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- Sacred Art of the Earth (Maureen Korp)
Ancient and Contemporary Earthworks
- *Sacred Mountains of the World (Edwin Bernbaum)
- religion and spirituality; glorious photographs
- Sacred Speakers (Simeon D. Baumel)
Language and Culture among the Haredim in Israel
- Sacred Texts and Buried Treasures (William Wayne Farris)
Issues in the Historical Archaeology of Ancient Japan
- A Sad Affair (Wolfgang Koeppen)
- a story of obsessive love
- The Sadeian Woman (Angela Carter)
And the Ideology of Pornography
- A Sailor of Austria (John Biggins)
- the exploits of an Austro-Hungarian submarine commander
- The Salian Century (Stefan Weinfurter)
- the German monarchy, 1024 to 1125
- Salman the Solitary (Yashar Kemal)
- childhood fantasies, fears, and ecstasies in the Anatolian mountains
- The Salt Smugglers (Gérard de Nerval)
- a French serial novel from 1850
- Salt Water (Josep Pla)
- stories of the north Catalan coast
- *The Samurai (Shusaku Endo)
- a novel of Christian faith in 17th century Japan
- Saudi Arabia (Tim Niblock)
Power, Legitimacy and Survival
- *Savushun (Simin Daneshvar)
A Novel About Modern Iran
- The Scapegoat (Daniel Pennac)
- crime fiction set in the Belleville quarter of Paris
- The Scars of Evolution (Elaine Morgan)
What Our Bodies Tell Us about Human Origins
- Scenes from the Life of a Best-selling Author (Michael Krüger)
- funny short stories about books and writing
- *The Scent of Buenos Aires (Hebe Uhart)
- distinctive character-centred short stories
- Scholarly Publishing (Robin P. Peek, Gregory B. Newby)
The Electronic Frontier
- *Schooling in Western Europe (Mary Jo Maynes)
- the introduction of mass elementary education
- Science and its Fabrication (Alan Chalmers)
- The Science and Politics of Global Climate Change (Dessler, Parson)
A Guide to the Debate
- A Scientific Model of Social and Cultural Evolution (Robert Bates Graber)
- modelling the demographic basis of sociocultural change
- *The Scientific Revolution (Steven Shapin)
- science in 17th century Europe
- Scots & Catalans (J.H. Elliott)
- a history of two nations within states
- Scottish Medieval Churches (Richard Fawcett)
The Ecclesiastical Architecture of the 12th to 16th Centuries
- Seafarers, Merchants and Pirates in the Middle Ages (Dirk Meier)
- the Baltic, the North Sea, the North Atlantic and Russian rivers
- Season of Migration to the North (Tayeb Salih)
- a story of sexual obsession in Britain and Sudan
- Second-Hand Time: The Last of the Soviets (Svetlana Alexievich)
- twenty oral histories from 1991 to 2012
- *The Secret History (Donna Tartt)
- a novel about a classical Greek class in an American college
- The Secret History of Modernism (C.K. Stead)
- looking back at life as a student in 1950s London
- *The Secret Museum (Walter Kendrick)
Pornography in Modern Culture
- *Secret Weapons (Thomas Eisner, Maria Eisner, Melody Siegler)
Defenses of Insects, Spiders, Scorpions, and Other Many-Legged Creatures
- *Secrets and Lies (Bruce Schneier)
Digital Security in a Networked World
- A Secure Base (John Bowlby)
- *Selected Letters of Charles Darwin (Frederick Burkhardt)
Origins; Evolution
- Sendmail (Bryan Costales, Eric Allman)
- the bat book: the world's most popular MTA explained
- Sense and Censorship (Michael Pollak)
Commentaries on Censorship Violence in Australia
- Serious Men (Manu Joseph)
- love and politics in an Indian research institute
- Sex, Laws, and Cyberspace (Jonathan Wallace, Mark Mangan)
Freedom and Censorship on the Frontiers of the Online Revolution
- Sexual Honesty (Shere Hite)
By Women for Women
- Shadow Theatre in Java (Alit Djajasoebrata)
The Puppets, Performance and Repertoire
- The Shannon Scheme (Andy Bielenberg)
and the Electrification of the Irish Free State
- The Shape of Snakes (Minette Walters)
- a compelling and original murder mystery
- *The Shape of Space (Jeffrey R. Weeks)
- the geometry and topology of surfaces and three-manifolds
- *Shapes of Time (Kenneth J. McNamara)
The Evolution of Growth and Development
- *The Shaping of History (Judith Binney)
Essays from The New Zealand Journal of History
- Sheep and Man (M.L. Ryder)
- a comprehensive study of sheep in human history
- Sheep-Rearing and the Wool Trade (Joan M. Frayn)
in Italy during the Roman Period
- Shinto (Thomas P. Kasulis)
The Way Home
- Ships and Science (Larrie D. Ferreiro)
The Birth of Naval Architecture in the Scientific Revolution, 1600-1800
- Shipwrecks (Akira Yoshimura)
- a story of a poor coastal village in medieval Japan
- Shivaji (James W. Laine)
Hindu King in Islamic India
- A Short History of Roman Law (Olga Tellegen-Couperus)
- suitable for those with no background in Roman history
- *The Shorter Science and Civilisation in China: 3 (Joseph Needham)
- nautical technology and the compass
- The Shout and Other Stories (Robert Graves)
- English, Roman, and Majorcan stories
- Siberia: A History of the People (Janet M. Hartley)
- settlers and soldiers; exiles and explorers
- Siberian Larch (Owe Martinsson, Jerzy Lesinski)
Forestry and Timber in a Scandinavian Perspective
- The Sicilian Vespers (Steven Runciman)
A History of the Mediterranean World in the Later Thirteenth Century
- The Siege (Ismail Kadare)
- a novel about an Ottoman army attacking an Albanian fortress
- Silk Road (Jeanne Larsen)
- a fantasy novel set in Tang China
- The Silver Pigs (Lindsey Davis)
- private informer Marcus Didius Falco uncovers a conspiracy
- *The Simple Science of Flight (Henk Tennekes)
From Insects to Jumbo Jets
- *Skylark (Dezso Kosztolanyi)
- a novel of provincial life in 1899 Hungary
- Slapping on the Writs (Brian Walters)
Defamation, Developers and Community Activism
- Small Pieces Loosely Joined (David Weinberger)
{a unified theory of the web}
- Small World (David Lodge)
- an academic comedy, parodying literary theories
- Snake Oil Science (R. Barker Bausell)
The Truth About Complementary and Alternative Medicine
- *Snakes (Harry W. Greene)
The Evolution of Mystery in Nature
- Snatched (Helen Vnuk)
Sex and Censorship in Australia
- Snow (Orhan Pamuk)
- an novel about a coup in a provincial Turkish town
- Snow Crash (Neal Stephenson)
- a fast-paced near-future cyberpunk thriller
- The Social Amoebae (John Tyler Bonner)
The Biology of Cellular Slime Molds
- Society in Crisis (J.H.M. Salmon)
France in the Sixteenth Century
- *Soldier of the Mist (Gene Wolfe)
- historical fantasy set in classical Greece, during the Persian Wars
- Soldiers of Salamis (Javier Cercas)
- villains and heroes of the Spanish Civil War
- *Solibo Magnificent (Patrick Chamoiseau)
- murder and/of/by language in Martinique
- Son of Man (Yi Mun-yol)
- a theological-historical detective novel
- A Song for Arbonne (Guy Gavriel Kay)
- *A Song of Ice and Fire (George R.R. Martin)
A Game of Thrones; A Clash of Kings; A Storm of Swords
- *The Song of Songs (Ariel Bloch, Chana Bloch)
- a compelling translation of the great Hebrew love poem
- *The Song of the Dodo (David Quammen)
Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions
- *101 Sonnets (Don Paterson)
From Shakespeare to Heaney
- **The Sorrow of Belgium (Hugo Claus)
- an adolescence in Flanders during World War II
- *The Sorrow of War (Bao Ninh)
- a novel by a North Vietnamese soldier
- *Soul of the Desert (Philippa Nikulinsky, Stephen D Hopper)
- botanical and zoological illustrations from Australian deserts
- The Sound of Waves (Yukio Mishima)
- a simple love story set on a small Japanese island
- South From Granada (Gerald Brenan)
- settling in an Andalusian village with 2000 books
- South of the Border, West of the Sun (Haruki Murakami)
- teenage romance and angst; a midlife crisis
- Southern Exposure (Michael Molasky, Steve Rabson)
Modern Japanese Literature From Okinawa
- *A Soviet Heretic (Yevgeny Zamyatin)
- essays on Russian literature from the decade after the Revolution
- Spain and the Great Powers in the Twentieth Century (Balfour, Preston)
- from 1898 to Felipe Gonzalez
- Spain's Golden Fleece (Carla Rahn Philips, William D. Philips Jr)
Wool Production and the Wool Trade from the Middle Ages to the Nineteenth Century
- The Spanish Cockpit (Franz Borkenau)
An Eyewitness Account of the Spanish Civil War
- The Spare Room (Helen Garner)
- a novel about coming to terms with death and dying
- Species (Robert A. Wilson)
New Interdisciplinary Papers
- Spell It Out (David Crystal)
The Singular Story of English Spelling
- Spengler's Future (John J. Reilly)
- an exploration of the cycles of world history
- The Spies of Warsaw (Alan Furst)
- a novel of espionage against Germany in 1937
- The Spirit Level (Richard Wilkinson, Kate Pickett)
Why Equality is Better for Everyone
- Spitting Blood: The History of Tuberculosis (Helen Bynum)
- the social and medical history of a disease
- Spoken Like a Woman (Laura McClure)
Speech and Gender in Athenian Drama
- Spring Flowers, Spring Frost (Ismail Kadare)
- a mythological comedy in post-communist Albania
- SSH, The Secure Shell (Daniel J. Barrett, Richard E. Silverman)
The Definitive Guide
- SSL and TLS (Eric Rescorla)
Designing and Building Secure Systems
- St. Agatha's Breast (T.C. Van Adler)
- an irreverent tale of murder, sex, and art in a Roman monastery
- **The Stalin Organ (Gert Ledig)
- a novel of the Russian Front in the Second World War
- Standard Indonesian Made Simple (Liaw Yock Fang)
- Standing Stones (Jean-Pierre Mohen)
Stonehenge, Carnac and the World of Megaliths
- A Stanislaw Lem Reader (Peter Swirski, Stanislaw Lem)
- interviews, essays, and bibliographies
- Stasiland (Anna Funder)
Stories From Behind the Berlin Wall
- State and Religion in China (Anthony C. Yu)
Historical and Textual Perspectives
- The State of the Art (Iain M. Banks)
- short science fiction
- Still Born (Guadalupe Nettel)
- a novel of many motherhoods
- The Stolen Bicycle (Wu Ming-Yi)
- a spiralling exploration of memory and history in Taiwan
- Stonedial (George Konrád)
- a multi-faceted novel wound around modern Hungarian history
- Stopping Spam (Alan Schwartz, Simson Garfinkel)
- Stories from a Ming Collection (Feng Menglong)
The Art of the Chinese Storyteller
- *Stories of Your Life and Others (Ted Chiang)
- big idea science fiction, intelligently handled
- The Story of a Crime: the Martin Beck series (Maj Sjöwall, Per Wahlöö)
- the classic Swedish police procedurals
- The Story of Art (E.H. Gombrich)
- the classic history of Western art
- The Story of French (Jean-Benoît Nadeau, Julie Barlow)
From Charlemagne to The Cirque du Soleil
- **The Story of the Stone (Cao Xueqin)
- the great Chinese novel, aka The Dream of the Red Chamber
- Straight, Bent and Barbara Vine (Garry Disher)
- short Australian crime fiction
- **Strandloper (Alan Garner)
- an Australian convict escapes and joins the Aborigines
- The Strange Case of the Broad Street Pump (Sandra Hempel)
John Snow and the Mystery of Cholera
- Strange Ground (Henry Maurer)
An Oral History of Americans in Vietnam 1945-1975
- Strange Language (Mari Jose Olaziregi)
An Anthology of Basque Short Stories
- Strike for a Kingdom (Menna Gallie)
- a mystery set in a Welsh mining village in 1926
- The Structure of Soviet History (Ronald Grigor Suny)
Essays and Documents
- *A Student's Introduction to English Grammar (Huddleston, Pullum)
- using the latest linguistic research
- Studies in Indonesian History (Elaine McKay)
- *Studying Human Origins (Raymond Corbey, Wil Roebroeks)
Disciplinary History and Epistemology
- *Style (Joseph M. Williams)
Toward Clarity and Grace
- *Suharto (R.E. Elson)
A Political Biography
- Suite Française (Irène Némirovsky)
- a novel of France in 1940-1941
- *The Suns of Independence (Ahmadou Kourouma)
- a tale of Malinke tradition in an independent Africa
- Superdistribution (Brad Cox)
Objects as Property on the Electronic Frontier
- Surreal Numbers (D.E. Knuth)
- a lightly dramatised exploration
- Sustainable Energy: Without the Hot Air (David JC MacKay)
- the constraints on powering the United Kingdom
- *Swallowing Clouds (A. Zee)
A Playful Journey through Chinese Culture, Language, and Cuisine
- *Switzerland: A Village History (David Birmingham)
- the mountain commune of Chateau d'Oex
- The Sykaos Papers (E.P. Thompson)
- an alien is studied by military anthropology
- **The Symmetries of Things (Conway, Burgiel, Goodman-Strauss)
- repeating patterns, from the plane to higher dimensions
- Symmetry (Hermann Weyl)
- group theory, art, architecture, biology
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