Book reviews by title: L
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(Drop 'A' and 'The' from titles.)
- *The Lagoon (Armand Marie Leroi)
How Aristotle Invented Science
- Land of the Tiger (Valmik Thapar)
A Natural History of the Indian Subcontinent
- The Landmark Herodotus: The Histories (Robert B. Strassler)
- stupendously annotated and enhanced
- Language and the Internet (David Crystal)
- a linguist on Netspeak: email, chat, virtual worlds, and the Web
- Language Death (David Crystal)
- threats to languages and approaches to revitalization
- The Language Instinct (Steven Pinker)
The New Science of Language and Mind
- Language Myths (Laurie Bauer, Peter Trudgill)
- 21 common misconceptions about language corrected
- Language Play (David Crystal)
- by adults and children
- **The Languages of China (S. Robert Ramsey)
- social, cultural, and historical background as well as linguistics
- The Languages of the World (Kenneth Katzner)
- sample texts, translations and background for 200 languages
- A Lapse of Memory (Victor Segalen)
- a novel about the destruction of traditional religion in Tahiti
- *The Last Burden (Upamanyu Chatterjee)
- a merciless dissection of an Indian family
- *The Last Imaginary Place (Robert McGhee)
A Human History of the Arctic World
- The Last Jews in Berlin (Leonard Gross)
- the gripping stories of seven Holocaust survivors
- The Last Mile to Huesca (Judith Keene)
An Australian Nurse in the Spanish Civil War
- Last Rites (Michael Hampson)
The End of the Church of England
- LaTeX (Leslie Lamport)
A Document Preparation System
- The LaTeX Companion (Michel Goosens, Frank Mittelbach, Alexander Samarin)
- *The Laughter of Aphrodite (Peter Green)
A Novel about Sappho of Lesbos
- Learning Bahasa Indonesia Without Teacher (Amin Singgih)
- Learning the bash Shell (Cameron Newham, Bill Rosenblatt)
- Learning the vi Editor (Linda Lamb)
- *Leaves from an Autumn of Emergencies (Samuel Hideo Yamashita)
Selections from the Wartime Diaries of Ordinary Japanese
- The Lecherous Academician (Ling Mengchu)
- four stories from Ming China
- The Lecture (Lydie Salvayre)
- a comic extravaganza of a monologue
- **Lectures on the Philosophy of Mathematics (Joel David Hamkins)
- from numbers and rigor to incompleteness and set theory
- The Legend of Bouvines (Georges Duby)
- the ideology of peace, war, and battle in the 12th century
- *Legends (Terry Pratchett et al.)
- short fiction by five leading fantasy novelists
- *The Legends of Khasak (O.V. Vijayan)
- interwoven stories of life and death in a South Indian village
- *The Leopard (Giuseppe di Lampedusa)
- a Sicilian aristocrat faces change in 1860
- Let It Be Morning (Sayed Kashua)
- everyday life confronts geopolitics in an Arab Israeli village
- Letters from the Malay Archipelago (Alfred Russel Wallace)
- travelling, observing, collecting, theorising, ...
- The Lewis Chessmen Unmasked (Caldwell, Hall, Wilkinson)
- their provenance, background, and styling
- **The Life and Adventures of Trobadora Beatrice as Chronicled by Her Minstrel Laura (Irmtraud Morgner)
- socialist magical realism from East Germany
- The Life and Times of Horatio Hornblower (C. Northcote Parkinson)
- a fictional biography of CS Forester's naval hero
- Life at the Extremes (Frances Ashcroft)
The Science of Survival
- *The Life of an Amorous Woman (Ihara Saikaku)
- stories of Japan's 17th century Floating World
- Life on Air (David Attenborough)
Memoirs of a Broadcaster
- Life on Other Worlds (Steven J. Dick)
The 20th-Century Extraterrestrial Life Debate
- Life: The First Four Billion Years (Martin Jenkins)
- an illustrated overview for children
- Lifelines (Steven Rose)
Biology, Freedom, Determinism
- The Lighter Side of Gravity (Jayant V. Narlikar)
- a popular introduction to the physics behind astronomy
- Lineland (Jules Siegel, Christine Wexler)
Mortality and Mercy on the Internet's Pynchon-L@Waste.Org Discussion List
- Lingo (Gaston Dorren)
A Language Spotter's Guide to Europe
- Linux in a Nutshell (Ellen Siever)
- Linux Journal
The Monthly Magazine of the Linux Community
- The Lions of Al-Rassan (Guy Gavriel Kay)
- Liquidation (Imre Kertesz)
- a metafictional literary mystery
- *Lise Meitner (Ruth Lewin Sime)
A Life in Physics
- The Little Book of Black Holes (Steven S. Grubser, Frans Pretorius)
- from basic physics to collision observations
- The Little Ghost (Otfried Preussler)
- Little Man, What Now? (Hans Fallada)
- struggling to survive in Germany in the Great Depression
- *Little Penguin (Colin Stahel, Rosemary Gales)
Fairy Penguins in Australia
- *A Little Primer of Tu Fu (David Hawkes)
- an introduction to classical Chinese poetry
- The Little Water-Sprite (Otfried Preussler)
- The Little Witch (Otfried Preussler)
- Lives of the Planets (Richard Corfield)
A Natural History of the Solar System
- *Lofting (Alma Marceau)
- an intelligent erotic novel
- The Logic of Life (Tim Harford)
Uncovering the New Economics of Everything
- Lonesome You (Park Wan-Suh)
- short stories about aging and being old
- *The Long Thaw (David Archer)
How Humans Are Changing the Next 100,000 Years of Earth's Climate
- **Lord of Light (Roger Zelazny)
- epic science fiction using Hindu and Buddhist themes
- The Lord of the Rings 1954-2004 (Wayne G. Hammond, Christina Scull)
Scholarship in Honor of Richard E. Blackwelder
- Lords and Lemurs (Alison Jolly)
Mad Scientists, Kings with Spears, and the Survival of Diversity in Madagascar
- Lords of Finance (Liaquat Ahamed)
1929, the Great Depression, and the Bankers Who Broke the World
- *Lost Books of Medieval China (Glen Dudbridge)
- learning from the reconstruction of lost texts
- *The Lost Chronicles of the Maya Kings (David Drew)
- a nice introduction to Mayan history and society
- Love and Limerence (Dorothy Tennov)
The Experience of Being in Love
- Love in a Fallen City (Eileen Chang)
- novellas about women in 1930s Hong Kong and Shanghai
- *Love Songs of the New Kingdom (John L. Foster)
- ancient Egyptian love poems
- *Loving Sabotage (Amélie Nothomb)
- a tale of childhood love and war
- The Luck of the Vails (E.F. Benson)
- a turn of the century mystery set among the English aristocracy
- Lud-in-the-Mist (Hope Mirrlees)
- a striking fantasy novel from 1926
- Lying For Money (Dan Davies)
How Legendary Frauds Reveal the Workings of Our World
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