Book Reviews
- Michael Banton: Racial Theories
- Cuvier, Morton, Nott, Smith, Knox, Vogt, Cox, Bonacich, ...
- David Buisseret: Envisioning the City
Six Studies in Urban Cartography
- Caroline Walker Bynum: Metamorphosis and Identity
- medieval change, wonder, mixture, and hybridity
- Michael Cook: Forbidding Wrong in Islam*
- the history of an injunction
- Raymond Corbey, Bert Theunissen: Ape, Man, Apeman: Changing Views since 1600*
Evaluative Proceedings of a Symposium at Leiden, 28 June - 1 July 1993
- David Crystal: English as a Global Language
- its use, history, and culture
- Antony Easthope, Kate McGowan: A Critical and Cultural Theory Reader
- my take on postmodernism and cultural studies
- G.R. Evans: The University of Oxford
A New History
- Lynn Gamwell: Mathematics and Art
A Cultural History
- Paul Rakita Goldin: The Culture of Sex in Ancient China*
- copulation imagery, Confucianism, and the politics of sexuality
- Barbara Graziosi: The Gods of Olympus
A History
- Fil Hearn: Ideas That Shaped Buildings
- architectural theory from Vitruvius to deconstructivism
- Robert Heilbroner: The Worldly Philosophers
The Lives, Times and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers
- Eric Hobsbawm, Terence Ranger: The Invention of Tradition
- essays on the recent construction of symbolic and ceremonial traditions
- D.N. Jha: The Myth of the Holy Cow
- the origins of cow veneration and vegetarianism in India
- Walter Kendrick: The Secret Museum*
Pornography in Modern Culture
- Richard Kieckhefer: Magic in the Middle Ages*
- an insightful study of medieval magic, demonic and natural
- Naomi Klein: No Logo
Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies
- C.S. Lewis: The Discarded Image
An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature
- Cecilia Lindqvist: China, Empire of the Written Symbol**
- Chinese history and culture through written characters
- Helen Morales: Classical Mythology
A Very Short Introduction
- Brian Morris: Anthropological Studies of Religion**
An Introductory Text
- Niels Mulder: Mysticism in Java
Ideology in Indonesia
- Brent Nongbri: Before Religion
A History of a Modern Concept
- Ronald L. Numbers: The Creationists*
The Evolution of Scientific Creationism
- Eric Pawson, Tom Brooking: Environmental Histories of New Zealand
- papers on ecology, economics, conservation, and ideas
- Robert O. Paxton: The Anatomy of Fascism
- a historical approach
- Andrew Pettegree: The Book in the Renaissance*
- in religion, politics, news, science, education, ...
- C.P. Snow: The Two Cultures
- science versus the humanities
- Dubravka Ugresic: The Culture of Lies*
- literature, culture and ex-Yugoslav nationalisms
- Dave Yorath: Photography: A Crash Course
- a potted history of photography and photographers
See also:
history |
history of science |
philosophy