Tombstone: The Untold Story of Mao's Great Famine It’s not too early to tell who is to blame for the unnecessary death of millions, says Kerry Brown 1 November
Contagion: How Commerce Has Spread Disease Alison Bashford applauds a magisterial study of scarily relevant bioeconomic history 1 November
The Invention of Heterosexual Culture The man-woman pairing displaced other well-established forms of bonding, finds Robert Mills 1 November
Moscow 1937 Polly Jones praises an intentionally disorientating evocation of a capital gripped by state terror 25 October
Unfinished Empire: The Global Expansion of Britain Vernon Bogdanor doffs his cap to a monument of objective, disinterested historical scholarship 25 October
The God Problem: Expressing Faith and Being Reasonable Do religious adherents need sociology's help to defend themselves? Steve Fuller has his doubts 25 October
Doing Psychoanalysis in Tehran An exploration of the 'Persian psyche' challenges Western preconceptions, finds Shahidha Bari 18 October
Syria: The Fall of the House of Assad Christina Hellmich ponders how a young, popular reformist was transformed into a brutal tyrant 18 October
The Quest for Prosperity: How Developing Economies Can Take Off Howard Davies on an industrial strategy that could help the Third World catch up with the West 11 October
A History of the World in Twelve Maps Cartographic depictions of Earth must be viewed in their cultural context, finds Imre Josef Demhardt 11 October
Robert Schumann: The Life and Work of a Romantic Composer A biography of one of Germany's musical titans touches on important themes, says Mark Berry 11 October
The Pseudoscience Wars: Immanuel Velikovsky and the Birth of the Modern Fringe It's a battle for epistemological supremacy in this study of a catastrophist thinker, says Jon Turney 4 October
Health Care for Some: Rights and Rationing in the United States Since 1930 Jennifer Gunn on the evolving provision of access to treatment in the US' complex medical system 4 October
Between Two Stools: Scatology and its Representation in English Literature, Chaucer to Swift, by Peter J. Smith David Palumbo pooh-poohs any suggestion that ‘shiterature’ has no place in academic study 4 October
The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914, by Christopher Clark Strategy, bellicosity, blunder? A.W. Purdue weighs a fresh look at the Great War’s deadly genesis 27 September
Andreas Papandreou: The Making of a Greek Democrat and Political Maverick Takis Pappas applauds this skilfully interwoven story of Greece's most controversial prime minister 27 September
Travelling in Different Skins: Gender Identity in European Women's Oriental Travelogues, 1850-1950 27 September
Difficult Mothers: Understanding and Overcoming Their Power Long-term misery caused by problematic maternal behaviour gives Janine Spencer pause for thought 27 September
Merchant, Soldier, Sage: A New History of Power Richard Bosworth ponders the four types of humans and the problems of business hegemony 20 September
Music 109: Notes on Experimental Music David Revill lends an ear to a modern composer's invaluable survey of art's aural frontiers 20 September
In Search of First Contact: The Vikings of Vinland, the Peoples of the Dawnland, and the Anglo-American Anxiety of Discovery 20 September
Against Security: How We Go Wrong at Airports, Subways and Other Sites of Ambiguous Danger 20 September
1912: The Year the World Discovered Antarctica Robert Mayhew discusses a timely evaluation of heroic science's contemporary relevance 20 September
Cells to Civilizations: The Principles of Change that Shape Life Charalambos Kyriacou commends a study into the fundamentals of biological organisation 20 September
The Devil in History: Communism, Fascism and Some Lessons of the Twentieth Century Richard Overy discusses the roads to hell that were paved with utopian intentions 13 September
Eve Escapes Shahidha Bari is touched and troubled by a daughter's efforts to articulate her mother's decline 13 September
