Book reviews by title: I
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- I Have the Right to Destroy Myself (Kim Young-Ha)
- art, sex, and death in Seoul
- *Icelandic Bird Guide (Jóhann Óli Hilmarsson)
- a must for bird-watchers visiting Iceland
- Ideas That Shaped Buildings (Fil Hearn)
- architectural theory from Vitruvius to deconstructivism
- Ideogram (J. Marshall Unger)
Chinese Characters and the Myth of Disembodied Meaning
- *If Not Now, When? (Primo Levi)
- a novel of Jewish partisans in Russia and Poland in WWII
- **The Illicit Happiness of Other People (Manu Joseph)
- meaning and madness in a middle class Madras family
- The Immaculate Deception (Iain Pears)
- a mystery of Italian art and politics
- Immortal Engines (George Slusser, Gary Westfahl, Eric S. Rabkin)
Life Extension and Immortality in Science Fiction and Fantasy
- *Imperfect Paradise (Shen Congwen)
- short stories paint a portrait of China before the Revolution
- *Imperial China 900-1800 (F.W. Mote)
- with a focus on political institutions and systems of government
- Imperialism and Biblical Prophecy, 750-500 BCE (David Aberbach)
- the Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold
- The Importance of Being Little (Erika Christakis)
What Preschoolers Really Need From Grownups
- Improve Your Opening Leads (Hugh Kelsey, John Matheson)
- an intermediate bridge book
- In a Free State (V.S. Naipaul)
- stories about individuals in foreign countries, coping with alien cultures
- In Praise of Walking (Shane O'Mara)
The New Science of How We Walk and Why It's Good for Us
- In Red (Magdalena Tulli)
- love, commerce and war in an imaginary Polish town
- In Search of Kazakhstan (Christopher Robbins)
The Land that Disappeared
- In Search of Southeast Asia (D. J. Steinberg)
A Modern History
- In the City of Bikes (Pete Jordan)
The Story of the Amsterdam Cyclist
- In the Rose Garden of the Martyrs (Christopher De Bellaigue)
A Memoir of Iran
- *In the Wake of Chaos (Stephen H. Kellert)
- what chaos theory is, and what it is not
- In the Wilderness (Manuel Rivas)
- magic and the mundane in a Galician village
- *Inbreeding, Incest, and the Incest Taboo (Wolf, Durham)
The State of Knowledge at the Turn of the Century
- **Independent People (Halldór Laxness)
- the epic story of an Icelandic sheep farmer
- The Indo-European Controversy (Asya Pereltsvaig, Martin W. Lewis)
Facts and Fallacies in Historical Linguistics
- Indochina (Pierre Brocheux, Daniel Hémery)
An Ambiguous Colonization 1858-1954
- Indonesia (Peter Turner et al.)
- the Lonely Planet travel guide
- Indonesia Handbook (Bill Dalton)
- Indonesia: The Rise of Capital (Richard Robison)
- the development of local capitalists
- The Indonesian Killings 1965-1966 (Robert Cribb)
Studies from Java and Bali
- The Indonesian Language (James N Sneddon)
Its History and Role in Modern Society
- The Indus (Andrew Robinson)
- a mysterious "lost" civilisation
- Inequality Reexamined (Amartya Sen)
- equality in political and economic philosophy
- Inequality: What Can Be Done? (Anthony B. Atkinson)
- a pragmatic analysis with practical suggestions
- Infections and Inequalities (Paul Farmer)
The Modern Plagues
- *Infinite Tropics (Alfred Russel Wallace)
An Alfred Russel Wallace Anthology
- Information Liberation (Brian Martin)
Challenging the Corruptions of Information Power
- *Infrastructure (Brian Hayes)
A Field Guide to the Industrial Landscape
- *The Inner Quarters (Patricia Buckley Ebrey)
Marriage and the Lives of Chinese Women in the Sung Period
- An Inordinate Fondness for Beetles (Arthur V. Evans, Charles L. Bellamy)
- taxonomy, anatomy, ecology, and connections with humans
- The Inquisitor (Catherine Jinks)
- a murder mystery set in medieval France
- *Insects and Flowers (Friedrich G. Barth)
The Biology of a Partnership
- Insects and Human Life (Brian Morris)
- insects in the social and cultural life of Malawi
- *Inside Indonesia (Gerry van Klinken)
- a quarterly covering politics, culture, and the environment
- Inspector Anders (Marshall Browne)
The Wooden Leg of Inspector Anders; Inspector Anders and the Ship of Fools
- The Inspector Barlach Mysteries (Friedrich Dürrenmatt)
The Judge and His Hangman + Suspicion
- Inspector Imanishi Investigates (Seicho Matsumoto)
- a murder mystery in 1960 Japan
- Inspector Singh Investigates (Shamini Flint)
- a series about a Sikh Singaporean policeman
- *An Instance of the Fingerpost (Iain Pears)
- murder, espionage and controversy in Restoration Oxford
- Insurrecto (Gina Apostol)
- metafiction and massacre: scripting the Philippines
- Intellectual Impostures (Alan Sokal, Jean Bricmont)
Postmodern Philosophers' Abuse of Science
- An Intelligent Person's Guide to History (John Vincent)
- a contrarian approach to British historiography
- *Interconnections (Radia Perlman)
Bridges, Routers, Switches, and Internetworking Protocols
- Internet Besieged (Dorothy E. Denning, Peter J. Denning)
Countering Cyberspace Scofflaws
- Internetworking with TCP/IP, Volume I (Douglas E. Comer)
Principles, Protocols and Architecture
- Internetworking with TCP/IP, Volume II (Comer, Stevens)
Design, Implementation, and Internals
- An Introduction to Auction Theory (Flavio M. Menezes, Paulo K. Monteiro)
- mathematically rigorous techniques and methods
- An Introduction to Children's Literature (Peter Hunt)
- a lively and opinionated history
- Introduction to Climate Modelling (Thomas Stocker)
- circulation dynamics and numerical methods
- Introduction to Conservation Genetics (Frankham, Ballou, Briscoe)
- a nicely presented undergraduate text
- An Introduction to Historical Linguistics (Terry Crowley)
- a straightforward text
- An Introduction to Modern Political Theory (Norman P. Barry)
- rational-individualist nonsense
- *An Introduction to Nervous Systems (Ralph J. Greenspan)
- an evolutionary approach to neurobiology
- An Introduction to Old English (Richard Hogg)
- a historical account, setting the language in context
- *An Introduction to Pidgins and Creoles (John Holm)
- a text for linguistics students, but reasonably accessible
- An Introduction to the Biology of Vision (James T. McIlwain)
- the anatomy and neuroscience of the eye and the brain
- Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking (Daniel C. Dennett)
- meaning, evolution, consciousness, and free will
- Inventing Flight (John D. Anderson Jr)
The Wright Brothers and Their Predecessors
- Inventing the Middle Ages (Norman F. Cantor)
The Lives, Works, and Ideas of the Great Medievalists of the Twentieth Century
- The Invention of Nature (Andrea Wulf)
The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science
- The Invention of Tradition (Eric Hobsbawm, Terence Ranger)
- essays on the recent construction of symbolic and ceremonial traditions
- The Invisible Killer (Gary Fuller)
The Rising Global Threat of Air Pollution and How We Can Fight Back
- IPng (Scott O. Bradner, Allison Mankin)
Internet Protocol Next Generation
- *IPv6: The New Internet Protocol (Christian Huitema)
- *Iran: A Modern History (Abbas Amanat)
- from the Safavids to the Islamic Revolution
- Ireland: A History (Thomas Bartlett)
- a lucid and engaging narrative account
- Irish Flour Milling (Andy Bielenberg)
A History 600-2000
- Iron Council (China Mieville)
- an inventive but otherwise disappointing fantasy
- Iron Kingdom (Christopher Clark)
The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947
- *Islam (John L. Esposito)
The Straight Path
- Islam and the Malay-Indonesian World (Peter G. Riddell)
- theology, exegesis, and religious thinkers
- *Islamic Art (Robert Irwin)
Art, Architecture and the Literary World
- **Islandia (Austin Tappan Wright)
- gentle romance and captivating fantasy
- *Islands (H.W. Menard)
- and atolls, banks, and guyots
- **Israel's History and the History of Israel (Mario Liverani)
- ancient histories, normal and invented
- It Ain't Necessarily So (Richard Lewontin)
The Dream of the Human Genome and Other Illusions
- It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over (Anne de Marcken)
- a "zombie perspective" post-apocalypse novel
- Italian Colonialism in Eritrea, 1882-1941 (Tekeste Negash)
Policies, Praxis and Impact
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