Recent Reviews

16 July 2008 (267 words)

The Logic of Life (Tim Harford)
Uncovering the New Economics of Everything

14 July 2008 (729)

The Strange Case of the Broad Street Pump (Sandra Hempel)
John Snow and the Mystery of Cholera

2 July 2008 (240)

*The Prince (Hushang Golshiri)
- a dark novel about the Qajari lords of Isfahan

30 June 2008 (591)

American Agriculture in the Twentieth Century (Bruce L. Gardner)
How it Flourished and What it Cost

25 June 2008 (912)

*The History of the Countryside (Oliver Rackham)
The classic history of Britain's landscape, flora and fauna

15 June 2008 (801)

Maize and Grace (James C. McCann)
Africa's Encounter with a New World Crop 1500-2000

11 June 2008 (112)

The Laughing Policeman (Maj Sjöwall, Per Wahlöö)
- a mass murder mystery set in 1967 Stockholm

9 June 2008 (318)

Banana (Dan Koeppel)
The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World

3 June 2008 (516)

King of Infinite Space (Siobhan Roberts)
Donald Coxeter, the Man Who Saved Geometry

29 May 2008 (243)

*The First World War (Hew Strachan)
A New Illustrated History

26 May 2008 (351)

Fatelessness (Imre Kertesz)
- a teenager in Buchenwald concentration camp

19 May 2008 (974)

**A Fragile Balance (Christopher Dickman)
The extraordinary story of Australian marsupials

16 May 2008 (140)

Baikal (Peter Matthiessen)
Sacred Sea of Siberia

3 May 2008 (546)

Allah is Not Obliged (Ahmadou Kourouma)
- the story of a child soldier in West Africa

30 April 2008 (720)

Sheep and Man (M.L. Ryder)
- a comprehensive study of sheep in human history

22 April 2008 (512)

Blockade Diary (Lidiya Ginzburg)
- life during the siege of Leningrad

17 April 2008 (559)

*The Age of Empires (Francis Joannès)
Mesopotamia in the First Millennium BC

5 April 2008 (611)

Under Three Flags (Benedict Anderson)
Anarchism and the Anti-Colonial Imagination

26 March 2008 (989)

Grandeur and Grit (Max Solling)
A History of Glebe

24 March 2008 (523)

On Evolution (John C. Avise)
- thirty years using molecular analysis in evolutionary biology

19 March 2008 (584)

The Porn Report (Alan McKee, Katherine Albury, Catharine Lumby)
- the production and consumption of pornography in Australia

11 March 2008 (442)

Music, Cognition, and Computerized Sound (Perry R. Cook)
An Introduction to Psychoacoustics

10 March 2008 (479)

The Lord of the Rings 1954-2004 (Wayne G. Hammond, Christina Scull)
Scholarship in Honor of Richard E. Blackwelder

3 March 2008 (310)

Reform and Reconstruction (Stephen Brooke)
Britain after the war, 1945-51

28 February 2008 (328)

Max Havelaar (Multatuli)
Or the Coffee Auctions of a Dutch Trading Company

20 February 2008 (503)

Standing Stones (Jean-Pierre Mohen)
Stonehenge, Carnac and the World of Megaliths

17 February 2008 (630)

H.M. Bark Endeavour (Ray Parkin)
- her voyage up the east coast of Australia

11 February 2008 (268)

*The General of the Dead Army (Ismail Kadare)
- on a macabre quest in Albania

3 February 2008 (571)

Saudi Arabia (Tim Niblock)
Power, Legitimacy and Survival

30 January 2008 (612)

Catastrophe Remembered (Nur Masalha)
Palestine, Israel and the Internal Refugees

28 January 2008 (657)

*The Revolution of Peter the Great (James Cracraft)
- a lively account of the changes he brought to Russia

20 January 2008 (703)

*Cancer: The Evolutionary Legacy (Mel Greaves)
- cellular biology and human evolution, history and society

19 January 2008 (164)

On Literature (Umberto Eco)
- an assortment of literary criticism

14 January 2008 (548)

**The Melancholy of Resistance (Laszlo Krasznahorkai)
- a small town falls apart with the showing of a whale

4 January 2008 (382)

Africa's Discovery of Europe: 1450-1850 (David Northrup)
- African perspectives on encounters with Europeans

28 December 2007 (180)

Nada (Carmen Laforet)
- a novel about a young woman in 1940s Barcelona

20 December 2007 (170)

Falling in Love (Patrick Hanan)
Stories From Ming China

19 December 2007 (593)

Egypt: An Economic Geography (Fouad N. Ibrahim, Barbara Ibrahim)
- a broad-ranging survey

3 December 2007 (392)

Once the Buddha Was a Monkey: Jatakamala (Arya Sura)
- morality tales about lives of the Buddha

20 November 2007 (400)

*Nine Suitcases (Béla Zsolt)
- a novel of the Holocaust in Hungary

7 November 2007 (801)

We are not French! (Maryon McDonald)
Language, Culture and Identity in Brittany

4 November 2007 (165)

The Terracotta Dog (Andrea Camilleri)
- a Sicilian detective takes a historical excursion

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