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- 19 September 2023 (187 words)
- Scots & Catalans (J.H. Elliott)
- a history of two nations within states
- 3 July 2023 (518)
- Before Religion (Brent Nongbri)
A History of a Modern Concept
- 19 June 2023 (175)
- Women Dreaming (Salma)
- a divorce in a poor Muslim village in Tamil Nadu
- 30 March 2023 (515)
- Edible Insects and Human Evolution (Julie J. Lesink)
- ethnography, primatology, paleontology, nutrition, ...
- 23 March 2023 (333)
- Cycling for Sustainable Cities (Ralph Buehler, John Pucher)
The Politics of Cycling Infrastructure (Peter Cox, Till Koglin)
Spaces and (In)Equality
- 24 February 2023 (114)
- Dear Reader (Paul Fournel)
- an old-fashioned publisher faces change
- 9 February 2023 (477)
- Emergent Tokyo (Jorge Almazan)
- yokochō alleyways, zakkyo buildings, undertrack infills, ankyo streets + dense low-rise neighbourhoods
- 6 January 2023 (368)
- In the City of Bikes (Pete Jordan)
The Story of the Amsterdam Cyclist
- 4 January 2023 (153)
- Still Born (Guadalupe Nettel)
- a novel of many motherhoods
- 7 December 2022 (438)
- About Our Schools: Improving on Previous Best (Brighouse, Waters)
- the past, present and future of the English school system
- 26 November 2022 (351)
- The Golden Rhinoceros (François-Xavier Fauvelle)
Histories of the African Middle Ages
- 1 November 2022 (288)
- Bolt From the Blue (Jeremy Cooper)
- an epistolary novel of London's avant-garde art scene
- 25 October 2022 (591)
- Empires of the Word (Nicholas Ostler)
A Language History of the World
- 15 September 2022 (242)
- Three Apples Fell from the Sky (Narine Abgaryan)
- life revives in an Armenian mountain village
- 1 September 2022 (635)
- In Praise of Walking (Shane O'Mara)
The New Science of How We Walk and Why It's Good for Us
- 8 August 2022 (157)
- Surreal Numbers (D.E. Knuth)
- a lightly dramatised exploration
- 6 July 2022 (451)
- Amsterdam: A Brief Life of the City (Geert Mak)
- from polders to provocations
- 27 June 2022 (405)
- How Dead Languages Work (Coulter H. George)
- a linguistic, historical + literary potpourri covering six languages
- 25 May 2022 (714)
- **The Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs (Camilla Townsend)
- using indigenous Nahuatl sources
- 26 April 2022 (280)
- The Road to Middle-Earth (Tom Shippey)
J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century (Tom Shippey)
- 5 April 2022 (365)
- *Atlas of the Invisible (James Cheshire, Oliver Uberti)
Maps and Graphics That Will Change How You See the World
- 3 March 2022 (234)
- The Travelling Cat Chronicles (Hiro Arikawa)
- a road-trip around Japan with a cat
- 8 February 2022 (717)
- Fire and Ice (Natalie Starkey)
The Volcanoes of the Solar System
- 26 January 2022 (205)
- Autumn Rounds (Jacques Poulin)
- an exceptionally gentle novel, a quiet romance
- 3 January 2022 (299)
- Tomb of Sand (Geetanjali Shree)
- from family comedy to the politics of partition
- 17 December 2021 (309)
- The Pursuit of Italy (David Gilmour)
A History of a Land, Its Regions and Their Peoples
- 15 November 2021 (268)
- *Manaschi (Hamid Ismailov)
- a Kyrgyz story, modern and traditional
- 18 October 2021 (401)
- Britain Begins (Barry Cunliffe)
- from the Ice Age to the Norman Conquest
- 3 September 2021 (318)
- **Lectures on the Philosophy of Mathematics (Joel David Hamkins)
- from numbers and rigor to incompleteness and set theory
- 2 September 2021 (157)
- The English Civil Wars 1640-1660 (Blair Worden)
- a straightforward but insightful account
- 7 August 2021 (351)
- *Combinatorics and Graph Theory (Harris, Hirst, Mossinghoff)
- from the elementary to the infinite
- 31 July 2021 (293)
- Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 (Cho Nam-Joo)
- a woman's life in modern South Korea
- 14 July 2021 (647)
- The Miracle Pill (Peter Walker)
Why a sedentary world is getting it all wrong
- 23 June 2021 (211)
- Everything Like Before (Kjell Askildsen)
- stories of estrangement and misunderstanding
- 6 June 2021 (265)
- *Tokyo Ueno Station (Yu Miri)
- down and out in Tokyo and Fukushima
- 18 May 2021 (659)
- *Jellyfish: A Natural History (Lisa-Ann Gershwin)
- a fascinating survey with stunning photos
- 27 April 2021 (539)
- Viruses, Plagues, and History (Michael B. A. Oldstone)
Past, Present, and Future
Viruses: A Very Short Introduction (Dorothy H. Crawford)
- 15 April 2021 (540)
- Across the Bridge (Henry Gee)
Understanding the Origin of the Vertebrates
- 29 March 2021 (547)
- Turning Points (Mark A. Noll)
Decisive Moments in the History of Christianity
- 24 March 2021 (576)
- Salt Water (Josep Pla)
- stories of the north Catalan coast
- 1 March 2021 (796)
- Mathematics in Ancient Egypt (Annette Imhausen)
A Contextual History
- 4 February 2021 (988)
- **Army Ants (Daniel J.C. Kronauer)
Nature's Ultimate Social Hunters
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