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Book Reviews
- Africa's Discovery of Europe: 1450-1850 (David Northrup)
- African perspectives on encounters with Europeans
- *Against Marriage (Clare Chambers)
An Egalitarian Defence of the Marriage-Free State
- The Ancient Olympics (Nigel Spivey)
- history, archaeology, mythology, politics, ...
- The Baburnama (Zahiruddin Babur)
Memoirs of Babur, Prince and Emperor
- Baggara Arabs (Ian Cunnison)
Power and the Lineage in a Sudanese Nomad Tribe
- Bible: The Story of the King James Version 1611-2011 (Gordon Campbell)
- from its precursors to the 21st Century
- The Biology of African Savannahs (Bryan Shorrocks)
- species, populations, interactions, communities
- Bismarck: A Life (Jonathan Steinberg)
- an engaging but uneven biography
- A Bitter Revolution (Rana Mitter)
- China's May Fourth Movement and its legacy
- Bridges (David Blockley)
The Science and Art of the World's Most Inspiring Structures
- *The Bridges of Medieval England (David Harrison)
Transport and Society 400-1800
- Britain Begins (Barry Cunliffe)
- from the Ice Age to the Norman Conquest
- Buddhism in the Modern World (Steven Heine, Charles S. Prebish)
Adaptations of an Ancient Tradition
- *Cancer: The Evolutionary Legacy (Mel Greaves)
- cellular biology and human evolution, history and society
- The Caucasus: An Introduction (Thomas de Waal)
- the modern history of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia
- Chaos and Fractals (David P. Feldman)
An Elementary Introduction
- *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
- Classical Mythology (Helen Morales)
A Very Short Introduction
- Colliding Continents (Mike Searle)
A Geological Exploration of the Himalaya, Karakoram, and Tibet
- The Comparative Method in Evolutionary Biology (Harvey, Pagel)
- *Development as Freedom (Amartya Sen)
- broad-ranging popular economics
- The Dutch Republic (Jonathan I. Israel)
Its Rise, Greatness, and Fall 1477-1806
- *The Emerald Planet (David Beerling)
How Plants Changed Earth's History
- Environmental Histories of New Zealand (Eric Pawson, Tom Brooking)
- papers on ecology, economics, conservation, and ideas
- *The Evolution of Plants (K.J. Willis, J.C. McElwain)
- fossils, phylogenetics, environments, biogeography, ...
- *Evolutionary Genetics (John Maynard Smith)
- a readable introductory text
- 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
- **Faces in the Clouds (Stewart Guthrie)
A New Theory of Religion
- *The Fifth Queen (Ford Madox Ford)
- a novel about Henry VIII's fifth wife, Katharine Howard
- **The Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs (Camilla Townsend)
- using indigenous Nahuatl sources
- Financing the First World War (Hew Strachan)
- gold, taxation, domestic and foreign borrowing
- The First World War in Africa (Hew Strachan)
- Togoland, the Cameroons, South-West Africa, East Africa
- Fractals: A Very Short Introduction (Kenneth Falconer)
- the obvious starting point for lay readers
- French Literature (John D. Lyons)
A Very Short Introduction
- Genetics, Speciation and the Founder Principle (Giddings, Kaneshiro, Anderson)
- essays on founder effects, genetic revolutions, karyotype evolution, ...
- German Literature: A Very Short Introduction (Nicholas Boyle)
- between the bourgeoisie and officialdom
- Higher Speculations (Helge Kragh)
Grand Theories and Failed Revolutions in Physics and Cosmology
- The Hindus: An Alternative History (Wendy Doniger)
- down-to-earth and magisterial
- A History of German (Joseph Salmons)
What the Past Reveals About Today's Language
- A History of Russia (Nicholas V. Riasanovsky)
- Kievan, Appanage, Muscovite, Imperial, and Soviet Russia
- A History of the Peoples of Pakistan (J. Hussain)
Towards Independence
- How Dead Languages Work (Coulter H. George)
- a linguistic, historical + literary potpourri covering six languages
- How to Read a Latin Poem (William Fitzgerald)
If You Can't Read Latin Yet
- Human Biology (G.A. Harrison et al.)
An Introduction to Human Evolution, Variation, Growth and Adaptability
- Inequality Reexamined (Amartya Sen)
- equality in political and economic philosophy
- An Introduction to Auction Theory (Flavio M. Menezes, Paulo K. Monteiro)
- mathematically rigorous techniques and methods
- An Introduction to Children's Literature (Peter Hunt)
- a lively and opinionated history
- An Introduction to Historical Linguistics (Terry Crowley)
- a straightforward text
- *Islam (John L. Esposito)
The Straight Path
- Letters from the Malay Archipelago (Alfred Russel Wallace)
- travelling, observing, collecting, theorising, ...
- The Major Transitions in Evolution (John Maynard Smith, Eörs Szathmáry)
- from prebiotic chemistry to the origins of society
- *Medieval Warfare (Maurice Keen)
A History
- Microbial Phylogeny and Evolution (Jan Sapp)
Concepts and Controversies
- *Music, Language, and the Brain (Aniruddh D. Patel)
- links in rhythm, melody, syntax, meaning, evolution
- The Mystery of Numbers (Annemarie Schimmel)
- an unstructured collection of numerological beliefs
- Myths from Mesopotamia (Stephanie Dalley)
Creation, The Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others
- **The Nature of Computation (Christopher Moore, Stephan Mertens)
- L, P, NP, EXP, co, SPACE, TIME, BPP, BQP, ...
- Neutral Models in Biology (Matthew H. Nitecki, Antoni Hoffman)
- in genetics, ecology, evolution, and paleontology
- *Notebooks from New Guinea (Vojtech Novotny)
Fieldnotes of a Tropical Biologist
- The Nuer (E.E. Evans-Pritchard)
A Description of the Modes of Livelihood and Political Institutions of a Nilotic People
- *On the Wing (David E. Alexander)
Insects, Pterosaurs, Birds, Bats and the Evolution of Animal Flight
- *Once Upon a Time (Marina Warner)
A Short History of Fairy Tale
- One Illness Away (Anirudh Krishna)
Why People Become Poor and How they Escape Poverty
- Oxford (Jan Morris)
- a potpourri of information about the town and university
- The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (Daniel Hahn)
- an encyclopedia covering authors in English and their work
- *The Oxford Companion to Food (Alan Davidson)
- a gloriously erudite encyclopedia of biology, culture, history
- Oxford Surveys in Evolutionary Biology 1 (Richard Dawkins, M. Ridley)
- sex, signalling, fireflies, epistasis, hierarchy, phylogeny, and more
- 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 Populist Temptation (Barry Eichengreen)
Economic Grievance and Political Reaction in the Modern Era
- Projective Geometry: An Introduction (Rey Casse)
- a formal, coordinate-based approach
- The Riches Beneath Our Feet (Geoff Coyle)
How Mining Shaped Britain
- The Ring of Words (Peter Gilliver, Jeremy Marshall, Edmund Weiner)
Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary
- Shivaji (James W. Laine)
Hindu King in Islamic India
- Snake Oil Science (R. Barker Bausell)
The Truth About Complementary and Alternative Medicine
- Spitting Blood: The History of Tuberculosis (Helen Bynum)
- the social and medical history of a disease
- The Structure of Soviet History (Ronald Grigor Suny)
Essays and Documents
- Trans-Saharan Africa in World History (Ralph A. Austen)
- Maghreb, Sudan and Sahara; Islam, empires and trade
- Trial and Error (Edward J. Larson)
The American Controversy Over Creation and Evolution
- Tundra-Taiga Biology (R.M.M. Crawford)
Human, Plant, and Animal Survival in the Arctic
- *An Unnatural History of Emerging Infections (Barrett, Armelagos)
- subsistence, settlement, and social organisation
- Viruses, Plagues, and History (Michael B. A. Oldstone)
Past, Present, and Future
- Viruses: A Very Short Introduction (Dorothy H. Crawford)
- *Visual Complex Analysis (Tristram Needham)
- a genuinely geometric perspective
- The Voice of the Nightingale (Sabine Felmy)
A Personal Account of Wakhi Culture in Hunza
- The Way of the Pathans (James W. Spain)
- hospitality, revenge, and sanctuary in Pakistan and Afghanistan
- Who We Are and How We Got Here (David Reich)
Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past
- *Women in Late Antiquity (Gillian Clark)
Pagan and Christian Lifestyles