The Society: Isis Books Received, 1st Quarter 2004
Anderson, Jr.John D. Inventing Flight: The Wright Brothers and Their Predecessors., viii+176pp. Apps., Notes, Index. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004., 0801868750
Baigrie, Brian S. Scientific Revolutions: Primary Texts in the History of Science., xx + 419 pp., Table, illus., bibl., index. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2004. (paper), 0130990914
Barber, Nigel. Kindness in a Cruel World: The Evolution of Altruism., 415 pp., illus., index. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2004. $28 (cloth)., 1591022282
Ben-Chiam, Michael. Experimental Philosophy and the Birth of Empircial Science: Boyle, Locke, Newton., vii+222pp. Figs, Biblio., Index. New York: Ashgate Publishing, 2004., 0754640914
Bishop, J. Michael. How to Win the Nobel Prize: An Unexpected Life in Science., xiii+271pp. Illus., notes., Index. Cambridge: Harvard University Press: 2004. $15.95 (paper)., 0674016254
Bourdieu, Pierre. Science of Science and Reflexivity., Translated by Richard Nice. ix + 129 pp., Intro., table, bibl., index. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. $22.50 (paper)., 0226067386
Bridson, Gavin D. R. (Compiler). BPH-2: Periodicals with botanical content., Edited by Scarlett T. Townsend, Elizabeth A. Polen. Volume 1, A-M. xx + 819 pp., intro., table, bibl. Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh: Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation,2004 $130.00 (cloth), 0913196789
Bridson, Gavin D. R. (Compiler). BPH-2: Periodicals with botanical content., Edited by Scarlett T. Townsend, Elizabeth A. Polen. Volume 2, N-Z. 821 + 1470 pp. table., app. Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh: Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, 2004. $130 (cloth), 0913196789
Bueno, Antonio González. Antonio José Cavanilles (1745-1804): La pasión por la Ciencia., 459 pp., Intro., notes, bibl., index, table. Madrid: Fundación Jorge Juan, 2004. (cloth)., 8497440188
Buhs, Joshua Blu. The Fire Ant Wars: Nature, Science, and Public Policy in Twentieth-Century America., x + 216 pp., illus., bibl., index. Chicago/London: The University of Chicago Press, 2004. $22.50, £16 (paper)., 0226079821
Burdman, Anita Feferman; Feferman, Solomon. Alfred Tarski: Life and Logic., vi + 425 pp., table, notes, bibl., index. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. $35 (hardcover), 0521802407
Burns, Russell W. Communications: An International History of the Formative Years., IEE History of Technology Series 32 x + 639 pp., table, apps., bibl., index. London: The Institution of Electrical Engineers, 2004. (paper), 0863413307
Campbell, John H.; DeNevi, Don(Editors). Profilers: Leading Investigators Take You Inside The Criminal Mind., 377 pp., Intro., table. New York: Prometheus Books, 2004. $26. (Hardcover), 1591022665
Cantor, Geoffrey; Dawson, Gowan; Gooday, Graeme; Noakes, Richard; Shuttleworth, Sally; Topham, Johnathan R.(editors). Science in the Nineteenth Century Periodical: Reading the Magazine of Nature., Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature and Culture. Gillian Beer (general editor).xi+329pp. Illus., Intro., Notes, Index, Biblio. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004., 0521836379
Cassidy, David C. J. Robert Oppenheimer and the American Century., xviii + 462 pp., table, apps., bibl., index. New York: Pi Press, 2004. $27.95 (cloth)., 0131479962
Castonguay, Stéphen. Protection des Cultures, Contruction de la Nature: Agriculture, foresterie et entomologie au Canada 1884-1959., Cahiers des Amériques 7. 366 pp., intro., table, apps, bibl., index, fig., illus. Sillery, Quebec: Septentrion, 2004. (paper), 2894483775
Chemla, Karine; Shuchun, Guo. Les Neuf Chapitres: Le Classique mathématique de la Chine ancienne et ses commentaires., Preface by Geoffrey Lloyd. xvi + 1117 pp., Table, notes, bibls., indexes. Paris: Dunod, 2004. (cloth), 2100077783
Clark, Jonathan.Our Shadowed Present: Modernism, Postmodernism, and History., xiv + 336 pp., intro., table, notes, index. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2004. $22.95 (paper), 0804751498
Collins, Harry. Gravity's Shadow: The Search for Gravitational Waves., xxii + 870 pp., table, bibl., index. Chicago/London: The University of Chicago Press, 2004. $39.00 (paper), 0226113787
Connor, R.D.; Simpson, A.D.C. Weights and Measures in Scotland: A European Perspective., Edited by A.D. Morrison-Low. xvi + 842pp., illus., apps., index. East Linton: Tuckwell Press, 2004. $125 (cloth)., 1901663884
Coon, Carl. One Planet, One People: Beyond "Us vs. Them"., Forward by Roy W. Brown. 149 pp., table, index. New York: Prometheus Books, 2004. $22. (hardcover), 1591022339
Dahan, Amy; Pestre, Dominique (editors)., Les sciences pour la guerre 1940-1960., (Civilisations et Sociétés.) 401 pp. Paris: Éditions de l’École des hautes études en sciences socials, 2004. €30 (paper)., 2713220157
Debru, Claude. Georges Canguilhem: science et non-science., 105 pp., table, notes, bibl., index. Paris: Éditions Rue d'Ulm, 2004. 15€ (paper)., 2728803269
Dick, Steven J.; Strick, James E. The Living Universe: NASA and the Development of Astrobiology., xiii+305pp., apps., bibli., index. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2004. $49.95 (cloth)., 081353447x
Dumont, Franz (Editor). Samuel Thomas Soemmerring: Tagebücher 1804/05 - 1812., Samuel Thomas Soemmerring Werke. Band 23/I. 668 pp., Intro., table, bibl. Mainz: Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur; Basel: Schwabe Verlag, 2004. €168 (hardcover)., 3796519236
Durst, Steve M.; Bohannan, Charles T.; Thomason, Christopher G.; Cerney, Michael R.; Yuen, Leilehua (Editors). Proceedings of the International Lunar Conference 2003 / International Lunar Exploration Work Group 5 - ILC2003 / ILEWG 5., American Astronautical Society. Volume 108, Science and Technology Series. xxvi + 576 pp., Intro., table, bibls., apps., indexes. San Diego, California: Univelt, Inc., 2004. (paper). With CD., 0877035148
Ellis, Albert. The Road to Tolerance: The Philosophy of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy., 271 pp., table, apps., bibl., index. Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books, 2004. $21 (paper), 1591022371
Elzinga, Aant; Nordin, Torgny; Turner, David; Wrakberg, Urban(Editors)., Antarctic Challenges: Historical and Current Perspectives on Otto Nordenskjöld's Antarctic Expedition 1901-1903., (Interdisciplinaria, 5.) (Symposium held in Göteborg 10-13 May 2001 on the occasion of the centenary of Otto Nordenskjöld's Antarctic Expedition 1901-1903.) 330 pp., illus., bibls. Göteborg: Royal Society of Arts and Sciences, 2004. (cloth)., 9185252646
Engammare, Max. L'Ordre du Temps: L'Invention de la Ponctualité au XVIe Siècle., 263 pp., table, intro., bibl., illus., index. Librairie Droz: Genève, 2004. (paper), 2600009140
Fare, Patricia. Sex, Botany and Empire: The Story of Carl Linnaeus and Joseph Banks., 168pp. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004. $19.50 (cloth)., 0231134266
Force, J. E. Force; Hutton, S. (Editors). Newton and Newtonianism: New Studies., International Archives of the History of Ideas, 188. xvii + 246 pp., Intro., table, index. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004. $106 (cloth), 1402019696
Fuchs, Margot. Georg von Arco (1869-1940) -- Ingenieur, Pazifist, Technischer Direktor von Telefunken: Eine Erfinderbiographie., 348 pp., illus., bibl., index. Berlin/Diepholz:GNT-Verlag, 2004. €39 (cloth)., 3928186701
Fulford, Tim; Lee, Debbie; Kitson, Peter J. Literature, Science and Exploration in the Romantic Era: Bodies of Knowledge., xvii + 324 pp., Intro., table, illus., bibl., notes, index. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. $80.00 (cloth), 0521829194
Gillmore, C. Stewart.Fred Terman at Stanford: Building a Discipline, a University, and Silicon Valley., Forward by Richard Atkinson. xiii + 642 pp., intro., table, apps., notes, bibl., index. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2004. $70 (hardcover), 0804749140
Gingerich, Owen. The Book Nobody Read: Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus., xii + 306 pp., apps., bibl., index. New York: Walker & Company, 2004. $25 (cloth)., 0802714153
Glynn, Ian; Glynn, Jenifer. The Life and Death of Smallpox., x + 278 pp., table, illus., notes, index. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. $25 (hardcover), 0521845424
Goodchild, Peter.Edward Teller: The Real Dr. Strangelove., xxv + 469 pp., intro., table., illus., apps., notes, bibl., index. Great Britain: Weidenfeld and Nicolson/Cambridge, Massachussetts: Harvard University Press, 2004. $29.95. (cloth), 0674016696
Gray, Jeremy J.János Bolyai,Non-Euclidean Geometry, and the Nature of Space., (Burndy Library Publications, New Servies, Number 1.) viii + 185pp., illus., table, apps. Cambridge:The MIT Press, 2004. $20 (paper), 0-262-57174-9
Grene, Marjorie; Depew, David. The Philosophy of Biology: An Episodic History., xxi + 416 pp., table, figs., notes, bibl., index. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. $75.00 (hardcover)., 0521643716
Groot, Jean De (editor)., Nature in American Philosophy., Studies in Philosophy and the History of Philosophy, Vol. 42. xx+204pp. Intro., Biblio., Index. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University Press of America, 2004., 0813213819
Hadler, Nortin M. The Last Well Person: How to Stay Well Despite the Health-Care System., viii + 313 pp., table., bibl., index. Montreal/Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2004. $39.95. (Hardcover), 0773527958
Halpern, Sydney A. Lesser Harms: The Morality of Risk in Medical Research., xii + 232 pp., Intro., table, notes, bibl., index. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. $37.50 (cloth)., 0226314510
Helfrick, Albert Electronics in the Evolution of Flight., Number Nine: Centennial of Flight Series. Roger D Launius (General Editor). x + 190 pp., Table, illus.,bibls., index. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2004. (paper), 1585444138
Hoolihan, Christopher. An Annotated Catalogue of the Edward C. Atwater Collection of American Popular Medicine and Health Reform. Volume II: M-Z., 674pp., illus., table, index. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2004., 1580461158
Jarque, Jose Pitarch. Memoria: Estudio Topografico Sanitario de la Villa de Teulada., Sèrie Documenta 2. 60 pp., intro. Teulada: Ajuntament de Teulada, 2004. (paper), 8493314625
Kassler, Jamie C. The Beginnings of the Modern Philosophy of Music in England:Frances North's A Philosophical Essay of Musick (1677) with comments of Isaac Newton, Roger North and in the Philosophical Transactions., xiv + 243 pp., table, illus., intro., apps., bibl., index. Burlingtion, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2004. $69.95 (cloth), 0754601390
Kavanagh, Kathryn H.; Knowlden, Virginia (Editors)., Many Voices: Toward Caring Culture in Healthcare and Healing., Interpretive Studies in Healthcare and the Human Sciences, Volume 3. Forward by Nancy L. Diekelmann and Pamela M. Ironside. xvi + 312 pp., Intro., table, bibls., index. Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 2004. $24.95 (paper)., 0299197646
Kinney, Thomas A. The Carriage Trade: Making Horse-Drawn Vehicles in America., xi + 381 pp., Intro., table, notes, bibl., index. Baltimore, Maryland: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. $49.95 (hardcover), 0801879469
Kokowski, Micha?.Copernicus's Originality: Towards Integration of Contemporary Copernican Studies., xiv + 314 pp., Intro., table, notes, bibls., indexes, illus. Warsaw/Cracow: Wydawnictwa Ihn Pan, 2004. (paper)., 8386062274
Kunitzsch, Paul.Stars and Numbers: Astronomy and Mathematics in the Medieval Arab and Western Worlds., (Variorum Collected Studies Series.) xiv + 340 pp., indexes. Aldershot/Burlington: Ashgate, 2004., 0860789683
Labisch, Alfons; Paul, Norbert (Editors). Historizität: Erfahrung und Handeln - Geschichte und Medizin., 301 pp., intro., table, notes, indexes. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2004. €50. (paper), 3515085076
Laidler, Keith J.Science and Sensibility: The Elegant Logic of the Universe., 233 pp., table, notes, index. Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books, 2004. $28 (Hardcover)., 1591021383
Lederman, Leon M.; Hill, Christopher T. Symmetry and the Beautiful Universe., 363 pp., Intro., table, app., notes, index. Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books, 2004. $29 (Hardcover), 1591022428
Lefèvre. Wolfgang (Editor)., Picturing Machines, 1400-1700., vi + 347 pp., Intro., table, bibl., indexes. Cambridge, Massachusettes: The MIT Press, 2004. $40.00 (cloth)., 0262122693
Lewis, E. E. Masterworks of Technology: The Story of Creative Engineering, Architecture, and Design., 328 pp., table, notes, bibl., index. Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books, 2004. $28 (hardcover), 1591022436
Li, Alison. J.B. Collip and the Development of Medical Research in Canada: Extracts and Enterprises., (Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society.) xiv+244 pp., illus., bibl., index. Montreal/Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2003. $39.95 (cloth)., 0773526099
Leiburg, Mart J. van (Editor)., Isidore Snapper's Notes for Memoirs 1889-1973: The Autobiographical Recollections of 'The Champion of Bedside Medicine'., Introduction by Maurits Frenkel MD. 239 pp., intro., table, bibl., index. Rotterdam: Erasmus Publishing, 2004. 35€ (paper), 9052351724
, Justus Liebig: Der Streitbare Gelehrte., (Exhibition catalogue presented at the University of Gießen). 163pp. Gießen: Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, 2003., 3980894924
, Justus Liebig: Die "Chemischen Briefe"., (Exhibition catalogue presented at the University of Gießen). 117pp. Gießen: Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, 2003., 3980894932
, Justus Liebig: Seine Zeit und unsere Zeit., (Exhibition catalogue presented at the University of Gießen). 288pp., illus., index. Gießen: Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, 2003., 3980894908
Leibniz, G. W. quadrature arithmétique du cercle, de l'ellipse et de l'hyperbole., Forward, translation and notes by Marc Parmentier. Latin text edited by Eberhard Knobloch. 369 pp., intro., bibl., table, index. Paris: Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin, 2004. 29€ (paper), 2711616355
Lightman, Bernard (Editor).The Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century British Scientists., General editor Bernard Lightman. Volume ,1 A-C. xxxix + 517 pp., intro., table, bibls. Bristol, England: Thoemmes Continuum, 2004. £750.00 (cloth), 1855069997
Lightman, Bernard (Editor). The Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century British Scientists., General editor Bernard Lightman. Volume 2, D-J. 519 + 1116 pp., bibls. Bristol, England: Thoemmes Continuum, 2004. £750.00 (cloth), 1855069997
Lightman, Bernard (Editor). The Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century British Scientists., General editor Bernard Lightman. Volume 3, K-Q. 1117 + 1652 pp., bibls. Bristol, England: Thoemmes Continuum, 2004. £750.00 (cloth), 1855069997
Lightman, Bernard (Editor). The Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century British Scientists., General editor Bernard Lightman. Volume 4, R-Z. 1653 + 2256 pp., bibls., index. Bristol, England: Thoemmes Continuum, 2004. £750.00 (cloth), 1855069997
Lindberg, David C. ; Numbers, Ronald L. (Editors)., When Science and Christianity Meet., xii + 357 pp., illus., bibl., index. Chicago/London: The University of Chicago Press, 2003. $29, £20.50 (cloth)., 0226482146
Linton, C. M., From Eudoxus to Einstein: A History of Mathematical Astronomy., xii + 516 pp., table, bibl., index. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. $95 (cloth)., 0521827507
Lister, Florence C. Troweling Through Time: The First Century of Mesa Verdean Archaeology., xliv+288pp. Notes, Apps. Index. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2004., 0826335020
Lockwood, Jeffrey A. Locust: The Devastating Rise and Mysterious Disappearance of the Insect that Shaped the American Frontier., xxiii + 294 pp., illus., index. New York: Basic Books, 2004. $25 (cloth)., 0738208949
Luey, Beth (Editor)., Revising Your Dissertation: Advice from Leading Editors., vii + 255 pp., Intro., table, index. Berkeley/Los Angeles, California: University of California Press, 2004. $16.95 (paper)., 0520242556
Lustig, Abigail; Richards, Robert J.; Ruse, Michael (Editors). Darwinian Heresies., viii + 200 pp., table, intro., index. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. $65 (Hardcover), 0521815169
Maat, Jaap. Philosophical Languages in the Seventeenth Century: Dalgarno, Wilkins, Leibniz., (The New Synthese Historical Library, Volume 54.) xv + 415pp., bibl., index. Dordrecht/Boston/London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004., 1402017588
Maillet, Arnaud. The Claude Glass: Use and Meaning of the Black Mirror in Western Art., Translated by Jeff Fort. 300 pp., Table, notes, index. New York: Zone Books, Urzone, Inc., 2004. $26.95 (cloth)., 1890951471
Mayr, Ernst. What Makes Biology Unique? Considerations on the Autonomy of a Scientific Discipline., xiv+232pp., illus., index. Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. $30 (cloth)., 0521841143
Meadows, Jack. The Victorian Scientist: The Growth of a Profession., vi + 202 pp., Intro., table, illus., bibl., indes. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004. $35 (cloth)., 0712308946
Mithen, Steven.After the Ice: A Global Human History 20,000-5000 BC., xiii + 622pp., illus., bibl., index. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004. $29.95 (Cloth)., 0674015703
Monmonier, Mark. Rhumb Lines and Map Wars: A Social Hisory of the Mercator Projection., xiv + 242pp., illus., bibl., index. Chicago/London: The University of Chicago Press, 2004. $25, ?17.50 (cloth)., 022653431
Mühlpford, Günter; Blaschke, Karlheinz; Döring, Detlef (editors). Universitäten und Wissenschaften im mitteldeutschen Raum in der Frühen Neuzeit. Ehrenkolloquium zum 80., 327pp. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag. 2004. 75 euro (cloth)., 3515085939
Müller, Ernst.Ästhetische religiosität und Kunstreligion: In den Philosophien von der Aufklärung bis zum Ausgang des deutschen Idealismus., xxxii + 310 pp. intro., table, bibl., index. Berlin: Akademie Verlag GmbH, 2004. €49.80 (hardcover), 3050037644
Müller, Falk. Gasentladungsforschung im 19. Jahrhundert., 300 pp., illus., bibl. Berlin/Diepholz:GNT-Verlag, 2004. €35 (paper)., 3928186760
Needham, Joseph. Science and Civilisation in China. Volume 7 Part II: General Conclusions and Reflections., Edited by K. G. Robinson. li + 283pp., illus., tables., app., bibls., index. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. $100 (cloth)., 0521087325
Nobis, Heribert M.; Folkerts, Menso; Kirschner, Stefan; Kühne, Ardreas (Editors).Die Copernicus-Biographien des 16. Bis 18. Jahrhunderts: Texte und Übersetzungen., Biographia Copernicana Band IX. Xxxiii + 508 pp. intro., table, bibl., index., illus. Berlin: Akademie Verlag GmbH, 2004. (hardcover), 3050038489
Nye, Mary Jo. Blackett: Physics, War, and Politics in the Twentieth Century., x + 255pp., illus., index. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004. $39.95 (cloth)., 0674015487
Oggins, Robin S. The Kings and Their Hawks: Falconry in Medieval England., xvi+251pp. Illus., Intro., Notes, Boblio., Index. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004., 0300100582
Oksanen, Markku; Pietarinen, Juhani (Editors). Philosophy of Biodiversity., Cambride Studies in Philosophy and Biology. xv + 258 pp., Table, figs., notes, bibls., index. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. $75.00 (cloth), 0521804302
Oravas, Gunhard Æ. Lectures on the History of Technology and Engineering., Volume 1, xliii + 616 pp., table, intro. New York: Georg Olms Verlag, 2004. (cloth), 3487117444
Oravas, Gunhard Æ.Lectures on the History of Technology and Engineering., Volume 2, 617 - 1194 pp., table, bibl., index. New York: Georg Olms Verlag, 2004. (cloth), 3487117452
Oser-Grote, Carolin M. Aristoteles Und Das Corpus Hippocraticum: Die Anatomie und Physiologie des Menschen., 349pp. Illus., tables, bibl. Munchen: Franz Steiner Verlag Stuttgart, 2004. €68 (cloth)., 0943-5921
Palmerino, Carla Rita; Thijssen, J.M.M.H.(Editors)., The Reception of the Galilean Science of Motion in Seventeenth-Century Europe., (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 239.) ix + 275pp., illus., bibl., index. Dordrecht/Boston/London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004., 1402024541
Paster, Gail Kern; Rowe, Katherine; Floyd-Wilson, Mary (Editors)., Reading the Early Modern Passions: Essays in the Cultural History of Emotion., vi + 384 pp., intro., table, notes, index. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. (paper), 0812218728
Polkinghorne, John. Science and The Trinity: The Christian Encounter with Reality., xvii + 184 pp., table, index. New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 2004. $24 (cloth)., 0300104456
Putnam, Constance E. The Science We Have Loved and Taught: Dartmouth Medical School's First Two Centuries., Forward by James E. Wright. xxvi + 375pp., Table, illus., apps., notes, index. Lebanon, New Hampshire: University Press of New England, 2004. $35.00 (cloth)., 1584653701
Rae, Alastair. Quantum Physics: Illusion or Reality?, (Second Edition) xiii + 155 pp., Table, bibl., index. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. $16.00 (paper), 0521542669
Reungoat, Sabine. William Petty: Observateur des Îles Britanniques., (Collection Classiques de l’Économie et de la Population. Études & Enquêtes Historiques.) vi + 342 pp., apps., illus., bibl., index. Paris: Institut national d’études démographiques, 2004., 2733210300
Richman, Kenneth A. Ethics and the Metaphysics of Medicine: Reflections on Health and Beneficience., Basic Bioethics Series. x+222pp. Notes, Ref., Index. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2004. $29.00 (cloth)., 0262182386
Rochberg, Francesca. The Heavenly Writing: Divination, Horoscopy, and Astronomy in Mesopotamian Culture., xxvi+331 pp., table, bibl., indexes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. $70 (Hardcover), 0521830109
Rodman, Robert M. Winnicott: Life and Work., xiv + 461pp. Table, notes, bibl., index. Cambridge: Perseus Publishing (Perseus Books Group), 2003. $20.00 (paper), 0-7382-0397-1
Rothenberg, Marc; Dorman, Lathleen W.; Millikan, Frank R. (editors); Jeffries, Deborah Y.; Shoenfeld, Sarah(assistants)., The Papers of Joseph Henry. Volume 10: January 1858-December 1865, The Smithsonian Years., lvii+613pp. Illus., Intro., Notes, Apps., Index. Washington, D.C.: The Smithsonian Institute, 2004., 0881353582
Schabas, Margaret; Marchi, Neil De (Editors)., Oeconomies in the Age of Newton. Annual Supplement to Volume 35 History of Political Economy., 414pp., bibl., index. Durham, NC/London:Duke University Press, 2003. $59.95 (cloth)., 0822365863
Schandeler, Jean-Pierre; Crépel, Pierre (Editors). Tableau Historique des progrès de l'esprit humain: Projets, Esquisse, Fragments et Notes (1772-1794)., xvi + 1317 pp., Intro., table, apps., bibls., index. Paris: Institut National D'Études Démographiques, 2004. (cloth), 2733210297
Schiebinger, Londa. Plants and Empire: Colonial Bioprospecting in the Atlantic World., x + 306pp., illus., bibl., index. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004. $39.95 (cloth)., 0674014871
Schmaus, Warren Schmaus., Rethinking Durkheim and His Tradition., xii + 195 pp., table, notes, bibl., index. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. (hardcover), 0521838169
Schofield, Robert E. The Enlightened Jospeh Priestley: A Study of His Life and Works from 1773 to 1804., 448pp., illus., app., bibl., index. Pennsylvania: Penn State University Press, 2004. $55.00 (cloth)., 0271024593
Shagena, Jack L. Who Really Invented the Steamboat? Fulton's Clermont Coup., 441pp., illus., apps., index. Amherst, NY: Humanity Books, 2004. $35 (cloth)., 1591022061
Stapleton, Darwin H. (editor)., Creating a Tradition of Biomedical Research: Contributions to the History of The Rockefeller University., 314pp. Illus., Index. New York: The Rockefeller Unoversity Press, 2004 $30.00 US (cloth)., 0874700612
Steven K. Strange; Zupko, Jack (Editors)., Stoicism: Traditions & Transformations., viii + 295 pp., intro., table., bibl., indexes. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. $70 (hardcover), 0521827094
Taper, Mark L.; Lele, Subhash R. (Editors)., The Nature of Scientific Evidence: Statistical, Philosophical, and Empirical Considerations., Forward by C.R. Rao. xviii + 567 pp., table, bibls., index. Chicago/London: The University of Chicago Press, 2004. $30.00 (paper)., 0226789578
Turney, Jon.Lovelock and Gaia: Signs of Life., x + 157 pp., table, illus., bibl. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. $19.50 (hardcover), 0231134304
Unger, Richard W. Beer in the Middle Ages and the Rennaissance., xvi + 319pp., illus., tables, app., bibl., index. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. £29.50, $45 (cloth)., 0812237951
Veit, Raphaela. Das Buch der Fieber des Isaac Israeli und seine Bedeutung im lateinischen Westen: Ein Beitrag zur Rezeption arabischer Wissenschaft im Abendland., 335 pp., table, apps., bibl., index. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2003. 58 euros (paper), 3515083243
Van de Velder, Christiaan D. The Mind: Its Nature and Origin., 242 pp., Intro., table, notes, bibl., index. Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books, 2004. $28 (hardcover), 1591021901
Wark, McKenzie.A Hacker Manifesto., 354 entries. Cambridge: Harvard Univresity Press: 2004. $21.95, 0674015436
Washburn, Dorothy K.(Editor)., Embedded Symmetries: Natural and Cultural., ix + 189 pp., Table, fig., intro., bibl., index. Albuquerque, New Mexico: University of New Mexico Press, 2004. $69.95 (cloth), 0826331521
Watt, Jeffrey R. (Editor)., From Sin to Insanity: Suicide in Early Modern Europe., vi + 240 pp., illus., tables, index. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004. $39.95, £22.95 (cloth)., 0801442788
Weber, Marcel. Philosophy of Experimental Biology., Cambridge Stuidies in Philosophy and Biology. xvi + 358 pp,. Intro., table, notes, bibl., index. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. $75.00 (cloth), 0521829453
Weichenhan, Michael. "Egro perit coelum…" Die Supernova des Jahres 1572 und die Überwindung der aristotelischen Kosmologie., 688pp. Illus. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2004. 76 euros (cloth)., 351508374x
Weitekamp, Margaret A. Right Stuff Wrong Sex: America's First Women in Space Program., Xi+232pp. Illus., Intro., Notes, Index. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004., 0801879949
Wells, Peter S. The Battle that Stopped Rome., 256 pp., table, illus., apps., bibl., index. New York/London: W. W. Norton & Company, 2003. $14.95 (paper), 0393326438
West, Thomas G. Thinking Like Einstein: Returning to our visual roots wuth the emerging revolution in computer information visualization., 221pp. Intro., Apps., Index. New York: Prometheus Books, 2004., 1591022517
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