The Bodhisattva's Brain: Buddhism Naturalized Rupert Gethin admires a philosopher's search to assimilate a Buddhist understanding of the world 6 October
Hitler's Hangman: The Life of Heydrich Even in the upper echelons of the Third Reich, one man's cruelty stood out, writes Richard J. Evans 6 October
A History of Violence: From the End of the Middle Ages to the Present Despite laws and mores forbidding aggression, the appetite for bloodshed lingers, finds Joanna Bourke 6 October
On Tolerance: A Defence of Moral Independence Freedom withers if a culture of 'therapeutic censorship' flourishes, argues Mary Warnock 29 September
A Martian Stranded on Earth: Alexander Bogdanov, Blood Transfusions, and Proletarian Science Adept interlacing of three aspects of an influential Russian polymath impresses Yvonne Howell 29 September
Number-Crunching: Taming Unruly Computational Problems from Mathematical Physics to Science Fiction 29 September
The Arab Revolution: Ten Lessons from the Democratic Uprising It may be too early for fresh scholarly insights on the Middle East uprisings, says Madawi Al-Rasheed 29 September
The Strange Non-Death of Neoliberalism Kevin Young assesses a persuasive analysis of the staying power of market-driven economics 29 September
The Consuming Instinct: What Juicy Burgers, Ferraris, Pornography, and Gift Giving Reveal about Human Nature Another narrow Darwinian conception of economic behaviour tries Isabelle Szmigin's patience 22 September
All Over the Map: Writing on Buildings and Cities Flora Samuel welcomes an exuberant attack on a sphere dominated by greed and lack of vision 22 September
The Darwin Economy: Liberty, Competition, and the Common Good Howard Davies admires the aims of a defender of government but questions his certainties 22 September
Adventures of an Accidental Sociologist: How to Explain the World Without Becoming a Bore Les Gofton is intrigued by the memoir of a scholar who finds modern life deeply disappointing 22 September
The Conflagration of Community: Fiction Before and After Auschwitz Robert Eaglestone is gripped by an exploration of the nexus between literature, society and the Holocaust 15 September
The Burgher and the Whore: Prostitution in Early Modern Amsterdam Petra de Vries finds an analysis of the Dutch sex trade vividly conjures the scene from the brothel 15 September
Virginia Woolf A focus on the joyous and teasing spirit in the writer's lyric novels appeals to Deborah Longworth 15 September
Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn Steve Wheeler is convinced that we need new approaches for digitally remastered learners 8 September
Everyone's a Winner: Life In Our Congratulatory Culture Les Gofton takes the measure of 'status inflation' and the bathetic growth of universal heroism 8 September
The University and The People: Envisioning American Higher Education in an Era of Populist Protest A 19th-century farmers' movement has left its mark on US universities, finds Francisco Ramirez 8 September
Revolution and the Republic: A History of Political Thought in France since the Eighteenth Century 8 September
Sex Before Sexuality: A Premodern History Sarah Toulalan praises an exploration of how pre-19th-century societies acted on their urges 8 September
Explaining Cameron's Coalition: How it Came About - An Analysis of the 2010 British General Election Labour was doomed to lose the popular vote long before Nick 'n' Dave cosied up, writes Paul Whiteley 1 September
Knocking on Heaven's Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Modern World All becomes clear in an admirable account of the hunt for the Higgs Boson, writes Athene Donald 1 September
Mechanism, Experiment, Disease: Marcello Malpighi and Seventeenth-Century Anatomy William Poole examines a pioneering anatomist's explorations that advanced medical knowledge 1 September
A Critical Woman: Barbara Wootton, Social Science and Public Policy in the Twentieth Century 1 September
Ancient Chinese Thought, Modern Chinese Power A call for political morality reveals top-level debates often missed outside China, writes Jonathan Fenby 1 September
The End: Hitler's Germany, 1944-45 The Führer and his absolute power forced Germans to fight on when all was lost, Jill Stephenson finds 25 August
Octavia, Daughter of God: The Story of a Female Messiah and Her Followers Beliefs that now seem delusional made more sense in a doomsday context, says June Purvis 25 August
