Books

Nick Prior finds plenty to think about in a new translation of one of Pierre Bourdieu's last works

Geoffrey Scarre on an insightful, reasoned look at the human capacity to offer and accept apologies

Stephen Gundle on the tales a beloved wooden puppet has to tell about his creator's country

Simon Barton is disappointed by a lopsided, broad-brush tale of Dark Ages Muslim-Christian clashes

John Whitelegg on a review of current economic challenges that overpromises and underdelivers

Jules Pretty weighs up the arguments for GMO solutions to Africa's continuing agricultural crisis

What price victory? Huw Dixon weighs the odds

Christopher Eyre on an attempt to enliven a history of the pharaonic era with an ordinary girl's life story

Joseph Silk on our chance to boldly go

Howard Davies appraises the sound economic and political sense behind Paul Krugman's latest work

Chris McManus considers claims that finger-length ratios point to individual and sex differences

A review of euthanasia and end-of-life issues may help to spur legislative change, says Julie Stone

Catherine Belsey writes on the futility of war

Simon Blackburn revels in a trawl through our rich and varied tradition of ad hominem attacks

A thinker who had no truck with biography is well served by this moving portrait, says Chris Thornhill

June Purvis on the mother of all resources

Paul T. Nicholson on a lucid summary of the Queen of the Nile's historical context and eternal allure

Tara Brabazon on bold tales of a Web 2.0 revolution to which the poor and excluded need not apply