Purchases

Over the weekend, I picked up quite a few volumes at Borders:

• The City in History - Lewis Mumford


• 1814: The Campaign for France - F. G. Hourtoulle


• Flesh and Machines: How Robots will change us - Rodney A. Brooks


• The City Reader - Edited byRichard T. LeGates and Frederic Scott


• Send a Gunboat: The Victorian Navy and Supremacy at Sea 1854-1904 - Antony Preston and John Major


• Japanese Fortified Temples and Monasteries AD 710-1602 - Stephen Turnbull and Peter Dennis


• Blackwater: The Rise of the World's most powerful Mercenary Army - Jeremy Scahill


• Imperial Grunts: On the Ground with the American Military, from Mongolia to the Philippines to Iraq and Beyond - Robert D. Kaplan


• The Best American Science Writing 2007 (Best American Science Writing) - Gina Kolata and Jesse Cohen


• The Best American Science & Nature Writing 2005 (Best American) - Jonathan Weiner and Tim Folger


• The Best of Technology Writing 2007 (Best of Technology Writing) - Steven Levy