Book reviews by title: F
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- **Faces in the Clouds (Stewart Guthrie)
A New Theory of Religion
- *The Faculty of Useless Knowledge (Yury Dombrovsky)
- a novel of Stalin's 1937 terror
- Faded Portraits (E. Breton de Nijs)
A Novel of the Indies
- The Faded Sun (C.J. Cherryh)
- science fiction with compelling aliens
- Fall 1998
- Fall Books 1998
- Falling in Love (Patrick Hanan)
Stories From Ming China
- Famine: A Short History (Cormac Ó Gráda)
- demography and political, economic and social history
- Farewell Anatolia (Dido Sotiriou)
- a panoramic tale of the end of Greek Asia Minor
- Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany (Richard Bessel)
Comparisons and Contrasts
- The Fate of Africa (Martin Meredith)
A History of 50 Years of Independence
- Fatelessness (Imre Kertesz)
- a teenager in Buchenwald concentration camp
- Fear and Trembling (Amélie Nothomb)
- a comic tale about working for a Japanese corporation
- Fearful Symmetry (Ian Stewart, Martin Golubitsky)
Is God a Geometer?
- Fearless Symmetry (Avner Ash, Robert Gross)
Exposing the Hidden Patterns of Numbers
- The Female Animal (Irene Elia)
- reproduction, courtship, lactation, gestation, ...
- *Ferdydurke (Witold Gombrowicz)
- a comedy of pedagogy and identity
- A Few Green Leaves (Barbara Pym)
- a delicately painted English village miniature
- Fictional Space (Tom Shippey)
Essays on Contemporary Science Fiction
- Fields of Glory (Jean Rouaud)
- a novel of old age, memory, and the Great War
- *The Fifth Queen (Ford Madox Ford)
- a novel about Henry VIII's fifth wife, Katharine Howard
- **The Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs (Camilla Townsend)
- using indigenous Nahuatl sources
- Figures of Earth (James Branch Cabell)
- Financial Calculus (Martin Baxter, Andrew Rennie)
An Introduction to Derivative Pricing
- Financing the First World War (Hew Strachan)
- gold, taxation, domestic and foreign borrowing
- Finnish Lessons 2.0 (Pasi Sahlberg)
What can the world learn from educational change in Finland?
- Fire and Ice (Natalie Starkey)
The Volcanoes of the Solar System
- Fire in the Sea: The Santorini Volcano (Walter L Friedrich)
Natural History and the Legend of Atlantis
- *A Fire Upon the Deep (Vernor Vinge)
- inventive and appealing space opera
- Fireflies, Honey, and Silk (Gilbert Waldbauer)
- human uses of insects
- Firewalls and Internet Security (Cheswick, Bellovin, Rubin)
Repelling the Wily Hacker
- *First Contact (Bob Connolly, Robin Anderson)
- culture clash in the New Guinea highlands
- The First Crusade (Peter Frankopan)
The Call From the East
- The First Eagle (Tony Hillerman)
- Jim Chee finds a Hopi eagle poacher next to a dead police officer
- The First Salute (Barbara W. Tuchman)
A View of the American Revolution
- The First Urban Christians (Wayne A. Meeks)
The Social World of the Apostle Paul
- *The First World War (Hew Strachan)
A New Illustrated History
- The First World War in Africa (Hew Strachan)
- Togoland, the Cameroons, South-West Africa, East Africa
- The Fish Can Sing (Halldór Laxness)
- an eccentric childhood in early 20th century Reykjavik
- A Fisherman of the Inland Sea (Ursula K. Le Guin)
- eight science fiction short stories
- The Flanders Panel (Arturo Perez-Reverte)
- Flicker (Theodore Roszak)
- Flip the System UK (Lucy Rycroft-Smith, JL Dutaut)
A Teachers' Manifesto
- For Bread Alone (Mohamed Choukri)
- a bleak childhood and youth in Morocco
- **For Love of Insects (Thomas Eisner)
- the grand synthesis of a veteran scientist
- The Forbidden Kingdom (Jan Jacob Slauerhoff)
- confusions of identity in 16th + 20th century Macao
- *Forbidding Wrong in Islam (Michael Cook)
- the history of an injunction
- Forgotten Armies (Christopher Bayly, Tim Harper)
The Fall of British Asia, 1941-1945
- The Forgotten Cause of the Civil War (Lawrence R. Tenzer)
A New Look at the Slavery Issue
- Forgotten Empire (John Curtis, Nigel Tallis)
The World of Ancient Persia
- The Formation of Islam (Jonathan Berkey)
Religion and Society in the Near East, 600-1800
- *The Fortress (Mesa Selimovic)
- surviving the politics of Ottoman Bosnia
- The Foundations of Artificial Intelligence (Partridge, Wilks)
A Sourcebook
- *Fourier Optics: An Introduction (E.G. Steward)
- for those with a maths/physics background
- Fractal Geometry (Kenneth Falconer)
Mathematical Foundations and Applications
- *The Fractal Geometry of Nature (Benoit B. Mandelbrot)
- a casebook and a manifesto
- Fractals (Hans Lauwerier)
Endlessly Repeated Geometrical Figures
- *Fractals and Chaos (Paul S. Addison)
An Illustrated Course
- *Fractals Everywhere (Michael F. Barnsley)
- the power of iterated function systems
- Fractals, Chaos, Power Laws (Manfred Schroeder)
Minutes from an Infinite Paradise
- Fractals: A Very Short Introduction (Kenneth Falconer)
- the obvious starting point for lay readers
- *A Fragile Balance (Christopher Dickman)
The extraordinary story of Australian marsupials
- France in the World: A New Global History (Boucheron, Gerson)
- 130 short specialist essays
- Free as in Freedom (Sam Williams)
Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software
- *The French Idea of Freedom (Dale Van Kley)
The Old Regime and The Declaration of Rights of 1789
- French Literature (John D. Lyons)
A Very Short Introduction
- *The French Revolution (George Rudé)
- a modern marxist interpretation
- The French-Speaking Pacific (Christian Jost)
Population, Environment and Development Issues
- From Airline Reservations to Sonic the Hedgehog (Martin Campbell-Kelly)
A History of the Software Industry
- From Brains to Consciousness (Steven Rose)
Essays on the New Sciences of the Mind
- From Gutenberg to the Global Information Infrastructure (Christine L. Borgmann)
- all about digital libraries
- From the Lower Deck (Henry Baynham)
The Old Navy 1780-1840
- The Fuller Memorandum (Charles Stross)
- comic espionage science fiction horror
- The Future Does Not Compute (Stephen L. Talbott)
- emotionally stirring but intellectually vacuous
- The Future of Academic Freedom (Louis Menand)
- philosophical, legal, and ethical perspectives
- *The Future of Fusion Energy (Jason Parisi, Justin Ball)
- the science, engineering, history and politics
- The Future of Silence (Bruce Fulton, Ju-Chan Fulton)
Fiction by Korean Women
- The Future of the Internet Protocol (Carl Malamud)
- *The Futurological Congress (Stanislaw Lem)
- an inventive science fiction comedy
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