Book reviews by title: C
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- Calamities of Exile (Lawrence Weschler)
Three Nonfiction Novellas
- Calculating God (Robert J. Sawyer)
- the aliens have landed, and they are creationists...
- Callahan's Crosstime Saloon (Spider Robinson)
- Callahans (Spider Robinson)
Time Travelers Strictly Cash; Callahan's Lady
- Calling Crow (Paul Clayton)
- the Spanish are raiding for slaves on the North American coast
- Cambodia (Michael Freeman)
- history, food, archaeology, art theft, genocide, films
- The Cambridge Companion to Children's Literature (Grenby, Immel)
- sixteen essays
- The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language (David Crystal)
- a broad survey aimed at a popular audience
- *The Cambridge History of Ancient China (Loewe, Shaughnessy)
From the Origins of Civilization to 221 B.C.
- The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia (Nicholas Tarling)
- a genuinely regional approach, with 20 chapters by specialists
- *The Cambridge Illustrated History of China (Patricia Buckley Ebrey)
- an attractive, accessible, and scholarly general history
- Can Oxford be Improved? (Anthony Kenny, Robert Kenny)
A View from the Dreaming Spires and the Satanic Mills
- *Cancer: The Evolutionary Legacy (Mel Greaves)
- cellular biology and human evolution, history and society
- *Captain Swing (Eric Hobsbawm, George Rudé)
- the 'little people' assert themselves; English agrarian unrest in 1830
- Captives (Linda Colley)
Britain, Empire and the World 1600-1850
- *The Carnal Prayer Mat (Li Yu)
- the classic Chinese erotic novel
- **The Case of Comrade Tulayev (Victor Serge)
- the outstanding novel of Stalin's purges
- A Case of Two Cities (Qiu Xiaolong)
An Inspector Chen Mystery
- The Cassini Division (Ken MacLeod)
- anarchism, socialism, and capitalism in the 24th century
- *Caste, Society and Politics in India (Susan Bayly)
From the Eighteenth Century to the Modern Age
- Casting the Net (Peter H. Salus)
From ARPANET to Internet and Beyond
- Catastrophe Remembered (Nur Masalha)
Palestine, Israel and the Internal Refugees
- The Cathars (Malcolm Lambert)
- a solid academic survey
- *The Cathedral and the Bazaar (Eric S. Raymond)
Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary
- Catilina's Riddle (Steven Saylor)
- a mystery set during the Catiline Conspiracy
- The Caucasus: An Introduction (Thomas de Waal)
- the modern history of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia
- *Caught (Henry Green)
- a 1943 novel of firefighters in the London Blitz
- Celestial Encounters (Florin Diacu, Philip Holmes)
The Origins of Chaos and Stability
- *Cells, Embryos, and Evolution (John Gerhart, Marc Kirschner)
Towards a Cellular and Developmental Understanding of Phenotypic Variation and Evolutionary Adaptability
- Censoring Culture (Robert Atkins, Svetlana Mintcheva)
Contemporary Threats to Free Expression
- Censorship (Kaye Healey)
- an Australian school resource
- *Central Banking in Theory and Practice (Alan S. Blinder)
- lectures by an ex-Vice-Chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve Board
- *Century of Genocide (Samuel Totten, William S. Parsons, Israel W. Charny)
Eyewitness Accounts and Critical Views
- *The Century of Revolution: 1603-1714 (Christopher Hill)
- a broad-ranging history of 17th century England
- The Cerebral Code (William H. Calvin)
Thinking a Thought in the Mosaics of the Mind
- Chance and Necessity (Jacques Monod)
An Essay on the Natural Philosophy of Modern Biology
- *A Change of Time (Ida Jessen)
- facing widowhood in a Danish country town
- Changed Identities (Mai Yamani)
The Challenge of the New Generation in Saudi Arabia
- Chaos and Fractals (David P. Feldman)
An Elementary Introduction
- *Chaos and Fractals (Heinz-Otto Peitgen, Hartmut Jürgens, Dietmar Saupe)
New Frontiers of Science
- The Charioteer (Mary Renault)
- Charles Darwin (Janet Browne)
Voyaging; The Power of Place
- *Chemical Evolution (Stephen F. Mason)
Origin of the Elements, Molecules, and Living Systems
- Children of the French Empire (Owen White)
Miscegenation and Colonial Society in French West Africa 1895-1960
- Children's Picturebooks (Martin Salisbury, Morag Styles)
The Art of Visual Storytelling
- **China, Empire of the Written Symbol (Cecilia Lindqvist)
- Chinese history and culture through written characters
- Chinese Letter (Svetislav Basara)
- an existentialist comedy
- *Chinese Literature, Ancient and Classical (André Lévy)
- an overview, with extracts, in just 150 pages
- Chinese Poetic Writing (François Cheng, Jerome P. Seaton)
With an Anthology of Tang Poetry
- Chinese Rhyme-Prose (Burton Watson)
Poems in the Fu Form from the Han and Six Dynasties Periods
- The Chinese Vernacular Story (Patrick Hanan)
- Feng Menglong, Ling Menchu, Li Yu, ...
- Circles Disturbed (Apostolos Doxiadis, Barry Mazur)
The Interplay of Mathematics and Narrative
- The Circumcision (György Dalos)
- a Jewish orphan in post-war Hungary faces a choice
- *The City Builder (George Konrád)
- a planner's life in a provincial Eastern European town
- City Cycling (John Pucher, Ralph Buehler)
- cycling as everyday urban transport, worldwide
- **Civilization and Capitalism 15th-18th Century (Fernand Braudel)
- a social and economic history of the shaping of the modern world
- Civilizing Cyberspace (Steven E. Miller)
Policy, Power, and the Information Superhighway
- Classical Javanese Dance (Clara Brakel-Papenhuyzen)
The Surakarta tradition and its terminology
- Classical Mythology (Helen Morales)
A Very Short Introduction
- Clear and Present Danger (Tom Clancy)
- for afficionados of military hardware; not my cup of tea
- Clearing the Air (Tim Smedley)
The Beginning and the End of Air Pollution
- *The Climate Casino (William Nordhaus)
Risk, Uncertainty, and Economics for a Warming World
- Climate Change and Climate Modeling (J. David Neelin)
- an accessible undergraduate text
- *The Climate Modelling Primer (Kendal McGuffie, Ann Henderson-Sellers)
- models + motivations, components + links, more
- Climbing Mount Improbable (Richard Dawkins)
- a popular introduction to evolution
- *The Cluetrain Manifesto (Rick Levine et al.)
The End of Business as Usual
- *The Cockroach Papers (Richard Schweld)
A Compendium of History and Lore
- *The Coevolutionary Process (John N. Thompson)
- specialization and coevolution
- Coherent Stress Testing (Riccardo Rebonato)
A Bayesian Approach to the Analysis of Financial Stress
- *The Coiled Spring (Ethan Bier)
- a nice introduction to developmental biology
- The Cold Hard Fax (Leslie O'Kane)
- a frivolously light-hearted mystery
- Colliding Continents (Mike Searle)
A Geological Exploration of the Himalaya, Karakoram, and Tibet
- Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction (John Rieder)
- explorations in the ideological background of early sf
- *Combinatorics and Graph Theory (Harris, Hirst, Mossinghoff)
- from the elementary to the infinite
- Companion Encyclopedia of Anthropology (Tim Ingold)
Humanity, Culture and Social Life
- *The Company of Ghosts (Lydie Salvayre)
- a madwoman remembering Vichy; her teenage daughter; a process-server
- The Comparative Method in Evolutionary Biology (Harvey, Pagel)
- Comparing Muslim Societies (Juan R. I. Cole)
Knowledge and the State in a World Civilization
- The Complete Review: A Site History (M.A. Orthofer)
Eleven Years, 2500 Reviews
- **The Complete Sagas of Icelanders (Viðar Hreinsson)
- Icelandic tales of Viking Age feuds, legal conflicts, love affairs
- **The Computational Beauty of Nature (Gary William Flake)
Computer Explorations of Fractals, Chaos, Complex Systems, and Adaptation
- Computer Crime (David Icove, Karl Seger, William VonStorch)
A Crimefighter's Handbook
- Computer Networks (Andrew S. Tanenbaum)
- what are these things called RFCs anyway?
- *Computer Networks (Larry L. Peterson, Bruce S. Davie)
A Systems Approach
- The Computer User's Survival Guide (Joan Stigliani)
- preventing and coping with RSI, eyestrain, stress, and radiation
- Computer-Related Risks (Peter G. Neumann)
- if anything can go wrong, it probably will
- The Concept of Utopia (Ruth Levitas)
- Marxist theory: Mannheim, Sorel, Bloch, Morris, and Marcuse
- *Conceptual Issues in Evolutionary Biology (Elliott Sober)
- a mix of classic papers and more recent material
- The Concert (Ismail Kadare)
- a comedy of communist manners; the end of the Albania-China alliance
- Confucianism as a World Religion (Anna Sun)
Contested Histories and Contemporary Realities
- **The Confusions of Pleasure (Timothy Brook)
Commerce and Culture in Ming China
- Conquerors' Road (Osmar White)
An Eyewitness Account of Germany 1945
- *Conquest and Colonisation (Brian Golding)
The Normans in Britain, 1066-1100
- *Consciousness Explained (Daniel C. Dennett)
- assorted bogeymen are summarily dispatched
- *Conservation (Monique Borgerhoff Mulder, Peter Coppolillo)
Linking Ecology, Economics, and Culture
- Consider Phlebas (Iain M. Banks)
- the first Culture novel - elegant and intelligent space opera
- The Conspiracy and Other Stories (Jaan Kross)
- Estonia in the Second World War
- The Constant Gardener (John Le Carré)
- a thriller about the drug industry in Africa
- The Contemporary History of Latin America (Tulio Halperín Donghi)
- politics and economics from the early 19th century
- **Conversation in the Cathedral (Mario Vargas Llosa)
- a novel about power and politics in Peru in the early 1950s
- A Cooperative Species (Samuel Bowles, Herbert Gintis)
Human Reciprocity and Its Evolution
- Coordinating the Internet (Brian Kahin, James H. Keller)
- governance, domain names, and interconnection agreements
- Copenhagenize (Mikael Colville-Andersen)
The Definitive Guide to Global Bicycle Urbanism
- Core CSS (Keith Schengili-Roberts)
Cascading Style Sheets
- A Corner of a Foreign Field (Fiona Waters)
The Illustrated Poetry of the First World War
- Cornish Cases (John Rule)
Essays in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Social History
- *Cosmos Latinos (Andrea L. Bell, Yolanda Molina-Gavilán)
An Anthology of Science Fiction from Latin America and Spain
- Count Belisarius (Robert Graves)
- a historical novel about Justinian's great general
- Count Like An Egyptian (David Reimer)
A Hands-On Introduction to Ancient Mathematics
- A Country Doctor's Notebook (Mikhail Bulgakov)
- stories of medical work in rural Russia in 1917
- *A Course in Enumeration (Martin Aigner)
- the power of combinatorics
- Creating Cool Web Sites with HTML, XHTML and CSS (Dave Taylor)
- an introduction to authoring web pages
- Creating Indonesian Cultures (Paul Alexander)
- *Creation (Gore Vidal)
- the grandson of Zoroaster meets Buddha, Gosala, Lao Tse and Confucius
- *The Creation of History in Ancient Israel (Marc Zvi Brettler)
- the biblical authors and their presentations of the past
- *The Creationists (Ronald L. Numbers)
The Evolution of Scientific Creationism
- *Crimes Against Humanity (Geoffrey Robertson)
The Struggle for Global Justice
- A Critical and Cultural Theory Reader (Antony Easthope, Kate McGowan)
- my take on postmodernism and cultural studies
- Cross and Scepter (Sverre Bagge)
The Rise of the Scandinavian Kingdoms from the Vikings to the Reformation
- Cross-Cultural Filmmaking (Ilisa Barbash, Lucien Taylor)
A Handbook for Making Documentary and Ethnographic Films and Videos
- The Crying Room (Chris McLeod)
- Cuckolds, Clerics, and Countrymen (John DuVal, Raymond Eichmann)
Medieval French Fabliaux
- Cultural Materialism (Marvin Harris)
The Struggle for a Science of Culture
- The Culture of Contentment (John Kenneth Galbraith)
- *The Culture of Lies (Dubravka Ugresic)
- literature, culture and ex-Yugoslav nationalisms
- *The Culture of Sex in Ancient China (Paul Rakita Goldin)
- copulation imagery, Confucianism, and the politics of sexuality
- Cuneiform (Irving Finkel, Jonathan Taylor)
- writing and literacy in ancient Mesopotamia
- The Curious Casebook of Inspector Hanshichi (Okamoto Kido)
- detective stories set in Edo Japan
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Mark Haddon)
- an autistic teenager investigates the murder of a dog
- Cyber Criminals on Trial (Russell G. Smith, Peter Grabosky, Gregor Urbas)
- the prosecution and judicial handling of computer crime
- CyberSociety (Steven G. Jones)
Computer-Mediated Communication and Community
- Cyberspace: First Steps (Michael Benedikt)
- information representations and virtual reality interfaces
- Cycling for Sustainable Cities (Ralph Buehler, John Pucher)
- The Czar's Madman (Jaan Kross)
- von Bock is a friend of Tsar Alexander I, but also an idealist...
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