biography

Book Reviews

• Amir D. Aczel: God's Equation
  Einstein, Relativity, and the Expanding Universe
• Liaquat Ahamed: Lords of Finance
  1929, the Great Depression, and the Bankers Who Broke the World
• Benedict Anderson: Under Three Flags
  Anarchism and the Anti-Colonial Imagination
• Robert F. Barsky: Noam Chomsky
  A Life of Dissent
• David Bellos: Georges Perec**
  A Life in Words
• Stephen Bemrose: A New Life of Dante
  - an intellectual biography
• Alain de Botton: The Art of Travel
  - using artists and writers as guides to travel
• Janet Browne: Charles Darwin
  Voyaging; The Power of Place
• Frederick Burkhardt: Selected Letters of Charles Darwin*
  Origins; Evolution
• Norman F. Cantor: Inventing the Middle Ages
  The Lives, Works, and Ideas of the Great Medievalists of the Twentieth Century
• Thomas M. Daniel: Pioneers in Medicine and Their Impact on Tuberculosis
  - an introduction to the disease, and six lives
• Gavan Daws, Marty Fujita: Archipelago: The Islands of Indonesia
  From the Nineteenth-Century Discoveries of Alfred Russel Wallace to the Fate of Forests and Reefs in the Twenty-First Century
• Adrian Desmond, James Moore: Darwin*
  - a narrative biography, in the context of social and scientific change
• Ross E. Dunn: The Adventures of Ibn Battuta
  A Muslim Traveler of the 14th Century
• R.E. Elson: Suharto*
  A Political Biography
• Miles Fairburn: Nearly Out of Heart and Hope
  The Puzzle of a Colonial Labourer's Diary
• Carole Fink: Marc Bloch
  A Life in History
• Richard G. Fox: Gandhian Utopia: Experiments with Culture
  - did Gandhi matter? can individuals change history?
• Peter Gaunt: Oliver Cromwell
  - a brief illustrated biography
• Rick Gekoski: Tolkien's Gown
  And Other Stories of Great Authors and Rare Books
• Sebastian de Grazia: Machiavelli in Hell
  - an intellectual biography
• Leonard Gross: The Last Jews in Berlin
  - the gripping stories of seven Holocaust survivors
• Bernard Guenée: Between Church and State*
  The Lives of Four French Prelates in the Late Middle Ages
• Debra Hamel: Trying Neaira*
  The True Story of a Courtesan's Scandalous Life in Ancient Greece
• Steve Hare: Penguin Portrait
  Allen Lane and the Penguin Editors 1935-1970
• Robert Heilbroner: The Worldly Philosophers
  The Lives, Times and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers
• Michael J. A. Howe: Genius Explained
  - environment, personality, and hard work
• Ryszard Kapuscinski: The Emperor
  - the end of Haile Selassie and his court
• Noel Malcolm: Agents of Empire
  Knights, Corsairs, Jesuits and Spies in the Sixteenth-Century Mediterranean World
• Ernst Mayr, William B. Provine: The Evolutionary Synthesis
  Perspectives on the Unification of Biology
• Patrick O'Brian: Joseph Banks*
  - a biography of the botanist, explorer, and natural historian
• Stephen Ornes: Math Art: Truth, Beauty, and Equations
  - the maths behind some contemporary art + artists
• Abraham Pais, et al.: Paul Dirac
  The Man and His Work
• C. Northcote Parkinson: The Life and Times of Horatio Hornblower
  - a fictional biography of CS Forester's naval hero
• Julie Phillips: James Tiptree, Jr.
  The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon
• Michael Pollak: Sense and Censorship
  Commentaries on Censorship Violence in Australia
• Siobhan Roberts: King of Infinite Space
  Donald Coxeter, the Man Who Saved Geometry
• Alex Ross: The Rest is Noise
  Listening to the Twentieth Century
• J.L. Salcedo-Bastardo: Bolivar
  A Continent and its Destiny
• Igal Sarna: Broken Promises: Israeli Lives
  - fourteen short biographical vignettes
• Bruce Schechter: My Brain Is Open*
  The Mathematical Journeys of Paul Erdös
• Marjorie Shostak: Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman
  - a woman's life on the edge of the Kalahari
• Ruth Lewin Sime: Lise Meitner*
  A Life in Physics
• Jonathan Steinberg: Bismarck: A Life
  - an engaging but uneven biography
• Alfred Russel Wallace: Infinite Tropics*
  An Alfred Russel Wallace Anthology
• John Waller: The Real Oliver Twist
  Robert Blincoe: A Life That Illuminates a Violent Age
• B.H. Warmington: Nero
  Reality and Legend
• Lawrence Weschler: Calamities of Exile
  Three Nonfiction Novellas
• Sam Williams: Free as in Freedom
  Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software
• Andrea Wulf: The Invention of Nature
  The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science

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