Harvard University Press

Book Reviews

• Adam's Fallacy (Duncan K. Foley)
  A Guide to Economic Theology
• American Agriculture in the Twentieth Century (Bruce L. Gardner)
  How it Flourished and What it Cost
• *Animal Social Complexity (Frans B. M. de Waal, Peter L. Tyack)
  Intelligence, Culture, and Individualized Societies
• *The Ants (Bert Hölldobler, Edward O. Wilson)
  - ant ecology, ethology and evolutionary biology
• **Arithmetic (Paul Lockhart)
  - a deep look at elementary mathematics
• **Army Ants (Daniel J.C. Kronauer)
  Nature's Ultimate Social Hunters
• Asian Honey Bees (Benjamin P. Oldroyd, Siriwat Wongsiri)
  Biology, Conservation and Human Interactions
• The Chinese Vernacular Story (Patrick Hanan)
  - Feng Menglong, Ling Menchu, Li Yu, ...
• Darwinism Comes to America (Ronald L. Numbers)
  - creationism and religion in the United States
• The Dialectical Biologist (Richard Levins, Richard Lewontin)
  - essays on evolution, genetics, and the politics of biology
• The Evolutionary Synthesis (Ernst Mayr, William B. Provine)
  Perspectives on the Unification of Biology
• **For Love of Insects (Thomas Eisner)
  - the grand synthesis of a veteran scientist
• Forgotten Armies (Christopher Bayly, Tim Harper)
  The Fall of British Asia, 1941-1945
• Historical Atlas of Islam (Malise Ruthven, Azim Nanji)
  - disappointing: uneven and in places inaccurate
• *Imperial China 900-1800 (F.W. Mote)
  - with a focus on political institutions and systems of government
• Inequality: What Can Be Done? (Anthony B. Atkinson)
  - a pragmatic analysis with practical suggestions
• Iron Kingdom (Christopher Clark)
  The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947
• Maize and Grace (James C. McCann)
  Africa's Encounter with a New World Crop 1500-2000
• A New History of German Literature (David E. Wellberry)
  - two hundred short essays on diverse topics
• **Ontogeny and Phylogeny (Stephen Jay Gould)
  - the history of recapitulation; developmental timing and evolution
• *The Revolution of Peter the Great (James Cracraft)
  - a lively account of the changes he brought to Russia
• *Secret Weapons (Thomas Eisner, Maria Eisner, Melody Siegler)
  Defenses of Insects, Spiders, Scorpions, and Other Many-Legged Creatures
• Trusting What You're Told (Paul L. Harris)
  How Children Learn from Others
• *The Unthinkable Revolution in Iran (Charles Kurzman)
  - a synthesis of social history and sociology
• What We Know About Childcare (Clarke-Stewart, Allhusen)
  - a survey of research into childcare in the United States