Book reviews by title: P
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(Drop 'A' and 'The' from titles.)
- The Pages (Murray Bail)
- a story of philosophy, farming, and travel
- The Painter of Signs (R.K. Narayan)
- infatuation and commitment in small town India
- Painting by Numbers (JoAnn Wypijewski)
Komar and Melamid's scientific guide to art
- Pakistan - A Dream Gone Sour (Roedad Khan)
- a high-ranking civil servant looks back
- Pakistan in the Twentieth Century (Lawrence Ziring)
A Political History
- Pakistan: A Hard Country (Anatol Lieven)
- a broad-ranging survey of its contemporary politics
- *The Palace of Dreams (Ismail Kadare)
- an Ottoman bureaucracy managing dreams
- Paleofantasy (Marlene Zuk)
What Evolution Really Tells Us about Sex, Diet, and How We Live
- Paradise of the Blind (Duong Thu Huong)
- growing up in a Vietnamese family riven by politics
- Parallel Text German Short Stories (Richard Newnham)
German Short Stories 1; German Short Stories 2; Short Stories in German
- Pasquale's Angel (Paul McAuley)
- a thriller in an industrialised Renaissance Florence
- *The Passage to Europe (Luuk Van Middelaar)
How a Continent Became a Union
- Passport to Yesterday (Yuri Druzhnikov)
- looking back at a childhood in WWII Russia
- The Pastor (Hanne Ørstavik)
- finding herself in far-northern Norway
- The Pathan Borderland (James W. Spain)
- an ethnic group of 20 million, on the Pakistan/Afghanistan border
- *Patterns and Processes of Vertebrate Evolution (Robert L. Carroll)
- connecting paleontology with the rest of biology
- Paul Dirac (Abraham Pais et al.)
The Man and His Work
- Pavane for a Dead Princess (Park Min-Gyu)
- blunt and subtle, love story and social critique
- Pavel's Letters (Monika Maron)
- discovering grandparents lost to the Holocaust
- *The Pea and the Sun (Leonard M. Wapner)
- a popular presentation of the Banach-Tarski Theorem
- Pemberley (Emma Tennant)
A Sequel to Pride and Prejudice
- The Pendragon Legend (Antal Szerb)
- a playful Gothic romp dominated by gentle irony
- Penguin Atlas of African History (Colin McEvedy)
- The Penguin History of Canada (Kenneth McNaught)
- politicians, parties, wars, constitutional changes, ...
- Penguin Portrait (Steve Hare)
Allen Lane and the Penguin Editors 1935-1970
- **The Periodic Table (Primo Levi)
- stories of a chemist working with elements
- Permutation City (Greg Egan)
- science fiction with cellular automata
- Perspectives in Ecological Theory (Roughgarden, May, Levin)
- PGP: Pretty Good Privacy (Simson Garfinkel)
- encryption for everyone
- Pheromones and Animal Behavior (Tristram D. Wyatt)
Chemical Signals and Signatures
- The Philippine Political and Economic Situation in View of 1992 (David, Okamura)
- The Photographs of Baldwin Spencer (Allen, Batty, Morton)
- Aboriginal photographs from 1894 to 1923
- Photography: A Crash Course (Dave Yorath)
- a potted history of photography and photographers
- PHP Pocket Reference (Rasmus Lerdorf)
- *The Physics of Information Technology (Neil Gershenfeld)
- a graduate or higher undergraduate text
- Pigeon House and Beyond (The Budawang Committee)
A Guide to the Budawang Range and Environs
- Pioneers in Medicine and Their Impact on Tuberculosis (Thomas M. Daniel)
- an introduction to the disease, and six lives
- A Place for Strangers (Tony Swain)
Towards a History of Australian Aboriginal Being
- The Place Where Souls Are Born (Thomas Keneally)
A Journey to the Southwest
- A Plague of Sheep (Elinor G.K. Melville)
Environmental Consequences of the Conquest of Mexico
- *Plant Biochemistry (Hans-Walter Heldt)
- detailed but broad-ranging and well-motivated
- *Plants Don't Drink Coffee (Unai Elorriaga)
- intertwined stories about insects, rugby, love + carpentry
- Please Look After Mom (Shin Kyung-Sook)
- the life of a Korean woman and her family
- *Plight of the Fortune Tellers (Riccardo Rebonato)
Why We Need to Manage Financial Risk Differently
- *The Poet (Yi Mun-yol)
- a marginal poet in 19th century Korea
- Poles Apart (Galen Rowell)
Parallel Visions of the Arctic and Antarctic
- The Polish Complex (Tadeusz Konwicki)
- personal and national angsts intertwine
- **Political Islam (Joel Beinin, Joe Stork)
Essays from Middle East Report
- Political Oppositions in Industrialising Asia (Garry Rodan)
- 1996 studies of opposition movements in individual countries
- The Politics of Cycling Infrastructure (Peter Cox, Till Koglin)
Spaces and (In)Equality
- The Politics of Yiddish (Dov-Ber Kerler)
Studies in Language, Literature and Society
- *The Pooh Perplex (Frederick Crews)
- hilariously funny literary criticism of Winnie the Pooh
- Poor Economics (Abhijit V. Banerjee, Esther Duflo)
A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
- Poor Numbers (Morten Jerven)
How We are Misled by African Development Statistics and What to do About It
- *Poor Things (Alasdair Gray)
- a socialist neo-Gothic novel
- *Population Genetics (John H. Gillespie)
A Concise Guide
- The Populist Temptation (Barry Eichengreen)
Economic Grievance and Political Reaction in the Modern Era
- The Porn Report (Alan McKee, Katherine Albury, Catharine Lumby)
- the production and consumption of pornography in Australia
- Portfolios of the Poor (Daryl Collins et al.)
How the World's Poor Live on $2 a Day
- Portrait of a Turkish Family (Irfan Orga)
- a childhood at the end of the Ottoman empire
- Portraits in the Wild (Cynthia Moss)
Animal Behavior in East Africa
- Ports of Call (Amin Maalouf)
- family, love and war, in France and the Middle East
- The Possessed (Elif Batuman)
Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them
- Postcards From Babel (Jill Hadfield)
- a satire on British society under Thatcher
- Postfix: The Definitive Guide (Kyle D. Dent)
- a fast, secure Mail Transfer Agent
- **Postmodern Pooh (Frederick Crews)
- biting parody of modern literary criticism
- Postwar (Tony Judt)
A History of Europe Since 1945
- *Poverty - A History (Bronislaw Geremek)
- with a focus on late medieval and early modern Europe
- Poverty Reduction in Mongolia (Keith Griffin)
- analysis based on a 2001 UNDP study
- Practical Visionaries (Susan Blackburn)
A Study of Community Aid Abroad
- *A Prehistory of the North (John F. Hoffecker)
Human Settlement of the Higher Latitudes
- Premodern Japan (Mikiso Hane)
A Historical Survey
- The Presence of Whales (Frank Stewart)
Contemporary Writings on the Whale
- Presumption (Julia Barrett)
An Entertainment
- Prime Obsession (John Derbyshire)
Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics
- A Primer of Romance Philology (J. Keith Atkinson)
A beginner's guide to the Romance languages of medieval France and Spain
- *The Prince (Hushang Golshiri)
- a dark novel about the Qajari lords of Isfahan
- *The Prince of Fire (Radmilla J. Gorup, Nadezda Obradovic)
An Anthology of Contemporary Serbian Short Stories
- The Princes in the Tower (Alison Weir)
- whodunnit: Richard III or Henry VII?
- *Princeton Primers in Climate (David Archer)
- carbon, clouds, oceans, ice, paleoclimate, planets, ecosystems
- Principles of Health Economics for Developing Countries (William Jack)
- an abstract but accessible survey
- The Prism of Grammar (Tom Roeper)
How Child Language Illuminates Humanism
- Privacy on the Line (Whitfield Diffie, Susan Landau)
The Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption
- *Professor Martens' Departure (Jaan Kross)
- Programming Perl (Larry Wall, Randal L. Schwartz)
- between the shell and the deep blue C
- *Programming Python (Mark Lutz)
- Projective Geometry (H.S.M. Coxeter)
- an elementary approach emphasizing geometric intuition
- Projective Geometry: An Introduction (Rey Casse)
- a formal, coordinate-based approach
- Promiscuity (Tim Birkhead)
An Evolutionary History of Sperm Competition and Sexual Conflict
- **Proofs from THE BOOK (Martin Aigner, Günter M. Ziegler)
- mathematical results that are beautiful, accessible, and profound
- Proudly Serving My Corporate Masters (Adam Barr)
What I Learned in Ten Years as a Microsoft Programmer
- Proust and the Squid (Maryanne Wolf)
The Story and Science of the Reading Brain
- Psychology and Law (Andreas Kapardis)
- witnesses, juries, sentencing, detecting deception, policing, ...
- Pterosaurs: Natural History, Evolution, Anatomy (Mark P. Witton)
- a gloriously illustrated survey of pterosaur science
- Public Access to the Internet (Brian Kahin, James Keller)
- Puppet Theater in Contemporary Indonesia (Jan Mrazek)
New Approaches to Performance Events
- The Pursuit of Italy (David Gilmour)
A History of a Land, Its Regions and Their Peoples
- Pushkin's Second Wife (Yuri Druzhnikov)
And Other Micronovels
- The Pyramid (Ismail Kadare)
- a parable of life under communism
- Python Essential Reference (David M. Beazley)
- useful printed documentation
- Python in a Nutshell (Alex Martelli)
A Desktop Quick Reference
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