Book reviews by title: O
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- *Obabakoak (Bernardo Atxaga)
- a metafictional short story collection
- Obscenity, Blasphemy, Sedition (Peter Coleman)
The Rise and Fall of Literary Censorship in Australia
- The Ocean (James Hanley)
- five men in a lifeboat
- The Oceans: A Deep History (Eelco J. Rohling)
- ocean chemistry in its broadest context
- Octopus: The Ocean's Intelligent Invertebrate (Mather, Anderson, Wood)
- natural history, behaviour, life-cycle
- Oia in Santorini (Kadio Kolymva)
A journey in space and time
- The Ok Tedi Settlement (Glenn Banks, Chris Ballard)
Issues, Outcomes and Implications
- The Old Capital (Yasunari Kawabata)
- a young woman in post-war Kyoto; a novel
- *Old English and its Closest Relatives (Orrin W. Robinson)
A Survey of the Earliest Germanic Languages
- *Old Filth (Jane Gardam)
- from Raj orphan to barrister and judge
- Oliver Cromwell (Peter Gaunt)
- a brief illustrated biography
- Oliver VII (Antal Szerb)
- a slight but charming entertainment
- On Evolution (John C. Avise)
- thirty years using molecular analysis in evolutionary biology
- On History (Eric Hobsbawm)
- and history's connections to politics and society; 20 pieces
- On Literature (Umberto Eco)
- an assortment of literary criticism
- On Literature and Art (Leon Trotsky)
- a literary critic as well as a revolutionary and a political theorist
- *On Stalin's Team (Sheila Fitzpatrick)
The Years of Living Dangerously in Soviet Politics
- On the Abolition of All Political Parties (Simone Weil)
- and Milosz on "The Importance of Simone Weil"
- **On the Road of the Winds (Patrick Vinton Kirch)
An Archaeological History of the Pacific Islands before European Conquest
- *On the Wing (David E. Alexander)
Insects, Pterosaurs, Birds, Bats and the Evolution of Animal Flight
- *On Thrones of Gold (James R. Brandon)
Three Javanese Shadow Plays
- Once the Buddha Was a Monkey: Jatakamala (Arya Sura)
- morality tales about lives of the Buddha
- *Once Upon a Time (Marina Warner)
A Short History of Fairy Tale
- One Illness Away (Anirudh Krishna)
Why People Become Poor and How they Escape Poverty
- *One Minute Stories (István Örkeny)
- Hungarian stories "while the soft-boiled egg is boiling"
- The Online User's Encyclopedia (Bernard Aboba)
Bulletin Boards and Beyond
- **Ontogeny and Phylogeny (Stephen Jay Gould)
- the history of recapitulation; developmental timing and evolution
- Open Sources (Chris DiBona, Sam Ockman, Mark Stone)
Voices from the Open Source Revolution
- The Origins of Agriculture (David Rindos)
An Evolutionary Perspective
- *Origins of Life (Freeman Dyson)
- a short, slightly idiosyncratic look at abiogenesis
- The Origins of Music (Nils L. Wallin, Björn Merker, Steven Brown)
- towards an evolutionary musicology
- The Origins of the Anglo-Saxons (Jean Manco)
Decoding the Ancestry of the English
- *The Other Wind (Ursula K. Le Guin)
- Earthsea revisited
- Oulipo (Warren F. Motte Jr)
A Primer of Potential Literature
- **Oulipo Compendium (Harry Mathews, Alastair Brotchie)
- people, works, and forms, with extensive examples
- Our Lady of the Nile (Scholastique Mukasonga)
- racial tensions mount in a Rwandan girls' school
- *Our Twisted Hero (Yi Mun-yol)
- a struggle for power in a Korean classroom
- Out of the Desert? (William H. Stiebing Jr)
Archaeology and the Exodus/Conquest Narratives
- *The Outer Reaches of Life (John Postgate)
- bacteria in extreme environments
- Outlaws of the Marsh (Shi Nai'an, Luo Guanzhong)
- an abridgement of the classic Chinese novel
- Outwitting History (Aaron Lansky)
How a Young Man Rescued a Million Books and Saved a Vanishing Civilisation
- *The Ovary of Eve (Clara Pinto-Correia)
Egg and Sperm and Preformation
- Oxford (Jan Morris)
- a potpourri of information about the town and university
- The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (Daniel Hahn)
- an encyclopedia covering authors in English and their work
- *The Oxford Companion to Food (Alan Davidson)
- a gloriously erudite encyclopedia of biology, culture, history
- The Oxford Murders (Guillermo Martinez)
- a serial killer with a mathematical bent
- Oxford Surveys in Evolutionary Biology 1 (Richard Dawkins, M. Ridley)
- sex, signalling, fireflies, epistasis, hierarchy, phylogeny, and more
- Oxygen: A Four Billion Year History (Donald E. Canfield)
- deep time geobiochemistry
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