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Shorter reviews:
Abelard,
a Medieval Life by M.T. Clanchy
Intuition,
its powers and perils by David P. Myers
Hitler: 1889
– 1936 Hubris by Ian Kershaw
The
New Face of War: How War Will Be Fought in the 21st
Century by Bruce Berkowitz
The
Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
Good Natured: the Origins of Right and Wrong in Humans
and Other Animals by De Waal, Frans
In the
Shadow of Man by Jane Goodall
King Solomon’s
Ring by Konrad Lonrenz
Evolution
of cooperation by Robert Axelrod
The road
to serfdom by F.A. Hayek
Profession by Isaac Asimov
Player of
games by Iain Banks
by Robert Heinlein
And then
there were none by Eric Frank Russell
Snowcrash by Neal Stephenson
Pawns
of null-a by A.E. Van Vogt
Inequality
by design by C. S. Fischer et al.
Qualifications
and Education for citizenship and the teaching of democracy
in schools Curriculum Authority, London, 1998
The Impulsive
Personality: Understanding people with destructive personality
disorders by Howard Wishnie
Creating
kids who can concentrate: proven strategies for beating
A.D.D. without drugs by Jean Robb and Hilary
Letts
People
skills: how to assert yourself, listen to others, and
resolve conflicts by Robert Bolton
Getting
the love you want: a guide for couples by
Harville Hendrix
The Heart
of Parenting: How to raise an emotionally intelligent
child by John Gottman with Joan Declare
It takes
a village : and other lessons children teach us by Hilary Clinton
The myth
of repressed memory by Dr. Elizabeth Loftus
& Katherine Ketcham
Principles
of Economics by N. Gregory Mankiw
Essays
in persuasion by John Maynard Keynes
Psychology by David G. Myers
The Prince by Nicholo Machiavelli
The
state of North Atlantic fisheries :
book review
The
Discovery of Freedom by Rose Wilder Lane
Islam
and dhimmitude: where civilizations collide by Bat Ye’or [Bat Ye'or, Bat Yeor]
Leaving
Islam: Apostates Speak Out by Ibn Warraq
One With Nineveh:
Politics, Consumption, and the Human Future by Ehrlich and Ehrlich
The
Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki
Living
with Radiation, the First Hundred Years by Paul Frame and William Kolb
Big Bang
: The Origin of the Universe by Simon Singh
Behind
the Oval Office : Winning the Presidency in the Nineties by Dick Morris
Outrage by Dick Morris
Freakonomics
: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything ,
by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
The
21st Century Brain: Explaining, Mending and Manipulating
the Mind by Steven Rose
Between
Sex and Power: Family in the World 1900-2000 by Gšran Therborn
The
Impact of Inequality: How to Make Sick Societies Healthier by Richard Wilkinson
Useful
Idiots: How Liberals Got It Wrong in the Cold War and
Still Blame America First by Mona Charen
Women
Who Make the World Worse: and How Their Radical Feminist
Assault Is Ruining Our Schools, Families, Military,
and Sports by Kate O’Beirne
The
Revenge of Gaia by James Lovelock
When
the rivers run dry by Fred Pearce
Free
to Choose: A Personal Statement by Milton
Friedman and Rose Friedman
The
Bell Curve by Charles Murray
Beyond
oil and gas: The Methanol Economy
by Olah,
Goeppert, Surya Prakash
Solar
Revolution: The Economic Transformation of the Global
Energy Industry
by Travis Bradford
The
nuclear energy option by Bernard L.
Cohen
Factor
Four: Doubling Wealth, Halving Resource Use
by von Weizsacker, Lovins and Lovins
Shape
and Structure, from Engineering to Nature by Adrian Bejan
Glaciers by Michael Hambrey and Jürg Alean
Frozen
Earth: The Once and Future Story of Ice Ages by Douglas Macdougall
The
Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They
Do by Judith Rich Harris
The
tipping point by Malcolm Gladwell
Breaking
Murphy’s Law by Suzanne C. Segerstrom
Stumbling
on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert
Medieval
Technology and Social Change by Lynn White
Jr.
Shyness by Christopher Lane
Dreams
from my father by Barack H. Obama
A
Bound Man: Why We Are Excited About Obama and Why He
Can't Win
by Shelby Steele
Economic
facts and fallacies by Thomas Sowell
short
book review - the money lenders : bankers in a dangerous
world by the auroran sunset
Scared
to Death: From BSE to Global Warming: Why Scares are
Costing Us the Earth by Christopher Booker and Richard North
The
Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression by Amity Shlaes
The
Federalist Papers by Hamilton, Madison and
Jay
Writings
1772-1836 by James Madison
De La Democratie
En Amerique by Alexi de Tocqueville
Liberal
Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From
Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning by
Jonah Goldberg
The
Plan: Twelve Months to Renew Britain by Douglas
Carswell and Dan Hannan
End
the Fed by Ron Paul
On
soft despotism by Paul Rahe
Paleoclimatology:
reconstructing Climates of the Quaternary [shorter review]
Paleoclimatology [full review]
by Raymond Bradley
Timber:
Dating of the Roof Timbers at Lincoln Cathedral by Jeanne Marie Teutonico et al.
The
Quants: How a Small Band of Maths Wizards Took Over
Wall Street and Nearly Destroyed it by Scott
Patterson
Fooled
by randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Peoplequake by Fred Pearce
Why
We Hate the Oil Companies: Straight Talk by John Hofmeister
on China
destroying itself, and maybe the rest of us: When
a billion Chinese jump by Watts
Bought
and Paid For: The Unholy Alliance Between Barack Obama
and Wall Street
by Charles Gasparino
Dupes by Paul Kengor
Useful
Idiots: How Liberals Got It Wrong in the Cold War and
Still Blame America First
by
Mona Charen
Borrowing
Constitutional Designs: Constitutional Law in Weimar
Germany and the French Fifth Republic by
Cindy Skach
the
political economy of germany in the twentieth century reviewed by Karl Hardach
Picturing
the celestial city by Michael Cothren
The Spanish revolution: the Left and the struggle for power during the Civil War
by Burnett Bolloten
The Social Conquest of Earth by Edward O. Wilson
A matter of principle - American ‘justice’ - Conrad Black
Mismeasuring our lives: why gdp doesn't add up by Joseph E. Stiglitz
Still the Best Hope: Why the World Needs American Values to Triumph by Dennis Prager
The Alchemists: Three Central Bankers and a World on Fire by Neil Irwin
The servile state by Hilaire Belloc
The first workers' government or new times for Henry Dubb by G.R. Mitchison
Crime by nick ross, a brief review
The Franco Regime 1936-1975 by Stanley G Payne
utopianists : Robert Heinlein, H.G. Wells, William Morris
In the thick of the fight, 1930-1945 by Paul Reyaud, a translation
The new Machiavelli by H.G. Wells, 1910
Ann Veronica by H.G. Wells, 1909
Mr Britling sees it through by H.G. Wells, 1916
Joan and Peter by H.G. Wells, 1918
A cautionary lesson for the modern world - the Bully of Asia by Steven Mosher