Book Reviews
Herewith my thoughts on each of the books I read in 2009
The Trial: A History from Socrates to O.J.Simpson by Sadakat Kadri
Franklin: the Writings by Benjamin Franklin
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language by David Crystal
Adages III iv 1 to IV ii 100 by Erasmus
The Eternal Frontier by Tim Flannery
Mohammed, Charlemagne, and the Origins of Europe by Richard Hodges and David Whitehouse
The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution by Gregory Cochran and Henry Harpending
Saxons, Vikings, and Celts by Bryan Sykes
A Farewell To Alms by Gregory Clark
Kluge by Gary Marcus
Understanding Early Civilizations by Bruce Trigger
On the Origin of Stories by Brian Boyd
Plutarch's Parallel Lives by Plutarch