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• Carnage and culture: Landmark battles in the rise of Western power by V. D. Hanson
  
  
• Religious violence in contemporary Japan: the case of Aum Shinrikyou by Ian Reader
  review by the auroran sunset
  
  
•  A green history of the world by C. Ponting
  
  
• The Viceroy’s daughters by A. de Courcy
  
  
• Franco by Paul Preston
  
  
• Telling Lies: clues to deceit in the marketplace, politics, and marriage by Paul Ekman
  
  
• The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life by Richard Florida
  
  
• The Constants of Nature: From Alpha to Omega—The Numbers That Encode the Deepest Secrets of the Universe by John D. Barrow
  
  
• A Theory of Justice by John Rawls
  
  
• The Prize by Daniel Yergin
  
  
• House of cards by Robyn M.Dawes
  
  
• Dogs and demons – the fall of modern Japan by Alex Kerr
  
  
• Fast food nation by Eric Schlosser
  
  
• Collapse by Jared Diamond
  
  
• Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
  
  
• Einstein Defiant: Genius Versus Genius in the Quantum Revolution by Edmund Blair
  
  
• Thomas Paine on the fossil media - review by the auroran sunset
  
  
• Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein
  
  
• Neville Shute
  
  
• The psychology of Rex Stout, Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin
  
  
• Our Oldest Enemy by Miller & Molesky - review by the auroran sunset
  
  
• The violin which crosses the strait by Jin Chan Hyun
  review by the auroran sunset

Short reviews:

• Abelard, a Medieval Life by M.T. Clanchy
• Intuition, its powers and perils by David P. Myers
• Hitler: 1889 – 1936 Hubris by Ian Kershaw
• The New Face of War: How War Will Be Fought in the 21st Century by Bruce Berkowitz
• The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
• Good Natured: the Origins of Right and Wrong in Humans and Other Animals by De Waal, Frans
• In the Shadow of Man by Jane Goodall
• King Solomon’s Ring by Konrad Lonrenz
• Evolution of cooperation by Robert Axelrod
• The road to serfdom by F.A. Hayek
• Profession by Isaac Asimov
• Player of games by Iain Banks
• by Robert Heinlein
• And then there were none by Eric Frank Russell
• Snowcrash by Neal Stephenson
• Pawns of null-a by A.E. Van Vogt
• Inequality by design by C. S. Fischer et al.
• Qualifications and Education for citizenship and the teaching of democracy in schools Curriculum Authority, London, 1998
• The Impulsive Personality: Understanding people with destructive personality disorders by Howard Wishnie
• Creating kids who can concentrate: proven strategies for beating A.D.D. without drugs by Jean Robb and Hilary Letts
• People skills: how to assert yourself, listen to others, and resolve conflicts by Robert Bolton
• Getting the love you want: a guide for couples by Harville Hendrix
• The Heart of Parenting: How to raise an emotionally intelligent child by John Gottman with Joan Declare
• It takes a village : and other lessons children teach us by Hilary Clinton
• The myth of repressed memory by Dr. Elizabeth Loftus & Katherine Ketcham
• Principles of Economics by N. Gregory Mankiw
• Essays in persuasion by John Maynard Keynes
• Psychology by David G. Myers
• The Prince by Nicholo Machiavelli
• the state of North Atlantic fisheries: book review
• The Discovery of Freedom by Rose Wilder Lane
• Islam and dhimmitude: where civilizations collide by Bat Ye’or
• Leaving Islam: Apostates Speak Out by Ibn Warraq
• One With Nineveh: Politics, Consumption, and the Human Future by Ehrlich and Ehrlich
• The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki
• Living with Radiation, the First Hundred Years by Paul Frame and William Kolb
• Big Bang : The Origin of the Universe by Simon Singh
• Behind the Oval Office : Winning the Presidency in the Nineties by Dick Morris
• Freakonomics : A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything, by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
• The 21st Century Brain: Explaining, Mending and Manipulating the Mind by Steven Rose
• Between Sex and Power: Family in the World 1900-2000 by Gšran Therborn
• The Impact of Inequality: How to Make Sick Societies Healthier by Richard Wilkinson
• Useful Idiots: How Liberals Got It Wrong in the Cold War and Still Blame America First by Mona Charen
• Women Who Make the World Worse: and How Their Radical Feminist Assault Is Ruining Our Schools, Families, Military, and Sports by Kate O’Beirne
• The Revenge of Gaia by James Lovelock
• In Our Hands: A Plan to Replace the Welfare State by Charles Murray
• When the rivers run dry by Fred Pearce
• Free to Choose: A Personal Statement by Milton Friedman and Rose Friedman
• Beyond oil and gas: The Methanol Economy by Olah, Goeppert, Surya Prakash
• Solar Revolution: The Economic Transformation of the Global Energy Industry by Travis Bradford
• The nuclear energy option by Bernard L. Cohen
• In our hands by Charles Murray
• Factor Four: Doubling Wealth, Halving Resource Use by von Weizsacker, Lovins and Lovins
• Shape and Structure, from Engineering to Nature by Adrian Bejan
• Glaciers by Michael Hambrey and Jürg Alean
• Frozen Earth: The Once and Future Story of Ice Ages by Douglas Macdougall
• Paleoclimatology by Raymond Bradley
• The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do by Judith Rich Harris

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