Blackwell

Book Reviews

• *The Aztecs (Michael E. Smith)
  - archaeology and social history
• The Bretons (Patrick Galliou, Michael Jones)
  - the history and archaeology of Brittany down to 1491
• The Cathars (Malcolm Lambert)
  - a solid academic survey
• *Cells, Embryos, and Evolution (John Gerhart, Marc Kirschner)
  Towards a Cellular and Developmental Understanding of Phenotypic Variation and Evolutionary Adaptability
• The Ethiopians (Richard Pankhurst)
  A History
• God is Dead (Steve Bruce)
  Secularization in the West
• The Holocene (Neil Roberts)
  An Environmental History
• *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
• *The Norsemen in the Viking Age (Eric Christiansen)
  - a descriptive survey staying close to the evidence
• *Poverty - A History (Bronislaw Geremek)
  - with a focus on late medieval and early modern Europe