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
The Shock of the Ancient: Literature and History in Early Modern France Handbags at the dawn of the modern age? There's more to it than that, writes Biancamaria Fontana 25 August
The Quest for Mental Health: A Tale of Science, Medicine, Scandal, Sorrow and Mass Society Has insanity increased or is the concept all in the mind? David Healy welcomes an insightful debate 18 August
Invisible Romans: Prostitutes, Outlaws, Slaves, Gladiators, Ordinary Men and Women...The Romans That History Forgot Tom Palaima discovers the hopes, dreams and lives of ordinary people living under Imperial Rome 18 August
The Law Is a White Dog: How Legal Rituals Make and Unmake Persons Conor Gearty praises an angry expose of how the US legal system deprives and excludes citizens 18 August
Between Raphael and Galileo: Mutio Oddi and the Mathematical Culture of Late Renaissance Italy 18 August
Putting a Name to It: Diagnosis in Contemporary Society The process of identifying illness involves more than mere detective work, finds Deborah Bowman 18 August
The Words of Others: From Quotations to Culture Douglas Cowie has his eyes opened to the briefest of literary forms: the borrowed bon mot 11 August
The Googlization of Everything (and Why We Should Worry) There is danger in giving free rein to the world's most popular search engine, discovers Harold Thimbleby 11 August
Farnsworth's Classical English Rhetoric Geoffrey K. Pullum savours a guide to the potential of language but feels more modesty is required 11 August
The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction Turn off the TV, hide the phone and wallow in the low-tech luxury of a book, urges Valerie Sanders 4 August
Yuck! The Nature and Moral Significance of Disgust Biologically based aversions have fed into social and philosophical thinking, finds Simon Blackburn 4 August
Duels and Duets: Why Men and Women Talk So Differently Kerstin Hoge finds little to shout about in an evolutionary theory of male and female speech 4 August
The Trials of Margaret Clitherow: Persecution, Martyrdom and the Politics of Sanctity in Elizabethan England 4 August
Dissonant Lives: Generations and Violence through the German Dictatorships Assimilation was key to surviving a succession of Nazi and Communist regimes, as Hester Vaizey finds 28 July
The Real State of America Atlas: Mapping the Myths and Truths of the United States A graphic representation of people's lives allows Tim Hall to see the superpower with new eyes 28 July
Intern Nation: How to Earn Nothing and Learn Little in the Brave New Economy Cary L. Cooper recommends a well-argued attack on the iniquitous exploitation of young people 28 July
Fantasies of the New Class: Ideologies of Professionalism in Post-World War II American Fiction 28 July
Patrick Moore's Data Book of Astronomy A compendium of celestial charts and tables brings out the explorer in Lewis Dartnell 28 July
Believing Bullshit: How Not to Get Sucked Into an Intellectual Black Hole Martin Cohen finds an attack on irrationality worryingly unscientific in its methods 21 July
A Perfect Moral Storm: The Ethical Tragedy of Climate Change Can a philosophical approach to the climate issue have a practical impact? wonders Steve Yearley 21 July
The Black Legend of Prince Rupert's Dog: Witchcraft and Propaganda During the English Civil War A tale of a royal's best friend whose reputation was manipulated to scare the enemy delights 21 July
The Official History of the British Civil Service: Reforming the Civil Service, Volume 1: The Fulton Years, 1966-81 21 July
The Soul of the Greeks: An Inquiry Barbara Graziosi is underwhelmed by a restrictive reading of the ancient Greek soul 21 July
Enacting Others: Politics of Identity in Eleanor Antin, Nikki S. Lee, Adrian Piper, and Anna Deavere Smith 21 July
Religion and the Book in Early Modern England: The Making of John Foxe's 'Book of Martyrs' The story of the painstaking creation of an influential work is a revelation to Lucy Wooding 14 July
The Horizon: A History of Our Infinite Longing An attempt to write a 'great book' in the old style is ambitious but misguided, says Robert Eaglestone 14 July
Radical Gardening: Politics, Idealism & Rebellion in the Garden Clive Bloom celebrates a bravura account of the power of flowers and the politics of a fertile earth 14 July
