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Book Reviews

• Africa in the Iron Age (Roland Oliver, Brian M. Fagan)
  c. 500 B.C. to A.D. 1400
• *African Civilizations (Graham Connah)
  An Archaeological Perspective
• **Anthropological Studies of Religion (Brian Morris)
  An Introductory Text
• Burke, Paine, Godwin and the Revolution Controversy (Marilyn Butler)
  - English political writing from the end of the 18th century
• The Cambridge Companion to Children's Literature (Grenby, Immel)
  - sixteen essays
• 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
• *Caste, Society and Politics in India (Susan Bayly)
  From the Eighteenth Century to the Modern Age
• Climate Change and Climate Modeling (J. David Neelin)
  - an accessible undergraduate text
• Conquerors' Road (Osmar White)
  An Eyewitness Account of Germany 1945
• Cyber Criminals on Trial (Russell G. Smith, Peter Grabosky, Gregor Urbas)
  - the prosecution and judicial handling of computer crime
• Darwin (William Brown, Andrew C. Fabian)
  - lectures on Darwin's influence, cultural and scientific
• 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
• The Development of Atmospheric General Circulation Models (Donner, Schubert, Somerville)
  Complexity, Synthesis and Computation
• Dinosaurs: A Concise Natural History (Fastovsky, Weishampel)
  - an accessible overview of dinosaur systematics + biology
• The Discarded Image (C.S. Lewis)
  An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature
• DNA, Words and Models (Stéphane Robin, François Rodolphe, Sophie Schbath)
  Statistics of Exceptional Words
• *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
• Electromagnetic Processes in Dispersive Media (Melrose, McPhedran)
  A Treatment Based on the Dielectric Tensor
• *Empires (Susan E. Alcock et al.)
  Perspectives from Archaeology and History
• The End of Ancient Christianity (R.A. Markus)
  - changes in Western Christianity in the fourth through sixth centuries
• English as a Global Language (David Crystal)
  - its use, history, and culture
• The English Languages (Tom McArthur)
• Ethiopia: Power and Protest (Gebru Tareke)
  Peasant Revolts in the Twentieth Century
• 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
• Evolution of the Insects (David Grimaldi, Michael S. Engel)
  - fossils, phylogenetics, and evolutionary biology
• The Evolution of the Polynesian Chiefdoms (Patrick Vinton Kirch)
• Evolutionary Catastrophes (Vincent Courtillot)
  The Science of Mass Extinctions
• *Evolutionary Pathways in Nature (John C. Avise)
  - applications of comparative phylogenetics
• Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany (Richard Bessel)
  Comparisons and Contrasts
• Financial Calculus (Martin Baxter, Andrew Rennie)
  An Introduction to Derivative Pricing
• Fire in the Sea: The Santorini Volcano (Walter L Friedrich)
  Natural History and the Legend of Atlantis
• *Forbidding Wrong in Islam (Michael Cook)
  - the history of an injunction
• The Formation of Islam (Jonathan Berkey)
  Religion and Society in the Near East, 600-1800
• The Foundations of Artificial Intelligence (Partridge, Wilks)
  A Sourcebook
• Genius Explained (Michael J. A. Howe)
  - environment, personality, and hard work
• *The Geology of Australia (David Johnson)
  - an excellent introduction for the lay reader
• German: A Linguistic Introduction (Sarah M.B. Fagan)
  - language structure, history, and contemporary use
• *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 the English Language (Richard Hogg, David Denison)
  - "pitched at senior undergraduates in the main"
• History of the Inca Realm (María Rostworowski de Diez Canseco)
  - an ethnohistorical overview
• A History of the Peoples of Siberia (James Forsyth)
  Russia's North Asian Colony 1581-1990
• *How Languages Work (Carol Genetti)
  An Introduction to Language and Linguistics
• *How To Fold It (Joseph O'Rourke)
  The Mathematics of Linkages, Origami, and Polyhedra
• The Indo-European Controversy (Asya Pereltsvaig, Martin W. Lewis)
  Facts and Fallacies in Historical Linguistics
• Introduction to Conservation Genetics (Frankham, Ballou, Briscoe)
  - a nicely presented undergraduate text
• *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
• The Invention of Tradition (Eric Hobsbawm, Terence Ranger)
  - essays on the recent construction of symbolic and ceremonial traditions
• Ireland: A History (Thomas Bartlett)
  - a lucid and engaging narrative account
• 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
• Life on Other Worlds (Steven J. Dick)
  The 20th-Century Extraterrestrial Life Debate
• The Lighter Side of Gravity (Jayant V. Narlikar)
  - a popular introduction to the physics behind astronomy
• *Magic in the Middle Ages (Richard Kieckhefer)
  - an insightful study of medieval magic, demonic and natural
• Marc Bloch (Carole Fink)
  A Life in History
• Martyrdom in Islam (David Cook)
  - from its genesis to modern radicals
• *The Military Revolution (Geoffrey Parker)
  Military Innovation and the Rise of the West 1500-1800
• 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 Solar System (Beatty, Petersen, Chaikin)
  - a comprehensive overview aimed at educated non-specialists
• *Origins of Life (Freeman Dyson)
  - a short, slightly idiosyncratic look at abiogenesis
• *The Outer Reaches of Life (John Postgate)
  - bacteria in extreme environments
• *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
• Pheromones and Animal Behavior (Tristram D. Wyatt)
  Chemical Signals and Signatures
• *The Physics of Information Technology (Neil Gershenfeld)
  - a graduate or higher undergraduate text
• A Place for Strangers (Tony Swain)
  Towards a History of Australian Aboriginal Being
• A Plague of Sheep (Elinor G.K. Melville)
  Environmental Consequences of the Conquest of Mexico
• Psychology and Law (Andreas Kapardis)
  - witnesses, juries, sentencing, detecting deception, policing, ...
• Racial Theories (Michael Banton)
  - Cuvier, Morton, Nott, Smith, Knox, Vogt, Cox, Bonacich, ...
• 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
• The Science and Politics of Global Climate Change (Dessler, Parson)
  A Guide to the Debate
• *Selected Letters of Charles Darwin (Frederick Burkhardt)
  Origins; Evolution
• *The Shorter Science and Civilisation in China: 3 (Joseph Needham)
  - nautical technology and the compass
• The Sicilian Vespers (Steven Runciman)
  A History of the Mediterranean World in the Later Thirteenth Century
• *A Student's Introduction to English Grammar (Huddleston, Pullum)
  - using the latest linguistic research
• *Suharto (R.E. Elson)
  A Political Biography
• *Trade and Civilisation in the Indian Ocean (K.N. Chaudhuri)
  An Economic History from the Rise of Islam to 1750
• *Trees: Their Natural History (Peter A. Thomas)
  - the challenges of being a tree
• The Turnpike Road System in England 1663-1840 (William Albert)
  - development, administration, finance; repair and transport costs
• The Two Cultures (C.P. Snow)
  - science versus the humanities
• The Untouchables (Oliver Mendelsohn, Marika Vicziany)
  Subordination, Poverty and the State in Modern India
• Using German Vocabulary (Sarah B. Fagan)
  - exercises for advanced vocabulary acquisition
• Varieties of Javanese Religion (Andrew Beatty)
  An Anthropological Account
• Violence in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1800 (Julius R. Ruff)
  - a wide-ranging survey
• What is Life? The Next Fifty Years (Michael P. Murphy, Luke A.J. O'Neill)
  Speculations on the Future of Biology
• Why Is There Philosophy of Mathematics At All? (Ian Hacking)
  - an informal tour by an experienced guide
• Why Switzerland? (Jonathan Steinberg)
  - history, politics, language, wealth, religion + identity
• The World's Religions (Ninian Smart)
  Old Traditions and Modern Transformations
• Writing Systems (Florian Coulmas)
  An introduction to their linguistic analysis

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