The University of Chicago Press

Book Reviews

• Across the Bridge (Henry Gee)
  Understanding the Origin of the Vertebrates
• The Art of Being a Parasite (Claude Combes)
  - explorations in evolutionary biology and ecology
• *Between Church and State (Bernard Guenée)
  The Lives of Four French Prelates in the Late Middle Ages
• *Bones of Contention (Roger Lewin)
  Controversies in the Search for Human Origins
• **The Bridge on the Drina (Ivo Andric)
  - a novel of three centuries in eastern Bosnia
• The Broken Dice (Ivar Ekeland)
  And Other Mathematical Tales of Chance
• The Byzantines (Guglielmo Cavallo)
  - a social history
• Calamities of Exile (Lawrence Weschler)
  Three Nonfiction Novellas
• *The Coevolutionary Process (John N. Thompson)
  - specialization and coevolution
• A Dog's Head (Jean Dutourd)
• *The Dragon (Yevgeny Zamyatin)
  Fifteen Stories
• The Early History of the Ancient Near East (Hans J. Nissen)
  9000 - 2000 B.C.
• The Egyptians (Sergio Donadoni)
  - the social history of ancient Egypt
• Envisioning the City (David Buisseret)
  Six Studies in Urban Cartography
• **The Evolutionary Biology of Plants (Karl J. Niklas)
  - evolution makes sense of otherwise unconnected areas of botany
• Fall Books 1998
• The Future of Academic Freedom (Louis Menand)
  - philosophical, legal, and ethical perspectives
• Giving Offense (J.M. Coetzee)
  Essays on Censorship
• The Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax (Geoffrey K. Pullum)
  And Other Irreverent Essays on the Study of Language
• The Greeks (Jean-Pierre Vernant)
  - the social history of ancient Greece
• **How Monkeys See the World (Dorothy L. Cheney, Robert M. Seyfarth)
  Inside the Mind of Another Species
• *In the Wake of Chaos (Stephen H. Kellert)
  - what chaos theory is, and what it is not
• The Inspector Barlach Mysteries (Friedrich Dürrenmatt)
  The Judge and His Hangman + Suspicion
• *Judge Dee (Robert van Gulik)
  - stories about a famous Chinese detective-magistrate
• *Killing Time (Paul Feyerabend)
  - a controversial philosopher of science looks back at his life
• Knowing Music, Making Music (Benjamin Brinner)
  Javanese Gamelan and the Theory of Musical Competence and Interaction
• *The Last Imaginary Place (Robert McGhee)
  A Human History of the Arctic World
• Making PCR (Paul Rabinow)
  A Story of Biotechnology
• *Maps and Civilization (Norman J. W. Thrower)
  Cartography in Culture and Society
• Medieval Callings (Jacques Le Goff)
  - social history
• The Middle Path (Eric Lambin)
  Avoiding Environmental Catastrophe
• Mythologies (Yves Bonnefoy)
  - classical, Egyptian, European, Asian, American, African
• The Nature of Selection (Elliott Sober)
  Evolutionary Theory in Philosophical Focus
• Once the Buddha Was a Monkey: Jatakamala (Arya Sura)
  - morality tales about lives of the Buddha
• *The Ovary of Eve (Clara Pinto-Correia)
  Egg and Sperm and Preformation
• Portraits in the Wild (Cynthia Moss)
  Animal Behavior in East Africa
• Presumption (Julia Barrett)
  An Entertainment
• The Romans (Andrea Giardina)
  - a social history
• *The Scientific Revolution (Steven Shapin)
  - science in 17th century Europe
• *Style (Joseph M. Williams)
  Toward Clarity and Grace
• Tales of the Field (John Van Maanen)
  On Writing Ethnography
• Tangled Trees (Roderic D.M. Page)
  Phylogeny, Cospeciation, and Coevolution
• *The Wet and the Dry (Patrick Vinton Kirch)
  Irrigation and Agricultural Intensification in Polynesia
• Word Crimes (Joss Marsh)
  Blasphemy, Culture, and Literature in Nineteenth-Century England