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Writing for Antiquity

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, September 2024

The Invention of Yesterday: A 50,000-Year History of Human Culture, Conflict, and Connection (Ansary)

The Perspective of the World (Braudel)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, August 2024

The Wheels of Commerce (Braudel)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, July 2023

Days of Rage: America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence (Burrough)

The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives (Reed)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, April 2023

Stalin, vols. 1 and 2 (Kotkin)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, March 2023

Alberuni's India: An Account of the Religion, Philosophy, Literature, Geography, Chronology, Astronomy, Customs, Laws and Astrology of India about A.D. 1030 (al-Biruni)

Galileo: Watcher of the Skies (Wootton)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, February 2023

Professing Criticism: Essays on the Organization of Literary Study (Guillory)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, December 2022

Mysteriously Meant: The Rediscovery of Pagan Symbolism and Allegorical Interpretation in the Renaissance (Allen)

Futurism (Tisdall and Bozzolla)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, August 2022

The Bloody White Baron: The Extraordinary Story of the Russian Nobleman Who Became the Last Khan of Mongolia (Palmer)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, July 2022

Out of Italy: Two Centuries of World Domination and Demise (Braudel)

What Do We Mean When We Talk About Meaning? (Cassedy)

Power and Imagination: City-States in Renaissance Italy (Martines)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, May 2022

Ancient Puebloan Southwest (Kantner)

Race Experts: How Racial Etiquette, Sensitivity Training, and New Age Therapy Hijacked the Civil Rights Revolution (Lasch-Quinn)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, April 2022

Leaving Marxism: Studies in the Dissolution of an Ideology (Pierson)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, March 2022

Biruni (Malagaris)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, February 2022

Central Asia: A New History from the Imperial Conquests to the Present (Khalid)

A Book Forged in Hell: Spinoza’s Scandalous Treatise and the Birth of the Secular Age (Nadler)

Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age (Newitz)

The Roof at the Bottom of the World: Discovering the Transantarctic Mountains (Stump)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, January 2022

Frozen Empires: An Environmental History of the Antarctic Peninsula (Howkins)

The Destruction of the Medieval Chinese Aristocracy (Tackett)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, December 2021

Mechanism: A Visual, Lexical, and Conceptual History (Bertoloni Meli)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, October 2021

Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study (Patterson)

Monsters of the Gévaudan: The Making of a Beast (Smith)

The Origins of Monsters: Image and Cognition in the First Age of Mechanical Reproduction (Wengrow)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, September 2021

The Social Interpretation of the French Revolution (Cobban)

The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci (Spence)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, August 2021

We Can't Go Home Again: An Argument About Afrocentrism (Walker)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, July 2021

Hystories: Hysterical Epidemics and Modern Culture (Showalter)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, February 2021

The House of Wisdom: How Arabic Science Saved Ancient Knowledge and Gave Us the Renaissance (Al-Khalili)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, January 2021

Cardano, the Gambling Scholar (Ore)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, October 2020

A History of Western Philosophy (Russell)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, June 2020

Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism (Anderson)

Lineages of the Absolutist State (Anderson)

The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy (Tooze)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, April 2020

Conversion to Islam in the Medieval Period: An Essay in Quantitative History and Islam: The View from the Edge (Bulliet)

The Gist of Reading (Elfenbein)

Marx's Inferno: The Political Theory of Capital (Roberts)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, March 2020

A Short History of Mathematical Population Dynamics ( Bacaër)

What Does the Ruling Class Do When It Rules? (Therborn)

Ebola, and Mongol Modernity

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, February 2020

Lines of Descent: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Emergence of Identity (Appiah)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, January 2020

Iran: A Modern History (Amanat)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, December 2019

Evolutionary History: Uniting History and Biology to Understand Life on Earth (Russell)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, October 2019

Gentlemen and Amazons: The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory, 1861--1900 (Eller)

The Scientific Buddha: His Short and Happy Life (Lopez)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, September 2019

The Persian Empire (Lee)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, August 2019

The Grand Hotel Abyss: The Lives of the Frankfurt School (Jeffries)

The Philosophy of Spinoza: Unfolding the Latent Process of His Reasoning (Wolfson)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, July 2019

Fitting Linear Relationships: A History of the Calculus of Observations 1750--1900 (Farebrother)

The Formation of the Economic Thought of Karl Marx: 1843 to Capital (Mandel)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, June 2019

Danubia: A Personal History of Habsburg Europe (Winder)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, May 2019

Statistical Visions in Time: A History of Time Series Analysis, 1662--1938 (Klein)

The Ruin of the Roman Empire: A New History (O'Donnell)

Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World (Tooze)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, April 2019

Power, Pleasure, and Profit: Insatiable Appetites from Machiavelli to Madison (Wootton)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, February 2019

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Gibbon)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, January 2019

The Pursuit of the Millennium: Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages (Cohn)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, September 2018

The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World (Jasanoff)

The Stammering Century (Seldes)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, August 2018

Aztecs: An Interpretation (Clendinnen)

The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal (Hoffman)

Eye of the Beholder: Johannes Vermeer, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, and the Reinvention of Seeing (Snyder)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, May 2018

Islamic Science and the Making of the European Renaissance (Saliba)

Daily Life of the Aztecs on the Eve of the Spanish Conquest (Soustelle)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, April 2018

Cardano's Cosmos: The Worlds and Works of a Renaissance Astrologer (Grafton)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, March 2018

The Case for Islamo-Christian Civilization (Bulliet)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, January 2018

The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution (Slezkine)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, September 2017

Against the Modern World: Traditionalism and the Secret Intellectual History of the Twentieth Century (Sedgwick)

The Ideals of Inquiry (Lloyd)

The Organic Machine: The Remaking of the Columbia River (White)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, August 2017

Reading Orientalism: Said and the Unsaid (Varisco)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, July 2017

The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution (Wootton)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, April 2017

The Glory of the Empire: A Novel, a History (d'Ormesson)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, November 2016

To Hell and Back: Europe 1914--1949 (Kershaw)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, October 2016

The Hunt for Vulcan: And How Albert Einstein Destroyed a Planet, Discovered Relativity and Deciphered the Universe (Levenson)

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Wilkerson)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, August 2016

Beijing: Contemporary and Imperial (Conner)

Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People (Fenn)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, July 2016

Seven Pillars of Statistical Wisdom (Stigler)

The Radicalism of the American Revolution (Wood)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, June 2016

The Goddess Pose: The Audacious Life of Indra Devi, the Women Who Helped Bring Yoga to the West (Goldberg)

The Planet Remade: How Geoengineering Could Change the World (Morton)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, May 2016

Rethinking "Gnosticism": An Argument for Dismantling a Dubious Category (Williams)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, April 2016

Slavery and African Life: Occidental, Oriental, and African Slave Trades (Manning)

Epicureanism at the Origins of Modernity (Wilson)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, March 2016

Empire of Cotton (Beckert)

"Reassembling the History of the Novel"

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, February 2016

Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II (Blackmon)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, January 2016

The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front, 1915--1919 (Thompson)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, November 2015

Lafayette in the Somewhat United States (Vowell)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, October 2015

Sufism, Culture and Politics: Afghans and Islam in Medieval North India (Aquil)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, September 2015

The Wheels of Commerce (Braudel)

The Teacher Wars: A History of America's Most Embattled Profession (Goldstein)

An Uncommon Passage: Traveling through History on the Great Allegheny Passage Trail (Muller, ed.)

Unfamiliar Fishes (Vowell)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, August 2015

Cosmos and History: The Myth of the Eternal Return (Eliade)

Going Dutch: How England Plundered Holland's Glory (Jardine)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, July 2015

Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality (Allen)

The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger (Levinson)

The Sovereign State and Its Competitors: An Analysis of Systems Change (Spruyt)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, May 2015

Hall of Mirrors: The Great Depression, The Great Recession, and the Uses — and Misuses — of History (Eichengreen)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, April 2015

Strange Rebels: 1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century (Caryl)

Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World (Davis)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, March 2015

The Crisis of the European Mind, 1680--1715 (Hazard)

House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East (Shadid)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, January 2015

Absolute Monarchs: A History of the Papacy (Norwich)

The American Revolution: A History (Wood)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, November 2014

Rats, Lice, and History: Being a Study in Biography, Which, After Twelve Preliminary Chapters Indispensable for the Preparation of the Lay Reader, Deals with the Life History of Typhus Fever (Zinsser)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, June 2014

The Political Ideas of Leo Strauss (Drury)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, May 2014

Rome: A Cultural, Visual, and Personal History (Hughes)

Basilica: The Splendor and the Scandal: Building St. Peter's (Scotti)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, April 2014

Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane (Starr)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, February 2014

Distant Reading (Moretti)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, January 2014

The Printing Press as an Agent of Change (Eisenstein)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, August 2013

The Wailing of the Gaulish Dead (Davidson)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, January 2013

Prehistory: Making of the Human Mind (Renfrew)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, December 2012

Games Without Rules: The Often-Interrupted History of Afghanistan (Ansary)

Demystifying Mentalities (Lloyd)

2000 Years of Maya Literature (Tedlock)

Never at Rest: A Biography of Isaac Newton (Westfall)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, November 2012

Liberalism and Democracy (Bobbio)

The Great Chain of Being: A Study of the History of an Idea (Lovejoy)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, September 2012

Cognitive Variations: Reflections on the Unity and Diversty of the Human Mind (Lloyd)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, August 2012

Cambridge History of India, vol. III: Turks and Afghans (Haig, ed.)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, June 2012

Mapping the Silk Road and Beyond: 2,000 Years of Exploring the East (Nebenzahl)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, April 2012

Life along the Silk Road (Whitfield)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, March 2012

Thinking the Twentieth Century (Judt and Snyder)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, January 2012

The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (Greenblatt)

Strangers Nowhere in the World: The Rise of Cosmopolitanism in Early Modern Europe (Jacob)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, December 2011

2012 and the End of the World: The Western Roots of the Maya Apocalypse (Restall and Solari)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, November 2011

Hark! A Vagrant (Beaton)

The Age of Reform: Bryan to F.D.R. (Hofstadter)

"What Do We Want?" "Quantitative Data!" " When Do We Want It?" "Soon Would Be Good!"

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, September 2011

The Mind of the South (Cash)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, August 2011

Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 (Judt)

The World of Thought in Ancient China (Schwartz)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, June 2011

Assassination Vacation (Vowell)

Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years (MacCulloch)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, May 2011

The Big Ditch: How America Took, Built, Ran, and Ultimately Gave Away the Panama Canal (Maurer and Yu)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, April 2011

Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes (Ansary)

Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century (Judt)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, February 2011

Reading Graphs, Maps, and Trees: Responses to Franco Moretti (Goodwin and Holbo, eds.)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, January 2011

The Theory of Cultural and Social Selection (Runciman)

Born Under Saturn (Wittkower and Wittkower)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, August 2010

Geoffroy-Schneiter on Gandharan art

Hind on engraving and etching

War Against the Bookmarks

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, July 2010

Maenchen-Helfen on the Huns

Tarn on the Greco-Bactrians

Vowell on the Puritans

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, June 2010

In which Dunning-Krueger meets Slutsky-Yule, and they make music together

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, May 2010

Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History (Barfield)

Explaining Social Processes (Tilly)

The Atlantic's Observance of Confederate History Month

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, April 2010

A Total Science: Statistics in Liberal and Fascist Italy (Prevost)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, March 2010

The Tyranny of Greece Over Germany

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, February 2010

Rethinking World History: Essays on Europe, Islam and World History (Hodgson)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, January 2010

Anti-Intellectualism in American Life (Hofstadter)

The Italian City-Republics (Waley)

The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, October 2009

The Cartoon History of the Modern World, Part II: From the Bastille to Baghdad (Gonick)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, September 2009

Newton and the Counterfeiter: The Unknown Detective Career of the World's Greatest Scientist (Levenson)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, July 2009

Evolution and the Founders of Pragmatism (Wiener)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, April 2009

Maya Cosmos: Three Thousand Years on the Shaman's Path (Freidel, Schele and Parker)

The Lords of Tikal: Rulers of an Ancient Maya City (Harrison)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, March 2009

The Ancient Maya (Sharer and Traxler)

That Word Does Not Exist In Any Language

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, January 2009

The Invention of Air: A History of Science, Faith, Revolution, and the Birth of America (Johnson)

Trust and Rule (Tilly)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, December 2008

The Great Bronze Age of China (Fong)

Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went (Galbraith)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, November 2008

The Great Depression and the New Deal: A Very Short Introduction (Rauchway)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, August 2008

The Dutch Republic: Its Rise, Greatness, and Fall, 1477--1806 (Israel)

Blessed Among Nations: How the World Made America (Rauchway)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, July 2008

Big Structures, Large Processes, Huge Comparisons (Tilly)

Democracy (Tilly)

The Ancient Mesopotamian City (Van De Mieroop)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, May 2008

Islam and Mammon: The Economic Predicaments of Islamism (Kuran)

The Moundbuilders: Ancient Peoples of Eastern North America (Milner)

The Politics of Cultural Despair: A Study in the Rise of the Germanic Ideology (Stern)

Today in Et in Arcadia Ego Blogging

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, February 2008

Explaining Human Origins: Myth, Imagination, and Conjecture (Stoczkowski)

The Caveman's Valentine

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, January 2008

A Mediterranean Feast (Wright)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, December 2007

Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing? 23 Questions from Great Philosophers (Kolakowski)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, October 2007

Hitler, 1936--1945: Nemesis (Kershaw)

Four Theories of Myth in Twentieth-Century History: Cassirer, Eliade, Lévi-Strauss, and Malinowski (Strenski)

The Khaldun Option

Süleyman the Magnificent Scares the West into Rising (Part II of OH NOES! MUSLIMZ! DO NOT WANT!)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, May 2007

The Reformation: A History (MacCulloch)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, April 2007

The Scarith of Scornello: A Tale of Renaissance Forgery (Rowland)

The Cartoon History of the Modern World, Part I: From Columbus to the U.S. Constitution (Gonick)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, January 2007

The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic --- and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World (Johnson)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, December 2006

Andrew Carnegie

The Commissar Vanishes: The Falsification of Photographs and Art in Stalin's Russia

Kronstadt

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, November 2006

The Persian Empire (Allen)

The Nazi Conscience (Koonz)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, October 2006

Military Power: Explaining Victory and Defeat in Modern Battle (Biddle)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, September 2006

The Primacy of Politics: Social Democracy and the Making of Europe's Twentieth Century (Berman)

The Bad Popes (Chamberlin)

Byzantine Civilization (Runciman)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, August 2006

Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints and America's Perilous Path in the Middle East (Khalidi)

The Spell of Language: Poststructuralism and Speculation (Pavel)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, July 2006

The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy (Pomeranz)

The Hermit of Peking: The Hidden Life of Sir Edmund Backhouse (Trevor-Roper)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, June 2006

1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Mann)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, May 2006

River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West (Solnit)

A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History (DeLanda)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, March 2006

Poisoning the Minds of the Lower Orders (Herzog)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, February 2006

Hitler, 1889--1936: Hubris (Kershaw)

The Anatomy of Fascism (Paxton)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, January 2006

The Fate of Africa: A History of Fifty Years of Independence (Meredith)

The Rapture Exposed: The Message of Hope in the Book of Revelation (Rossing)

Graphs, Trees, Materialism, Fishing

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, December 2005

The Devils of Loudun (Huxley)

The Rise of the Therapeutic State (Polsky)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, November 2005

The Renaissance Sense of the Past (Burke)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, October 2005

Africa: A Biography of the Continent (Reader)

Garibaldi and the Thousand (Trevelyan)

The Golden Dream: Seekers of El Dorado (Silverberg)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, September 2005

Impolite Learning: Conduct and Community in the Republic of Letters, 1680--1750 (Goldgar)

The Cities of Ancient Mexico: Reconstructing a Lost World (Sabloff)

Structure and Dynamics (On the Economic Geography of Gilgamesh)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, August 2005

Breaking the Maya Code (Coe)

Graphs, Maps, Trees: Abstract Models for a Literary History (Moretti)

The Origin of Satan (Pagels)

Athens on Trial: The Antidemocratic Tradition in Western Thought (Roberts)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, May 2005

Before European Hegemony: The World System A.D. 1250--1350 (Abu-Lughod)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, April 2005

In the Light of History (Plumb)

The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind (Noll)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, March 2005

The Unsteady March: The Rise and Decline of Racial Equality in America (Klinkner with Smith)

The Garden of Forking Paths Weighs Like a Nightmare on the Minds of the Living (This Week at the Complex Systems Colloquium)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, February 2005

When They Severed Earth from Sky: How the Human Mind Shapes Myth (Barber and Barber)

From Post-Maoism to Post-Marxism: The Erosion of Official Ideology in Deng's China (Misra)

The History of Scepticism: From Erasmus to Descartes (Popkin)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, January 2005

Against the Modern World: Traditionalism and the Secret Intellectual History of the Twentieth Century (Sedgwick)

Happy Hogswatchnight!

The Bactrian Gold

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, October 2004

Episodes in the Mathematics of Medieval Islam (Berggren)

The City Shaped: Urban Patterns and Meanings Through History (Kostof)

The Crisis of German Ideology: Intellectual Origins of the Third Reich (Mosse)

And Just Where Did You Get That Idea?

Bourgeois Sexual Morality at The Economist Unveiled

On the History of Inner Asia, as Reflected in Its Intestinal Flora

Friday Cat Blogging (Science Geek Department)

It's Shaped Like a Box, See

Short Takes

Great Moments in Afghan Buddhism

Temujin Displays His Adaptation