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- 1788: A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany Bay (Watkin Tench)
+ A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson
- *Aboriginal Art (Wally Caruana)
- brief description and analysis of 200 works, with photographs
- About Our Schools: Improving on Previous Best (Brighouse, Waters)
- the past, present and future of the English school system
- Absolution by Murder (Peter Tremayne)
- a Sister Fidelma mystery set around the Synod of Whitby in 664 AD
- Across the Bridge (Henry Gee)
Understanding the Origin of the Vertebrates
- *Active Java (Adam Freeman, Darrel Ince)
Object-Oriented Programming for the World Wide Web
- Acts of the Apostles (John F. X. Sundman)
- an infotech conspiracy thriller with real tech
- Adam and Eve and Pinch Me (Ruth Rendell)
- Adam's Fallacy (Duncan K. Foley)
A Guide to Economic Theology
- The Admiral's Baby (Laurens van der Post)
- a British officer in Java, 1945 to 1947
- Advanced Internet Technologies (Uyless Black)
- *Adventures in Card Play (Hugh Kelsey, Geza Ottlik)
- the most advanced book on bridge play ever?
- The Adventures of Ibn Battuta (Ross E. Dunn)
A Muslim Traveler of the 14th Century
- **The Aesthetics of Resistance (Peter Weiss)
- art and politics in pre-WWII Germany and Spain
- *Afghanistan (Thomas Barfield)
A Cultural and Political History
- Africa in the Iron Age (Roland Oliver, Brian M. Fagan)
c. 500 B.C. to A.D. 1400
- Africa's Discovery of Europe: 1450-1850 (David Northrup)
- African perspectives on encounters with Europeans
- *African Civilizations (Graham Connah)
An Archaeological Perspective
- After Duwagan (J. Peter Brosius)
Deforestation, Succession and Adaption in Upland Luzon, Philippines
- After Jihad (Noah Feldman)
America and the Struggle for Islamic Democracy
- After Suez (Martin Woollacott)
Adrift in the American Century
- **After the Greening (Mary E. White)
- a geological and botanical history of Australia
- *Against Marriage (Clare Chambers)
An Egalitarian Defence of the Marriage-Free State
- *The Age of Empires (Francis Joannès)
Mesopotamia in the First Millennium BC
- *The Age of Extremes (Eric Hobsbawm)
The Short Twentieth Century 1914-1991
- Agent of Byzantium (Harry Turtledove)
- alternative history, with a powerful 13th century Byzantine empire
- Agents of Empire (Noel Malcolm)
Knights, Corsairs, Jesuits and Spies in the Sixteenth-Century Mediterranean World
- Agrarian Revolution (Sabino Garcia Padilla Jr)
Peasant Radicalisation and Social Change in Bicol
- Agricultural Involution (Clifford Geertz)
The Processes of Ecological Change in Indonesia
- *Aké (Wole Soyinka)
- an enchanting childhood in a West Nigerian town
- Akhenaten, Dweller in Truth (Naguib Mahfouz)
- a novel of ancient Egypt
- *Alberta and Jacob (Cora Sandel)
- coming of age in a small town in northern Norway
- The Albigensian Crusades (Joseph R. Strayer, Carol Lansing)
- a political history of southern France in the early 13th century
- *The Alexander Trilogy (Mary Renault)
- Alexander the Great's childhood and final years; conflicts after his death
- Alice Springs (Eleanor Hogan)
- the other "middle Australia"
- *All One Horse (Breyten Breytenbach)
- dream fables and surreal paintings
- All Quiet on the Western Front (Erich Maria Remarque)
- the classic novel of the First World War
- All Souls (Javier Marías)
- a Spanish novel about an Oxford don
- Allah is Not Obliged (Ahmadou Kourouma)
- the story of a child soldier in West Africa
- *The Alphonse Courrier Affair (Marta Morazzoni)
- a comedy of manners in a French village
- *Always Coming Home (Ursula K. Le Guin)
- fictional ethnography: stories and poetry from a far-future California
- America's War in Vietnam (Larry H. Addington)
A Short Narrative History
- American Agriculture in the Twentieth Century (Bruce L. Gardner)
How it Flourished and What it Cost
- *Amongst Women (John McGahern)
- an Irish novel of a family and its frictions
- Amsterdam: A Brief Life of the City (Geert Mak)
- from polders to provocations
- The Anarchists in the Russian Revolution (Paul Avrich)
- fifty contemporary documents
- The Anatomy of Fascism (Robert O. Paxton)
- a historical approach
- Ancestors (Jan Ryan)
Chinese in Colonial Australia
- Ancestral Journeys (Jean Manco)
The Peopling of Europe from the First Venturers to the Vikings
- *Ancient History (M.I. Finley)
Evidence and Models
- The Ancient Olympics (Nigel Spivey)
- history, archaeology, mythology, politics, ...
- Angel of Death (Gareth Williams)
The Story of Smallpox
- Angels of the Universe (Einar Már Gudmundsson)
- the story of an Icelandic schizophrenic
- *Angkor (Michael D. Coe)
And the Khmer Civilization
- Angkor (Dawn Rooney)
Cambodia's Wondrous Khmer Temples
- *Animal Farm (George Orwell)
- political allegory in a farmyard fable
- Animal Science (Nicola Davies)
Poo; Extreme Animals; What's Eating You?; Just the Right Size; Talk, Talk, Squawk!; Deadly!
- *Animal Social Complexity (Frans B. M. de Waal, Peter L. Tyack)
Intelligence, Culture, and Individualized Societies
- The Animal Wife (Elizabeth Marshall Thomas)
- an abduction disrupts a Paleolithic hunter-gatherer band
- Anna Edes (Dezso Kosztolanyi)
- a tragicomic indictment of bourgeois morality
- **Annals of the Former World (John McPhee)
- travels across the United States with geologists
- Annihilation (Piotr Szewc)
- a one day tour of a Polish-Jewish town in the 1930s
- *Another Man's City (Ch'oe In-ho)
- is K stuck inside a virtual reality?
- Anthropological Approaches to the Study of Religion (Michael Banton)
- essays by Geertz, Turner, Spiro, Bradbury, and Winter
- **Anthropological Studies of Religion (Brian Morris)
An Introductory Text
- Antigonos the One-Eyed (Richard A. Billows)
And the Creation of the Hellenistic State
- *The Ants (Bert Hölldobler, Edward O. Wilson)
- ant ecology, ethology and evolutionary biology
- *Ape, Man, Apeman: Changing Views since 1600 (Corbey, Theunissen)
Evaluative Proceedings of a Symposium at Leiden, 28 June - 1 July 1993
- Api Dalam Sekam (Rob Goodfellow)
The New Order and the Ideology of Anti-Communism
- The Apology and the Last Days (Borislav Pekic)
- a parable of collaboration and retribution
- Approaches to Teaching The Story of the Stone (Dream of the Red Chamber) (Schonebaum, Lu)
- historical + cultural contexts, intertextuality, afterlives, pedagogy
- Approaches to the History of Spain (Jaime Vicens Vives)
- short essays on topics from prehistory to the civil war
- *Arab Historians of the Crusades (Francesco Gabrieli)
- excerpts from nineteen Islamic writers
- Arab Seafaring (George F. Hourani)
In the Indian Ocean in Ancient and Early Medieval Times
- Arabesques (Susan Shwartz)
More Tales of the Arabian Nights
- The Arabian Nightmare (Robert Irwin)
- a novel of dream and story in medieval Cairo
- Archaeology, Language, and History (John Edward Terrell)
Essays on Culture and Ethnicity
- 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
- Are Trams Socialist? (Christian Wolmar)
Why Britain Has No Transport Policy
- Arena Magazine
- a journal of Australian politics and current affairs
- The Argonautika (Apollonios Rhodios)
The Story of Jason and the Quest for the Golden Fleece
- **Arithmetic (Paul Lockhart)
- a deep look at elementary mathematics
- The Armourer's House (Rosemary Sutcliff)
- an eight year old moves to Henry VIII's London
- Arms of Nemesis (Steven Saylor)
- a murder mystery set during the Spartacist revolt in 70 BC
- **Army Ants (Daniel J.C. Kronauer)
Nature's Ultimate Social Hunters
- *Arrow of God (Chinua Achebe)
- an Ibo priest and his village face change
- The Art of Being a Parasite (Claude Combes)
- explorations in evolutionary biology and ecology
- **The Art of Bird Photography (Arthur Morris)
The Complete Guide to Professional Field Techniques
- **The Art of Computer Programming (Donald E. Knuth)
Fundamental Algorithms; Seminumerical Algorithms; Sorting and Searching
- *Art of Edo Japan (Christine Guth)
The Artist and the City 1615-1868
- The Art of Electronic Publishing (Sandy Ressler)
The Internet and Beyond
- The Art of Travel (Alain de Botton)
- using artists and writers as guides to travel
- *The Art of UNIX Programming (Eric S. Raymond)
- thirty years of development wisdom
- Artificial Life (Christopher Langton)
- articles from the first three issues of the journal
- Artificial Sunshine (Maureen Dillon)
A Social History of Domestic Lighting
- Arts and Society in Flanders and the Netherlands (Luc Devoldere)
The Low Countries Yearbook 2014
- Asian Honey Bees (Benjamin P. Oldroyd, Siriwat Wongsiri)
Biology, Conservation and Human Interactions
- *The Assault (Harry Mulisch)
- a Dutch novel about recovery from wartime trauma
- Atheis (Achdiat K. Mihardja)
- *Atlas of the Invisible (James Cheshire, Oliver Uberti)
Maps and Graphics That Will Change How You See the World
- *Atmospheric Science (John M. Wallace, Peter V. Hobbs)
An Introductory Survey
- Atticus the Storyteller's 100 Greek Myths (Lucy Coats)
- all the favourite stories, adapted for 4-8 year olds
- The Aubrey/Maturin books (Patrick O'Brian)
- a naval lieutenant and a penniless physician meet at Port Mahon in 1801...
- *August 1914 (Alexander Solzhenitsyn)
- a fictional account of the battle of Tannenberg
- Austerity Britain, 1945-1951 (David Kynaston)
- a social history of post-war Britain
- *Australian Marine Habitats in Temperate Waters (Graham J. Edgar)
- an elegant ecological overview
- Australian Mountains (Tyrone Thomas, Sven Klinge)
The Best 100 Walks
- *Australian Snakes (Richard Shine)
A Natural History
- Autumn Rounds (Jacques Poulin)
- an exceptionally gentle novel, a quiet romance
- The Award (Lydie Salvayre)
- a biting satire on corporate paternalism
- *Axiomatic (Greg Egan)
- hard science fiction stories, drawing on physics, biology, computing
- Azalea: Journal of Korean Literature & Culture (David R. McCann)
Volume 1: 2008; Volume 8: 2015
- *The Aztecs (Michael E. Smith)
- archaeology and social history
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