Book reviews by title: M
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- The M.I.P. Concise Indonesian Dictionary (J.D. McGarry)
For Students and Travellers
- Machiavelli in Hell (Sebastian de Grazia)
- an intellectual biography
- Macrohistory and Macrohistorians (Johan Galtung, Sohail Inayatulluh)
Perspectives on Individual, Social, and Civilizational Change
- The Madman of Freedom Square (Hassan Blasim)
- violently macabre stories of modern Iraq
- *Magic in the Middle Ages (Richard Kieckhefer)
- an insightful study of medieval magic, demonic and natural
- Magical Mushrooms, Mischievous Molds (George W. Hudler)
- fungi and their influence on our lives
- The Mahabharata (R.K. Narayan)
- an accessible English abridgment
- Maia (Richard Adams)
- epic fantasy
- Maize and Grace (James C. McCann)
Africa's Encounter with a New World Crop 1500-2000
- The Major Transitions in Evolution (John Maynard Smith, Eörs Szathmáry)
- from prebiotic chemistry to the origins of society
- The Making and Breaking of Affectional Bonds (John Bowlby)
- The Making of Byzantium, 600-1025 (Mark Whittow)
- as a Greek-speaking, orthodox empire
- The Making of Memory (Steven Rose)
From Molecules to Mind
- *The Making of the British Landscape (Francis Pryor)
How We Have Transformed the Land, from Prehistory to Today
- The Making of Wales (John Davies)
- landscapes, settlements, buildings
- Making PCR (Paul Rabinow)
A Story of Biotechnology
- The Mammoth Book of Historical Detectives (Mike Ashley)
- thirty short stories
- **Man Tiger (Eka Kurniawan)
- joy amid the darkness in small town Java
- The Man Who Walked through Walls (Marcel Aymé)
- surreal realist short stories from 1943 France
- Managing Internet Information Services (Cricket Liu et al.)
- *Manaschi (Hamid Ismailov)
- a Kyrgyz story, modern and traditional
- Mandarins (Ryunosuke Akutagawa)
- fifteen from "the father of the Japanese short story"
- Manila Ransomed (Nicholas Tracy)
The British Assault on Manila in the Seven Years War
- Many Ramayanas (Paula Richman)
The Diversity of a Narrative Tradition in South Asia
- Map Addict (Mike Parker)
A Tale of Obsession, Fudge and the Ordnance Survey
- *Maps and Civilization (Norman J. W. Thrower)
Cartography in Culture and Society
- *Marat/Sade (Peter Weiss)
The persecution and assassination of Marat as performed by the inmates of the asylum of Charenton under the direction of the Marquis de Sade
- Marc Bloch (Carole Fink)
A Life in History
- The March of the Musicians (Per Olov Enquist)
- a novel about labour unrest in Sweden's bleak north
- *The Market System (Charles E. Lindblom)
What It Is, How It Works, and What To Make of It
- *Marks of Identity (Juan Goytisolo)
- youth between Franco's Spain and exile
- Martyrdom in Islam (David Cook)
- from its genesis to modern radicals
- **The Marx Family Saga (Juan Goytisolo)
- Karl Marx faces the failure of communism
- Massacre at Montségur (Zoé Oldenbourg)
- the Albigensian crusade; Simon de Montfort; the destruction of Catharism
- The Master of Go (Yasunari Kawabata)
- individual and social tensions in a single game
- Masters of Rome (Colleen McCullough)
- epic historical fiction, from the Republic to the Empire
- Mastery in Primary Mathematics (Tom Garry)
- a mastery approach to teaching mathematics teaching
- Mastery Mathematics for Primary Teachers (Robert Newell)
- Math Art: Truth, Beauty, and Equations (Stephen Ornes)
- the maths behind some contemporary art + artists
- *The Mathematical Century (Piergiorgio Odifreddi)
The 30 Greatest Problems of the Last 100 Years
- Mathematics and Art (Lynn Gamwell)
A Cultural History
- *Mathematics and Its History (John Stillwell)
- core ideas of mathematics, in their historical context
- Mathematics in Ancient Egypt (Annette Imhausen)
A Contextual History
- The Mathematics of Various Entertaining Subjects (Beineke, Rosenhouse)
Research in Recreational Math
- Matigari (Ngugi wa Thiong'o)
- after independence, seeking truth and justice
- The Matter of Everything: A History of Discovery (Suzie Sheehy)
- from Röntgen to the Large Hadron Collider
- The Maul and the Pear Tree (P.D. James, T.A. Critchley)
The Ratcliffe Highway Murders 1811
- Max Havelaar (Multatuli)
Or the Coffee Auctions of a Dutch Trading Company
- Maximum RPM (Edward C. Bailey)
Taking the Red Hat Package Manager to the Limit
- *Maya Civilization (Peter Schmidt, Mercedes de la Garza, Enrique Nalda)
- glorious colour photographs and scholarly papers
- McSweeney's 15 (Dave Eggers)
- a special issue on contemporary Icelandic fiction
- *Measured Tones (Ian Johnston)
The Interplay of Physics and Music
- Measuring the World (Daniel Kehlmann)
- a comic historical novel about Gauss and von Humboldt
- MediaWiki (Daniel J. Barrett)
Wikipedia and Beyond
- Medieval Callings (Jacques Le Goff)
- social history
- Medieval Comic Tales (Derek Brewer)
- an anthology
- *Medieval Iceland (Jesse L. Byock)
Society, Sagas, and Power
- *Medieval Islamic Medicine (Peter E. Pormann, Emilie Savage-Smith)
- origins, theory, practice, social context
- The Medieval Machine (Jean Gimpel)
The Industrial Revolution of the Middle Ages
- *Medieval Warfare (Maurice Keen)
A History
- *The Mediterranean (Fernand Braudel)
And the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II
- A Mediterranean Society (S.D. Goitein)
- the Jewish community in medieval Cairo
- Meet Me at Infinity (James Tiptree Jr)
- uncollected science fiction and nonfiction
- Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts (Christopher de Hamel)
- the histories and lives of twelve medieval books
- The Mekong (Milton Osborne)
Turbulent past, uncertain future
- **The Melancholy of Resistance (Laszlo Krasznahorkai)
- a small town falls apart with the showing of a whale
- Memento Mori (Muriel Spark)
- a novel about the lives of seventy year olds
- Mendelssohn is on the Roof (Jiri Weil)
- a blackly comic tragedy about the Holocaust in Prague
- Meritocracy and Economic Inequality (Arrow, Bowles, Durlauf)
- race, intelligence, schooling, and equality of opportunity
- *Mesopotamia: The Invention of the City (Gwendolyn Leick)
- ten cities over five millennia
- Meta Maths: The Quest for Omega (Gregory Chaitin)
- complexity and the limits of mathematics
- Metamorphosis and Identity (Caroline Walker Bynum)
- medieval change, wonder, mixture, and hybridity
- *Metaphysics and the Origin of Species (Michael T. Ghiselin)
- species are logical individuals rather than classes; implications
- *Metropole (Ferenc Karinthy)
- trapped in a crowded city with an incomprehensible language
- Mexico (Daniel C. Levy, Kathleen Bruhn)
The Struggle for Democratic Development
- Microbial Phylogeny and Evolution (Jan Sapp)
Concepts and Controversies
- Microcosmos (Lynn Margulis, Dorion Sagan)
Four Billion Years of Microbial Evolution
- **Microeconomics (Samuel Bowles)
Behavior, Institutions, and Evolution
- The Middle Path (Eric Lambin)
Avoiding Environmental Catastrophe
- Midnight Convoy and Other Stories (S. Yizhar)
- alfalfa, the 1948 war, and childhood inspiration
- Migrations (Milos Tsernianski)
- a novel of Serbs in 18th century Austria
- *The Military Revolution (Geoffrey Parker)
Military Innovation and the Rise of the West 1500-1800
- Millennial Markers (Pamela J. Stewart, Andrew Strathern)
- papers on Pacific millenarianism
- Mind and Morals (Larry May, Marilyn Friedman, Andy Clark)
Essays on Ethics and Cognitive Science
- *Mind and Nature (Gregory Bateson)
A Necessary Unity
- The Mind of God (Paul Davies)
- can physics answer everything?
- The Miracle Pill (Peter Walker)
Why a sedentary world is getting it all wrong
- Mirage: An Anonymous Novel (Patrick Hanan)
- a Chinese novel from 1804
- Mirror of the Indies (Rob Nieuwenhuys)
A History of Dutch Colonial Literature
- The (Mis)behavior of Markets (Benoit Mandelbrot, Richard L. Hudson)
A Fractal View of Risk, Ruin, and Reward
- Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow (Peter Høeg)
- an atmospheric thriller set in Copenhagen and Greenland
- Missing (Walter de la Mare)
- three modernist short stories
- A Modern History of Hong Kong (Steve Tsang)
- a broad-ranging and readable account
- *Modern Infectious Disease Epidemiology (Johan Giesecke)
- an accessible introduction with many case studies
- Modern Japan (Mikiso Hane)
- from the Meiji restoration to the economic miracle
- *Modern Korean Fiction: An Anthology (Bruce Fulton, Youngmin Kwon)
- a superb introduction to 20th century Korean literature
- Modern Mongolia (Morris Rossabi)
From Khans To Commissars to Capitalists
- *Molecular Biology of the Gene (James D. Watson et al.)
- a comprehensive overview of the entire field of molecular genetics
- *Molecular Evolution (Roderic D. M. Page, Edward C. Holmes)
A Phylogenetic Approach
- *Molecular Mechanisms of Photosynthesis (Robert E. Blankenship)
- molecular detail in its broader context
- *Mongolia: Museum Highlights (Hal Fischer)
Important Works of Art from the Collections of the Zanabazar Museum of Fine Arts, Bogd Khan Palace Museum, and Choijin-Lama Temple Museum
- Mongolia: The Bradt Travel Guide (Jane Blunden)
- Mongolia: The Lonely Planet Travel Guide (Michael Kohn)
- The Monsters and the Critics (J.R.R. Tolkien)
And Other Essays
- The Moral Economy (Samuel Bowles)
Why Good Incentives are no Substitute for Good Citizens
- The Moral Economy of Trade (Hans-Dieter Evers, Heiko Schrader)
Ethnicity and Developing Markets
- More Than a Living (Michael D. Lieber)
Fishing and the Social Order on a Polynesian Atoll
- The Mosaic Handbook (Dale Dougherty, Richard Koman, Paula Ferguson)
- before Internet Explorer, before Netscape, there was...
- *Moscow Stations (Venedikt Yerofeev)
- a tragi-comic existentialist masterpiece
- The Mountain Poems of Meng Hao-jan (David Hinton)
- nature poetry by the great Tang poet
- Moving Pictures (Terry Pratchett)
- A Moving Target (William Golding)
- short pieces on travel and writing
- *Mr. Mani (A.B. Yehoshua)
- linked stories about a Jewish lineage
- Much Ado About Religion (Bhatta Jayanta)
- a Sanskrit religious drama from 900 AD
- Much Sounding of Bugles (John Harris)
The Siege of Chitral, 1895
- Multicast Networking and Applications (C. Kenneth Miller)
- The Murder Farm (Andrea Maria Schenkel)
- a brutal murder in post-war Germany
- The Murder Room (P.D. James)
- a Dalgliesh mystery: classical detective fiction
- Murderous Science (Benno Müller-Hill)
Elimination by Scientific Selection of Jews, Gypsies, and Others in Germany, 1933-1945
- *Murderously Incorrect (Henry F. Mazel)
- off-beat New York PI Alex Rada gets involved with politics
- Music by the Numbers (Eli Maor)
From Pythagoras to Schoenberg
- Music, Cognition, and Computerized Sound (Perry R. Cook)
An Introduction to Psychoacoustics
- *Music, Language, and the Brain (Aniruddh D. Patel)
- links in rhythm, melody, syntax, meaning, evolution
- *My Brain Is Open (Bruce Schechter)
The Mathematical Journeys of Paul Erdös
- My Kind of Girl (Buddhadeva Bose)
- "Is the memory of happiness that has passed, happy or sad?"
- *My Name is Red (Orhan Pamuk)
- murder and art in 16th century Istanbul
- My Son's Girlfriend (Jung Mi-Kyung)
- seven stories from contemporary Korea
- The Mystery of Numbers (Annemarie Schimmel)
- an unstructured collection of numerological beliefs
- The Mystery of the Aleph (Amir D. Aczel)
Mathematics, the Kabbalah, and the Search for Infinity
- Mysticism in Java (Niels Mulder)
Ideology in Indonesia
- The Myth of the Holy Cow (D.N. Jha)
- the origins of cow veneration and vegetarianism in India
- Mythologies (Yves Bonnefoy)
- classical, Egyptian, European, Asian, American, African
- Myths from Mesopotamia (Stephanie Dalley)
Creation, The Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others
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