The Society: Isis Books Received, 3rd Quarter 2000
Abbate, Janet. Inventing the Internet. (Inside Technology.) x + 264 pp., illus., figs., tables, bibl., index. 2nd Printing. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1999. $27.50.
Abbri, Ferdinando; Segala, Marco (Editors). Segni e Percorsi della Modernità: Saggi in onore de Paolo Rossi. vi + 229 pp., bibl. Siena, Italy: Università degli Studi di Siena, 2000. (Paper.)
Abt, Helmut A. (Editor). The Astrophysical Journal, American Astronomical Society Centennial Issue: Selected Fundamental Papers Published This Century in The American Astronomical Journal and The Astrophysical Journal. (Volume 525, Number 1C, Part 3.) 1283 pp., illus, figs., tables. Chicago: University of Chicago Press for The American Astronomical Society, 1999. $50.
American Association for the Advancement of Science. Blueprints for Reform: Science, Mathematics, and Technology Education. (Project 2061.) xviii + 300 pp., illus., figs., app., bibls., index. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. $17.95 (paper).
Ames-Lewis, Francis. The Intellectual Life of the Early Renaissance Artist. x + 322 pp., illus., bibl., index. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000. $40.
Anderson, Bonnie S. Joyous Greetings: The First International Women's Movement, 1830-1860. xiv + 288 pp., illus., tables, bibl., index. Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 2000. $30.
Andrews, Richard N.L. Managing the Environment, Managing Ourselves: A History of American Environmental Policy. xiv + 463 pp., illus., figs., bibl., index. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1999. $65 (cloth); $30 (paper).
Ash, Marinell. Thinking With Both Hands: Sir Daniel Wilson in the Old World and the New. Edited by Elizabeth Hulse. xvii + 352 pp., illus., figs., app., bibl., index. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999. $50.
Bailey, Martha J. American Women in Science: 1950 to the Present: A Biographical Dictionary. xxxvi + 455 pp., illus., bibl., index. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 1998. $75.
Battimelli, Giovanni; Paoloni, Giovanni (Editors). 20th Century Physics: Essays and Recollections: A Selection of Historical Writings by Edoardo Amaldi. (Edoardo Amaldi Foundation Series, 3.) xvi + 747 pp., illus., figs., tables, bibls. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Co., 1998.
Bedini, Silvio A. The Pope's Elephant: An Elephant's Journey From Deep in India to the Heart of Rome. xiv + 302 pp., frontis., illus., app., bibl., index. New York: Penguin Books, 2000. $14.95.
Bensaude-Vincent, Bernadette. L'opinion publique et la science: A chacun son ignorance. (Les Empêcheurs de penser en rond.) 236 pp., bibl. Paris: Institut d'edition, Sanofi-Synthelabo, 2000. Fr 94 (paper).
Bensman, Marvin R. The Beginning of Broadcast Regulation in the Twentieth Century. viii + 272 pp., tables, bibl., index. Jefferson, N.C./London: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2000. $35 (paper).
Bernasconi, Robert; Lott, Tommy L. (Editors). The Idea of Race. (Hackett Readings in Philosophy.) xviii + 213 pp., bibl. Indianapolis/Cambridge, Eng.: Hackett Publishing Company, 2000. (Paper.)
Bix, Amy Sue. Inventing Ourselves Out of a Job?: America's Debate over Technological Unemployment, 1929-1981. xii + 376 pp., illus., bibl., index. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. $45.
Borsay, Anne. Medicine and Charity in Georgian Bath: A Social History of the General Infirmary, c. 1739-1830. (The History of Medicine in Context.) xii + 484 pp., illus., tables, apps., bibl., index. Brookfield, Vt.: Ashgate, 1999. $96.95.
Boston, Penelope J. (Editor). The Case for Mars V. (Science and Technology Series, 97.) (Proceedings of the fifth Case for Mars Conference, American Astronautical Society, March 26-29 1993, Boulder, Colorado.) xii + 552 pp., illus., figs., tables, apps., indexes. San Diego: Univelt, 2000. $80 (cloth); $55 (paper).
Bowker, Geoffrey C.; Star, Susan Leigh. Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences. (Inside Technology.) xii + 377 pp., illus., tables, bibl., indexes. Second printing. Cambridge, Mass./London: The MIT Press, 1999. $29.95.
Brotóns, Víctor Navarro; Fabiani, Vicente L. Salavert; Botey, Victoria Rosselló; Román, Víctor Darás. Bibliographia Physico-Mathematica Hispanica (1475-1900). (Cuadernos Valencianos de Historia de la Medicina y de la Ciencia, 56.) Volume 1: Libros y folletos, 1475-1600. 374 pp., figs., tables, bibl., indexes. Valencia: Universitat de València, 1999. (Paper.)
Bruno, Giordano. Oeuvres Complètes, VII: Des Fureurs Heroiques. (Bibliotheque Italienne sous le patronage de l'Instituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici.) Translated by Paul-Henri Michel. 625 pp., indexes. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1999. (Paper.)
Bueno, Antonio González; Nozal, Raúl Rodríguez. Plantas americanas para la España Ilustrada: Génesis, desarrollo y ocaso del proyecto español de expediciones botánicas. (Línea 300, 1.) xviii + 103 pp., bibl., index. Madrid: Editorial Complutense, 2000. (Paper.)
Buerki, Robert A. In Search of Excellence: The First Century of the American Association of Colleges and Pharmacy. vi + 209 pp., illus., tables. Alexandria, Va.: American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy, 1999. $25.
Burke, Edmund. On Empire, Liberty, and Reform: Speeches and Letters. Edited by David Bromwich. viii + 525 pp., bibl., index. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2000. $35 (cloth); $15 (paper).
Burnett, David. A Thinker for All Seasons: Sir Francis Bacon and His Significance Today. 143 pp., frontis., illus., app. Durham, Eng.: New Century Press, 2000. £7.50 (paper).
Burney, Ian A. Bodies of Evidence: Medicine and the Politics of the English Inquest, 1830-1926. x + 245 pp., illus., index. Baltimore/London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. $39.95.
Burns, Russell. The Life and Times of A. D. Blumlein. Foreword by Simon J. L. Blumlein. (IEE History of Technology Series, 24.) xxvi + 534 pp., illus., tables, apps., index. London: Institution of Electrical Engineers, 2000. $95.
Carlino, Andrea. Paper Bodies: A Catalogue of Anatomical Fugitive Sheets, 1538-1687. (Medical History, Supplement 19.) Translated by Noga Arikha. xvi + 352 pp., frontis., illus., app., bibl., index. London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1999. $50.
Carpenter, Kenneth J. Beriberi, White Rice, and Vitamin B: A Disease, a Cause, and a Cure. xiv + 282 pp., illus., figs., tables, apps., bibl., index. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. $40.
Cashin, Edward J. William Bartram and the American Revolution on the Southern Frontier. xvi + 319 pp., frontis., illus., bibl., index. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2000. $39.95.
Ciriacono, Salvatore (Editor). Land Drainage and Irrigation. (Studies in the History of Civil Engineering, 3.) xl + 374 pp., illus., figs., tables, bibls., indexes. Brookfield, Vt.: Ashgate, 1998. $157.95.
Cohen, Seymour S. A Guide to the Polyamines. xvi + 595 pp., illus., figs., tables, app., bibl., index. New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. $160.
Cole, Douglas. Franz Boas: The Early Years, 1859-1906. viii + 360 pp., illus., bibl., index. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999. $50.
Condit, Celeste Michelle. The Meaning of the Gene: Public Debates about Human Heredity. xii + 325 pp., tables, apps., bibl., index. Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, 1999. $49.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).
Conway, Jill Ker; Keniston, Kenneth; Marx, Leo (Editors.). Earth, Air, Fire, Water: Humanistic Studies of the Environment. xii + 349 pp., figs., tables, app., bibls. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2000. $50 (cloth); $17.95 (paper).
Cookson, Gillian; Hempstead, Colin. A Victorian Scientist and Engineer: Fleeming Jenkin and the Birth of Electrical Engineering. xiv + 217 pp., illus., bibls., index. Brookfield, Vt.: Ashgate, 2000. $79.95.
Cooper, Emmanuel. Ten Thousand Years of Pottery. 352 pp., frontis., illus., bibl., index. 4th Edition. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 2000. $49.95.
Craddock, Susan. City of Plagues: Disease, Poverty, and Deviance in San Francisco. x + 300 pp., illus., figs., bibl., index. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000. $34.95.
Crocker, Richard L. An Introduction to Gregorian Chant. xiii + 248 pp., illus., figs., bibl., index. Includes an audio CD. New Haven, Conn./London: Yale University Press, 2000. $30.
Cuomo, S. Pappus of Alexandria and the Mathematics of Late Antiquity. (Cambridge Classical Studies series.) x + 234 pp., figs., bibl., indexes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. $59.95.
Danielson, Dennis Richard (Editor). The Book of the Cosmos: Imagining the Universe from Heraclitus to Hawking. (A Helix Anthology.) xxxvi + 629 pp., illus., app., bibl. Cambridge, Mass.: Perseus Publishing, 2000. $35 (paper).
Darwin, Charles. The Correspondence of Charles Darwin. Volume 2: 1863. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt, Duncan M. Porter, Sheila Ann Dean, Jonathan R. Topham, and Sarah Wilmot. xlii + 1038 pp., frontis., illus., figs., apps., bibl., index. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. $85.
Dasgupta, Subrata. Jagadis Chandra Bose and the Indian Response to Western Science. xiv + 309 pp., illus., bibl., index. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. $29.95.
Davoust, Emmanuel. L'Observatoire du Pic du Midi: Cent ans de vie et de science en haute montagne. 542 pp., illus., tables, apps., bibl., index. Paris: CNRS Editions, 2000. (Paper.)
de Maricourt, Petrus Peregrinus. Opera: Epistula de magnete, Nova compositio astrolabii particularis. Edited by Loris Sturlese and Ron B. Thomson. (Centro di cultura medievale, 5.) 208 pp., illus., figs., tables. Pisa, Italy: Scuola Normale Superiore, 1995. L 60,000.
Descartes, René. Philosophical Essays and Correspondence. Edited and introduced by Roger Ariew. xxiv + 334 pp., index. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 2000. $37.95 (cloth); $14.95 (paper).
Dhonden, Yeshi. Healing from the Source: The Science and Lore of Tibetan Medicine. Translated and edited by B. Alan Wallace. 214 pp., tables, bibl., index. Ithaca, N.Y.: Snow Lion Press, 2000. $16.95 (paper).
Dialogo entre un vizcayno y un montanes sobre la fabrica de navios. Transcribed by Isabel Vicente Maroto. (Estudio General, 11.) 218 pp., illus. Salamanca, Spain: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca, 1998.
Dick, Wolfgang R.; Hamel, Jürgen (Editors). Beiträge zur Astronomiegeschichte. Band 2. (Acta Historica Astronomiae, Vol. 5.) 225 pp., illus., tables, index. Frankfurt: Verlag Harri Deutsch, 1999. DM 48.
Divination et rationalitè en Chine ancienne. (Special issue of Extreme-Orient, Extreme-Occident, 21.) 171 pp., illus., app. Saint-Denis: Presses Universitaires de Vincennes, 1999. EU 13.72, Fr 90 (paper).
Dugatkin, Lee. Cheating Monkeys and Citizen Bees: The Nature of Cooperation in Animals and Humans. xiv + 208 pp., figs., index. Cambridge, Mass./London: Harvard University Press, 1999. $14.95.
Dupérson, Isabelle. G.T. Fechner: le parallélisme psychophysiologique. (Philosophies.) 125 pp., bibl., indexes. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2000. Fr 48.
Easton, Thomas A. (Editor.). Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in Science, Technology, and Society. xxii + 379 pp., index. 4th edition. Guilford, Conn.: Dushkin/McGraw-Hill, 2000. (Paper.)
Edwards, Karen L. Milton and the Natural World: Science and Poetry in Paradise Lost. xiv + 265 pp., illus., bibl., index. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. $59.95.
Eggert, Gerald G. Making Iron on the Bald Eagle: Roland Curtin's Ironworks and Workers' Community. xvi + 189 pp., frontis., illus., figs., tables, app., bibl., index. University Park, Penn.: Penn State University Press, 1999. $22.50.
Elbert, Jerome W. Are Souls Real? 399 pp., illus., apps., index. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2000. $28.
Elman, Benjamin A. A Cultural History of Civil Examinations in Late Imperial China. xlii + 847 pp., frontis., illus., tables, apps., bibl., index. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. $75.
Elmer, Peter; Webb, Nick; Wood, Roberta (Editors). The Renaissance in Europe: An Anthology. (Part of a five-book series accompanying The Open University course, The Renaissance in Europe.) xii + 412 pp., illus., index. New Haven, Conn./London: Yale University Press, 2000. $45 (cloth); $18.95 (paper).
Endicott, Stephen; Hagerman, Edward. The United States and Biological Warfare: Secrets from the Early Cold War and Korea. xxvi + 274 pp., illus., tables, apps., bibl., index. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999. $29.95.
Evenden, Doreen. The Midwives of Seventeenth-Century London. (Cambridge History of Medicine.) xviii + 260 pp., illus., figs., tables, apps., bibl., index. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. $64.95.
Feldman, Eric A. The Ritual of Rights in Japan: Law, Society, and Health Policy. (Cambridge Studies in Law and Society.) xiv + 219 pp., bibl., index. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. $64.95.
Feldman, Eric. Blood Feuds: AIDS, Blood, and the Politics of Medical Disaster. xiv + 375 pp., tables, index. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. $49.50.
Finucane, Ronald C. The Rescue of the Innocents: Endangered Children in Medieval Miracles. xii + 268 pp., illus., figs., bibl., index. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000. $19.95 (paper).
Fowler, David. The Mathematics of Plato's Academy: A New Reconstruction. xxvi + 441 pp., frontis., illus., figs., tables, apps., bibl., indexes. Second Edition. Oxford, Eng.: Clarendon Press, 1999. $110.
Frängsmyr, Tore. À la recherche des Lumières: Une perspective suédoise. (Uppsala Studies in History of Science, 25.) Translated by Jean-François and Marianne Battail. 157 pp. Pessac, France: Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux, 1999. Fr 130 (paper).
Fraser, Gordon (Editor). The Particle Century. xxii + 232 pp., illus., figs., tables, bibls., indexes. Bristol, Eng./Philadelphia: Institute of Physics Publishing, 1998. $59.50.
Freeze, R. Allan. The Environmental Pendulum: A Quest for the Truth about Toxic Chemicals, Human Health, and Environmental Protection. xiv + 323 pp., figs., tables, index. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. $50 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).
Friedewald, Michael. Der Computer als Werkzeug und Medium: Die geistigen und technischen Wurzeln des Personal Computers. (Aachener Beiträge zur Wissenschafts- und Technikgeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts, 3.) 497 pp., illus., figs., tables, bibl., index. Berlin: Verlag für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften und der Technik, 1999. EU 38.50.
Fry, Iris. The Emergence of Life on Earth: A Historical and Scientific Overview. xii + 327 pp., figs., bibl., index. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2000. $55.
Fuller, Steve. The Governance of Science: Ideology and the Future of the Open Society. (Issues in Society.) xii + 167 pp., tables, bibl., index. Buckingham, Eng./Philadelphia: Open University Press, 2000. $24.95.
Fuller, Steve. Thomas Kuhn: A Philosophical History for Our Times. xviii + 472 pp., tables, bibl., index. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. $35.
Gascoigne, John. Science, Politics and Universities in Europe, 1600-1800. (Variorum Collected Studies Series.) x + 290 pp., frontis., tables, bibl., index. Brookfield, Vt.: Ashgate, 1998. $91.95.
Gavroglu, Kostas (Editor). The Sciences in the European Periphery During the Enlightenment. (Archimedes, New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, 2.) xii + 224 pp., illus., tables. Dordrecht, Neth.: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998. $99.
Gazalé, Midhat. Number: From Ahmes to Cantor. xvi + 297 pp., illus., figs., tables, indexes. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. $29.95.
Geiger, Roger (Editor). The American College in the Nineteenth Century. (Vanderbilt Issues in Higher Education.) xii + 363 pp., tables, bibl., index. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2000. $49.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).
Gitelman, Lisa. Scripts, Grooves, and Writing Machines: Representing Technology in the Edison Era. xiv + 282 pp., illus., bibl., index. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999. $49.50 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).
Golan, Tal; Gissis, Snait (Editors). Science and Law. (Science in Context, 12, Number 1, Spring 1999.) 243 pp., bibls. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. (Paper.)
Goodman, Nathan G. (Editor). The Ingenious Dr. Franklin: Selected Scientific Letters of Benjamin Franklin. xii + 244 pp., illus. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000. $24.95 (paper).
Goodwin, Grenville; Goodwin, Neil. The Apache Diaries: A Father-Son Journey. xx + 284 pp., frontis., illus., figs., apps., index. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000. $29.95.
Gove, Harry E. From Hiroshima to the Iceman: The Development and Applications of Accelerator Mass Spectrometry. xiv + 226 pp., illus., figs., tables, index. Bristol, Eng.: Institute of Physics Publishing, 1998. $99.
Grafton, Anthony; Siraisi, Nancy (Editors). Natural Particulars: Nature and the Disciplines in Renaissance Europe. (Dibner Institute Studies in the History of Science and Technology.) xiv + 426 pp., illus., figs., tables, index. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1999. $ 50.
Granada, Miguel A. El umbral de la modernidad: Estudios sobre filosofía, religión y ciencia entre Petrarca y Descartes. 513 pp., bibls., index. Barcelona: Herder, 2000. (Paper.)
Grassmann, Hermann. Extension Theory. Translated by Lloyd C. Kannenberg. (History of Mathematics Sources, 19.) 411 pp., frontis., figs., apps., indexes. Providence, R.I.: American Mathematical Society, 2000. $75 (paper).
Greppin , John A.C.; Savage-Smith, Emilie; Gueriguian, John L. (Editors). The Diffusion of Greco-Roman Medicine into the Middle East and the Caucasus. (Anatolian and Caucasian Studies.) xii + 306 pp., illus., bibls. Delmar, N.Y.: Caravan Books, 1999.
Gribben, John. The Birth of Time: How Astronomers Measured the Age of the Universe. x + 237 pp., illus., bibl., index. New Haven, Conn./London: Yale University Press, 1999. $22.50.
Guerrini, Anita. Obesity & Depression in the Enlightenment: The Life and Times of George Cheyne. Foreword by Robert Markley, Robert Con Davis, and Ronald Schleifer. (Oklahoma Project for Discourse and Theory, Series for Science and Culture.) xx + 283 pp., frontis., bibl., index. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2000. $25.95 (cloth); $15.95 (paper).
Hail, Raven. The Cherokee Sacred Calendar: A Handbook of the Ancient Native American Tradition. 141 pp., figs., tables, app. Rochester, Vt.: Inner Traditions International, 1999. $12.95 (paper).
Haller, John S., Jr. A Profile in Alternative Medicine: The Eclectic Medical College of Cincinnati, 1845-1942. xii + 212 pp., illus., app., bibl., index. Kent, Ohio/London: The Kent State University Press, 1999. $35.
Handley, Susannah. Nylon, The Story of a Fashion Revolution: A Celebration of Design from Art Silk to Nylon and Thinking Fibres. 192 pp., frontis., illus., index. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. $29.95.
Hardwig, John. Is There A Duty to Die?: and Other Essays in Bioethics. (Reflective Bioethics Series.) with Nat Hentoff, Daniel Callahan, Felicia Cohn, Joanne Lynn, and Larry R. Churchill. x + 212 pp., index. New York/London: Routledge, 2000. $85 (cloth); $21.99 (paper).
Harkness, Deborah E. John Dee's Conversations with Angels: Cabala, Alchemy, and the End of Nature. xiv + 252 pp., illus., bibl., index. New York/Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1999. $59.95.
Harris, Errol E. Apocalypse and Paradigm: Science and Everyday Thinking. 154 pp., bibl., index. Westport, Conn./London: Praeger, 2000. $55.
Harrison, Mark. Climates and Constitutions: Health, Race, Environment and British Imperialism in India, 1600-1850. xiv + 263 pp., illus., bibl., index. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. $29.95.
Hazen, Robert M. The Great Principles of Science. Parts 1-5. Video lecture course in sixty 30-minute lectures on ten video cassettes. Five course guides included. Springfield, Va.: The Teaching Company, 1999. $299.95.
Heilbron, John. Geometry Civilized: History, Culture and Technique. viii + 309 pp., frontis., illus., figs., tables, bibl., index. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. $65.
Hellegers, Desiree. Handmaid to Divinity: Natural Philosophy, Poetry, and Gender in Seventeenth-Century England. Foreword by Robert Markley. (Series for Science and Culture, 4.) xiv + 218 pp., bibl., index. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2000. $32.95.
Hill, Mary. Gold: The California Story. xii + 306 pp., illus., figs., tables, app., bibl., index. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. $45, £27.50.
Hirsh, Richard F. Power Loss: The Origins of Deregulation and Restructuring in the American Electric Utility Industry. xii + 406 pp., illus., figs., tables, bibl., index. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1999. $50.
Hockey, Thomas A. Galileo's Planet: Observing Jupiter Before Photography. xviii + 217 pp., frontis., illus., apps., index. Bristol, Eng.: Institute of Physics Publishing, 1998. $49.50.
Ifrah, Georges. The Universal History of Numbers: From Prehistory to the Invention of the Computer. Translated by David Bellos, E.F. Harding, Sophie Wood, and Ian Mark. xxii + 633 pp., illus., figs., tables, bibl., index. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2000. $39.95.
Itzkoff, Seymour W. The Inevitable Domination by Man: An Evolutionary Detective Story. xvi + 386 pp., frontis., illus., figs., tables, bibl., indexes. Ashfield, Mass.: Paideia Publishers, 2000. $37.50.
Jacobson, Nora. Cleavage: Technology, Controversy, and the Ironies of the Man-Made Breast. x + 302 pp., index. Piscataway, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2000. $52 (cloth); $20 (paper).
James, Frank A. J. L. The Correspondence of Michael Faraday: Volume 4, January 1849-October 1855, Letters 2146-3032. lxvi + 1003 pp., frontis., illus., bibl., index. London: Institution of Electrical Engineers, 1999.
Jarcho, Saul. The Clinical Consultations of Francesco Torti. xxxii + 911 pp., illus. Malabar, Fla.: Krieger Publishing Company, 2000. $125.
Jardine, Lisa. Ingenious Pursuits: Building the Scientific Revolution. xviii + 436 pp., illus., app., bibl. New York: Nan A. Talese, 1999. $35.
Kay, Lily E. Who Wrote the Book of Life?: A History of the Genetic Code. xxiv + 441 pp., illus., figs., tables, bibl., index. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000. $60 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).
Kekewich, Lucille (Editor). The Impact of Humanism. (The Renaissance in Europe: A Cultural Enquiry.) xii + 272 pp., illus., figs., bibls., index. New Haven, Conn./London: Yale University Press, 2000. $45 (cloth); $18.95 (paper).
Keys, David Patrick; Galliher, John F. Confronting the Drug Control Establishment: Alfred Lindesmith as a Public Intellectual. x + 235 pp., illus., figs., apps., bibls., indexes. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000. $57.50 (cloth); $18.95 (paper).
Kiefer, Geraldine Wojno (Guest Curator). Steel and Real Estate: Margaret Bourke-White and Corporate Culture in Cleveland, 1927-1929. (An exhibition organized by the College of Wooster Art Museum, March 27-June 5, 2000, Wooster, Ohio.) 55 pp., illus. Wooster: The College of Wooster Art Museum, 2000. (Paper.)
King, David A. World-Maps For Finding the Direction and Distance to Mecca: Innovation and Tradition in Islamic Science. (Islamic Philosophy Theology and Science, 36.) xl + 683 pp., illus, tables, apps., bibl., indexes. London: Al-Farqn Islamic Heritage Foundation/Leiden: Brill, 1999.
Klein, Wolf Peter. Die Geschichte der meteorologischen Kommunikation in Deutschland: Eine historische Fallstudie zur Entwicklung von Wissenschaftssprachen. (Texte und Studien zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, 2.) 432 pp., illus., tables, apps., bibl., index. Hildesheim, Germany: Georg Olms Verlag, 1999. DM 78.
Kohlstedt, Sally Gregory (Editor). History of Women in the Sciences: Readings from Isis. 379 pp., illus., tables, index. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. $45 (cloth); $20 (paper).
Kollerstrom, Nicholas. Newton's Forgotten Lunar Theory: His Contribution to the Quest for Longitude. xxii + 257 pp., figs., tables, apps., bibl., index. Sante Fe: Green Lion Press, 2000. $59.95.
Kroll, Peter; la Dous, Constanze; Brauer, Hans-Jurgen (Editors). Treasure-Hunting in Astronomical Plate Archives: Proceedings of the International Workshop held at Sonneberg Observatory, March 4 to 6, 1999. (Acta Historica Astronomiae, 6.) 266 pp., illus., figs., tables, bibl., index. Frankfurt: Verlag Harri Deutsch, 1999. DM 38.
Langermann, Y. Tzvi. The Jews and the Sciences in the Middle Ages. (Variorum Collected Studies Series.) viii + 334 pp., illus., index. Brookfield, Vt.: Ashgate, 1999. $106.95.
Larabee, Ann. Decade of Disaster. xii + 194 pp., illus., index. Champaign, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 1999. $42.50 (cloth); $15.95 (paper).
Larner, John. Marco Polo and the Discovery of the World. 250 pp., illus., apps., bibl., index. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1999. $29.95.
Lay, Mary M.; Gurak, Laura J.; Gravon, Clare; Myntti, Cynthia (Editors). Body Talk: Rhetoric, Technology, Reproduction. Foreword by Sally Gregory Kohlstedt and Helen E. Longino. xiv + 308 pp., bibls., index. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2000. $60 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).
Lengwiler, Martin. Zwischen Klinik und Kaserne: Die Geschichte der Militärpsychiatrie in Deutschland und der Schweiz 1870-1914. 432 pp., illus., tables, apps., index. Zurich: Chronos, 2000. (Paper.)
Lewis, John L. 125 Years: The Physical Society & The Institute of Physics. Preface by Sir Gareth Roberts. xiv + 243 pp., illus., figs., tables, apps. Bristol, Eng.: Institute of Physics Publishing, 1999. $25.
Lewontin, Richard. The Triple Helix: Gene, Organism, and Environment. 136 pp., illus., figs., tables, index. Cambridge, Mass./London: Harvard University Press, 2000. $22.95.
Leys, Ruth. Trauma: A Genealogy. x + 318 pp., index. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. $55 (cloth); $19 (paper).
Linder, Martin. Die Pathologie der Person: Friedrich Kraus Neubestimmung des Organismus am Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts. 150 pp., bibl., frontis., index. Berlin: Verlag für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften und der Technik, 1999. EU 18.
Longo, Bernadette. Spurious Coin: A History of Science, Management, and Technical Writing. (SUNY Series, Studies in Scientific and Technical Communication.) xviii + 204 pp., bibl., index. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000. $19.95 (paper).
Loudon, Irvine. The Tragedy of Childbed Fever. xiv + 236 pp., figs., tables, bibl., index. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. $65.
Low, Morris F. (Editor). Beyond Joseph Needham: Science, Technology, and Medicine in East and South East Asia. (Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and its Cultural Influences, 13.) 443 pp., illus., figs., index. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. $39 (cloth); $25 (paper).
Low, Morris; Nakayama, Shigeru; Yoshioka, Hitoshi. Science, Technology and Society in Contemporary Japan. (Contemporary Japanese Society.) xiv + 226 pp., illus., tables, bibl., index. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. $59.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).
Lund, Erik A. War for the Every Day: Generals, Knowledge, and the Warfare in Early Modern Europe, 1680-1740. (Contributions in Military Studies, 181.) xii + 242 pp., app., bibl., index. Westport, Conn./London: Greenwood Press, 1999. $65.
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