Razvi Blog Space

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30 January 2008 (612 words)
Catastrophe Remembered (Nur Masalha)
Palestine, Israel and the Internal Refugees

28 January 2008 (657)
*The Revolution of Peter the Great (James Cracraft)
- a lively account of the changes he brought to Russia

20 January 2008 (703)
*Cancer: The Evolutionary Legacy (Mel Greaves)
- cellular biology and human evolution, history and society

19 January 2008 (164)
On Literature (Umberto Eco)
- an assortment of literary criticism

14 January 2008 (54
**The Melancholy of Resistance (Laszlo Krasznahorkai)
- a small town falls apart with the showing of a whale

4 January 2008 (382)
Africa’s Discovery of Europe: 1450-1850 (David Northrup)
- African perspectives on encounters with Europeans

28 December 2007 (180)
Nada (Carmen Laforet)
- a novel about a young woman in 1940s Barcelona

20 December 2007 (170)
Falling in Love (Patrick Hanan)
Stories From Ming China

19 December 2007 (593)
Egypt: An Economic Geography (Fouad N. Ibrahim, Barbara Ibrahim)
- a broad-ranging survey

http://www.shvoong.com/books/1760963-egypt-economic-geography/

3 December 2007 (392)
Once the Buddha Was a Monkey: Jatakamala (Arya Sura)
- morality tales about lives of the Buddha

http://www.shvoong.com/books/1760987-buddha-monkey-jatakamala/

20 November 2007 (400)
*Nine Suitcases (Béla Zsolt)
- a novel of the Holocaust in Hungary

7 November 2007 (801)
We are not French! (Maryon McDonald)
Language, Culture and Identity in Brittany

4 November 2007 (165)
The Terracotta Dog (Andrea Camilleri)
- a Sicilian detective takes a historical excursion

31 October 2007 (446)
Seafarers, Merchants and Pirates in the Middle Ages (Dirk Meier)
- the Baltic, the North Sea, the North Atlantic and Russian rivers

23 October 2007 (471)
Sacred Texts and Buried Treasures (William Wayne Farris)
Issues in the Historical Archaeology of Ancient Japan

16 October 2007 (129)
I Have the Right to Destroy Myself (Young-Ha Kim)
- art, sex, and death in Seoul

13 October 2007 (670)
Trafalgar in History (David Cannadine)
A Battle and its Afterlife

8 October 2007 (257)
Sheep-Rearing and the Wool Trade (Joan M. Frayn)
in Italy during the Roman Period

4 October 2007 (809)
*The City Builder (George Konrad)
- a planner’s life in a provincial Eastern European town

3 October 2007 (881)
*The Emerald Planet (David Beerling)
How Plants Changed Earth’s History

23 September 2007 (390)
Devil in the Mountain (Simon Lamb)
A Search for the Origin of the Andes

21 September 2007 (267)
*The Time of Miracles (Borislav Pekic)
- prophecy, blindness, uncleanliness, sin, faith, madness

9 September 2007 (605)
The Science and Politics of Global Climate Change (Dessler, Parson)
A Guide to the Debate

5 September 2007 (442)
*The Suns of Independence (Ahmadou Kourouma)
- a tale of Malinke tradition in an independent Africa

2 September 2007 (426)
Religion and African Civil Wars (Niels Kastfelt)
- papers on Southern Sudan, West Africa, and Southern Africa

19 August 2007 (489)
Cornish Cases (John Rule)
Essays in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Social History

15 August 2007 (341)
The Emperor (Ryszard Kapuscinski)
- the end of Haile Selassie and his court

11 August 2007 (546)
*Marks of Identity (Juan Goytisolo)
- youth between Franco’s Spain and exile

4 August 2007 (166)
Erdös on Graphs (Fan Chung, Ron Graham)
His Legacy of Unsolved Problems

30 July 2007 (22
Lives of the Planets (Richard Corfield)
A Natural History of the Solar System

29 July 2007 (150)
The Dwarf (Cho Se-hui)
- stories from the dark side of 1970s South Korea

25 July 2007 (582)
*An Introduction to Nervous Systems (Ralph J. Greenspan)
- an evolutionary approach to neurobiology

29 May 2007 (613)
Backup and Recovery (W. Curtis Preston)
Inexpensive Backup Solutions for Open Systems

20 May 2007 (333)
Wild Borneo (Nick Garbutt, J. Cede Prudente)
The wildlife and scenery of Sabah, Sarawak, Brunei and Kalimantan

9 May 2007 (197)
*Arrow of God (Chinua Achebe)
- an Ibo priest and his village face change

6 May 2007 (475)
The Bretons (Patrick Galliou, Michael Jones)
- the history and archaeology of Brittany down to 1491

5 May 2007 (510)
The Great War (Marc Ferro)
- with a focus on the socialist movements

2 May 2007 (1362)
*Evolutionary Pathways in Nature (John C. Avise)
- applications of comparative phylogenetics

28 April 2007 (281)
*This Blinding Absence of Light (Tahar ben Jelloun)
- surviving incarceration in a secret Moroccan prison

21 April 2007 (627)
*Secret Weapons (Thomas Eisner, Maria Eisner, Melody Siegler)
Defenses of Insects, Spiders, Scorpions, and Other Many-Legged Creatures

15 April 2007 (37
*On Thrones of Gold (James R. Brandon)
Three Javanese Shadow Plays

11 April 2007 (202)
Liquidation (Imre Kertesz)
- a metafictional literary mystery