Book Reviews for 2009

Herewith my thoughts on each of the books I read in 2009

The Trial: A History from Socrates to O.J.Simpson by Sadakat Kadri

Franklin: the Writings by Benjamin Franklin

The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language by David Crystal

Adages III iv 1 to IV ii 100 by Erasmus

The Eternal Frontier by Tim Flannery

Mohammed, Charlemagne, and the Origins of Europe by Richard Hodges and David Whitehouse

The 10,000 Year Explosion by Gregory Cochran and Henry Harpending

Saxons, Vikings, and Celts by Bryan Sykes

A Farewell To Alms by Gregory Clark

Kluge by Gary Marcus

Understanding Early Civilizations by Bruce Trigger

On the Origin of Stories by Brian Boyd

Plutarch's Parallel Lives by Plutarch