Book reviews by title: D
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(Drop 'A' and 'The' from titles.)
- *D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths (Ingri D'Aulaire, Edgar Parin D'Aulaire)
- one of the outstanding reworkings for children
- *Dance of the Tiger (Björn Kurtén)
A Novel of the Ice Age
- *Dancing at the Edge of the World (Ursula K. Le Guin)
Thoughts on Words, Women, Places
- Dangerous Sanctuaries (Sarah Kenyon Lischer)
Refugee Camps, Civil War, and the Dilemmas of Humanitarian Aid
- Dark Provenance (Michael David Anthony)
- a mystery set amidst English Church politics
- **Darkness at Noon (Arthur Koestler)
- the interrogation and confession of an Old Bolshevik
- *Darwin (Adrian Desmond, James Moore)
- a narrative biography, in the context of social and scientific change
- Darwin (William Brown, Andrew C. Fabian)
- lectures on Darwin's influence, cultural and scientific
- *Darwin's Dangerous Idea (Daniel C. Dennett)
Evolution and the Meanings of Life
- Darwin's Dreampond (Tijs Goldschmidt)
Drama in Lake Victoria
- Darwin's Laboratory (Roy McCleod, Philip F. Rehbock)
Evolutionary Theory and Natural History in the Pacific
- *Darwin's Rival (Christiane Dorion, Harry Tennant)
Alfred Russel Wallace and the Search for Evolution
- Darwinism Comes to America (Ronald L. Numbers)
- creationism and religion in the United States
- *Database Backed Web Sites (Philip Greenspun)
The Thinking Person's Guide to Web Publishing
- Daughter of Silence (Morris West)
- legal fiction with a dash of mystery
- The Daughter of Time (Josephine Tey)
- a policeman in hospital takes up the case of Richard III
- Daughters of Earth (Justine Larbalestier)
Feminist Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century
- Dead Man's Share (Yasmina Khadra)
- dark secrets from the Algerian War of Independence
- Dear Reader (Paul Fournel)
- an old-fashioned publisher faces change
- **Death and the Dervish (Mesa Selimovic)
- a spiritual crisis amidst Ottoman Bosnian politics
- Death Comes for the Archbishop (Willa Cather)
- a novel of the Catholic Church in 19th century New Mexico
- *Death in Rome (Wolfgang Koeppen)
- a German family after the war, vivisected
- *The Death of the Body (C.K. Stead)
- a clever, entertaining metafiction
- *Debunking Economics (Steve Keen)
The Naked Emperor of the Social Sciences
- *Declares Pereira (Antonio Tabucchi)
- a political awakening in 1938 Portugal
- Deep Waters (Barbara Nadel)
- an Inspector Ikmen mystery, set in Istanbul
- *The Defeat of the Spanish Armada (Garrett Mattingly)
- a popular account of the dramatic events of 1587 and 1588
- Definitely Maybe (Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky)
- Defying Hitler (Sebastian Haffner)
- a German's story, 1914 to 1933
- Defying Male Civilization (Mary Nash)
Women in the Spanish Civil War
- Democracy and Participation in Athens (R.K. Sinclair)
- the literary and epigraphical evidence
- Democratic Politics and Economic Reform in India (Rob Jenkins)
- the persistence of liberal economic reform in the 1990s
- Dennett's Philosophy (Don Ross, Andrew Brook, David Thompson)
A Comprehensive Assessment
- The Descendants of Cain (Hwang Sun-won)
- love and greed as land reform tears apart a Korean village
- Descent (Dovid Bergelson)
- a modernist shtetl novel
- The Descent of the Child (Elaine Morgan)
Human Evolution From a New Perspective
- **Designing Web Usability (Jakob Nielsen)
The Practice of Simplicity
- Detective Story (Imre Kertesz)
- a dark farce of totalitarian policing
- Deterring Democracy (Noam Chomsky)
- an indictment of American imperialism
- Developing SGML DTDs (Eve Maler, Jeanne El Andaloussi)
From Text to Model to Markup
- *Development as Freedom (Amartya Sen)
- broad-ranging popular economics
- Development Economics (Debraj Ray)
- a textbook survey
- The Development of Atmospheric General Circulation Models (Donner, Schubert, Somerville)
Complexity, Synthesis and Computation
- The Development of Nomadism in Ancient Northeast Africa (Karim Sadr)
- a deft and suggestive combination of theory and evidence
- Devil in the Mountain (Simon Lamb)
A Search for the Origin of the Andes
- Devil to Pay (C. Northcote Parkinson)
- DHCP (Berry Kercheval)
A Guide to Dynamic TCP/IP Network Configuration
- The Dialectical Biologist (Richard Levins, Richard Lewontin)
- essays on evolution, genetics, and the politics of biology
- Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (David Hume)
- Diaries of a Dead African (Chuma Nwokolo Jr)
- a black comedy of reputation in small-town Nigeria
- Diaspora (Greg Egan)
- science fiction, but more science than fiction
- *A Dictionary of Maqiao (Han Shaogong)
- a pointillist novel of rural China
- The Difference Engine (William Gibson, Bruce Sterling)
- a steam-driven information age in 19th century Britain
- *Difficult Light (Tomás González)
- age and memory; pain, suffering, love and joy
- Digital Atlas of Indonesian History (Robert Cribb)
- an updated electronic version of the printed atlas
- **Digital Copyright (Jessica Litman)
- intellectual property and the Internet
- *Dinosaur in a Haystack (Stephen Jay Gould)
- his seventh volume of essays; still getting better!
- Dinosaurs: A Concise Natural History (Fastovsky, Weishampel)
- an accessible overview of dinosaur systematics + biology
- Dirt (David R. Montgomery)
The Erosion of Civilizations
- The Discarded Image (C.S. Lewis)
An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature
- *The Discovery of Heaven (Harry Mulisch)
- a large but lively novel of ideas
- 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
- *Distributed Algorithms (Nancy A. Lynch)
- for a deep understanding of formal methods
- DNA, Words and Models (Stéphane Robin, François Rodolphe, Sophie Schbath)
Statistics of Exceptional Words
- DNS and BIND (Paul Albitz, Cricket Liu)
- DNS in Action (Libor Dostálek, Alena Kabelová)
A detailed and practical guide to DNS implementation, configuration, and administration
- Doctored Evidence (Donna Leon)
- set in Venice, an Inspector Brunetti novel
- A Dog's Head (Jean Dutourd)
- The Doll's Alphabet (Camilla Grudova)
- dark and grimy but strangely uplifting short stories
- Dolphin Societies (Karen Pryor, Kenneth S. Norris)
Discoveries and Puzzles
- Don Juan in Melanesia (Peter Lawrence)
- Doomsday Book (Connie Willis)
- parallel plagues in Oxford in 1348 and 2054
- *Dr Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation (Olivia Judson)
The Definitive Guide to the Evolutionary Biology of Sex
- *The Dragon (Yevgeny Zamyatin)
Fifteen Stories
- The Dragon Scroll (I.J. Parker)
- a murder mystery set in ancient Japan
- Dreadnought (Robert K. Massie)
Britain, Germany and the Coming of the Great War
- **Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (Olga Tokarczuk)
- three centuries ago Janina would have been burned as a witch
- Dumb Luck (Vu Trong Phung)
- a comic satire of late-colonial Vietnam
- The Dutch and their Delta (Jacob Vossestein)
Living below sea level
- The Dutch Republic (Jonathan I. Israel)
Its Rise, Greatness, and Fall 1477-1806
- The Dwarf (Cho Se-hui)
- stories from the dark side of 1970s South Korea
- The Dynamics of Evolution (Albert Somit, Steven A. Peterson)
The Punctuated Equilibrium Debate in the Natural and Social Sciences
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