Book reviews by title: H
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- H.M. Bark Endeavour (Ray Parkin)
- her voyage up the east coast of Australia
- Hadrian the Seventh (Frederick Rolfe)
- an outcast writer becomes pope
- HAL's Legacy (David G. Stork)
2001's Computer as Dream and Reality
- Hammerklavier (Yasmina Reza)
- a pointillist rumination on music, mortality and memory
- Hands (John Napier)
- structure, function, and evolution; social and cultural roles
- Harlequin's Costume (Leonid Yuzefovich)
- a political murder mystery in 1871 St Petersburg
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (J.K. Rowling)
- a fine children's fantasy, but somewhat over-hyped
- Harvest of the Suburbs (Andrea Gaynor)
An Environmental History of Growing Food in Australian Cities
- A Heap of Ashes (Pramoedya Ananta Toer)
- short stories: a writer's life in Indonesian history
- Heart of Spain (Robert Capa)
Photographs of the Spanish Civil War
- Helena (Evelyn Waugh)
- a dull and tendentiously Catholic novel about Constantine's mother
- Henderson's Dictionary of Biological Terms (Eleanor Lawrence)
- **Her Smoke Rose up Forever (James Tiptree Jr)
- dark, powerful science fiction stories about sex and death
- *Heroic Legends of the North (Edward R. Haymes, Susann T. Samples)
An Introduction to the Nibelung and Dietrich Cycles
- The Hidden Force (Louis Couperus)
- Dutch pragmatism encounters Javanese mysticism
- Hidup Berwarna (George Quinn)
Introductory Readings in Modern Indonesian and Malay Literature
- Higher Speculations (Helge Kragh)
Grand Theories and Failed Revolutions in Physics and Cosmology
- The Highland Clearances (Eric Richards)
People, Landlords and Rural Turmoil
- Highways to a War (Christopher J. Koch)
- a novel about a war photographer in Vietnam and Cambodia
- The Hills Reply (Tarjei Vesaas)
- prose poetry, coming of age in Norwegian landscapes
- Himalaya (David Zurick, P.P. Karan)
Life on the Edge of the World
- The Hindus: An Alternative History (Wendy Doniger)
- down-to-earth and magisterial
- **Historical Atlas of Indonesia (Robert Cribb)
- learned and lavish
- Historical Atlas of Islam (Malise Ruthven, Azim Nanji)
- disappointing: uneven and in places inaccurate
- An Historical Atlas of Oxfordshire (Kate Tiller, Giles Darkes)
- from prehistory to the present
- Historical Dictionary of Indonesia (Robert Cribb, Audrey Kahin)
- a broadly useful reference work
- *The Historical Jesus (John Dominic Crossan)
The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant
- Historiography in the Twentieth Century (Georg G. Iggers)
From Scientific Objectivity to the Postmodern Challenge
- A History of German (Joseph Salmons)
What the Past Reveals About Today's Language
- *The History of Iceland (Gunnar Karlsson)
- from settlement to the present
- *A History of Inner Asia (Svat Soucek)
- from the coming of Islam
- A History of Iraq (Charles Tripp)
- politics from the Ottomans to Saddam Hussein
- A History of Korea (Kyung Moon Hwang)
- in thematic chapters centred on key episodes
- *A History of Modern Palestine (Ilan Pappe)
One Land, Two Peoples
- A History of New Zealand (Keith Sinclair)
- a classic, with five editions since 1959
- A History of Russia (Nicholas V. Riasanovsky)
- Kievan, Appanage, Muscovite, Imperial, and Soviet Russia
- *The History of the Countryside (Oliver Rackham)
The classic history of Britain's landscape, flora and fauna
- A History of the English Language (Richard Hogg, David Denison)
- "pitched at senior undergraduates in the main"
- History of the Inca Realm (María Rostworowski de Diez Canseco)
- an ethnohistorical overview
- A History of the Low Countries (Paul Arblaster)
- from Caesar to the modern Netherlands, Belgium + Luxembourg
- *A History of the New Zealanders (James Belich)
Making Peoples; Paradise Reforged
- A History of the Peoples of Pakistan (J. Hussain)
Towards Independence
- A History of the Peoples of Siberia (James Forsyth)
Russia's North Asian Colony 1581-1990
- A History of Wales (John Davies)
- a dense but rewarding narrative
- The Hittites (J.G. Macqueen)
And their contemporaries in Asia Minor
- The Holocene (Neil Roberts)
An Environmental History
- Holy Fire (Bruce Sterling)
- a future dominated by a gerontocratic medical-industrial complex
- Homage to Catalonia (George Orwell)
- a volunteer's first-hand account of the Spanish civil war
- *Homepage Usability (Jakob Nielsen, Marie Tahir)
50 Websites Deconstructed
- Homer's Daughter (Robert Graves)
- a novel about a woman writing part of the Odyssey
- The Homeric Narrator (Scott Richardson)
- narratorial presence in the Iliad and Odyssey
- *Homesickness (Murray Bail)
- an Australian tour group in a surreal world
- *The Honey Bee (James L. Gould, Carol Grant Gould)
- senses, communication, navigation, learning, and more
- *Horatio Hornblower (C.S. Forester)
- classic age-of-sail naval fiction
- Hornet's Nest (Patricia Cornwell)
- a combined police-procedural and romance
- Horse (J. Edward Chamberlin)
How the Horse has Changed Civilisations
- *The Horse, The Wheel, and Language (David W. Anthony)
How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World
- A House In Istria (Richard Swartz)
- obsessions talking past one another
- The House of Silk (Anthony Horowitz)
The New Sherlock Holmes Novel
- *The Houses of Belgrade (Borislav Pekic)
- a man looks back on a life obsessed by his houses
- How Dead Languages Work (Coulter H. George)
- a linguistic, historical + literary potpourri covering six languages
- How I Wish I'd Taught Maths (Craig Barton)
Lessons Learned from Research, Conversations with Experts, and 12 Years of Mistakes
- *How Languages Work (Carol Genetti)
An Introduction to Language and Linguistics
- **How Monkeys See the World (Dorothy L. Cheney, Robert M. Seyfarth)
Inside the Mind of Another Species
- How Not to Network a Nation (Benjamin Peters)
The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet
- *How To Fold It (Joseph O'Rourke)
The Mathematics of Linkages, Origami, and Polyhedra
- **How to Quiet a Vampire (Borislav Pekic)
- a psychological and philosophical novel of totalitarianism
- How to Read a Latin Poem (William Fitzgerald)
If You Can't Read Latin Yet
- *How to Set Up and Maintain a Web Site (Lincoln D. Stein)
- now dated, but it was a great book
- Human Biology (G.A. Harrison et al.)
An Introduction to Human Evolution, Variation, Growth and Adaptability
- **Human Diversity (Richard Lewontin)
- the realities of human biological variation
- The Human Jungle (Cho Chongnae)
- Korean expats doing business in China
- Hyperion (Friedrich Hölderlin)
- a poetical and epistolatory novel of education
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