Book reviews by title: W
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- **Waiting for the Wild Beasts to Vote (Ahmadou Kourouma)
- the life story of an African dictator
- *Walker Stories (Walker Books)
- a lovely set of thirty early readers
- The Wallet of Kai Lung (Ernest Bramah)
- baroque comic tales of a fantastic China
- The Wandering Who? (Gilad Atzmon)
A Study of Jewish Identity Politics
- War Trash (Ha Jin)
- the story of a Chinese prisoner-of-war in Korea
- War With the Newts (Karel Capek)
- sweeping science fiction satire
- Waxen Wings (Bruce Fulton)
The Acta Koreana Anthology of Short Fiction from Korea
- The Way of the Pathans (James W. Spain)
- hospitality, revenge, and sanctuary in Pakistan and Afghanistan
- Wayfarer (Bruce Fulton, Ju-Chan Fulton)
New Fiction by Korean Women
- 100 Ways of Seeing an Unequal World (Bob Sutcliffe)
- graphical presentations of different forms of inequality
- We are not French! (Maryon McDonald)
Language, Culture and Identity in Brittany
- We, the Navigators (David Lewis)
The Ancient Art of Landfinding in the Pacific
- **Weapons of the Weak (James C. Scott)
Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance
- Web Application Development with PHP 4.0 (Ratschiller, Gerken)
- Web Security (Rohit Khare)
A Matter of Trust
- *The Welsh Sonata (James Hanley)
- love and loss in a Welsh mining district
- *The Wet and the Dry (Patrick Vinton Kirch)
Irrigation and Agricultural Intensification in Polynesia
- What is Life? The Next Fifty Years (Michael P. Murphy, Luke A.J. O'Neill)
Speculations on the Future of Biology
- What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew (Daniel Pool)
From Fox Hunting to Whist - the Facts of Daily Life in 19th-Century England
- What to Believe Now (David Coady)
Applying Epistemology to Contemporary Issues
- What We Know About Childcare (Clarke-Stewart, Allhusen)
- a survey of research into childcare in the United States
- Whatever Happened to the Egyptians? (Galal Amin)
Changes in Egyptian Society from 1950 to the Present
- *When I Sing, Mountains Dance (Irene Sola)
- renewal and compassion after violence in the Catalan Pyrenees
- Who Killed Jesus? (John Dominic Crossan)
Exposing the Roots of Anti-Semitism in the Gospel Story of the Death of Jesus
- Who We Are and How We Got Here (David Reich)
Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past
- Why Did You Leave the Horse Alone? (Mahmoud Darwish)
- "the premier poetic voice of the Palestinian people"
- Why Is There Philosophy of Mathematics At All? (Ian Hacking)
- an informal tour by an experienced guide
- Why Switzerland? (Jonathan Steinberg)
- history, politics, language, wealth, religion + identity
- Wife to Mr. Milton (Robert Graves)
- a novel of the English Civil War
- Wild Borneo (Nick Garbutt, J. Cede Prudente)
The wildlife and scenery of Sabah, Sarawak, Brunei and Kalimantan
- Wild Fiordland (Neville Peat, Brian Patrick)
Discovering the Natural History of a World Heritage Area
- The Wild Numbers (Philibert Schogt)
- a novel about a mathematician
- The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Infant Development (Bremner, Wachs)
- basic research in cognitive psychology
- The Wind-up Bird Chronicle (Haruki Murakami)
- a Japanese mix of fantasy and historical fiction
- Windows on Meteorology (Eric K. Webb)
Australian Perspective
- The Wings (Yi Sang)
- dark Korean stories of love, sex, and illness
- Winter Journeys (Georges Perec)
- an inventive Oulipian medley
- Witches Abroad (Terry Pratchett)
- *With a Mighty Hand (Amy Ehrlich)
The Story in the Torah
- **Woman on the Edge of Time (Marge Piercy)
- parallel conflicts in a far-future utopia and a present mental hospital
- The Wombat (Barbara Triggs)
Common Wombats in Australia
- Women Dreaming (Salma)
- a divorce in a poor Muslim village in Tamil Nadu
- Women in a River Landscape (Heinrich Böll)
A Novel in Dialogues and Soliloquies
- *Women in Late Antiquity (Gillian Clark)
Pagan and Christian Lifestyles
- Women Without Men (Shahrnush Parsipur)
A Novel of Modern Iran
- Wonder (Hugo Claus)
- collaboration and confusion in post-war Flanders
- Wonderful Life (Stephen Jay Gould)
The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
- Word Crimes (Joss Marsh)
Blasphemy, Culture, and Literature in Nineteenth-Century England
- Words on Fire (Dovid Katz)
The Unfinished Story of Yiddish
- Works Along the Way (Gisli Sigurdsson)
- notable Icelandic architecture in concrete
- World Atlas of Coral Reefs (Spalding, Ravilious, Green)
- reef geography, geology, ecology, and conservation
- The World Beyond the Hill (Alexei Panshin, Cory Panshin)
Science Fiction and the Quest for Transcendence
- The World of Nagaraj (R.K. Narayan)
- a loveable but ineffectual dilettante in small-town India
- A World of Plants (Martin Jenkins)
- a children's introduction to botany
- World Wide Web Journal (The World Wide Web Consortium)
Fourth International World Wide Web Conference Proceedings; Key Specifications of the World Wide Web; The Web After Five Years; Building an Industrial Strength Web
- World's End (Joan D. Vinge)
- The World's Religions (Ninian Smart)
Old Traditions and Modern Transformations
- A Worldly Art (Mariët Westermann)
The Dutch Republic 1585-1718
- The Worldly Philosophers (Robert Heilbroner)
The Lives, Times and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers
- *The Wrench (Primo Levi)
- superb fiction about the life of an Italian working man
- *A Writer at War (Antony Beevor, Luba Vinogradova)
Vasily Grossman with the Red Army 1941-1945
- *The Writer's Map (Huw Lewis-Jones)
An Atlas of Imaginary Lands
- Writing and Literacy in Chinese, Korean and Japanese (Taylor, Taylor)
- their scripts and how they are learned and used
- Writing Systems (Florian Coulmas)
An introduction to their linguistic analysis
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