Princeton University Press

Book Reviews

• *Afghanistan (Thomas Barfield)
  A Cultural and Political History
• Arab Seafaring (George F. Hourani)
  In the Indian Ocean in Ancient and Early Medieval Times
• Beautiful Geometry (Eli Maor, Eugen Jost)
  - art illustrating classical results
• Before and After Muhammad (Garth Fowden)
  The First Millennium Refocused
• Beyond Global Warming (Syukuro Manabe, Anthony J. Broccoli)
  How Numerical Models Revealed the Secrets of Climate Change
• *The Box (Marc Levinson)
  How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
• Byzantine Matters (Averil Cameron)
  - historical debates, challenges and questions
• Celestial Encounters (Florin Diacu, Philip Holmes)
  The Origins of Chaos and Stability
• Circles Disturbed (Apostolos Doxiadis, Barry Mazur)
  The Interplay of Mathematics and Narrative
• Confucianism as a World Religion (Anna Sun)
  Contested Histories and Contemporary Realities
• *Conservation (Monique Borgerhoff Mulder, Peter Coppolillo)
  Linking Ecology, Economics, and Culture
• A Cooperative Species (Samuel Bowles, Herbert Gintis)
  Human Reciprocity and Its Evolution
• Count Like An Egyptian (David Reimer)
  A Hands-On Introduction to Ancient Mathematics
• Cross and Scepter (Sverre Bagge)
  The Rise of the Scandinavian Kingdoms from the Vikings to the Reformation
• Development Economics (Debraj Ray)
  - a textbook survey
• Devil in the Mountain (Simon Lamb)
  A Search for the Origin of the Andes
• Egypt, Canaan and Israel in Ancient Times (Donald B. Redford)
  - from prehistory to the destruction of Jerusalem in 586 BC
• Elements of Mathematics: From Euclid to Gödel (John Stillwell)
  - "elementary" and its boundary with "advanced"
• Elliptic Tales (Avner Ash, Robert Gross)
  Curves, Counting, and Number Theory
• Empire to Commonwealth (Garth Fowden)
  Consequences of Monotheism in Late Antiquity
• Empires of the Silk Road (Christopher I. Beckwith)
  A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present
• *Euler's Gem (David S. Richeson)
  The Polyhedron Formula and the Birth of Topology
• Extinction (Douglas H. Erwin)
  How Life on Earth Nearly Ended 250 Million Years Ago
• Famine: A Short History (Cormac Ó Gráda)
  - demography and political, economic and social history
• Fearless Symmetry (Avner Ash, Robert Gross)
  Exposing the Hidden Patterns of Numbers
• Fractals (Hans Lauwerier)
  Endlessly Repeated Geometrical Figures
• Gamma (Julian Havil)
  Exploring Euler's Constant
• GDP: A Brief But Affectionate History (Diane Coyle)
  - changing definitions and applications
• The Golden Rhinoceros (François-Xavier Fauvelle)
  Histories of the African Middle Ages
• Hands (John Napier)
  - structure, function, and evolution; social and cultural roles
• *The Horse, The Wheel, and Language (David W. Anthony)
  How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World
• *Insects and Flowers (Friedrich G. Barth)
  The Biology of a Partnership
• **The Languages of China (S. Robert Ramsey)
  - social, cultural, and historical background as well as linguistics
• The Little Book of Black Holes (Steven S. Grubser, Frans Pretorius)
  - from basic physics to collision observations
• *The Long Thaw (David Archer)
  How Humans Are Changing the Next 100,000 Years of Earth's Climate
• Magical Mushrooms, Mischievous Molds (George W. Hudler)
  - fungi and their influence on our lives
• *The Mathematical Century (Piergiorgio Odifreddi)
  The 30 Greatest Problems of the Last 100 Years
• Mathematics and Art (Lynn Gamwell)
  A Cultural History
• Mathematics in Ancient Egypt (Annette Imhausen)
  A Contextual History
• The Mathematics of Various Entertaining Subjects (Beineke, Rosenhouse)
  Research in Recreational Math
• Meritocracy and Economic Inequality (Arrow, Bowles, Durlauf)
  - race, intelligence, schooling, and equality of opportunity
• **Microeconomics (Samuel Bowles)
  Behavior, Institutions, and Evolution
• Music by the Numbers (Eli Maor)
  From Pythagoras to Schoenberg
• A Natural History of Families (Scott Forbes)
  - evolutionary biology and medicine
• The Oceans: A Deep History (Eelco J. Rohling)
  - ocean chemistry in its broadest context
• *On Stalin's Team (Sheila Fitzpatrick)
  The Years of Living Dangerously in Soviet Politics
• Oxygen: A Four Billion Year History (Donald E. Canfield)
  - deep time geobiochemistry
• Perspectives in Ecological Theory (Roughgarden, May, Levin)
• *Plight of the Fortune Tellers (Riccardo Rebonato)
  Why We Need to Manage Financial Risk Differently
• Portfolios of the Poor (Daryl Collins et al.)
  How the World's Poor Live on $2 a Day
• *Princeton Primers in Climate (David Archer)
  - carbon, clouds, oceans, ice, paleoclimate, planets, ecosystems
• Pterosaurs: Natural History, Evolution, Anatomy (Mark P. Witton)
  - a gloriously illustrated survey of pterosaur science
• Rereading the Stone (Anthony C. Yu)
  Desire and the Making of Fiction in Dream of the Red Chamber
• The Social Amoebae (John Tyler Bonner)
  The Biology of Cellular Slime Molds
• Spoken Like a Woman (Laura McClure)
  Speech and Gender in Athenian Drama
• Symmetry (Hermann Weyl)
  - group theory, art, architecture, biology
• Thomas Aquinas's Summa theologiae (Bernard McGinn)
  A Biography
• The Tibetan Empire in Central Asia (Christopher I. Beckwith)
  A History of the Struggle for Great Power among Tibetans, Turks, Arabs, and Chinese during the Early Middle Ages
• Two Cheers for Anarchism (James C. Scott)
  Six Easy Pieces on Autonomy, Dignity, and Meaningful Work and Play