The Bactra Review
Publisher Index
Links where available; sporadic notes about who owns what, too. (I've gotten
review copies from the high-lighted publishers, so those reviews should be
treated with special skepticism. Also, I was once paid by the Perseus Books
Group to evaluate the scientific content of a book they were considering
publishing, but I've never gotten review copies from them.)
- Harry N. Abrams (New
York) [A tentacle of La Martinière Groupe]
- Andy Goldsworthy, Andy
Goldsworthy: A Collaboration with Nature
- Addison-Wesley (Reading,
Mass.) [A tentacle of the Perseus Books
Group]
- David Harry Grinspoon, Venus
Revealed: A New Look Below the Clouds of Our Mysterious Twin Planet
- John Holland, Emergence: From
Chaos to Order
- Fatima Mernissi, The Veil
and the Male Elite: A Feminist Interpretation of Women's Rights in
Islam
- Almqvist and Wiksells (Uppsala)
- Harald Cramér, Mathematical Methods of Statistics
- American Mathematical Society (Providence, Rhode Island)
- Terence Tao, Structure and Randomness: Pages from Year One of a Mathematical Blog
- Atlantic Monthly Press (New York)
- Matt Ruff, Sewer, Gas &
Electric: The Public Works Trilogy
- Avocet Press (New York)
- P. J. Grady, Maximum
Insecurity: A Matty Madrid Mystery
- Avon/Eos (New York)
- Mary Gentle, A Secret
History: The Book of Ash, #1
- Ballantine (New York)
[A tentacle of Random House]
- Wil McCarthy, Bloom
- Bantam (New York) [A tentacle
of Random House]
- Caleb Carr, The
Alienist
- Bruce Sterling, Holy Fire
- Bruce Sterling, Distraction
- Basic Books (New York)
[Presently a tentacle of the Perseus
Books Group, formerly a tentacle of HarperCollins]
- William W. Keller, Arm in Arm: The
Political Economy of the Global Arms Trade
- Aaron Lynch, Thought Contagion:
How Belief Spreads Through Society
- Donald A. Norman, The Psychology
of Everyday Things
- Beacon Books (Boston) [A tentacle of the Unitarian Universalist
Association]
- Margaret Alic, Hyapatia's
Heritage: A History of Women in Science from Antiquity through the Nineteenth
Century
- Berkley
Books (New York) [A tentacle of Penguin Putnam]
- Jeanne Cavelos, The Science
of the X-Files
- Karen Rose Cercone, Blood
Tracks
- Birkhäuser (Boston
and Basel)
- Auguste Dick, Emmy Noether,
1882--1935
- Blackwell (Oxford)
- Ernest Gellner, Nations
and Nationalism
- Paul Krugman, The
Self-Organizing Economy
- Christopher Norris, Against Relativism: Philosophy of Science,
Deconstruction and Critical Theory
- Dan Sperber, Explaning Culture:
A Naturalistic Approach
- British Museum Press (London)
- Lucy Goodison and Christine Morris (eds.), Ancient Goddess: The Myths and the
Evidence
- Broadway Books (New
York) [A tentacle of Random House]
- Joseph Kanon, Los Alamos
- The Bunny and the Crocodile Press (Washington, D.C.)
- Anne Becker, The
Transmutation Notebooks: Poems in the Voices of Charles and Emma
Darwin
- Cambridge University Press
(Cambridge, England)
- Remo Badii and Antonio Politi, Complexity: Hierarchical Structures and Scaling in
Physics
- George Batchelor, The Life and
Legacy of G. I. Taylor
- Thráinn Eggertsson, Economic Behavior and
Institutions
- James R. Flynn, What Is
Intelligence? Beyond the Flynn Effect
- B. Roy Frieden, Physics
from Fisher Information: A Unification
- Rosario N. Mantegna and H. Eugene Stanley, An Introduction to Econophysics: Correlations and
Complexity in Finance
- Daniel H. Rothman and Stéphane Zaleski, Lattice-Gas Cellular Automata: Simple Models of
Complex Hydrodynamics
- Bernard Schutz, Geometrical
Methods of Mathematical Physics
- Halbert White, Estimation, Inference, and Specification Analysis
- Capstone Publishing
(Oxford)
- Diane Coyle, The Weightless
World: Strategies for Managing the Digital Economy
- Chapman and Hall (London)
- E. J. G. Pitman, Some Basic
Theory for Statistical Inference
- Chronicle Books (San
Francisco)
- Felice Frankel and George M. Whitesides, On the Surface of Things: Images of the
Extraordinary in Science
- Clarendon Press (Oxford) [A tentacle of Oxford University Press]
- A. C. Atkinson and A. N. Donev, Optimum Experimental Designs
- J. L. Heilbron, Geometry
Civilized: History, Culture, and Technique
- Cornell University
Press (Ithaca, NY)
- Ernest Gellner, Nations
and Nationalism
- DAW Books (New York) [A
tentacle of Penguin Putnam, though technically independently owned]
- Diana Wynne Jones, The
Tough Guide to Fantasyland
- Doubleday (New York) [A
tentacle of Random House]
- Ernst Cassirer, An Essay on Man: An
Introduction to a Philosophy of Human Culture
- Donald A. Norman, The Design of
Everyday Things
- William Poundstone, Labyrinths of Reason: Puzzles, Paradoxes and the
Frailty of Knowledge
- Farrar, Straus and
Giroux (New York) [A tentacle of Holtzbrinck]
- Frederic Prokosch, The Seven Who
Fled
- Free Press
(New York) [A tentacle of Simon and Schuster]
- Stephen Budiansky, Nature's
Keepers: The New Science of Nature Management
- Annie Murphy Paul, The Cult of Personality: How Personality Tests Are Leading Us to Miseducate Our Children, Mismanage Our Companies, and Misunderstand Ourselves
- Gillian Tett, Fool's Gold: How the Bold
Dream of a Small Tribe at J. P. Morgan Was Corrupted by Wall Street Greed and
Unleashed a Catastrophe
- Harper and Row (New York) [Absorbed by HarperCollins]
- Willard Van Orman Quine, Mathematical Logic
- Harper and Brothers (New York) [Absorbed by Harper and Row]
- J. B. S. Haldane, The Causes
of Evolution
- Frederic Prokosch, The Seven Who
Fled
- Harper Business [A tentacle of HarperCollins]
- Justin Fox, The Myth of the
Rational Market: A History of Risk, Reward, and Delusion on Wall
Street
- HarperCollins (New
York) [A tentacle of the News Corporation, i.e., Rupert Murdoch]
- HarperPerennial
(New York) [A tentacle of HarperCollins]
- Larry Gonick and Alice Outwater, The Cartoon Guide to the Environment
- HarperPrism (New
York) [A tentacle of HarperCollins]
- Greg Egan, Permutation
City
- Greg Egan, Distress
- Harvard University Press
(Cambridge, Mass.)
- James Beniger, The Control Revolution:
Technological and Economic Origins of the Information Society
- Freeman Dyson, Imagined
Worlds
- Loren R. Graham and Jean-Michel
Kantor, Naming Infinity: A True Story of
Religious Mysticism and Mathematical Creativity
- Charles F. Manski, Identification for Prediction and Decision
- Willard Van Orman Quine, Mathematical Logic
- John E. Roemer, A Future for
Socialism
- Hill and Wang (New York) [A tentacle of Farrar, Straus and Giroux]
- David S. Katz and Richard H. Popkin, Messianic Revolution: Radical Religious Politics
to the End of the Second Millennium
- Houghton Mifflin (Boston)
- Jill Paton Walsh, Knowledge of
Angels
- Institute of Physics
Publishing (Bristol, England)
- Ian D. Lawrie, A Unified
Grand Tour of Theoretical Physics
- Johns Hopkins University
Press (Baltimore, Maryland)
- John H. Gillespie, Population
Genetics: A Concise Guide
- Otto Mayr, Authority, Liberty and
Automatic Machinery in Early Modern Europe
- Kluwer Academic (Dordchet, Boston and London) [A tentacle of
Springer-Verlag]
- Elisabeth Nemeth and Friedrich Stadler (eds.), Encyclopedia and Utopia: The Life and Work of
Otto Neurath (1882--1945)
- Alfred A. Knopf (New York) [A
tentacle of Random House]
- Janet Browne, Charles Darwin, vol. I: Voyaging
- Longmans, Green and Co. (London) [Absorbed by Addison-Wesley]
- J. B. S. Haldane, The Causes
of Evolution
- Macmillan (London) [A
tentacle of Holtzbrinck, which doesn't have a publically-accessable website]
- Aurel Stein, On
Ancient Central Asian Tracks: Brief Narrative of Three Expeditions in Innermost
Asia and Northwestern China
- Malor Books (Cambridge,
Mass.)
- William Sargant, Battle for
the Mind
- Millennium (London)
- Greg Egan, Distress
- Greg Egan, Permutation
City
- MIT Press
(Cambridge, Mass.)
- Dana H. Ballard, An Introduction
to Natural Computation
- Valentino Braitenberg, Vehicles:
Experiments in Synthetic Psychology
- Diane Coyle, The Weightless
World: Strategies for Managing the Digital Economy
- Daniel Dennett, Brainchildren:
Essays on Designing Minds
- Marco Dorigo and Marco Colombetti, Robot Shaping: An Experiment in Behavior
Engineering
- Gary William Flake, The Computational Beauty of Nature:
Computer Explorations of Fractals, Chaos, Complex Systems, and
Adaptation
- John H. Holland, Keith J. Holyoak, Richard E. Nisbett and Paul
R. Thagard, Induction: Processes of Inference,
Learning, and Discovery
- Edwin Hutchins, Cognition in
the Wild
- Michael J. Kearns and Umesh V. Vazirani, An Introduction to Computational Learning
Theory
- Paul Krugman, Pop
Internationalism
- Philip Morrison and Kosta Tsipis, Reason Enough to Hope: America and the World of
the 21st Century
- Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Advice to a Young Investigator
- Mitchel Resnick, Turtles, Termites and Traffic Jams:
Explorations in Massively Parallel Microworlds
- Fred Rieke, David Warland, Rob de Ruyter van Steveninck, and
William Bialek, Spikes: Exploring the Neural
Code
- Ariel Rubinstein, Modeling Bounded Rationality
- Chris Thornton, Truth from Trash:
How Learning Makes Sense
- Virginia Valian, Why So Slow? The
Advancement of Women
- John Murray (London)
- Annabel Walker, Aurel Stein:
Pioneer of the Silk Road
- The New Press (New York)
[Distributed by W. W. Norton]
- E. P. Thompson, The
Romantics: England in a Revolutionary Age
- W. W. Norton (New York)
- Thomas Frank and Matt Weiland (eds.), Commodify Your Dissent: Salvos from The
Baffler
- Stephen Holmes and Cass R. Sunstein, The Cost of Rights: Why Liberty Depends on
Taxes
- Paul Krugman, The Great
Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century
- Steven Pinker, How the Mind
Works
- Jonathan D. Spence, God's Chinese
Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan
- Orbit Books (London) [A
tentacle of Little, Brown UK]
- Ken MacLeod, The Cassini
Division
- Orion Books (London)
[Attention Conservation Notice: One of the worst-designed pages I've
seen and, as of Nov. 1999, not updated since 1997.]
- Diana Wynne Jones, The
Tough Guide to Fantasyland
- Oxford University
Press (Oxford)
- Philip Ball, The Self-Made
Tapestry: Pattern Formation in Nature
- Richard Dawkins, The Extended
Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene
- Christian Gouriéroux and Alain
Monfort, Simulation-Based
Econometric Methods
- Paul H. Harvey and Mark D. Pagel, The
Comparative Method in Evolutionary Biology
- Ray Jackendoff, Foundations
of Language: Brain, Meaning, Grammar, Evolution
- John Maynard Smith and Eörs Szathmáry, The Origins of Life: From the Birth of Life to the
Origin of Language
- François Roustang, The
Lacanian Delusion
- David E. Stannard, Shrinking
History: On Freud and the Failure of Psychohistory
- Pantheon Books (New
York) [A tentacle of Random House]
- Wendy Kaminer, Sleeping with Extra-Terrestrials: The
Rise of Irrationalism and the Perils of Piety
- Aurel Stein, On
Ancient Central Asian Tracks: Brief Narrative of Three Expeditions in Innermost
Asia and Northwestern China
- Penguin Books (Hammondsworth, England) [A tentacle of the Penguin
Putnam]
- Egil's Saga
Steven Berlin Johnson, Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation
- Leszek Kolakowski, Freedom, Fame,
Lying, and Betrayal: Essays on Everyday Life
- Jane Langton, Dead as a
Dodo
- G. C. Lichtenberg, Aphorisms
- William Sargant, Battle for
the Mind: A Physiology of Conversion and Brain-Washing
- Penguin Putnam [A
tentacle of Pearson PLC]
- Plume (New York) [A tentacle of Penguin Putnam]
- Stephen King, Wizard and
Glass
- Princeton University Press
(Princeton, New Jersey)
- John Tyler Bonner, The
Evolution of Complexity, by Means of Natural Selection
- Janet Browne, Charles Darwin,
vol. I: Voyaging
- Bent Jesper Christensen and Nicholas
M. Kiefer, Economic Modeling and
Inference
- Harald Cramér, Mathematical Methods of Statistics
- Barry Eichengreen, Globalizing
Capital: A History of the International Monetary System
- J. B. S. Haldane, The Causes
of Evolution
- Susan Hough, Predicting the
Unpredictable: The Tumultuous Science of Earthquake Prediction
- Gary King, A Solution
to the Ecological Inference Problem: Reconstructing Individual Behavior from
Aggregate Data
- Kenneth Pomeranz, The Great
Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World
Economy
- S. Robert Ramsey, The Languages
of China
- Karl Sigmund, The Calculus of
Selfishness
- Paul Teller, An Interpretive
Introduction to Quantum Field Theory
- H. Peyton Young, Individual Strategy and Social Structure:
An Evolutionary Theory of Institutions
- Random House (New York)
[A tentacle of Bertelsmann AG]
- Caleb Carr, The
Alienist
- Saint Martin's Press (New
York) [A tentacle of Macmillan]
- Avram Davidson, The
Investigations of Avram Davidson: Collected Mysteries, ed. Grania
Davis and Richard A. Lupoff
- Martin Gardner, The Night Is Large:
Collected Essays, 1938--1995
- Simon and Schuster (New
York) [A tentacle of Viacom]
- Edward Dolnick, Madness on
the Couch: Blaming the Victim in the Heyday of Psychoanalysis
- Herbert Lieberman, City
of the Dead
- Thomas E. Ricks, Making the
Corps
- Smithsonian Institution Press (Washington, D.C.)
- Benson Saler, Charles A. Ziegler, and Charles B. Moore, UFO Crash at Roswell: The Genesis of a Modern
Myth
- Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Press (Philadelphia)
- Andrew M. Fraser, Hidden
Markov Models and Dynamical Systems
- Springer-Verlag (Berlin; New York)
- Pierre de Gennes and Jacques Badoz, Fragile Objects: Soft Matter, Hard Science, and the
Thrill of Discovery
- Mark S. Handcock and Martina
Morris, Relative Distribution Methods in
the Social Sciences
- Joel Keizer, Statistical Thermodynamics of
Nonequilibrium Processes
- Nino Boccara, Modeling Complex
Systems
- V. N. Vapnik, The Nature of
Statistical Learning Theory
- Tachyon
Publications (San Francisco)
- Avram Davidson and Grania Davis, The Boss in the Wall: A Treatise on the House
Devil
- Tor (New York) [A tentacle of
Macmillan]
- Greg Bear, /
- Avram Davidson, The
Avram Davidson Treasury, ed. Robert Silverberg and Grania Davis
- Ken MacLeod, The Cassini
Division
- Harry Turtledove, Between the
Rivers
- University of California
Press (Berkeley)
- M. Hassan Kakar,
Afghanistan: The Soviet Invasion and the
Afghan Response, 1979--1982
- Robert Serber, The Los Alamos
Primer
- University of
Chicago Press (Chicago)
- William R. Everdell, The First
Moderns: Profiles in the Origins of Twentieth-Century Thought
- Susan Haack, Manifesto of a
Passionate Moderate: Unfashionable Essays
- Bernard E. Harcourt, Against
Prediction: Profiling, Policing, and Punishing in an Actuarial Age
- Deborah Mayo, Error and the Growth of
Experimental Knowledge
- Jeannette Mirsky, Sir Aurel
Stein: Archaeological Explorer
- Aurel Stein, On
Ancient Central Asian Tracks: Brief Narrative of Three Expeditions in Innermost
Asia and Northwestern China
- University of Washington Press (Seattle)
- Annabel Walker, Aurel Stein:
Pioneer of the Silk Road
- Verso (London)
- Franco Moretti, Atlas
of the European Novel, 1800--1900
- Vintage Books (New York)
[A tentacle of Random House]
- Orhan Pamuk, The White
Castle
- Westview Press
(Boulder, Colorado) [A tentacle of the
Perseus Books Group]
- Leszek Kolakowski, Freedom, Fame,
Lying, and Betrayal: Essays on Everyday Life
- Wiley (New York)
- Kirill Ilinski, Physics of
Finance: Gauge Modelling in Nonequilibrium Pricing
- Jack L. King, Operational
Risk: Measurement and Modelling
- Wolfram Media (Urbana, Illinois)
- Stephen Wolfram, A New Kind of
Science
- World Scientific (Singapore)
- Andrew Ilachinski, Cellular
Automata: A Discrete Universe
- Jorma Rissanen, Stochastic Complexity in
Statistical Inquiry
- A. N. Shiryaev, Essentials of
Stochastic Finance: Facts, Models, Theory
- Yale University
Press (New Haven, Connecticut)
- Ernst Cassirer, An Essay on Man: An
Introduction to a Philosophy of Human Culture
- George Steiner, In Bluebeard's
Castle: Some Notes Towards the Redefinition of Culture