University of California Press

Book Reviews

• The Adventures of Ibn Battuta (Ross E. Dunn)
  A Muslim Traveler of the 14th Century
• Agricultural Involution (Clifford Geertz)
  The Processes of Ecological Change in Indonesia
• Antigonos the One-Eyed (Richard A. Billows)
  And the Creation of the Hellenistic State
• Approaches to the History of Spain (Jaime Vicens Vives)
  - short essays on topics from prehistory to the civil war
• Archipelago: The Islands of Indonesia (Gavan Daws, Marty Fujita)
  From the Nineteenth-Century Discoveries of Alfred Russel Wallace to the Fate of Forests and Reefs in the Twenty-First Century
• The Argonautika (Apollonios Rhodios)
  The Story of Jason and the Quest for the Golden Fleece
• Beriberi, White Rice, and Vitamin B (Kenneth J. Carpenter)
  A Disease, a Cause, and a Cure
• **Between Two Worlds (Cemal Kafadar)
  The Construction of the Ottoman State
• *Bonobo (Frans de Waal)
  The Forgotten Ape
• **The Confusions of Pleasure (Timothy Brook)
  Commerce and Culture in Ming China
• *The Creationists (Ronald L. Numbers)
  The Evolution of Scientific Creationism
• Cross-Cultural Filmmaking (Ilisa Barbash, Lucien Taylor)
  A Handbook for Making Documentary and Ethnographic Films and Videos
• *Dance of the Tiger (Björn Kurtén)
  A Novel of the Ice Age
• Dirt (David R. Montgomery)
  The Erosion of Civilizations
• Disobedience (Michael Drinkard)
  - a three-stranded novel wrapped around the history of California
• **Disposable People (Kevin Bales)
  - a passionate but scholarly study of modern slavery
• Dolphin Societies (Karen Pryor, Kenneth S. Norris)
  Discoveries and Puzzles
• Early India (Romila Thapar)
  From the Origins to AD 1300
• Fall 1998
• Fireflies, Honey, and Silk (Gilbert Waldbauer)
  - human uses of insects
• Forgotten Empire (John Curtis, Nigel Tallis)
  The World of Ancient Persia
• Germany in Transit (Deniz Göktürk, David Gramling, Anton Kaes)
  Nation and Migration 1955-2005
• *The Greco-Persian Wars (Peter Green)
  - an accessible history
• Indochina (Pierre Brocheux, Daniel Hémery)
  An Ambiguous Colonization 1858-1954
• Infections and Inequalities (Paul Farmer)
  The Modern Plagues
• *The Inner Quarters (Patricia Buckley Ebrey)
  Marriage and the Lives of Chinese Women in the Sung Period
• An Inordinate Fondness for Beetles (Arthur V. Evans, Charles L. Bellamy)
  - taxonomy, anatomy, ecology, and connections with humans
• *The Karma of Words (William R. LaFleur)
  Buddhism and the Literary Arts in Medieval Japan
• Kea, Bird of Paradox (Judy Diamond, Alan B. Bond)
  The Evolution and Behavior of a New Zealand Parrot
• Land of the Tiger (Valmik Thapar)
  A Natural History of the Indian Subcontinent
• *The Laughter of Aphrodite (Peter Green)
  A Novel about Sappho of Lesbos
• The Legend of Bouvines (Georges Duby)
  - the ideology of peace, war, and battle in the 12th century
• Life at the Extremes (Frances Ashcroft)
  The Science of Survival
• *Lise Meitner (Ruth Lewin Sime)
  A Life in Physics
• *The Lost Chronicles of the Maya Kings (David Drew)
  - a nice introduction to Mayan history and society
• The Making of Byzantium, 600-1025 (Mark Whittow)
  - as a Greek-speaking, orthodox empire
• Many Ramayanas (Paula Richman)
  The Diversity of a Narrative Tradition in South Asia
• *Medieval Iceland (Jesse L. Byock)
  Society, Sagas, and Power
• A Mediterranean Society (S.D. Goitein)
  - the Jewish community in medieval Cairo
• Mexico (Daniel C. Levy, Kathleen Bruhn)
  The Struggle for Democratic Development
• Microcosmos (Lynn Margulis, Dorion Sagan)
  Four Billion Years of Microbial Evolution
• Modern Mongolia (Morris Rossabi)
  From Khans To Commissars to Capitalists
• Nuclear Rites (Hugh Gusterson)
  A Weapons Laboratory at the End of the Cold War
• **On the Road of the Winds (Patrick Vinton Kirch)
  An Archaeological History of the Pacific Islands before European Conquest
• Painting by Numbers (JoAnn Wypijewski)
  Komar and Melamid's scientific guide to art
• Poles Apart (Galen Rowell)
  Parallel Visions of the Arctic and Antarctic
• **Political Islam (Joel Beinin, Joe Stork)
  Essays from Middle East Report
• The Roman Empire and its Germanic Peoples (Herwig Wolfram)
  - Visigoths, Vandals, Ostrogoths, Burgundians, ...
• *Sacred Mountains of the World (Edwin Bernbaum)
  - religion and spirituality; glorious photographs
• *The Secret Museum (Walter Kendrick)
  Pornography in Modern Culture
• *Snakes (Harry W. Greene)
  The Evolution of Mystery in Nature
• *The Song of Songs (Ariel Bloch, Chana Bloch)
  - a compelling translation of the great Hebrew love poem
• The Strange Case of the Broad Street Pump (Sandra Hempel)
  John Snow and the Mystery of Cholera
• Terror in the Mind of God (Mark Juergensmeyer)
  The Global Rise of Religious Violence
• Understanding Relativity (Leo Sartori)
  A Simplified Approach to Einstein's Theories
• Vietnam 1946 (Stein Tønnesson)
  How the War Began
• World Atlas of Coral Reefs (Spalding, Ravilious, Green)
  - reef geography, geology, ecology, and conservation