Book reviews by title: E
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(Drop 'A' and 'The' from titles.)
- The Early History of the Ancient Near East (Hans J. Nissen)
9000 - 2000 B.C.
- Early India (Romila Thapar)
From the Origins to AD 1300
- *Early Intelligence (Lise Eliot)
How the Brain and Mind Develop in the First Five Years of Life
- Earth (David Brin)
- *Earthly Necessities (Keith Wrightson)
Economic Lives in Early Modern Britain
- **The Earthsea Trilogy (Ursula K. Le Guin)
A Wizard of Earthsea; The Tombs of Atuan; The Farthest Shore
- Eat Me (Linda Jaivin)
- a comedy about the sex lives of four Sydney women
- Eaters of the Dead (Michael Crichton)
- the Beowulf story from the perspective of an Arab traveler
- *The Ecology of Language Evolution (Salikoko S. Mufwene)
- creoles, biological parallels, and socioeconomic history
- The Economics of World War II (Mark Harrison)
Six Great Powers in International Comparison
- Edible Insects and Human Evolution (Julie J. Lesink)
- ethnography, primatology, paleontology, nutrition, ...
- Education in Britain 1750-1914 (W.B. Stephens)
- elementary, secondary and higher education; literacy and science
- Effective Perl Programming (Joseph N. Hall)
Writing Better Programs With Perl
- Egypt, Canaan and Israel in Ancient Times (Donald B. Redford)
- from prehistory to the destruction of Jerusalem in 586 BC
- Egypt: An Economic Geography (Fouad N. Ibrahim, Barbara Ibrahim)
- a broad-ranging survey
- The Egyptians (Sergio Donadoni)
- the social history of ancient Egypt
- *Elbow Room (Daniel C. Dennett)
The Varieties of Free Will Worth Wanting
- Electrical Machines, Drives, and Power Systems (Theodore Wildi)
- an undergraduate text with little mathematics
- Electromagnetic Processes in Dispersive Media (Melrose, McPhedran)
A Treatment Based on the Dielectric Tensor
- The Electronic Privacy Papers (Bruce Schneier, David Banisar)
Documents on the Battle for Privacy in the Age of Surveillance
- The Elements of Graphing Data (William S. Cleveland)
- effective graphical presentation of data
- Elements of Mathematics: From Euclid to Gödel (John Stillwell)
- "elementary" and its boundary with "advanced"
- The Elements of Style (William Strunk, E.B. White)
- a classic but dated guide to English style
- Elliptic Tales (Avner Ash, Robert Gross)
Curves, Counting, and Number Theory
- The Elusive Malaria Vaccine: Miracle or Mirage? (Irwin W. Sherman)
- a century of immunological research
- Embers (Sándor Márai)
- looking back at the intensities and obsessions of youth
- *The Emerald Planet (David Beerling)
How Plants Changed Earth's History
- The Emergence of a National Economy (Howard Dick et al.)
An Economic History of Indonesia, 1800-2000
- Emergent Tokyo (Jorge Almazan)
- yokochō alleyways, zakkyo buildings, undertrack infills, ankyo streets + dense low-rise neighbourhoods
- Emil and the Detectives (Erich Kästner)
- children bring a thief to justice in Berlin in 1929
- The Emperor (Ryszard Kapuscinski)
- the end of Haile Selassie and his court
- The Emperor's Coloured Coat (John Biggins)
- the adventures of an Austrian naval lieutenant in 1912-1914
- Empire to Commonwealth (Garth Fowden)
Consequences of Monotheism in Late Antiquity
- *Empires (Susan E. Alcock et al.)
Perspectives from Archaeology and History
- Empires of the Silk Road (Christopher I. Beckwith)
A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present
- Empires of the Word (Nicholas Ostler)
A Language History of the World
- Empires, Nations and Wars (Michael Howard)
- lectures and essays on political and military history
- *The Empress of Weehawken (Irene Dische)
- an acerbically funny German-American life
- The End of A Family Story (Peter Nadas)
- memories of childhood woven into a complex tapestry
- The End of Ancient Christianity (R.A. Markus)
- changes in Western Christianity in the fourth through sixth centuries
- *End of Empire (David P. Chandler, Robert Cribb, Li Narangoa)
100 Days in 1945 that Changed Asia and the World
- End of the Megafauna (Ross D. E. MacPhee)
The Fate of the World's Hugest, Fiercest, and Strangest Animals
- An End to Suffering (Pankaj Mishra)
The Buddha in the World
- The Engine of Reason, the Seat of the Soul (Paul M. Churchland)
A Philosophical Journey into the Brain
- English as a Global Language (David Crystal)
- its use, history, and culture
- The English Civil Wars 1640-1660 (Blair Worden)
- a straightforward but insightful account
- *English Landscapes (W.G. Hoskins)
- decoding the historical layers in rural landscapes
- The English Languages (Tom McArthur)
- An English Murder (Cyril Hare)
- a classic murder mystery with a political twist
- *English, August (Upamanyu Chatterjee)
- a comic novel about working for the Indian government
- The Enlightened Economy (Joel Mokyr)
Britain and the Industrial Revolution 1700-1850
- Environmental Evolution (Margulis, Matthews, Haselton)
Effects of the Origin and Evolution of Life on Planet Earth
- Environmental Histories of New Zealand (Eric Pawson, Tom Brooking)
- papers on ecology, economics, conservation, and ideas
- Environmental Modelling: An Uncertain Future? (Keith Beven)
- handling uncertainty in complex models
- Envisioning the City (David Buisseret)
Six Studies in Urban Cartography
- Envisioning the Future (Marleen S. Barr)
Science Fiction and the Next Millennium
- *The Epic of Gilgamesh (Andrew George)
- Epidemics Laid Low (Patrice Bourdelais)
- a history of public health responses in Western Europe
- Erdös on Graphs (Fan Chung, Ron Graham)
His Legacy of Unsolved Problems
- *Essential Cell Biology (Bruce Alberts et al.)
An Introduction to the Molecular Biology of the Cell
- *Essentials of Epidemiology in Public Health (Aschengrau, Seage III)
- a non-mathematical introduction for health scientists
- Ethiopia: Power and Protest (Gebru Tareke)
Peasant Revolts in the Twentieth Century
- The Ethiopians (Richard Pankhurst)
A History
- Eucalyptus (Murray Bail)
- an Australian fairy tale, a love story
- *Euler's Gem (David S. Richeson)
The Polyhedron Formula and the Birth of Topology
- Eurasian Crossroads (James A. Millward)
A History of Xinjiang
- Everyday Politics in the Philippines (Benedict J. Tria Kerkvliet)
Class and Status Relations in a Central Luzon Village
- Everything Like Before (Kjell Askildsen)
- stories of estrangement and misunderstanding
- Evolution (P.J. Greenwood, P.H. Harvey, M. Slatkin)
Essays in honour of John Maynard Smith
- Evolution and the Theory of Games (John Maynard Smith)
- game theory in population genetics and ethology
- *The Evolution of Communication (Marc D. Hauser)
- neurobiological, ontogenetic, adaptive, and psychological approaches
- *The Evolution of Plants (K.J. Willis, J.C. McElwain)
- fossils, phylogenetics, environments, biogeography, ...
- Evolution of the Insects (David Grimaldi, Michael S. Engel)
- fossils, phylogenetics, and evolutionary biology
- The Evolution of the Polynesian Chiefdoms (Patrick Vinton Kirch)
- Evolution: A View from the 21st Century (James A. Shapiro)
- natural genetic engineering and the read-write genome
- **The Evolutionary Biology of Plants (Karl J. Niklas)
- evolution makes sense of otherwise unconnected areas of botany
- Evolutionary Catastrophes (Vincent Courtillot)
The Science of Mass Extinctions
- *Evolutionary Genetics (John Maynard Smith)
- a readable introductory text
- *Evolutionary Pathways in Nature (John C. Avise)
- applications of comparative phylogenetics
- The Evolutionary Synthesis (Ernst Mayr, William B. Provine)
Perspectives on the Unification of Biology
- The Evolving Coast (Richard A. Davis Jr)
- an overview of coastal forms and processes
- *The Expedition to the Baobab Tree (Wilma Stockenström)
- a slave woman survives a doomed expedition into the interior
- Explorers of South-East Asia (Victor T. King)
- Mouhot, Bock, Burns, Nieuwenhuis, Garnier, and Scott
- The External Trade of the Loango Coast 1576-1870 (Phyllis M. Martin)
The Effects of Changing Commercial Relations on the Vili Kingdom of Loango
- Extinction (Douglas H. Erwin)
How Life on Earth Nearly Ended 250 Million Years Ago
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