyzen)
The Surakarta tradition and its terminology
Clear and Present Danger (Tom Clancy)
- for afficionados of military hardware; not my cup of tea
Climbing Mount Improbable (Richard Dawkins)
- a popular introduction to evolution
*The Cluetrain Manifesto (Rick Levine et al.)
The End of Business as Usual
*The Cockroach Papers (Richard Schweld)
A Compendium of History and Lore
*The Coevolutionary Process (John N. Thompson)
- specialization and coevolution
*The Coiled Spring (Ethan Bier)
- a nice introduction to developmental biology
The Cold Hard Fax (Leslie O'Kane)
- a frivolously light-hearted mystery
Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction (John Rieder)
- explorations in the ideological background of early sf
Companion Encyclopedia of Anthropology (Tim Ingold)
Humanity, Culture and Social Life
*The Company of Ghosts (Lydie Salvayre)
- a madwoman remembering Vichy; her teenage daughter; a process-server
The Comparative Method in Evolutionary Biology (Harvey, Pagel)
Comparing Muslim Societies (Juan R. I. Cole)
Knowledge and the State in a World Civilization
**The Complete Sagas of Icelanders (Viðar Hreinsson)
- Icelandic tales of Viking Age feuds, legal conflicts, love affairs
**The Computational Beauty of Nature (Gary William Flake)
Computer Explorations of Fractals, Chaos, Complex Systems, and Adaptation
Computer Crime (David Icove, Karl Seger, William VonStorch)
A Crimefighter's Handbook
Computer Networks (Andrew S. Tanenbaum)
- what are these things called RFCs anyway?
*Computer Networks (Larry L. Peterson, Bruce S. Davie)
A Systems Approach
The Computer User's Survival Guide (Joan Stigliani)
- preventing and coping with RSI, eyestrain, stress, and radiation
Computer-Related Risks (Peter G. Neumann)
- if anything can go wrong, it probably will
The Concept of Utopia (Ruth Levitas)
- Marxist theory: Mannheim, Sorel, Bloch, Morris, and Marcuse
**Conceptual Issues in Evolutionary Biology (Elliott Sober)
- a mix of classic papers and more recent material
*The Concert (Ismail Kadare)
- a comedy of communist manners; the end of the Albania-China alliance
**The Confusions of Pleasure (Timothy Brook)
Commerce and Culture in Ming China
Conquerors' Road (Osmar White)
An Eyewitness Account of Germany 1945
*Conquest and Colonisation (Brian Golding)
The Normans in Britain, 1066-1100
*Consciousness Explained (Daniel C. Dennett)
- assorted bogeymen are summarily dispatched
*Conservation (Monique Borgerhoff Mulder, Peter Coppolillo)
Linking Ecology, Economics, and Culture
Consider Phlebas (Iain M. Banks)
- the first Culture novel - elegant and intelligent space opera
The Conspiracy and Other Stories (Jaan Kross)
- Estonia in the Second World War
The Constant Gardener (John Le Carré)
- a thriller about the drug industry in Africa
The Contemporary History of Latin America (Tulio Halperín Donghi)
- politics and economics from the early 19th century
**Conversation in the Cathedral (Mario Vargas Llosa)
- a novel about power and politics in Peru in the early 1950s
Coordinating the Internet (Brian Kahin, James H. Keller)
- governance, domain names, and interconnection agreements
Core CSS (Keith Schengili-Roberts)
Cascading Style Sheets
A Corner of a Foreign Field (Fiona Waters)
The Illustrated Poetry of the First World War
Cornish Cases (John Rule)
Essays in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Social History
*Cosmos Latinos (Andrea L. Bell, Yolanda Molina-Gavilán)
An Anthology of Science Fiction from Latin America and Spain
Count Belisarius (Robert Graves)
- a historical novel about Justinian's great general
Creating Cool Web Sites with HTML, XHTML and CSS (Dave Taylor)
- an introduction to authoring web pages
Creating Indonesian Cultures (Paul Alexander)
*Creation (Gore Vidal)
- the grandson of Zoroaster meets Buddha, Gosala, Lao Tse and Confucius
**The Creation of History in Ancient Israel (Marc Zvi Brettler)
- the biblical authors and their presentations of the past
*The Creationists (Ronald L. Numbers)
The Evolution of Scientific Creationism
*Crimes Against Humanity (Geoffrey Robertson)
The Struggle for Global Justice
A Critical and Cultural Theory Reader (Antony Easthope, Kate McGowan)
- my take on postmodernism and cultural studies
Cross-Cultural Filmmaking (Ilisa Barbash, Lucien Taylor)
A Handbook for Making Documentary and Ethnographic Films and Videos
The Crying Room (Chris McLeod)
Cuckolds, Clerics, and Countrymen (John DuVal, Raymond Eichmann)
Medieval French Fabliaux
Cultural Materialism (Marvin Harris)
The Struggle for a Science of Culture
The Culture of Contentment (John Kenneth Galbraith)
*The Culture of Lies (Dubravka Ugresic)
- literature, culture and ex-Yugoslav nationalisms
*The Culture of Sex in Ancient China (Paul Rakita Goldin)
- copulation imagery, Confucianism, and the politics of sexuality
The Curious Casebook of Inspector Hanshichi (Okamoto Kido)
- detective stories set in Edo Japan
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Mark Haddon)
- an autistic teenager investigates the murder of a dog
Cyber Criminals on Trial (Russell G. Smith, Peter Grabosky, Gregor Urbas)
- the prosecution and judicial handling of computer crime
CyberSociety (Steven G. Jones)
Computer-Mediated Communication and Community
Cyberspace: First Steps (Michael Benedikt)
- information representations and virtual reality interfaces
The Czar's Madman (Jaan Kross)
- von Bock is a friend of Tsar Alexander I, but also an idealist...
*Dance of the Tiger (Björn Kurtén)
A Novel of the Ice Age
*Dancing at the Edge of the World (Ursula K. Le Guin)
Thoughts on Words, Women, Places
Dangerous Sanctuaries (Sarah Kenyon Lischer)
Refugee Camps, Civil War, and the Dilemmas of Humanitarian Aid
Dark Provenance (Michael David Anthony)
- a mystery set amidst English Church politics
*Darwin (Adrian Desmond, James Moore)
- a narrative biography, in the context of social and scientific change
*Darwin's Dangerous Idea (Daniel C. Dennett)
Evolution and the Meanings of Life
Darwin's Dreampond (Tijs Goldschmidt)
Drama in Lake Victoria
Darwin's Laboratory (Roy McCleod, Philip F. Rehbock)
Evolutionary Theory and Natural History in the Pacific
Darwinism Comes to America (Ronald L. Numbers)
- creationism and religion in the United States
*Database Backed Web Sites (Philip Greenspun)
The Thinking Person's Guide to Web Publishing
Daughter of Silence (Morris West)
- legal fiction with a dash of mystery
The Daughter of Time (Josephine Tey)
- a policeman in hospital takes up the case of Richard III
Daughters of Earth (Justine Larbalestier)
Feminist Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century
**Death and the Dervish (Mesa Selimovic)
- a spiritual crisis amidst Ottoman Bosnian politics
Death Comes for the Archbishop (Willa Cather)
- a novel of the Catholic Church in 19th century New Mexico
*The Death of the Body (C.K. Stead)
- a clever, entertaining metafiction
**Debunking Economics (Steve Keen)
The Naked Emperor of the Social Sciences
*Declares Pereira (Antonio Tabucchi)
- a political awakening in 1938 Portugal
*The Defeat of the Spanish Armada (Garrett Mattingly)
- a popular account of the dramatic events of 1587 and 1588
Definitely Maybe (Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky)
Defying Hitler (Sebastian Haffner)
- a German's story, 1914 to 1933
Defying Male Civilization (Mary Nash)
Women in the Spanish Civil War
Democracy and Participation in Athens (R.K. Sinclair)
- the literary and epigraphical evidence
Democratic Politics and Economic Reform in India (Rob Jenkins)
- the persistence of liberal economic reform in the 1990s
Dennett's Philosophy (Don Ross, Andrew Brook, David Thompson)
A Comprehensive Assessment
The Descendants of Cain (Hwang Sun-won)
- love and greed as land reform tears apart a Korean village
The Descent of the Child (Elaine Morgan)
Human Evolution From a New Perspective
**Designing Web Usability (Jakob Nielsen)
The Practice of Simplicity
Deterring Democracy (Noam Chomsky)
- an indictment of American imperialism
Developing SGML DTDs (Eve Maler, Jeanne El Andaloussi)
From Text to Model to Markup
*Development as Freedom (Amartya Sen)
- broad-ranging popular economics
Development Economics (Debraj Ray)
- a textbook survey
The Development of Nomadism in Ancient Northeast Africa (Karim Sadr)
- a deft and suggestive combination of theory and evidence
Devil in the Mountain (Simon Lamb)
A Search for the Origin of the Andes
Devil to Pay (C. Northcote Parkinson)
DHCP (Berry Kercheval)
A Guide to Dynamic TCP/IP Network Configuration
The Dialectical Biologist (Richard Levins, Richard Lewontin)
- essays on evolution, genetics, and the politics of biology
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (David Hume)
Diaspora (Greg Egan)
- science fiction, but more science than fiction
*A Dictionary of Maqiao (Han Shaogong)
- a pointillist novel of rural China
The Difference Engine (William Gibson, Bruce Sterling)
- a steam-driven information age in 19th century Britain
**Digital Copyright (Jessica Litman)
- intellectual property and the Internet
*Dinosaur in a Haystack (Stephen Jay Gould)
- his seventh volume of essays; still getting better!
Dirt (David R. Montgomery)
The Erosion of Civilizations
The Discarded Image (C.S. Lewis)
An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature
*The Discovery of Heaven (Harry Mulisch)
- a large but lively novel of ideas
Disobedience (Michael Drinkard)
- a three-stranded novel wrapped around the history of California
**Disposable People (Kevin Bales)
- a passionate but scholarly study of modern slavery
**Distributed Algorithms (Nancy A. Lynch)
- for a deep understanding of formal methods
DNA, Words and Models (Robin, Rodolphe, Schbath)
Statistics of Exceptional Words
DNS and BIND (Paul Albitz, Cricket Liu)
DNS in Action (Libor Dostálek, Alena Kabelová)
A detailed and practical guide to DNS implementation, configuration, and administration
A Dog's Head (Jean Dutourd)
Dolphin Societies (Karen Pryor, Kenneth S. Norris)
Discoveries and Puzzles
Don Juan in Melanesia (Peter Lawrence)
Doomsday Book (Connie Willis)
- parallel plagues in Oxford in 1348 and 2054
*Dr Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation (Olivia Judson)
The Definitive Guide to the Evolutionary Biology of Sex
*The Dragon (Yevgeny Zamyatin)
Fifteen Stories
Dreadnought (Robert K. Massie)
Britain, Germany and the Coming of the Great War
Dumb Luck (Vu Trong Phung)
- a comic satire of late-colonial Vietnam
The Dwarf (Cho Se-hui)
- stories from the dark side of 1970s South Korea
The Dynamics of Evolution (Albert Somit, Steven A. Peterson)
The Punctuated Equilibrium Debate in the Natural and Social Sciences
The Early History of the Ancient Near East (Hans J. Nissen)
9000 - 2000 B.C.
Early India (Romila Thapar)
From the Origins to AD 1300
*Early Intelligence (Lise Eliot)
How the Brain and Mind Develop in the First Five Years of Life
Earth (David Brin)
**The Earthsea Trilogy (Ursula K. Le Guin)
A Wizard of Earthsea; The Tombs of Atuan; The Farthest Shore
Eat Me (Linda Jaivin)
- a comedy about the sex lives of four Sydney women
Eaters of the Dead (Michael Crichton)
- the Beowulf story from the perspective of an Arab traveler
*The Ecology of Language Evolution (Salikoko S. Mufwene)
- creoles, biological parallels, and socioeconomic history
The Economics of World War II (Mark Harrison)
Six Great Powers in International Comparison
Effective Perl Programming (Joseph N. Hall)
Writing Better Programs With Perl
Egypt, Canaan and Israel in Ancient Times (Donald B. Redford)
- from prehistory to the destruction of Jerusalem in 586 BC
Egypt: An Economic Geography (Fouad N. Ibrahim, Barbara Ibrahim)
- a broad-ranging survey
The Egyptians (Sergio Donadoni)
- the social history of ancient Egypt
*Elbow Room (Daniel C. Dennett)
The Varieties of Free Will Worth Wanting
Electrical Machines, Drives, and Power Systems (Theodore Wildi)
- an undergraduate text with little mathematics
Electromagnetic Processes in Dispersive Media (Melrose, McPhedran)
A Treatment Based on the Dielectric Tensor
The Electronic Privacy Papers (Bruce Schneier, David Banisar)
Documents on the Battle for Privacy in the Age of Surveillance
The Elements of Style (William Strunk, E.B. White)
- a classic but dated guide to English style
Embers (Sándor Márai)
- looking back at the intensities and obsessions of youth
*The Emerald Planet (David Beerling)
How Plants Changed Earth's History
The Emergence of a National Economy (Howard Dick et al.)
An Economic History of Indonesia, 1800-2000
The Emperor (Ryszard Kapuscinski)
- the end of Haile Selassie and his court
The Emperor's Coloured Coat (John Biggins)
- the adventures of an Austrian naval lieutenant in 1912-1914
Empire to Commonwealth (Garth Fowden)
Consequences of Monotheism in Late Antiquity
*Empires (Susan E. Alcock et al.)
Perspectives from Archaeology and History
The End of A Family Story (Peter Nadas)
- memories of childhood woven into a complex tapestry
The End of Ancient Christianity (R.A. Markus)
- changes in Western Christianity in the fourth through sixth centuries
An End to Suffering (Pankaj Mishra)
The Buddha in the World
The Engine of Reason, the Seat of the Soul (Paul M. Churchland)
A Philosophical Journey into the Brain
English as a Global Language (David Crystal)
*English Landscapes (W.G. Hoskins)
- decoding the historical layers in rural landscapes
The English Languages (Tom McArthur)
*English, August (Upamanyu Chatterjee)
- a comic novel about working for the Indian government
Environmental Evolution (Margulis, Matthews, Haselton)
Effects of the Origin and Evolution of Life on Planet Earth
Environmental Histories of New Zealand (Eric Pawson, Tom Brooking)
- papers on ecology, economics, conservation, and ideas
Envisioning the City (David Buisseret)
Six Studies in Urban Cartography
Envisioning the Future (Marleen S. Barr)
Science Fiction and the Next Millennium
Epidemics Laid Low (Patrice Bourdelais)
- a history of public health responses in Western Europe
Erdös on Graphs (Fan Chung, Ron Graham)
His Legacy of Unsolved Problems
**Essential Cell Biology (Bruce Alberts et al.)
An Introduction to the Molecular Biology of the Cell
*Essentials of Epidemiology in Public Health (Aschengrau, Seage III)
- a non-mathematical introduction for health scientists
Ethiopia: Power and Protest (Gebru Tareke)
Peasant Revolts in the Twentieth Century
The Ethiopians (Richard Pankhurst)
A History
Eucalyptus (Murray Bail)
- an Australian fairy tale, a love story
Eurasian Crossroads (James A. Millward)
A History of Xinjiang
Everyday Politics in the Philippines (Benedict J. Tria Kerkvliet)
Class and Status Relations in a Central Luzon Village
Evolution (P.J. Greenwood, P.H. Harvey, M. Slatkin)
Essays in honour of John Maynard Smith
Evolution and the Theory of Games (John Maynard Smith)
- game theory in population genetics and ethology
*The Evolution of Communication (Marc D. Hauser)
- neurobiological, ontogenetic, adaptive, and psychological approaches
*The Evolution of Plants (K.J. Willis, J.C. McElwain)
- fossils, phylogenetics, environments, biogeography, ...
Evolution of the Insects (David Grimaldi, Michael S. Engel)
- fossils, phylogenetics, and evolutionary biology
The Evolution of the Polynesian Chiefdoms (Patrick Vinton Kirch)
**The Evolutionary Biology of Plants (Karl J. Niklas)
- evolution makes sense of otherwise unconnected areas of botany
Evolutionary Catastrophes (Vincent Courtillot)
The Science of Mass Extinctions
*Evolutionary Genetics (John Maynard Smith)
- a readable introductory text
*Evolutionary Pathways in Nature (John C. Avise)
- applications of comparative phylogenetics
The Evolutionary Synthesis (Ernst Mayr, William B. Provine)
Perspectives on the Unification of Biology
The Evolving Coast (Richard A. Davis Jr)
- an overview of coastal forms and processes
Explorers of South-East Asia (Victor T. King)
- Mouhot, Bock, Burns, Nieuwenhuis, Garnier, and Scott
The External Trade of the Loango Coast 1576-1870 (Phyllis M. Martin)
The Effects of Changing Commercial Relations on the Vili Kingdom of Loango
Extinction (Douglas H. Erwin)
How Life on Earth Nearly Ended 250 Million Years Ago
**Faces in the Clouds (Stewart Guthrie)
A New Theory of Religion
*The Faculty of Useless Knowledge (Yury Dombrovsky)
- a novel of Stalin's 1937 terror
Faded Portraits (E. Breton de Nijs)
A Novel of the Indies
The Faded Sun (C.J. Cherryh)
- science fiction with compelling aliens
Fall 1998
Fall Books 1998
Falling in Love (Patrick Hanan)
Stories From Ming China
Farewell Anatolia (Dido Sotiriou)
- a panoramic tale of the end of Greek Asia Minor
Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany (Richard Bessel)
Comparisons and Contrasts
The Fate of Africa (Martin Meredith)
A History of 50 Years of Independence
Fatelessness (Imre Kertesz)
- a teenager in Buchenwald concentration camp
Fear and Trembling (Amélie Nothomb)
- a comic tale about working for a Japanese corporation
Fearful Symmetry (Ian Stewart, Martin Golubitsky)
Is God a Geometer?
The Female Animal (Irene Elia)
- reproduction, courtship, lactation, gestation, ...
A Few Green Leaves (Barbara Pym)
- a delicately painted English village miniature
Fictional Space (Tom Shippey)
Essays on Contemporary Science Fiction
Fields of Glory (Jean Rouaud)
- a novel of old age, memory, and the Great War
*The Fifth Queen (Ford Madox Ford)
- a novel about Henry VIII's fifth wife, Katharine Howard
Figures of Earth (James Branch Cabell)
Financing the First World War (Hew Strachan)
- gold, taxation, domestic and foreign borrowing
Fire in the Sea: The Santorini Volcano (Walter L Friedrich)
Natural History and the Legend of Atlantis
*A Fire Upon the Deep (Vernor Vinge)
- inventive and appealing space opera
Fireflies, Honey, and Silk (Gilbert Waldbauer)
- human uses of insects
Firewalls and Internet Security (Cheswick, Bellovin, Rubin)
Repelling the Wily Hacker
*First Contact (Bob Connolly, Robin Anderson)
- culture clash in the New Guinea highlands
The First Eagle (Tony Hillerman)
- Jim Chee finds a Hopi eagle poacher next to a dead police officer
The First Salute (Barbara W. Tuchman)
A View of the American Revolution
The First Urban Christians (Wayne A. Meeks)
The Social World of the Apostle Paul
*The First World War (Hew Strachan)
A New Illustrated History
The First World War in Africa (Hew Strachan)
- Togoland, the Cameroons, South-West Africa, East Africa
The Fish Can Sing (Halldór Laxness)
- an eccentric childhood in early 20th century Reykjavik
A Fisherman of the Inland Sea (Ursula K. Le Guin)
- eight science fiction short stories
The Flanders Panel (Arturo Perez-Reverte)
Flicker (Theodore Roszak)
For Bread Alone (Mohamed Choukri)
- a bleak childhood and youth in Morocco
**For Love of Insects (Thomas Eisner)
- the grand synthesis of a veteran scientist
*Forbidding Wrong in Islam (Michael Cook)
- the history of an injunction
Forgotten Armies (Christopher Bayly, Tim Harper)
The Fall of British Asia, 1941-1945
The Forgotten Cause of the Civil War (Lawrence R. Tenzer)
A New Look at the Slavery Issue
Forgotten Empire (John Curtis, Nigel Tallis)
The World of Ancient Persia
The Foundations of Artificial Intelligence (Partridge, Wilks)
A Sourcebook
*Fourier Optics: An Introduction (E.G. Steward)
- for those with a maths/physics background
**A Fragile Balance (Christopher Dickman)
The extraordinary story of Australian marsupials
Free as in Freedom (Sam Williams)
Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software
*The French Idea of Freedom (Dale Van Kley)
The Old Regime and The Declaration of Rights of 1789
*The French Revolution (George Rudé)
- a modern marxist interpretation
The French-Speaking Pacific (Christian Jost)
Population, Environment and Development Issues
From Airline Reservations to Sonic the Hedgehog (Martin Campbell-Kelly)
A History of the Software Industry
From Brains to Consciousness (Steven Rose)
Essays on the New Sciences of the Mind
From Gutenberg to the Global Information Infrastructure (Christine L. Borgmann)
- all about digital libraries
From the Lower Deck (Henry Baynham)
The Old Navy 1780-1840
The Future Does Not Compute (Stephen L. Talbott)
- emotionally stirring but intellectually vacuous
The Future of Academic Freedom (Louis Menand)
- philosophical, legal, and ethical perspectives
The Future of the Internet Protocol (Carl Malamud)
*The Futurological Congress (Stanislaw Lem)
- an inventive science fiction comedy
The Gamelan Digul and the Prison Camp Musician Who Built It (Margaret J. Kartomi)
An Australian Link with the Indonesian Revolution
Gamelan Stories (Judith Becker)
Tantrism, Islam, and Aesthetics in Central Java
Gandhian Utopia: Experiments with Culture (Richard G. Fox)
- did Gandhi matter? can individuals change history?
*The Garden of Secrets (Juan Goytisolo)
- 28 storytellers collaborate on the story of a Spanish poet
*Garden, Ashes (Danilo Kis)
- a lyrical childhood in wartime Hungary
*The General of the Dead Army (Ismail Kadare)
- on a macabre quest in Albania
The Genetic Basis of Evolutionary Change (Richard Lewontin)
Genetics, Speciation and the Founder Principle (Giddings, Kaneshiro, Anderson)
- essays on founder effects, genetic revolutions, karyotype evolution, ...
Genius Explained (Michael J. A. Howe)
- environment, personality, and hard work
*The Geology of Australia (David Johnson)
- an excellent introduction for the lay reader
**Georges Perec (David Bellos)
A Life in Words
*Georges Perec and Paris (Mark Rappolt)
- criticism, poetry, fiction, urbanism, photography
Germany in Transit (Deniz Göktürk, David Gramling, Anton Kaes)
Nation and Migration 1955-2005
A Gift of Fire (Sara Baase)
Social, legal, and ethical issues for computers and the Internet
Gigabit Networking (Craig Partridge)
The Girl in a Swing (Richard Adams)
Giving Offense (J.M. Coetzee)
Essays on Censorship
God is Dead (Steve Bruce)
Secularization in the West
God's Equation (Amir D. Aczel)
Einstein, Relativity, and the Expanding Universe
*Gödel's Proof (Ernest Nagel, James R. Newman)
- a readable popular explanation of the Incompleteness Theorem
The Golden Ocean (Patrick O'Brian)
- the son of a poor Irish clergyman sails around the world with Anson
A Good Hanging and Other Stories (Ian Rankin)
- twelve Inspector Rebus stories
Good Times and Bad Times in Rural Java (Jan Breman, Gunawan Wiradi)
- krismon and the socioeconomics of two Javanese villages
Goodbye to All That (Robert Graves)
- an autobiography at thirty: from public school to the Great War
Google Hacks (Tara Calishain, Rael Dornfest)
100 Industrial Strength Tips and Tools
Gossip from the Forest (Thomas Keneally)
- a novel about the signing of the armistice that ended World War I
The Grand Sophy (Georgette Heyer)
- a Regency romance by the founder of the genre
Grandeur and Grit (Max Solling)
A History of Glebe
Grass (Sheri S. Tepper)
- ecological science fiction
The Great Arc (John Keay)
The Dramatic Tale of How India Was Mapped and Everest Was Named
The Great Depression (Robert S. McElvaine)
America, 1929-1941
The Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax (Geoffrey K. Pullum)
And Other Irreverent Essays on the Study of Language
*The Great Human Diasporas (Cavalli-Sforza, Cavalli-Sforza)
The History of Diversity and Evolution
Great Tales of Detection (Dorothy L. Sayers)
Nineteen Stories
The Great War (Marc Ferro)
- with a focus on the socialist movements
*The Greco-Persian Wars (Peter Green)
- an accessible history
The Greeks (Jean-Pierre Vernant)
- the social history of ancient Greece
The Green Iguana (Rob Goodfellow)
- vignettes of life as an Australian expatriate in Bali and Java
**Grendel (John Gardner)
- an original and provoking philosophical novel
Guerilla Season (Paul Thomas)
- a comic thriller about terrorism in New Zealand
Guilt about the Past (Bernhard Schlink)
- the post-war German experience
*Guns, Germs and Steel (Jared Diamond)
The Fates of Human Societies
H.M. Bark Endeavour (Ray Parkin)
- her voyage up the east coast of Australia
Hadrian the Seventh (Frederick Rolfe)
- an outcast writer becomes pope
HAL's Legacy (David G. Stork)
2001's Computer as Dream and Reality
Hammerklavier (Yasmina Reza)
- a pointillist rumination on music, mortality and memory
Hands (John Napier)
- structure, function, and evolution; social and cultural roles
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (J.K. Rowling)
- a fine children's fantasy, but somewhat over-hyped
Harvest of the Suburbs (Andrea Gaynor)
An Environmental History of Growing Food in Australian Cities
A Heap of Ashes (Pramoedya Ananta Toer)
- short stories: a writer's life in Indonesian history
Heart of Spain (Robert Capa)
Photographs of the Spanish Civil War
Helena (Evelyn Waugh)
- a dull and tendentiously Catholic novel about Constantine's mother
Henderson's Dictionary of Biological Terms (Eleanor Lawrence)
**Her Smoke Rose up Forever (James Tiptree Jr)
- dark, powerful science fiction stories about sex and death
*Heroic Legends of the North (Edward R. Haymes, Susann T. Samples)
An Introduction to the Nibelung and Dietrich Cycles
Hidup Berwarna (George Quinn)
Introductory Readings in Modern Indonesian and Malay Literature
The Highland Clearances (Eric Richards)
People, Landlords and Rural Turmoil
Highways to a War (Christopher J. Koch)
- a novel about a war photographer in Vietnam and Cambodia
Himalaya (David Zurick, P.P. Karan)
Life on the Edge of the World
**Historical Atlas of Indonesia (Robert Cribb)
- learned and lavish
Historical Atlas of Islam (Malise Ruthven, Azim Nanji)
- disappointing: uneven and in places inaccurate
Historical Dictionary of Indonesia (Robert Cribb, Audrey Kahin)
- a broadly useful reference work
*The Historical Jesus (John Dominic Crossan)
The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant
Historiography in the Twentieth Century (Georg G. Iggers)
From Scientific Objectivity to the Postmodern Challenge
*The History of Iceland (Gunnar Karlsson)
- from settlement to the present
*A History of Inner Asia (Svat Soucek)
- from the coming of Islam
A History of Iraq (Charles Tripp)
- politics from the Ottomans to Saddam Hussein
*A History of Modern Palestine (Ilan Pappe)
One Land, Two Peoples
A History of New Zealand (Keith Sinclair)
- a classic, with five editions since 1959
A History of Russia (Nicholas V. Riasanovsky)
- Kievan, Appanage, Muscovite, Imperial, and Soviet Russia
*The History of the Countryside (Oliver Rackham)
The classic history of Britain's landscape, flora and fauna
History of the Inca Realm (María Rostworowski de Diez Canseco)
- an ethnohistorical overview
*A History of the New Zealanders (James Belich)
Making Peoples; Paradise Reforged
A History of the Peoples of Pakistan (J. Hussain)
Towards Independence
The Hittites (J.G. Macqueen)
And their contemporaries in Asia Minor
The Holocene (Neil Roberts)
An Environmental History
Holy Fire (Bruce Sterling)
- a future dominated by a gerontocratic medical-industrial complex
Homage to Catalonia (George Orwell)
- a volunteer's first-hand account of the Spanish civil war
*Homepage Usability (Jakob Nielsen, Marie Tahir)
50 Websites Deconstructed
Homer's Daughter (Robert Graves)
- a novel about a woman writing part of the Odyssey
The Homeric Narrator (Scott Richardson)
- narratorial presence in the Iliad and Odyssey
*Homesickness (Murray Bail)
- an Australian tour group in a surreal world
*The Honey Bee (James L. Gould, Carol Grant Gould)
- senses, communication, navigation, learning, and more
*Horatio Hornblower (C.S. Forester)
- classic age-of-sail naval fiction
Hornet's Nest (Patricia Cornwell)
- a combined police-procedural and romance
*The Houses of Belgrade (Borislav Pekic)
- a man looks back on a life obsessed by his houses
**How Monkeys See the World (Dorothy L. Cheney, Robert M. Seyfarth)
Inside the Mind of Another Species
**How to Quiet a Vampire (Borislav Pekic)
- a psychological and philosophical novel of totalitarianism
*How to Set Up and Maintain a Web Site (Lincoln D. Stein)
- now dated, but it was a great book
Human Biology (G.A. Harrison et al.)
An Introduction to Human Evolution, Variation, Growth and Adaptability
**Human Diversity (Richard Lewontin)
- the realities of human biological variation
I Have the Right to Destroy Myself (Kim Young-Ha)
- art, sex, and death in Seoul
*Icelandic Bird Guide (Jóhann Óli Hilmarsson)
- a must for bird-watchers visiting Iceland
Ideas That Shaped Buildings (Fil Hearn)
- architectural theory from Vitruvius to deconstructivism
Ideogram (J. Marshall Unger)
Chinese Characters and the Myth of Disembodied Meaning
*If Not Now, When? (Primo Levi)
- a novel of Jewish partisans in Russia and Poland in WWII
The Immaculate Deception (Iain Pears)
- a mystery of Italian art and politics
Immortal Engines (George Slusser, Gary Westfahl, Eric S. Rabkin)
Life Extension and Immortality in Science Fiction and Fantasy
*Imperfect Paradise (Shen Congwen)
- short stories paint a portrait of China before the Revolution
*Imperial China 900-1800 (F.W. Mote)
- with a focus on political institutions and systems of government
Imperialism and Biblical Prophecy, 750-500 BCE (David Aberbach)
- the Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold
Improve Your Opening Leads (Hugh Kelsey, John Matheson)
- an intermediate bridge book
In a Free State (V.S. Naipaul)
- stories about individuals in foreign countries, coping with alien cultures
In Search of Kazakhstan (Christopher Robbins)
The Land that Disappeared
In Search of Southeast Asia (D. J. Steinberg)
A Modern History
In the Rose Garden of the Martyrs (Christopher De Bellaigue)
A Memoir of Iran
*In the Wake of Chaos (Stephen H. Kellert)
- what chaos theory is, and what it is not
In the Wilderness (Manuel Rivas)
- magic and the mundane in a Galician village
*Inbreeding, Incest, and the Incest Taboo (Wolf, Durham)
The State of Knowledge at the Turn of the Century
**Independent People (Halldór Laxness)
- the epic story of an Icelandic sheep farmer
Indonesia (Peter Turner et al.)
- the Lonely Planet travel guide
Indonesia Handbook (Bill Dalton)
Indonesia: The Rise of Capital (Richard Robison)
- the development of local capitalists
The Indonesian Killings 1965-1966 (Robert Cribb)
Studies from Java and Bali
Inequality Reexamined (Amartya Sen)
- equality in political and economic philosophy
Infections and Inequalities (Paul Farmer)
The Modern Plagues
*Infinite Tropics (Andrew Berry)
An Alfred Russel Wallace Anthology
Information Liberation (Brian Martin)
Challenging the Corruptions of Information Power
*The Inner Quarters (Patricia Buckley Ebrey)
Marriage and the Lives of Chinese Women in the Sung Period
An Inordinate Fondness for Beetles (Arthur V. Evans, Charles L. Bellamy)
- taxonomy, anatomy, ecology, and connections with humans
The Inquisitor (Catherine Jinks)
- a murder mystery set in medieval France
*Insects and Flowers (Friedrich G. Barth)
The Biology of a Partnership
Insects and Human Life (Brian Morris)
- insects in the social and cultural life of Malawi
*Inside Indonesia (Gerry van Klinken)
- a quarterly covering politics, culture, and the environment
Inspector Anders (Marshall Browne)
The Wooden Leg of Inspector Anders; Inspector Anders and the Ship of Fools
Intellectual Impostures (Alan Sokal, Jean Bricmont)
Postmodern Philosophers' Abuse of Science
An Intelligent Person's Guide to History (John Vincent)
- a contrarian approach to British historiography
*Interconnections (Radia Perlman)
Bridges, Routers, Switches, and Internetworking Protocols
Internet Besieged (Dorothy E. Denning, Peter J. Denning)
Countering Cyberspace Scofflaws
Internetworking with TCP/IP, Volume I (Douglas E. Comer)
Principles, Protocols and Architecture
Internetworking with TCP/IP, Volume II (Comer, Stevens)
Design, Implementation, and Internals
Introduction to Conservation Genetics (Frankham, Ballou, Briscoe)
- a nicely presented undergraduate text
An Introduction to Historical Linguistics (Terry Crowley)
- a straightforward text
An Introduction to Modern Political Theory (Norman P. Barry)
- rational-individualist nonsense
*An Introduction to Nervous Systems (Ralph J. Greenspan)
- an evolutionary approach to neurobiology
An Introduction to Old English (Richard Hogg)
- a historical account, setting the language in context
*An Introduction to Pidgins and Creoles (John Holm)
- a text for linguistics students, but reasonably accessible
An Introduction to the Biology of Vision (James T. McIlwain)
- the anatomy and neuroscience of the eye and the brain
Inventing Flight (John D. Anderson Jr)
The Wright Brothers and Their Predecessors
Inventing the Middle Ages (Norman F. Cantor)
The Lives, Works, and Ideas of the Great Medievalists of the Twentieth Century
The Invention of Tradition (Eric Hobsbawm, Terence Ranger)
- essays on the recent construction of symbolic and ceremonial traditions
IPng (Scott O. Bradner, Allison Mankin)
Internet Protocol Next Generation
*IPv6: The New Internet Protocol (Christian Huitema)
Iron Council (China Mieville)
- an inventive but otherwise disappointing fantasy
Iron Kingdom (Christopher Clark)
The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947
*Islam (John L. Esposito)
The Straight Path
Islam and the Malay-Indonesian World (Peter G. Riddell)
- theology, exegesis, and religious thinkers
*Islamic Art (Robert Irwin)
Art, Architecture and the Literary World
**Islandia (Austin Tappan Wright)
- gentle romance and captivating fantasy
*Islands (H.W. Menard)
- and atolls, banks, and guyots
It Ain't Necessarily So (Richard Lewontin)
The Dream of the Human Genome and Other Illusions
Italian Colonialism in Eritrea, 1882-1941 (Tekeste Negash)
Policies, Praxis and Impact
Jack the Bodiless (Julian May)
James Tiptree, Jr. (Julie Phillips)
The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon
Japan to 1600 (William Wayne Farris)
A Social and Economic History
*Joseph Banks (Patrick O'Brian)
- a biography of the botanist, explorer, and natural historian
*Judge Dee (Robert van Gulik)
- stories about a famous Chinese detective-magistrate
**Ka (Roberto Calasso)
- a superb synthesis of Hindu mythology
**Kaddish for a Child Not Born (Imre Kertesz)
- the introspective monologue of an Auschwitz survivor
*Kamus Indonesia-Inggris (John M. Echols, Hassan Shadily)
An Indonesian-English Dictionary
Kea, Bird of Paradox (Judy Diamond, Alan B. Bond)
The Evolution and Behavior of a New Zealand Parrot
*Khirbet Khizeh (S. Yizhar)
- evicting a Palestinian village in 1948
*Killing Time (Paul Feyerabend)
- a controversial philosopher of science looks back at his life
**The King David Report (Stefan Heym)
- a very funny novel about the politics of history in the 10th century BC
*King Hereafter (Dorothy Dunnett)
- a historical novel about the real Macbeth
King Jesus (Robert Graves)
- mythological musings dressed up as a novel
King of Infinite Space (Siobhan Roberts)
Donald Coxeter, the Man Who Saved Geometry
Kipling Stories (Rudyard Kipling)
Twenty-eight Exciting Tales by the Master Storyteller
*The Kirghiz and Wakhi of Afghanistan (M. Nazif Shahrani)
Adaptation to Closed Frontiers and War
*The Knight and Death (Leonardo Sciascia)
Three Novellas
Knowing Music, Making Music (Benjamin Brinner)
Javanese Gamelan and the Theory of Musical Competence and Interaction
The Korean War (Peter Lowe)
- a brief overview from a British perspective
*Kristin Lavransdatter (Sigrid Undset)
- a family saga set in medieval Norway
Land of the Tiger (Valmik Thapar)
A Natural History of the Indian Subcontinent
Language and the Internet (David Crystal)
- a linguist on Netspeak: email, chat, virtual worlds, and the Web
Language Death (David Crystal)
- threats to languages and approaches to revitalization
The Language Instinct (Steven Pinker)
The New Science of Language and Mind
Language Myths (Laurie Bauer, Peter Trudgill)
- 21 common misconceptions about language corrected
Language Play (David Crystal)
- by adults and children
**The Languages of China (S. Robert Ramsey)
- social, cultural, and historical background as well as linguistics
The Languages of the World (Kenneth Katzner)
- sample texts, translations and background for 200 languages
A Lapse of Memory (Victor Segalen)
- a novel about the destruction of traditional religion in Tahiti
*The Last Burden (Upamanyu Chatterjee)
- a merciless dissection of an Indian family
*The Last Imaginary Place (Robert McGhee)
A Human History of the Arctic World
The Last Jews in Berlin (Leonard Gross)
- the gripping stories of seven Holocaust survivors
The Last Mile to Huesca (Judith Keene)
An Australian Nurse in the Spanish Civil War
LaTeX (Leslie Lamport)
A Document Preparation System
The LaTeX Companion (Michel Goosens, Frank Mittelbach, Alexander Samarin)
The Laughing Policeman (Maj Sjöwall, Per Wahlöö)
- a mass murder mystery set in 1967 Stockholm
*The Laughter of Aphrodite (Peter Green)
A Novel about Sappho of Lesbos
Learning Bahasa Indonesia Without Teacher (Amin Singgih)
Learning the bash Shell (Cameron Newham, Bill Rosenblatt)
Learning the vi Editor (Linda Lamb)
*Leaves from an Autumn of Emergencies (Samuel Hideo Yamashita)
Selections from the Wartime Diaries of Ordinary Japanese
The Lecherous Academician (Ling Mengchu)
- four stories from Ming China
The Lecture (Lydie Salvayre)
- a comic extravaganza of a monologue
The Legend of Bouvines (Georges Duby)
- the ideology of peace, war, and battle in the 12th century
*Legends (Terry Pratchett et al.)
- short fiction by five leading fantasy novelists
*The Legends of Khasak (O.V. Vijayan)
- interwoven stories of life and death in a South Indian village
**The Life and Adventures of Trobadora Beatrice as Chronicled by Her Minstrel Laura (Irmtraud Morgner)
- socialist magical realism from East Germany
The Life and Times of Horatio Hornblower (C. Northcote Parkinson)
- a fictional biography of CS Forester's naval hero
Life at the Extremes (Frances Ashcroft)
The Science of Survival
*The Life of an Amorous Woman (Ihara Saikaku)
- stories of Japan's 17th century Floating World
Life on Air (David Attenborough)
Memoirs of a Broadcaster
Life on Other Worlds (Steven J. Dick)
The 20th-Century Extraterrestrial Life Debate
Lifelines (Steven Rose)
Biology, Freedom, Determinism
The Lighter Side of Gravity (Jayant V. Narlikar)
- a popular introduction to the physics behind astronomy
Lineland (Jules Siegel, Christine Wexler)
Mortality and Mercy on the Internet's Pynchon-L@Waste.Org Discussion List
Linux in a Nutshell (Ellen Siever)
Linux Journal
The Monthly Magazine of the Linux Community
The Lions of Al-Rassan (Guy Gavriel Kay)
Liquidation (Imre Kertesz)
- a metafictional literary mystery
*Lise Meitner (Ruth Lewin Sime)
A Life in Physics
Little Man, What Now? (Hans Fallada)
- struggling to survive in Germany in the Great Depression
*Little Penguin (Colin Stahel, Rosemary Gales)
Fairy Penguins in Australia
*A Little Primer of Tu Fu (David Hawkes)
- an introduction to classical Chinese poetry
Lives of the Planets (Richard Corfield)
A Natural History of the Solar System
*Lofting (Alma Marceau)
- an intelligent erotic novel
The Logic of Life (Tim Harford)
Uncovering the New Economics of Everything
**Lord of Light (Roger Zelazny)
- epic science fiction using Hindu and Buddhist themes
The Lord of the Rings 1954-2004 (Wayne G. Hammond, Christina Scull)
Scholarship in Honor of Richard E. Blackwelder
Lords and Lemurs (Alison Jolly)
Mad Scientists, Kings with Spears, and the Survival of Diversity in Madagascar
*The Lost Chronicles of the Maya Kings (David Drew)
- a nice introduction to Mayan history and society
Love and Limerence (Dorothy Tennov)
The Experience of Being in Love
*Love Songs of the New Kingdom (John L. Foster)
- ancient Egyptian love poems
*Loving Sabotage (Amélie Nothomb)
- a tale of childhood love and war
The Luck of the Vails (E.F. Benson)
- a turn of the century mystery set among the English aristocracy
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
Nada (Carmen Laforet)
- a novel about a young woman in 1940s Barcelona
The Name Must Not Go Down (Joseph Ketan)
Political Competition and State-Society Relations in Mt Hagen, Papua New Guinea
National Integration in Indonesia (Christine Drake)
- spatial analysis of the 1980 census
*A Natural History of Conifers (Aljos Farjon)
- evolution, systematics, biogeography, ecology, conservation
A Natural History of Families (Scott Forbes)
- evolutionary biology and medicine
The Natural History Reader in Evolution (Niles Eldredge)
Natural Novel (Georgi Gospodinov)
- a comedy in fragments
The Nature of Selection (Elliott Sober)
Evolutionary Theory in Philosophical Focus
*The Neanderthal's Necklace (Juan Luis Arsuaga)
In Search of the First Thinkers
Nearly Out of Heart and Hope (Miles Fairburn)
The Puzzle of a Colonial Labourer's Diary
Nero (B.H. Warmington)
Reality and Legend
Network Algorithmics (George Varghese)
An Interdisciplinary Approach to Designing Fast Networked Devices
Network Security (Charlie Kaufman, Radia Perlman, Mike Speciner)
PRIVATE Communication in a PUBLIC World
Networking Personal Computers with TCP/IP (Craig Hunt)
Neutral Models in Biology (Matthew H. Nitecki, Antoni Hoffman)
- in genetics, ecology, evolution, and paleontology
The New Cambridge Handbook of Contemporary China (Colin Mackerras)
- politics, people, economics, geography, minorities, ...
The New Chemistry (Nina Hall)
- an overview of research and applications
The New Penguin History of Scotland (R.A. Houston, W.W.J. Knox)
From the Earliest Times to the Present Day
*The New Solar System (Beatty, Petersen, Chaikin)
- a comprehensive overview aimed at educated non-specialists
New Zealand Historical Atlas (Malcolm McKinnon)
- novel and innovative visualisations
*Night (Vedrana Rudan)
- a Croatian woman sounds off
*Night's Lies (Gesualdo Bufalino)
- on the eve of execution, four prisoners tell tales of deceit
*Nine Suitcases (Béla Zsolt)
- a novel of the Holocaust in Hungary
Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Indonesia (Chandler, Ricklefs)
Essays in Honour of Professor J.D. Legge
*Nisa (Marjorie Shostak)
The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman
The NIV Study Bible
No Logo (Naomi Klein)
Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (Alexander McCall Smith)
- Botswana's only female private investigator at work
Noam Chomsky (Robert F. Barsky)
A Life of Dissent
The Noodle Maker (Ma Jian)
- dark tales of love and violence in "Open Door" China
*The Norsemen in the Viking Age (Eric Christiansen)
- a descriptive survey staying close to the evidence
The Norton Book of Science Fiction (Ursula K. Le Guin, Brian Attebery)
North American science fiction, 1960-1990
Not In Our Genes (Richard Lewontin, Steven Rose, Leon J. Kamin)
Biology, Ideology and Human Nature
Novel Without a Name (Duong Thu Huong)
- a North Vietnamese soldier's story
Nuclear Rites (Hugh Gusterson)
A Weapons Laboratory at the End of the Cold War
The Nuer (E.E. Evans-Pritchard)
A Description of the Modes of Livelihood and Political Institutions of a Nilotic People
Obscenity, Blasphemy, Sedition (Peter Coleman)
The Rise and Fall of Literary Censorship in Australia
The Ocean (James Hanley)
- five men in a lifeboat
The Ok Tedi Settlement (Glenn Banks, Chris Ballard)
Issues, Outcomes and Implications
**Old English and its Closest Relatives (Orrin W. Robinson)
A Survey of the Earliest Germanic Languages
On Evolution (John C. Avise)
- thirty years using molecular analysis in evolutionary biology
On History (Eric Hobsbawm)
- and history's connections to politics and society; 20 pieces
On Literature (Umberto Eco)
- an assortment of literary criticism
On Literature and Art (Leon Trotsky)
- a literary critic as well as a revolutionary and a political theorist
**On the Road of the Winds (Patrick Vinton Kirch)
An Archaeological History of the Pacific Islands before European Conquest
*On Thrones of Gold (James R. Brandon)
Three Javanese Shadow Plays
Once the Buddha Was a Monkey: Jatakamala (Arya Sura)
- morality tales about lives of the Buddha
*One Minute Stories (István Örkeny)
- Hungarian stories "while the soft-boiled egg is boiling"
The Online User's Encyclopedia (Bernard Aboba)
Bulletin Boards and Beyond
**Ontogeny and Phylogeny (Stephen Jay Gould)
- the history of recapitulation; developmental timing and evolution
Open Sources (Chris DiBona, Sam Ockman, Mark Stone)
Voices from the Open Source Revolution
The Origins of Agriculture (David Rindos)
An Evolutionary Perspective
*Origins of Life (Freeman Dyson)
- a short, slightly idiosyncratic look at abiogenesis
The Origins of Music (Nils L. Wallin, Björn Merker, Steven Brown)
- towards an evolutionary musicology
*The Other Wind (Ursula K. Le Guin)
- Earthsea revisited
Oulipo (Warren F. Motte Jr)
A Primer of Potential Literature
**Oulipo Compendium (Harry Mathews, Alastair Brotchie)
- people, works, and forms, with extensive examples
*Our Twisted Hero (Yi Mun-yol)
- a struggle for power in a Korean classroom
Out of the Desert? (William H. Stiebing Jr)
Archaeology and the Exodus/Conquest Narratives
*The Outer Reaches of Life (John Postgate)
- bacteria in extreme environments
Outlaws of the Marsh (Shi Nai'an, Luo Guanzhong)
- an abridgement of the classic Chinese novel
*The Ovary of Eve (Clara Pinto-Correia)
Egg and Sperm and Preformation
*The Oxford Companion to Food (Alan Davidson)
- a gloriously erudite encyclopedia of biology, culture, history
The Oxford Murders (Guillermo Martinez)
- a serial killer with a mathematical bent
Oxford Surveys in Evolutionary Biology 1 (Richard Dawkins, M. Ridley)
- sex, signalling, fireflies, epistasis, hierarchy, phylogeny, and more
Painting by Numbers (JoAnn Wypijewski)
Komar and Melamid's scientific guide to art
Pakistan - A Dream Gone Sour (Roedad Khan)
- a high-ranking civil servant looks back
Pakistan in the Twentieth Century (Lawrence Ziring)
A Political History
The Pathan Borderland (James W. Spain)
- an ethnic group of 20 million, on the Pakistan/Afghanistan border
*Patterns and Processes of Vertebrate Evolution (Robert L. Carroll)
- connecting paleontology with the rest of biology
Paul Dirac (Abraham Pais et al.)
The Man and His Work
Pavel's Letters (Monika Maron)
- discovering grandparents lost to the Holocaust
*The Pea and the Sun (Leonard M. Wapner)
- a popular presentation of the Banach-Tarski Theorem
Pemberley (Emma Tennant)
A Sequel to Pride and Prejudice
Penguin Atlas of African History (Colin McEvedy)
The Penguin History of Canada (Kenneth McNaught)
- politicians, parties, wars, constitutional changes, ...
Penguin Portrait (Steve Hare)
Allen Lane and the Penguin Editors 1935-1970
**The Periodic Table (Primo Levi)
- stories of a chemist working with elements
Permutation City (Greg Egan)
- science fiction with cellular automata
Perspectives in Ecological Theory (Roughgarden, May, Levin)
PGP: Pretty Good Privacy (Simson Garfinkel)
The Philippine Political and Economic Situation in View of 1992 (David, Okamura)
The Photographs of Baldwin Spencer (Allen, Batty, Morton)
- Aboriginal photographs from 1894 to 1923
Photography: A Crash Course (Dave Yorath)
- a potted history of photography and photographers
PHP Pocket Reference (Rasmus Lerdorf)
*The Physics of Information Technology (Neil Gershenfeld)
- a graduate or higher undergraduate text
Pigeon House and Beyond (The Budawang Committee)
A Guide to the Budawang Range and Environs
A Place for Strangers (Tony Swain)
Towards a History of Australian Aboriginal Being
The Place Where Souls Are Born (Thomas Keneally)
A Journey to the Southwest
A Plague of Sheep (Elinor G.K. Melville)
Environmental Consequences of the Conquest of Mexico
*Plant Biochemistry (Hans-Walter Heldt)
- detailed but broad-ranging and well-motivated
Plants Don't Drink Coffee (Unai Elorriaga)
- intertwined stories about insects, rugby, love + carpentry
*The Poet (Yi Mun-yol)
- a marginal poet in 19th century Korea
Poles Apart (Galen Rowell)
Parallel Visions of the Arctic and Antarctic
The Polish Complex (Tadeusz Konwicki)
- personal and national angsts intertwine
**Political Islam (Joel Beinin, Joe Stork)
Essays from Middle East Report
Political Oppositions in Industrialising Asia (Garry Rodan)
- 1996 studies of opposition movements in individual countries
*The Pooh Perplex (Frederick Crews)
- hilariously funny literary criticism of Winnie the Pooh
*Poor Things (Alasdair Gray)
- a socialist neo-Gothic novel
The Porn Report (Alan McKee, Katherine Albury, Catharine Lumby)
- the production and consumption of pornography in Australia
Ports of Call (Amin Maalouf)
- family, love and war, in France and the Middle East
Postcards From Babel (Jill Hadfield)
- a satire on British society under Thatcher
Postfix: The Definitive Guide (Kyle D. Dent)
- a fast, secure Mail Transfer Agent
**Postmodern Pooh (Frederick Crews)
- biting parody of modern literary criticism
*Poverty - A History (Bronislaw Geremek)
- with a focus on late medieval and early modern Europe
Poverty Reduction in Mongolia (Keith Griffin)
- analysis based on a 2001 UNDP study
Practical Visionaries (Susan Blackburn)
A Study of Community Aid Abroad
*A Prehistory of the North (John F. Hoffecker)
Human Settlement of the Higher Latitudes
Premodern Japan (Mikiso Hane)
A Historical Survey
The Presence of Whales (Frank Stewart)
Contemporary Writings on the Whale
Presumption (Julia Barrett)
An Entertainment
A Primer of Romance Philology (J. Keith Atkinson)
A beginner's guide to the Romance languages of medieval France and Spain
*The Prince (Hushang Golshiri)
- a dark novel about the Qajari lords of Isfahan
*The Prince of Fire (Radmilla J. Gorup, Nadezda Obradovic)
An Anthology of Contemporary Serbian Short Stories
The Princes in the Tower (Alison Weir)
- whodunnit: Richard III or Henry VII?
Principles of Health Economics for Developing Countries (William Jack)
- an abstract but accessible survey
Privacy on the Line (Whitfield Diffie, Susan Landau)
The Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption
*Professor Martens' Departure (Jaan Kross)
Programming Perl (Larry Wall, Randal L. Schwartz)
*Programming Python (Mark Lutz)
Promiscuity (Tim Birkhead)
An Evolutionary History of Sperm Competition and Sexual Conflict
**Proofs from THE BOOK (Martin Aigner, Günter M. Ziegler)
- mathematical results that are beautiful, accessible, and profound
Proudly Serving My Corporate Masters (Adam Barr)
What I Learned in Ten Years as a Microsoft Programmer
Proust and the Squid (Maryanne Wolf)
The Story and Science of the Reading Brain
Psychology and Law (Andreas Kapardis)
- witnesses, juries, sentencing, detecting deception, policing, ...
Public Access to the Internet (Brian Kahin, James Keller)
Puppet Theater in Contemporary Indonesia (Jan Mrazek)
New Approaches to Performance Events
The Pyramid (Ismail Kadare)
- a parable of life under communism
Python Essential Reference (David M. Beazley)
- useful printed documentation
Python in a Nutshell (Alex Martelli)
A Desktop Quick Reference
Q.E.D. (Burkard Polster)
Beauty in Mathematical Proof
Quarantine (Greg Egan)
- a novel about quantum mechanics: stop collapsing those wave functions!
A Quarter Century of Unix (Peter H. Salus)
- from Space Travel to Plan 9 and Linux
Quiddities (W.V. Quine)
An Intermittently Philosophical Dictionary
Rabbits and Spaghetti (Bill Bunbury)
Captives and Comrades: Australians, Italians and the War
Racial Theories (Michael Banton)
- Cuvier, Morton, Nott, Smith, Knox, Vogt, Cox, Bonacich, ...
The Ramayana (R.K. Narayan)
- an accessible English abridgment
The Raw and the Cooked (Claude Lévi-Strauss)
Introduction to a Science of Mythology: 1
README.1ST (Ronald C. Turner, Timothy A. Douglass, Audrey J. Turner)
SGML for Writers and Editors
*Reads Like a Novel (Daniel Pennac)
- teaching and learning a love of reading
The Real Oliver Twist (John Waller)
Robert Blincoe: A Life That Illuminates a Violent Age
Rebellion to Integration (Audrey Kahin)
West Sumatra and the Indonesian Polity
The Record of the Black Dragon Year (Peter H. Lee)
- popular fiction from the 16th century Japanese invasion of Korea
The Red and the Black (Stendhal)
A Chronicle of the 19th Century
Reflection (Dennis Merrit)
Reform and Reconstruction (Stephen Brooke)
Britain after the war, 1945-51
**Regional Dynamics of the Indonesian Revolution (Audrey Kahin)
- an unusually appealing essay collection on 1945-50
Regulating Racism (Luke McNamara)
Racial Vilification Laws in Australia
*Reindeer Moon (Elizabeth Marshall Thomas)
- a Paleolithic coming of age novel
*Reinventing Darwin (Niles Eldredge)
The Great Evolutionary Debate
Religion and African Civil Wars (Niels Kastfelt)
- papers on Southern Sudan, West Africa, and Southern Africa
Religion: A Humanist Interpretation (Raymond Firth)
- essays on the essentially human character of religious phenomena
Removing the Spam (Geoff Mulligan)
Email Processing and Filtering
Rendezvous at Kamakura Inn (Marshall Browne)
- a Japanese policeman faces corruption, mystery and violence
*René Leys (Victor Segalen)
- a mystery set in Peking in 1911, at the end of Manchu China
Reports of the National Center for Science Education
- defending the teaching of evolution
*Respected Sir; Wedding Song; The Search (Naguib Mahfouz)
- three short novels by the great Egyptian writer
The Rest is Noise (Alex Ross)
Listening to the Twentieth Century
The Return of Philip Latinowicz (Miroslav Krleza)
- an artist in a Danubian backwater
Review (Immanuel Wallerstein)
- a journal of economies, historical systems, and civilizations
*The Revolution of Peter the Great (James Cracraft)
- a lively account of the changes he brought to Russia
*Rhythms of Life (Russell Foster, Leon Kreitzman)
The Biological Clocks that Control the Daily Lives of Every Living Thing
Ring of Seasons (Terry G. Lacy)
Iceland - Its Culture and History
The Rise and Fall of Languages (R.M.W. Dixon)
- an overview of linguistics by a prominent but idiosyncratic linguist
The Rise and Rule of Tamerlane (Beatrice Forbes Manz)
- a struggle for power in 14th century Central Asia
The Rise of Cities in North-West Europe (Adriaan Verhulst)
- the 4th to 12th centuries, from the Meuse to the Scheldt
*Rise, Ye Sea Slugs! (Robin D. Gill)
- 900 sea cucumber haiku, with translations and commentary
River of Gods (Ian McDonald)
- science fiction in a 2047 India
River of Time (Jon Swain)
- a memoir of Cambodia and Vietnam at war
River Processes (André Robert)
An Introduction to Fluvial Dynamics
River Road to China (Milton Osborne)
The Mekong River Expedition, 1866-73
The Road to Oxiana (Robert Byron)
- travels in Persia and Afghanistan in the 1930s
The Road to Wigan Pier (George Orwell)
- mining towns, class and socialism in 1930s Britain
*Roadside Picnic (Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky)
The Roman Empire and its Germanic Peoples (Herwig Wolfram)
- Visigoths, Vandals, Ostrogoths, Burgundians, ...
Roman Law and Comparative Law (Alan Watson)
The Romans (Andrea Giardina)
- a social history
Running Linux (Matt Welsh, Lar Kaufman)
Sacred Art of the Earth (Maureen Korp)
Ancient and Contemporary Earthworks
*Sacred Mountains of the World (Edwin Bernbaum)
- religion and spirituality; glorious photographs
Sacred Texts and Buried Treasures (William Wayne Farris)
Issues in the Historical Archaeology of Ancient Japan
The Sadeian Woman (Angela Carter)
And the Ideology of Pornography
A Sailor of Austria (John Biggins)
- the exploits of an Austro-Hungarian submarine commander
The Salian Century (Stefan Weinfurter)
- the German monarchy, 1024 to 1125
Salman the Solitary (Yashar Kemal)
- childhood fantasies, fears, and ecstasies in the Anatolian mountains
Saudi Arabia (Tim Niblock)
Power, Legitimacy and Survival
The Scapegoat (Daniel Pennac)
- crime fiction set in the Belleville quarter of Paris
The Scars of Evolution (Elaine Morgan)
What Our Bodies Tell Us about Human Origins
Scenes from the Life of a Best-selling Author (Michael Krüger)
- funny short stories about books and writing
Scholarly Publishing (Robin P. Peek, Gregory B. Newby)
The Electronic Frontier
Science and its Fabrication (Alan Chalmers)
The Science and Politics of Global Climate Change (Dessler, Parson)
A Guide to the Debate
A Scientific Model of Social and Cultural Evolution (Robert Bates Graber)
- modelling the demographic basis of sociocultural change
*The Scientific Revolution (Steven Shapin)
- science in 17th century Europe
Scottish Medieval Churches (Richard Fawcett)
The Ecclesiastical Architecture of the 12th to 16th Centuries
Seafarers, Merchants and Pirates in the Middle Ages (Dirk Meier)
- the Baltic, the North Sea, the North Atlantic and Russian rivers
Season of Migration to the North (Tayeb Salih)
- a story of sexual obsession in Britain and Sudan
*The Secret History (Donna Tartt)
- a novel about a classical Greek class in an American college
The Secret History of Modernism (C.K. Stead)
- looking back at life as a student in 1950s London
*The Secret Museum (Walter Kendrick)
Pornography in Modern Culture
*Secret Weapons (Thomas Eisner, Maria Eisner, Melody Siegler)
Defenses of Insects, Spiders, Scorpions, and Other Many-Legged Creatures
*Secrets and Lies (Bruce Schneier)
Digital Security in a Networked World
A Secure Base (John Bowlby)
Sendmail (Bryan Costales, Eric Allman)
- the bat book: the world's most popular MTA explained
Sense and Censorship (Michael Pollak)
Commentaries on Censorship Violence in Australia
Sex, Laws, and Cyberspace (Jonathan Wallace, Mark Mangan)
Freedom and Censorship on the Frontiers of the Online Revolution
Sexual Honesty (Shere Hite)
By Women for Women
Shadow Theatre in Java (Alit Djajasoebrata)
The Puppets, Performance and Repertoire
The Shape of Snakes (Minette Walters)
- a compelling and original murder mystery
*Shapes of Time (Kenneth J. McNamara)
The Evolution of Growth and Development
*The Shaping of History (Judith Binney)
Essays from The New Zealand Journal of History
Sheep and Man (M.L. Ryder)
- a comprehensive study of sheep in human history
Sheep-Rearing and the Wool Trade (Joan M. Frayn)
in Italy during the Roman Period
Shinto (Thomas P. Kasulis)
The Way Home
Shipwrecks (Akira Yoshimura)
- a story of a poor coastal village in medieval Japan
Shivaji (James W. Laine)
Hindu King in Islamic India
A Short History of Roman Law (Olga Tellegen-Couperus)
- suitable for those with no background in Roman history
*The Shorter Science and Civilisation in China: 3 (Joseph Needham)
- nautical technology and the compass
The Shout and Other Stories (Robert Graves)
- English, Roman, and Majorcan stories
The Sicilian Vespers (Steven Runciman)
A History of the Mediterranean World in the Later Thirteenth Century
Silk Road (Jeanne Larsen)
- a fantasy novel set in Tang China
The Silver Pigs (Lindsey Davis)
- private informer Marcus Didius Falco uncovers a conspiracy
*The Simple Science of Flight (Henk Tennekes)
From Insects to Jumbo Jets
*Skylark (Dezso Kosztolanyi)
- a novel of provincial life in 1899 Hungary
Slapping on the Writs (Brian Walters)
Defamation, Developers and Community Activism
Small Pieces Loosely Joined (David Weinberger)
{a unified theory of the web}
Small World (David Lodge)
- an academic comedy, parodying literary theories
Snake Oil Science (R. Barker Bausell)
The Truth About Complementary and Alternative Medicine
*Snakes (Harry W. Greene)
The Evolution of Mystery in Nature
Snatched (Helen Vnuk)
Sex and Censorship in Australia
Snow (Orhan Pamuk)
- an intense novel about a coup in a provincial Turkish town
Snow Crash (Neal Stephenson)
- a fast-paced near-future cyberpunk thriller
The Social Amoebae (John Tyler Bonner)
The Biology of Cellular Slime Molds
Society in Crisis (J.H.M. Salmon)
France in the Sixteenth Century
*Soldier of the Mist (Gene Wolfe)
- historical fantasy set in classical Greece, during the Persian Wars
A Song for Arbonne (Guy Gavriel Kay)
*A Song of Ice and Fire (George R.R. Martin)
A Game of Thrones; A Clash of Kings; A Storm of Swords
*The Song of Songs (Ariel Bloch, Chana Bloch)
- a compelling translation of the great Hebrew love poem
*The Song of the Dodo (David Quammen)
Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions
*101 Sonnets (Don Paterson)
From Shakespeare to Heaney
**The Sorrow of Belgium (Hugo Claus)
- an adolescence in Flanders during World War II
*The Sorrow of War (Bao Ninh)
- a novel by a North Vietnamese soldier
*Soul of the Desert (Philippa Nikulinsky, Stephen D Hopper)
- botanical and zoological illustrations from Australian deserts
The Sound of Waves (Yukio Mishima)
- a simple love story set on a small Japanese island
South From Granada (Gerald Brenan)
- settling in an Andalusian village with 2000 books
South of the Border, West of the Sun (Haruki Murakami)
- teenage romance and angst; a midlife crisis
Southern Exposure (Michael Molasky, Steve Rabson)
Modern Japanese Literature From Okinawa
*A Soviet Heretic (Yevgeny Zamyatin)
- essays on Russian literature from the decade after the Revolution
Spain and the Great Powers in the Twentieth Century (Balfour, Preston)
- from 1898 to Felipe Gonzalez
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
The Spanish Cockpit (Franz Borkenau)
An Eyewitness Account of the Spanish Civil War
Species (Robert A. Wilson)
New Interdisciplinary Papers
Spengler's Future (John J. Reilly)
- an exploration of the cycles of world history
Spring Flowers, Spring Frost (Ismail Kadare)
- a mythological comedy in post-communist Albania
SSH, The Secure Shell (Daniel J. Barrett, Richard E. Silverman)
The Definitive Guide
SSL and TLS (Eric Rescorla)
Designing and Building Secure Systems
St. Agatha's Breast (T.C. Van Adler)
- an irreverent tale of murder, sex, and art in a Roman monastery
Standard Indonesian Made Simple (Liaw Yock Fang)
Standing Stones (Jean-Pierre Mohen)
Stonehenge, Carnac and the World of Megaliths
A Stanislaw Lem Reader (Peter Swirski, Stanislaw Lem)
- interviews, essays, and bibliographies
The State of the Art (Iain M. Banks)
- short science fiction
Stopping Spam (Alan Schwartz, Simson Garfinkel)
Stories from a Ming Collection (Feng Menglong)
The Art of the Chinese Storyteller
The Story of French (Jean-Benoît Nadeau, Julie Barlow)
From Charlemagne to The Cirque du Soleil
Straight, Bent and Barbara Vine (Garry Disher)
- short Australian crime fiction
**Strandloper (Alan Garner)
- an Australian convict escapes and joins the Aborigines
The Strange Case of the Broad Street Pump (Sandra Hempel)
John Snow and the Mystery of Cholera
Strange Ground (Henry Maurer)
An Oral History of Americans in Vietnam 1945-1975
*A Student's Introduction to English Grammar (Huddleston, Pullum)
- using the latest linguistic research
Studies in Indonesian History (Elaine McKay)
*Studying Human Origins (Raymond Corbey, Wil Roebroeks)
Disciplinary History and Epistemology
*Style (Joseph M. Williams)
Toward Clarity and Grace
*Suharto (R.E. Elson)
A Political Biography
Suite Française (Irène Némirovsky)
- a novel of France in 1940-1941
*The Suns of Independence (Ahmadou Kourouma)
- a tale of Malinke tradition in an independent Africa
Superdistribution (Brad Cox)
Objects as Property on the Electronic Frontier
*Swallowing Clouds (A. Zee)
A Playful Journey through Chinese Culture, Language, and Cuisine
The Sykaos Papers (E.P. Thompson)
- an alien is studied by military anthropology
Tainted Blood (Arnaldur Indridason)
- an Icelandic murder mystery
Tajos (Ronald Fraser)
The Story of a Village on the Costa del Sol
*Taking Wing (Pat Shipman)
Archaeopteryx and the Evolution of Bird Flight
A Tale of False Fortunes (Enchi Fumiko)
- love and politics in 10th century Japan
Tales of the Field (John Van Maanen)
On Writing Ethnography
The Taliban (Peter Marsden)
War, Religion and the New Order in Afghanistan
Talking About O'Dwyer (C.K. Stead)
- fifty years to resolve a Maori curse from World War II
Talking to Strange Men (Ruth Rendell)
Tangled Trees (Roderic D.M. Page)
Phylogeny, Cospeciation, and Coevolution
*The Tao is Silent (Raymond M. Smullyan)
*Tao Te Ching (Lao Tzu, Ursula K. Le Guin)
- "true words aren't charming; charming words aren't true"
TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1 (W. Richard Stevens)
The Protocols
TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 2 (Gary R. Wright, W. Richard Stevens)
The Implementation
TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 3 (W. Richard Stevens)
TCP for Transactions, HTTP, NNTP, and the UNIX Domain Protocols
Tehanu (Ursula K. Le Guin)
The Last Book of Earthsea
Television (Jean-Philippe Toussaint)
- a procrastinating academic gives up watching television
The Terracotta Dog (Andrea Camilleri)
- a Sicilian detective takes a historical excursion
Terror in the Mind of God (Mark Juergensmeyer)
The Global Rise of Religious Violence
*Text Processing in Python (David Mertz)
- a good mix of basic ideas and concrete examples
Thank You For Not Reading (Dubravka Ugresic)
Essays on Literary Trivia
*Therapy (David Lodge)
- a sitcom script-writer suffers a mid-life crisis
*Think Unix (Jon Lasser)
- an introduction to Unix for smart people
Thinks... (David Lodge)
- a romantic comedy of manners in a provincial English university
*This Blinding Absence of Light (Tahar ben Jelloun)
- surviving incarceration in a secret Moroccan prison
**This Earth of Mankind (Pramoedya Ananta Toer)
- the Buru Quartet: novels of colonial Indonesia
Three (Georges Perec)
Which Moped? The Exeter Text. A Gallery Portrait.
Three Dialogues on Knowledge (Paul Feyerabend)
Throwim Way Leg (Tim Flannery)
- a biologist's adventures in the New Guinea highlands
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
*Tigana (Guy Gavriel Kay)
*The Time of Miracles (Borislav Pekic)
- prophecy, blindness, uncleanliness, sin, faith, madness
Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle (Stephen Jay Gould)
Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time
Tlooth (Harry Mathews)
- wildly inventive games with language, narrative, and ideas
To Bid or Not to Bid (Larry Cohen)
The Law of Total Tricks
To Feed a Nation (Keith Farrer)
A history of Australian food science and technology
Tolkien's Gown (Rick Gekoski)
And Other Stories of Great Authors and Rare Books
*A Tomb for Boris Davidovich (Danilo Kis)
- dark stories of revolutionaries betrayed
*Torn Shapes of Desire (Mary Anne Mohanraj)
Internet Erotica
*The Total Library (Jorge Luis Borges)
Non-Fiction 1922-1986
Totemism (Claude Lévi-Strauss)
Tower of Babel (Robert T. Pennock)
The Evidence Against the New Creationism
*Trade and Civilisation in the Indian Ocean (K.N. Chaudhuri)
An Economic History from the Rise of Islam to 1750
The Traditional Architecture of Indonesia (Barry Dawson, John Gillow)
- rumah adat across the archipelago
Trafalgar in History (David Cannadine)
A Battle and its Afterlife
The Treaty of Waitangi (Claudia Orange)
- its 1840 making and subsequent history
*Trees on a Slope (Hwang Sun-won)
- a novel of the Korean war
Trial and Error (Edward J. Larson)
The American Controversy Over Creation and Evolution
Trick or Treatment? (Simon Singh, Edzard Ernst)
Alternative Medicine on Trial
Tristes Tropiques (Claude Lévi-Strauss)
- travels in Brazil: "I hate travelling and explorers"
Troubled Waters (Sarah Lazarus)
The Changing Fortunes of Whales and Dolphins
The Truth About the Savolta Case (Eduardo Mendoza)
- violence and intrigue in 1918 Barcelona
*Trying Neaira (Debra Hamel)
The True Story of a Courtesan's Scandalous Life in Ancient Greece
The Turkish Embassy Letters (Lady Mary Wortley Montagu)
- an aristocratic Englishwoman visits Ottoman Turkey
The Turnpike Road System in England 1663-1840 (William Albert)
- development, administration, finance; repair and transport costs
Tuttle's Concise Indonesian Dictionary (A.L.N. Kramer, Willie Koen)
The Twelve Chairs (Ilya Ilf, Evgeny Petrov)
- a satirical novel of Soviet Russia in the 1920s
The Two Cultures (C.P. Snow)
- science versus the humanities
Uncommon People (Eric Hobsbawm)
Resistance, Rebellion, and Jazz
Under the Heel of the Dragon (Blaine Kaltman)
Islam, Racism, Crime, and the Uighur in China
Under the Volcano (Cameron Forbes)
The Story of Bali
Under Three Flags (Benedict Anderson)
Anarchism and the Anti-Colonial Imagination
Underground (Suelette Dreyfus)
Tales of Hacking, Madness and Obsession on the Electronic Frontier
Understanding Relativity (Leo Sartori)
A Simplified Approach to Einstein's Theories
Universal Compression and Retrieval (Rafail Krichevsky)
Untimely Death (Fred Yager, Jan Yager)
- a fast-paced psychological thriller set in Manhattan
The Untouchables (Oliver Mendelsohn, Marika Vicziany)
Subordination, Poverty and the State in Modern India
Use of Weapons (Iain M. Banks)
The USENET Handbook (Mark Harrison)
A User's Guide to Netnews
Usenet: Netnews for Everyone (Jenny A. Fristrup)
Using Email Effectively (Linda Lamb, Jerry Peek)
Varieties of Javanese Religion (Andrew Beatty)
An Anthropological Account
*Vermeer's Milkmaid (Manuel Rivas)
- superb Galician short stories
Very Good, Jeeves! (P.G. Wodehouse)
**The Viceroy of Ouidah (Bruce Chatwin)
- a short but powerful novel of West Africa
Vietnam (David Chanoff, Doan Van Toai)
A Portrait of its People at War
Vietnam 1946 (Stein Tønnesson)
How the War Began
Vietnam: A Natural History (Sterling, Hurley, Minh)
- biogeography, flora and fauna, and conservation
The View from Afar (Claude Lévi-Strauss)
- essays and talks on topics anthropological
Vignettes From the Late Ming (Yang Ye)
A Hsiao-p'in Anthology
Village of Stone (Xiaolu Guo)
- a childhood in a remote Chinese fishing village
Vineland (Thomas Pynchon)
Violence in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1800 (Julius R. Ruff)
- a wide-ranging survey
**The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (Edward R. Tufte)
- the classic work on statistical graphics
*Vocabulary Building in Indonesian (Soenjono Dardjowidjojo)
An Advanced Reader
The Voice of the Nightingale (Sabine Felmy)
A Personal Account of Wakhi Culture in Hunza
*Voices From Chernobyl (Svetlana Alexievich)
The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
*A Void (Georges Perec)
- a lipogram, a novel written without using the letter e
Voyage to the End of the Room (Tibor Fischer)
- an entertaining and inventive novel
**Waiting for the Wild Beasts to Vote (Ahmadou Kourouma)
- the life story of an African dictator
The Wallet of Kai Lung (Ernest Bramah)
- baroque comic tales of a fantastic China
War Trash (Ha Jin)
- the story of a Chinese prisoner-of-war in Korea
War With the Newts (Karel Capek)
- sweeping science fiction satire
The Way of the Pathans (James W. Spain)
- hospitality, revenge, and sanctuary in Pakistan and Afghanistan
100 Ways of Seeing an Unequal World (Bob Sutcliffe)
- graphical presentations of different forms of inequality
We are not French! (Maryon McDonald)
Language, Culture and Identity in Brittany
**Weapons of the Weak (James C. Scott)
Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance
Web Application Development with PHP 4.0 (Ratschiller, Gerken)
Web Security (Rohit Khare)
A Matter of Trust
*The Welsh Sonata (James Hanley)
- love and loss in a Welsh mining district
*The Wet and the Dry (Patrick Vinton Kirch)
Irrigation and Agricultural Intensification in Polynesia
What is Life? The Next Fifty Years (Michael P. Murphy, Luke A.J. O'Neill)
Speculations on the Future of Biology
What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew (Daniel Pool)
From Fox Hunting to Whist - the Facts of Daily Life in 19th-Century England
What We Know About Childcare (Clarke-Stewart, Allhusen)
- a survey of research into childcare in the United States
Who Killed Jesus? (John Dominic Crossan)
Exposing the Roots of Anti-Semitism in the Gospel Story of the Death of Jesus
Why Did You Leave the Horse Alone? (Mahmoud Darwish)
- "the premier poetic voice of the Palestinian people"
Wife to Mr. Milton (Robert Graves)
- a novel of the English Civil War
Wild Borneo (Nick Garbutt, J. Cede Prudente)
The wildlife and scenery of Sabah, Sarawak, Brunei and Kalimantan
Wild Fiordland (Neville Peat, Brian Patrick)
Discovering the Natural History of a World Heritage Area
The Wild Numbers (Philibert Schogt)
- a novel about a mathematician
The Wind-up Bird Chronicle (Haruki Murakami)
- a Japanese mix of fantasy and historical fiction
*Windows on Meteorology (Eric K. Webb)
Australian Perspective
The Wings (Yi Sang)
- dark Korean stories of love, sex, and illness
Witches Abroad (Terry Pratchett)
**Woman on the Edge of Time (Marge Piercy)
- parallel conflicts in a far-future utopia and a present mental hospital
The Wombat (Barbara Triggs)
Common Wombats in Australia
Women in a River Landscape (Heinrich Böll)
A Novel in Dialogues and Soliloquies
*Women in Late Antiquity (Gillian Clark)
Pagan and Christian Lifestyles
Women Without Men (Shahrnush Parsipur)
A Novel of Modern Iran
Wonder (Hugo Claus)
- collaboration and confusion in post-war Flanders
Wonderful Life (Stephen Jay Gould)
The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
Word Crimes (Joss Marsh)
Blasphemy, Culture, and Literature in Nineteenth-Century England
Works Along the Way (Gisli Sigurdsson)
- notable Icelandic architecture in concrete
World Atlas of Coral Reefs (Spalding, Ravilious, Green)
- reef geography, geology, ecology, and conservation
The World of Nagaraj (R.K. Narayan)
- a loveable but ineffectual dilettante in small-town India
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
World's End (Joan D. Vinge)
The World's Religions (Ninian Smart)
Old Traditions and Modern Transformations
The Worldly Philosophers (Robert Heilbroner)
The Lives, Times and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers
*The Wrench (Primo Levi)
- superb fiction about the life of an Italian working man
*Writing Systems (Florian Coulmas)
An introduction to their linguistic analysis
X User Tools (Linda Mui, Valerie Quercia)
XML Pocket Reference (Robert Eckstein)
The Yacoubian Building (Alaa Al Aswany)
- a novel of violence and corruption in Cairo
The Year of the Flood (Eduardo Mendoza)
- love strikes a nun in a Spanish village
The Yiddish Policemen's Union (Michael Chabon)
- alternative history mystery in a Jewish state in Alaska

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