NONFICTION—A-H, I-Z (Updated 9/7/2003)


Afghanistan:
A Short History of Its People and Politics;
Martin Ewans

In the Heart of the Sea:
The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex;
Nathaniel Philbrick


The Ascent of Rum Doodle;
W. E. Bowman

At the Edge of Empire:
The Terek Cossacks and the North Caucasus Frontier, 1700–1860
;

Thomas M. Barrett

Batavia's Graveyard;
Mike Dash

The Cartoon History of the Universe III:
From the Rise of Arabia to the Renaissance;
Larry Gonick

Caviar:
The Strange History and Uncertain Future of the World's Most Coveted Delicacy;
Inga Saffron

Captives:
The Story of Britian's Pursuit of Empire and How its Soldiers and Civilians Were Held Captive by the Dream of Global Supremacy, 1600-1850;

Linda Colley

Caucasus:
Mountain Men and Holy Wars;
Nicholas Griffin

The Circassians:
A Handbook;

Amjad Jaimoukha

Circumcision:
A History of the World's Most Controversial Surgery
David Gollaher

Classic Gin ,
Geraldine Coates

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Middle East Conflict;
Mitchell Bard

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Publishing Science Fiction;
Cory Doctorow and Karl Schroeder

Chronicles of the Vikings: Records, Memorials, and Myths;
R. I. Page

Erotomaniac:
The Secret Life of Henry Spencer Ashbee;
Ian Gibson

Fatal Passage:
The Story of John Rae, the Artic Hero Time Forgot;
Ken McGoogan

Flowers in the Blood:
The Story of Opium;
Dean Latimer and Jeff Goldberg

Forces of Habit:
Drugs and the Making of the Modern World;
David Courtwright

The Freemasons;
Jasper Ridley

Geisha, A Life;
Mineko Iwasaki

 


In the Lion's Court:
Power, Ambition, and Sudden Death in the Reign of Henry VIII;

Derek Wilson

India: A History;
John Keay

Inventing the Victorians:
What We Think We Know About Them and Why We're Wrong;

Matthew Sweet

On-going:
Journal of Indo-European Studies

Journey to the Polar Sea;
John Franklin

Lermontov:
Tragedy in the Caucasus

Laurence Kelly

Myxomycetes:
A Handbook of Slime Molds
Steven Stephenson and Henry Stempen

Naukar, Rajput, & Sepoy:
The Ethnohistory of the Military Labour Market in Hindustan, 1450-1850
Dirk H. A. Kolff

Ninety Detgrees North:
The Quest for the North Pole

Fergus Fleming

The Opium War, 1840-1842;
Peter Ward Fry

The Performance of Healing;
Ed: Carol Laderman, Marina Roseman

Quest for Kim;
Peter Hopkirk

Sex as Nature Intended It
Kristen O'Hara

The Science Fiction Professional:
Seven Years of "Ask Bwana" columns;

Mike Resnick

The Shaman's Coat:
A Native History of Siberia

Anna Reid

The Shameless Diary of an Explorer:
A Story of Failure on Mt. McKinley;

Robert Dunn

Spiritual Merchants: Religion, Magic, and Commerce;
Carolyn Morrow Long

Scrambles Amongst the Alps in the Years 1860-1869;
Edward Whymper

The Teutonic Knights:
A Military History;

William Urban

Treason By the Book;
Jonathan D. Spence

The Victorians;
A. N. Wilson

What Your Doctor May NOT Tell You About Cicumcision:
Paul M. Fleiss, M.D.

The Writer's Guide to Everyday Life in Regency and Victorian England, From 1811 to 1901;
Kristine Hughes