Book Reviews for 2013


A History of Mathematics, by Boyer and Merzbach

The Great Decision, by Cliff Sloan and David McKean

The Secret History of the Mongol Queens, by Jack Weatherford

Writings of Thomas Jefferson

Thinking, Fast and Slow, by Daniel Kahneman

Smoot’s Ear, by Richard Tavernor

By Hook or By Crook, by David Crystal

The Economy of the Greek Cities, by Leopold Migeotte

Copernicus and Modern Astronomy, by Angus Armitage

9 Algorithms that Changed the Future, by John MacCormick

The Expressiveness of the Body and the Divergence of Greek and Chinese Medicine, by Shigehisa Kuriyama

An Examen of Witches, by Henri Bouget

Lowly Origins, by Jonathan Kingdon

Medieval Cities, by Henri Pirenne

The Pythagorean Theorem, by Eli Maor

The Flight of the Iguana by David Quammen

The House of Wisdom, by Jim Al-Khalili

Confucius, a Throneless King, by Meher McArthur

The Correspondence of Erasmus, Volume 12

The Anabasis, by Xenophon

Bedouin Law, by Clinton Bailey

The Voyage of the HMS Beagle, by Charles Darwin

The Origins of Human Communication, by Michael Tomasello

Abraham Lincoln, by Carl Sandburg

Reason and Society in the Middle Ages, by Alexander Murray

Intellectual Curiosity and the Scientific Revolution, by Toby E. Huff

Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not, by Prasannan Parthasarathi.

The Ambitions of Curiosity, by G.E.R. Lloyd