The Society: Isis Books Received, 3rd Quarter 2001
Abel, Emily.
Hearts of Wisdom: American Women Caring for Kin, 1850—1940.
x + 326 pp., index. Cambridge, Mass./London: Harvard University Press, 2000.
ISBN#: 0674003144
Adrian, Jean.
Louis C. Maillard: De la Médecine à l'Alimentation.
vi + 154 pp., illus., figs., tables, apps., index. Paris: Editions Tec & Doc, 1999.
ISBN#: 274300312x
Agnoletti, M.; Anderson, S. (Editors).
Methods and Approaches in Forest History.
(IUFRO Research Series, 3.) xiv + 281 pp., illus., figs., tables, index. Oxon, Eng./New York: CABI Publishing, 2000. $90.
ISBN#: 0851994202
anonymous
The Firework Book: Gunpowder in Medieval Germany.
Edited by Gerhard W. Kramer. Foreword by Claude Blair. Translated by Klaus Leibnitz. (The Journal of the Arms & Armour
Society, Vol 17, No. 1, March, 2001.) 90 pp., illus., indexes. £10 (paper).
ISBN#: 00042439
Ashman, Keith; Baringer, Phillip (Editors).
After the Science Wars.
viii + 224 pp., index. London/New York: Routledge, 2001.
ISBN#: 0415212081
Asma, Stephen T.
Stuffed Animals and Pickled Heads: The Culture and Evolution of Natural History Museums.
xv + 302 pp., illus., index. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. $30.
ISBN#: 0195130502
Avise, John C.
The Genetic Gods: Evolution and Belief in Human Affairs.
viii + 279 pp., figs., index. Cambridge, Mass./London: Harvard University Press, 2001. $17.95 (paper).
ISBN#: 0674005333
Ayala-Carcedo, Francisco Javier (Editor).
Historia de la Tecnología en España.
Foreword by María Jesús Prieto Laffargue. 2 Volumes. [xiv] + 839 pp., illus., figs., tables, apps., bibl., indexes. Barcelona:
Valatenea, 2001.
ISBN#: 8492394447
Badino, Massimiliano.
L'Epistemologia di Planck: Nel Suo Contesto Storico.
(Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Centro di Studio sulla Filosofia Contemporanea, 78.) 318 pp., bibl. Naples: Edizioni
Scientifiche Italiane, 2000. L48,000 (paper).
ISBN#: 8849500297
Bailhache, Patrice.
Une Histoire de l'Accoustique Musicale.
199 pp., illus., figs., bibl., index. Paris: CNRS Editions, 2001. Fr 150 (paper).
ISBN#: 2271058406
Barash, David P.
Revolutionary Biology: The New Gene-Centered View of Life.
viii + 213 pp., index. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 2001. $29.95.
ISBN#: 0765800675
Barberousse, Anouk.
La Physique Face à la Probabilité.
(Mathesis.) 210 pp., bibl., indexes. Paris: Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin, 2000.
ISBN#: 2711614670
Barker, Andrew.
Scientific Method in Ptolemy's Harmonics.
viii + 281 pp., figs., bibls., indexes. Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. $69.95.
ISBN#: 0521553725
Battistini, Pierluigi; Bònoli, Fabrizio; Braccesi, Alessandro; Buzzetti, Dino (Editors).
Seventh Centenary of the Teaching of Astronomy in Bologna, 1297—1997.
(Musei e Archivi dello Studio Bolognese, 8.) 212 pp., illus. Bologna: Cooperativa Libraria Universitaria Editrice Bologna, 2001.
L55,000, €28.41 (cloth).
ISBN#: 8849116500
Bauer, Henry H.
Science or Pseudoscience: Magnetic Healing, Psychic Phenomena, and Other Heterodoxies.
xvi + 277 pp., figs., tables, bibl., index. Urbana/Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2001. $29.95.
ISBN#: 0252026012
Beattie, Andrew; Ehrlich, Paul R.
Wild Solutions: How Biodiversity is Money in the Bank.
xiv + 239 pp., illus., bibl., index. New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 2001. $25.95, £18.95.
ISBN#: 0300076363
Beauchamp, Ken.
A History of Telegraphy.
(History of Technology, 26.) xxiv + 413 pp., illus., figs., tables, index. London: The Institution of Electrical Engineers, 2001.
ISBN#: 0852967926
Beeman, Randal S.; Pritchard, James A.
A Green and Permanent Land: Ecology and Agriculture in the Twentieth Century.
(Development of Western Resources.) x + 219 pp., bibls., index. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2001. $29.95
ISBN#: 0700610669
Begun, Semi Joseph.
Magnetic Recording: The Ups and Downs of a Pioneer, The Memoirs of Semi Joseph Begun.
Edited by Mark Clark. viii + 159 pp., illus., apps. New York: Audio Engineering Society, 2000. (Paper.)
ISBN#: 0937803421
Benedict, Barbara M.
Curiosity: A Cultural History of Early Modern Inquiry.
x + 321 pp., frontis., illus., index. Chicago/London: The University of Chicago Press, 2001. $45.
ISBN#: 0226042634
Benfey, Otto Theodor; Morris, Peter J. T. (Editors).
Robert Burns Woodward: Architect and Artist in the World of Molecules.
xxviii + 470 pp., illus., figs., index. Philadelphia: Chemical Heritage Foundation, 2001. $45.
ISBN#: 0941901254
Benson, Charles D.; Faherty, William B.
Gateway to the Moon: Building the Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex.
Foreword by Lee R. Scherer. xcvii +316 pp., frontis., illus., bibls., index. Originally Published in 1978. Gainsville/Tallahassee:
University Press of Florida, 2001. $24.95 (paper).
ISBN#: 0813020913
Benson, Charles D.; Faherty, William B.
Moon Launch! A History of the Saturn-Apollo Launch Operations.
Foreword by Lee R. Scherer. xcvi + [317 pp - 551 pp]., frontis., illus., tables, apps., bibls., index. Originally Published in 1978.
Gainsville/Tallahassee: University Press of Florida, 2001. $24.95 (paper).
ISBN#: 0813020948
Berlioz, Dominique.
Berkeley: un Nominalism Réaliste.
(Bibliothèque des Philosophies.) 220 pp., bibl., index. Paris: Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin, 2000. Fr 135, € 20.58 (paper).
ISBN#: 271161459x
Bernstein, Jeremy.
The Merely Personal: Observations on Science and Scientists.
x + 246 pp., index. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2001. $26.
ISBN#: 1566633443
Bird, Alexander.
Thomas Kuhn.
(Philosophy Now.) xii + 308 pp., bibl., index. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. $39.50 (cloth); $16.95 (paper).
ISBN#: 0691057095
Bivins, Roberta E.
Acupuncture, Expertise and Cross-Cultural Medicine.
(Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History.) xii + 263 pp., illus., bibl., index. New York: Palgrave, 2001. $65.
ISBN#: 0333918932
Blaise, Armengaud.
The Tabula Antidotarii of Armengaud Blaise, and its Hebrew Translation.
Translated by Michael McVaugh and Lola Ferre. (Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, 90, part 6.) xii + 218
pp., frontis., illus., bibl., indexes. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 2000. $22 (paper).
ISBN#: 0871699060
Blanckaert, Claude (Editor).
Les Politiques de l'Anthropologie: Discours et Pratiques en France (1860—1940).
(Histoire des Sciences Humaines.) 493 pp., illus., index. Paris/Montreal: L'Harmattan, 2001. Fr260.
ISBN#: 274750350x
Boewe, Charles.
Mantissa: A Supplement to Fitzpatrick's Rafinesque.
xii + 105 pp., bibls. Providence: M&S Press, 2001. $15 (paper).
ISBN#: 087730016x
Bònoli, Fabrizio; Piliarvu, Daniela.
I Lettori di Astronomia: presso lo Studio di Bologna dal XII al XX Secolo.
(Musei e Archivi dello Studio Bolognese, 7.) 283 pp., illus., bibl., indexes. Bologna: Cooperativa Libraria Universitaria Editrice
Bologna, 2001. L55,000, €28.41 (cloth).
ISBN#: 8849116519
Boritt, Gabor (Editor).
The Lincoln Enigma: The Changing Faces of an American Icon.
(Gettysburg Civil War Institute Books.) xxviii + 324 pp., illus., bibl., index. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
ISBN#: 0195144589
Brancacci, Aldo (Editor).
La Filosofia in Età Imperiale: Le Scuole e le Tradiizioni Filosofiche.
(Elenchos, 31.) (Based on papers presented at Atti del Colloquio, June 17-19, 1999, Rome.) 326 pp., bibl., indexes. Rome:
Centro di Studio del Pensiero Antico, 2000. L60,000 (paper).
ISBN#: 887088399x
Brashear, Ronald; Lewis, Daniel.
Star Struck: One Thousand Years of the Art and Science of Astronomy.
167 pp., frontis., illus., index. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2001. $39.95 (cloth), $24.95 (paper).
ISBN#: 0295980966
Brouzeng, Paul; Débarbat, Suzanne (Editors).
Sur les Traces des Cassini: Astronomes et Observatoires du sud de la France.
(Based on papers presented at Congrès National des Sociétés Historiques et Scientifiques, 121, October 26-31, 1996, Nice.)
370 pp., illus., figs., tables, index. Paris: Éditions du Comité des Travaux Historiques et Scientifiques, 2001. €31.
ISBN#: 2735504255
Bryant, Rebecca.
Discovery and Decision: Exploring the Metaphysics and Epistemology of Scientific Classification.
131 pp., table, bibl., index. Madison/Teaneck, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2000. $30.
ISBN#: 0838638767
Buell, Lawrence.
Writing for an Endangered World: Literature, Culture, and Environment in the U.S. and Beyond.
x + 365 pp., index. Cambridge, Mass./London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2001. $35.
ISBN#: 0674004493
Burley, Walter.
On the Purity of the Art of Logic: The Shorter and the Longer Treatises.
Translated by Paul Vincent Spade. (Yale Library of Medieval Philosophy.) xxvi + 323 pp., app., bibls., indexes. New Haven:
Yale University Press, 2000. $60.
ISBN#: 0300082002
Burns, Russell.
John Logie Baird: Television Pioneer.
(IEE History of Technology, 28.) xxvi + 417 pp., illus., tables, apps., index. London: The Institution of Electrical Engineers,
2000. $95.
ISBN#: 0852967977
Callender, Craig; Huggett, Nick (Editors).
Physics Meets Philosophy at the Planck Scale: Contemporary Theories in Quantum Gravity.
x + 365 pp., illus., figs., bibl., index. Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. $100 (cloth); $35.95 (paper).
ISBN#: 052166280x
Canel, Annie; Oldenziel, Ruth; Zachmann, Karin (Editors).
Crossing Boundaries, Building Bridges: Comparing the History of Women Engineers, 1870s—1990s.
(Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, 12.) xx + 290 pp., illus., tables, index. Amsterdam: Harwood
Academic Publishers, 2000.
ISBN#: 9058230694
Casson, Lionel.
Libraries in the Ancient World.
xii + 177 pp., illus., figs, index. New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 2001. $22.95.
ISBN#: 0300088094
Chabás, José; Goldstein, Bernard R.
Astronomy in the Iberian Peninsula: Abraham Zacut and the Transition from Manuscript to Print.
(Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, 90, pt. 2.) xii + 196 pp., illus., tables, bibl., index. Philadelphia: American
Philosophical Society, 2000.
ISBN#: 0871699028
Chaplin, Joyce E.
Subject Matter: Technology, the Body, and Science on the Anglo-American Frontier, 1500—1676.
xvi + 411 pp., illus., table., index. Cambridge, Mass./London: Harvard University Press, 2001. $45.
ISBN#: 0674004531
Clark, Linda L.
The Rise of Professional Women in France: Gender and Public Administration since 1830.
xiv + 324 pp., illus., tables, bibl., index. Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. $64.95
ISBN#: 052177344x
Clark, Suzannah; Rehding, Alexander (Editors).
Music Theory and Natural Order from the Renaissance to the Early Twentieth Century.
xii + 243 pp., illus., figs., bibl., index. Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. $64.95.
ISBN#: 0521771919
Clericuzio, Antonio.
Elements, Principles and Corpuscles: A Study of Atomism and Chemistry in the Seventeenth Century.
(International Archives of the History of Ideas, 171.) xii + 223 pp., index. Dordrecht/Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers,
2000. $89, £89, € 89.
ISBN#: 0792367820
Cloud, William; Granfield, Robert.
Recovery from Addiction: A Practical Guide to Treatment, Self-Help, and Quitting on Your Own.
x + 223 pp. New York: New York University Press, 2001. $55 (cloth); $14.95 (paper).
ISBN#: 0814716075
Cole, Simon A.
Suspect Identities: A History of Fingerprinting and Criminal Identification.
[xii] + 369 pp., illus., tables, index. Cambridge, Mass./London: Harvard University Press, 2001. $35.
ISBN#: 0674004558
Cooter, Roger; Pickstone, John (Editors).
Medicine in the 20th Century.
xx + 756 pp., fig., tables, index. Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers, 2000. $120, €126.
ISBN#: 9057024799
Cormack, Lesley B.
Charting an Empire: Geography at the English Universities, 1580—1620.
xvi + 281 pp., illus., figs. apps., bibl., index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 1997. $68, £54.50 (cloth); $23.95,
£19.25 (paper).
ISBN#: 0226116069
Creath, Richard; Maienschein, Jane (Editors).
Biology and Epistemology.
(Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology.) xviii + 295 pp., illus., apps., bibls. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press,
2000. $54.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).
ISBN#: 0521592909
Croissant, Jennifer; Restivo, Sal (Editors).
Degrees of Compromise: Industrial Interests and Academic Values.
(Science, Technology, and Society.) xxiv + 284 pp., figs., tables, bibl., index. Albany: State University of New York Press,
2001. $24.95 (paper).
ISBN#: 0791449025
Crotty, Shane.
Ahead of the Curve: David Baltimore's Life in Science.
[viii] + 271 pp., illus., index. Berkeley/Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2001. $29.95, £19.95.
ISBN#: 0520225570
Crowe, Michael J.
Theories of the World: From Antiquity to the Copernican Revolution.
xviii + 229 pp., illus., figs, app., bibl., index. Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 2001. $9.95 (paper).
ISBN#: 0486414442
Cueto, Marcos.
The Return of Epidemics: Health and Society in Peru during the Twentieth Century.
(The History of Medicine in Context.) x + 176 pp., table, bibl., index. Aldershot/Burlington: Ashgate, 2001. $79.95.
ISBN#: 0754603148
Curtis, Bruce.
The Politics of Population: State Formation, Statistics, and the Census of Canada, 1840—1875.
xii + 385 pp., fig., index. Toronto/Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 2001. $60, £40.
ISBN#: 0802048536
Cutcliffe, Stephen H.; Mitcham, Carl (Editors).
Visions of STS: Counterpoints in Science, Technology, and Society Studies.
(SUNY series in Science, Technology, and Society.) vi + 167 pp., figs., tables, bibl., index. Albany: State University of New
York Press, 2001. $17.95 (paper).
ISBN#: 0791448460
Danson, Edwin.
Drawing the Line: How Mason and Dixon Surveyed the Most Famous Border in America.
viii + 232 pp., illus., figs., tables, app., bibl., index. New York/Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, 2001. $24.95, Can $37.50.
ISBN#: 0471385026
Darling, David.
Life Everywhere: The Maverick Science of Astrobiology.
xiv + 206 pp., illus., index. New York: Basic Books, 2001. $26, Can $39.50.
ISBN#: 0465015638
Darnell, Regna.
Invisible Genealogies: A History of Americanist Anthropology.
(Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology, 1.) xxviii + 373 pp., illus., tables, bibl., index. Lincoln/London: University of
Nebraska Press, 2001. $55.
ISBN#: 0803266294
Darrigol, Olivier.
Electrodynamics from Ampère to Einstein.
xx + 532 pp., illus., apps., bibls., index. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. $130.
ISBN#: 0198505949
Davies, Paul Sheldon.
Norms of Nature: Naturalism and the Nature of Functions.
xvi + 234 pp., bibl., index. Cambridge, Mass./London: MIT Press, 2001. $35.
ISBN#: 0262041871
De Clercq, Peter (Editor).
Scientific Instruments: Originals and Imitations.
(Proceedings of "The Mensing Connection" symposium, Museum Boerhaave, October 15-16, 1999, Leiden.) 144 pp., illus.,
tables, index. Leiden: Museum Boerhaave, 2000. € 30.
ISBN#: 9062921299
De Waal, Frans B. M. (Editor).
Tree of Origin: What Primate Behavior Can Tell Us about Human Social Evolution
[viii] + 311 pp., illus., figs., bibl., index. Cambridge, Mass/London: Harvard University Press, 2001. $29.95.
ISBN#: 0674004604
Deane-Drummond, Celia E.
Creation Through Wisdom: Theology and the New Biology.
xx + 266 pp., indexes. Edinburg: T&T Clark, 2000. $49.95.
ISBN#: 0567087360
Dear, Peter.
Revolutionizing the Sciences: European Knowledge and its Ambitions, 1500—1700.
viii + 208 pp., illus., figs., bibl., index. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2001. $59.50 (cloth); $16.95 (paper).
ISBN#: 0691088594
Descartes, René.
Discourse on Method, Optics, Geometry, and Meteorology.
Translated by Paul J. Olscamp. xxxvi + 388 pp., illus., index. Translation originally published in 1965. Indianapolis/Cambridge:
Hackett Publishing Company, 2001. $45 (cloth); $16.95 (paper).
ISBN#: 0872205681
Des Chene, Dennis.
Spirits and Clocks: Machine and Organism in Descartes.
xvi + 181 pp., illus., bibl., index. Ithaca/London: Cornell University Press.
ISBN#: 0801437644
Dodgen, Randall A.
Controlling the Dragon: Confucian Engineers and the Yellow River in Late Imperial China.
x + 245 pp., illus., figs., bibl., index. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2001. $29.95 (paper).
ISBN#: 0824823664
Doss-Quinby, Eglal; Grimbert, Joan Tasker; Pfeffer, Wendy; Aubrey, Elizabeth.
Songs of the Women Trouvères.
viii + 283 pp., illus, figs., bibl., index. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001. $40 (cloth); $18 (paper).
ISBN#: 0300084129
DuBow, Saul (Editor).
Science and Society in Southern Africa.
(Studies in Imperialism.) x + 241 pp., index. Manchester/New York: Manchester University Press, 2000. $74.95.
ISBN#: 0719058120
Dunnill, Michael.
The Plato of Praed Street: The Life and Times of Almroth Wright.
xiv + 269 pp., illus., tables, index. London: The Royal Society of Medicine Press, 2001. £17.50.
ISBN#: 1853154776
Efron, John M.
Medicine and the German Jews: A History.
viii + 343 pp., illus., index. New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 2001. $35.
ISBN#: 0300083777
Fagan, Brian.
The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History, 1300—1850.
xxii + 246 pp., illus., figs., index. New York: Basic Books, 2001. $26, Can $39.50.
ISBN#: 0465022715
Faraday, Michael.
Experimental Researches in Electricity.
3 Volumes, [xii] + viii + viii + viii + 587 pp. + 314 pp. + 593 pp., illus., bibl, index. Originally published in 1839. Santa Fe: Green Lion Press, 2000. $120 (set of
3).
ISBN#: 1888009098
Fehrenbacher, Don E.
The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics.
xiv + 741 pp., figs., tables, index. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. $22.50 (paper).
ISBN#: 0195145887
Festa, Egidio; Gatto, Romano (Editors).
Atomismo E Continuo nel XVII Secolo.
(Biblioteca Europea, 19.) (Based on papers presented at Atomisme et Continuum au XVII Siècle, April 28-30, 1997, Naples.)
467 pp., figs., bibl., index. Naples: Vivarium, 2000. (Paper.)
ISBN#: 888523948x
Fisher, Howard J.
Faraday's Experimental Researches in Electricity: Guide to a First Reading.
xvi + 619 pp., illus., bibl., index. Santa Fe: Green Lion Press, 2001.
ISBN#: 1888009136
Fishman, Gail.
Journeys through Paradise: Pioneering Naturalists in the Southeast.
xx + 306 pp., frontis., illus., app., bibl., index. Gainesville/Tallahassee: University Press of Florida, 2000. $24.95.
ISBN#: 0813018749
Freehling, William W.
The South vs. the South: How Anti-Confederate Southerners Shaped the Course of the Civil War.
xvi + 238 pp., illus., figs., index. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. $27.50.
ISBN#: 0195130278
Freudenthal, Gad (Editor).
Aleph: Historical Studies in Science & Judaism, No. I.
351 pp., tables. Jerusalem: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2001. (Paper.)
ISBN#: 15651525
Furst, Lilian R. (Editor).
Medical Progress and Social Reality: A Reader in Nineteenth-Century Medicine and Literature.
(SUNY series, The Margins of Literature.) xiv + 314 pp., bibl., index. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000.
ISBN#: 0791448037
Gadagkar, Raghavendra.
Survival Strategies: Cooperation and Conflict in Animal Societies.
xii + 196 pp., illus., figs., tables, bibl., index. Cambridge, Mass/London: Harvard University Press, 2001. $17.95 (paper).
ISBN#: 0674005570
Galen.
On my own Opinions.
Translated by Vivian Nutton. 247 pp., bibl., indexes. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1999.
ISBN#: 3050033401
Garraty, John A.; Carnes, Mark C. (Editors).
American National Biography.
24 Volumes. New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. $2500.
ISBN#: 0195206355
Gaskell, Jeremy.
Who Killed the Great Auk?
[xii] + 227 pp., frontis., illus., figs., apps., bibl., index. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. $25.
ISBN#: 0198564783
Gaukroger, Stephen.
Francis Bacon and the Transformation of Early-Modern Philosophy.
xii + 249 pp., bibl., index. Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. $59.95 (cloth), $21.95 (paper).
ISBN#: 0521801540
Gaukroger, Stephen; Schuster, John; Sutton, John (Editors).
Descartes' Natural Philosophy.
(Routledge Studies in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy, 3.) xii + 767 pp., illus., figs., bibls., index. London/New York:
Routledge, 2000. $125, Can $188.
ISBN#: 0415219930
Goggin, James E.; Goggin, Eileen Brockman.
Death of a "Jewish Science": Psychoanalysis in the Third Reich.
xvi + 242 pp., app., bibl., index. West Lafayette, Ind.: Purdue University Press, 2000. $32.95.
ISBN#: 1557531935
Goldberg, Elkhonon.
The Executive Brain: Frontal Lobes and the Civilized Mind.
Foreword by Oliver Sacks. xx + 251 pp., illus., figs., bibl., index. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. $29.95.
ISBN#: 0195140222
Golub, Leon; Pasachoff, Jay M.
Nearest Star: The Surprising Science of Our Sun.
xiv + 267 pp., illus., figs., tables, bibl., index. Cambridge, Mass/London: Harvard University Press, 2001. $29.95.
ISBN#: 0674004671
Goodman, Jordan; Walsh, Vivien.
The Story of Taxol: Nature and Politics in the Pursuit of an Anti-Cancer Drug.
ix + 282 pp., figs., bibl., index. Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. $27.95.
ISBN#: 052156123x
Gottwald, Herbert; Steinbach, Matthias (Editors).
Zwischen Wissenschaft und Politik: Studien zur Jenaer Universität im 20. Jahrhundert.
208 pp., index. Jena/Quedlinburg: Verlag Dr. Bussert & Stadeler, 2000.
ISBN#: 393290611x
Graffi, Giorgio.
200 Years of Syntax: A Critical Survey.
(Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 98.) xiv + 551 pp., bibl., indexes. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins
Publishing, 2001. $114.
ISBN#: 1588110524
Grattan-Guinness, I. (Editor).
From the Calculus to Set Theory, 1630—1910: An Introductory History.
viii + 306 pp., figs., bibl., indexes. Originally published in 1980. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. $24.95, £15.95
(paper).
ISBN#: 0691070822
Graves, Rolande.
Born to Procreate: Women and Childbirth in France from the Middle Ages to the Eighteenth Century.
(Studies in the Humanities: Literature-Politics-Society, 53.) x + 162 pp., illus., bibl. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2000.
$49.95.
ISBN#: 0820449075
Green, Monica H. (Editor).
The _Trotula_: A Medieval Compendium of Women's Medicine.
(The Middle Ages Series.) xviii + 301 pp., illus., figs., app., bibl., indexes. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001.
$55, £33.50.
ISBN#: 0812235894
Greene, Joshua M.; Kumar, Shiva (Editors).
Witness: Voices from the Holocaust.
xxxii + 270 pp., illus., bibl., index. New York: The Free Press, 2000. $26, Can $37.50.
ISBN#: 0684865254
Hackemer, Kurt Henry.
The U.S. Navy and the Origins of the Military Industrial Complex, 1847—1883.
xii + 183 pp., illus., bibl., index. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2001. $45.
ISBN#: 1557503338
Haller Jr., John S.
The People's Doctors: Samuel Thomson and the American Botanical Movement, 1790—1860.
xvi + 378 pp., illus., tables, apps., bibl., index. Carbondale/Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 2000. $49.95.
ISBN#: 0809323397
Hamilton, Sir William Rowan.
Mathematical Papers of Sir William Rowan Hamilton, Volume IV: Geometry, Analysis, Astronomy, Probability and Finite
Differences, Miscellaneous.
Edited by Brendan Scaife. (Cunningham Memoir, 16.) x + 842 pp., frontis., figs., bibl., indexes. Cambridge/New York:
Cambridge University Press, 2000. $150.
ISBN#: 052159216x
Hanafi, Zakiya.
The Monster in the Machine: Magic, Medicine, and the Marvelous in the Time of the Scientific Revolution.
xiv + 272 pp., illus., bibl., index. Durham/London: Duke University Press, 2000. $59.95 (cloth); $20.95 (paper).
ISBN#: 0822325365
Hartley, Lucy.
Physiognomy and the Meaning of Expression in Nineteenth-Century Culture.
(Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, 29.) xii + 242 pp., illus., bibl., index. Cambridge/New York:
Cambridge University Press, 2001. $54.95.
ISBN#: 052179272x
Heering, von P.; Rieß, F.; Sichau, C. (Editors).
Im Labor der Physikgeschichte: Zur Untersuchung historischer Experimentalpraxis.
221 pp., illus., bibl. Oldenburg: Bibliotheks-und Informationssystem der Universität Oldenburg, 2000. (Paper.)
ISBN#: 3814207351
Hennessey, Roger.
Worlds Without End: The Historic Search for Extraterrestrial Life.
160 pp., illus., bibl., index. Stroud, England: Tempus Publishing Ltd., 1999. $29.99, £18.99.
ISBN#: 075241450x
Hentschel, Frank.
Sinnlichkeit und Vernunft in der mittelalterlichen Musiktheorie.
(Archiv für Musikwissenschaft, 47.) 368pp., illus., figs., bibl., index. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2000.
ISBN#: 3515077162
Hernández, Francisco.
The Mexican Treasury: The Writings of Dr. Francisco Hernández.
Edited by Simon Varey. Translated by Rafael Chabrán, Cynthia L. Chamberlin, and Simon Varey. xxii + 281 pp., frontis., illus.,
index. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000. $65.
ISBN#: 0804739633
Hertler, Christine.
Morphologische Methoden in der Evolutionsforschung.
(Studien zur Theorie der Biologie, 5.) 364 pp., illus., figs., tables, bibl., index. Berlin: Verlag für Wissenschaft und Bildung,
2001. DM 48.
ISBN#: 3861353520
Hickman, Larry A.
Philosophical Tools for Technological Culture: Putting Pragmatism to Work.
(The Indiana Series in the Philosophy of Technology.) xiv + 217 pp., bibl., index. Bloomington/Indianapolis: Indiana University
Press, 2001. $39.95 (cloth); $17.95 (paper).
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Hippocrates.
On Head Wounds.
Translation by Maury Hanson. (Corpus Medicorum Graecorum, I,4,1.) 130 pp., bibl., index. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1999.
ISBN#: 3050033398
Hirshfeld, Alan W.
Parallax: The Race to Measure the Cosmos.
xviii + 314 pp., illus., figs., bibl., index. New York: W.H. Freeman and Company, 2001. $23.95.
ISBN#: 0716737116
Hohenstaufen, Frédéric II de.
L'Art de Chasser Avec Les Oiseaux.
Translated by Anne Paulus and Baudoin Van Den Abeele. (Bibliotheca Cynegetica, 1.) 572 pp., frontis., illus., bibl., indexes.
Nogent-Le-Roi: Jacques Laget, 2000. Fr 450.
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Hostetler, Laura.
Qing Colonial Enterprise: Ethnography and Cartography in Early Modern China.
xx + 257 pp., illus, tables, app., bibl., index. Chicago/London: The University of Chicago Press, 2001. $35, £22.50.
ISBN#: 0226354202
Hotson, Howard.
Paradise Postponed: Johann Heinrich Alsted and the Birth of Calvinist Millenarianism.
(International Archives of the History of Ideas, 172.) x + 227 pp., illus., bibl., index. Dordrecht/Boston: Kluwer Academic
Publishers, 2000. $72, £49, € 86.
ISBN#: 0792367871
Huang, H.T.
Science & Civilisation in China [Joseph Needham], Volume 6: Biology and Biological Technology, Part 5, Fermentations and
Food Science.
xxviii + 741 pp., illus., figs., tables, bibls., index. Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. $150.
ISBN#: 0521652707
Hull, David L.
Science and Selection: Essays on Biological Evolution and the Philosophy of Science.
(Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology.) x + 267 pp., illus., bibl., index. Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University
Press, 2001. $54.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).
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Hunter, Michael (Editor).
The Occult Laboratory: Magic, Science and Second Sight in Late 17th-Century Scotland.
viii + 247 pp., illus., app., bibl., index. Suffolk, Eng./Rochester, N.Y.: Boydell Press, 2001. $90.
ISBN#: 0851158013
Jankovic, Vladimir.
Reading the Skies: A Cultural History of English Weather, 1650—1820.
xiv + 272 pp., frontis., illus., tables, app., bibl., index. Chicago/London: The University of Chicago Press, 2001. $55 (cloth); $20
(paper).
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Jepsen, Thomas C.
My Sisters Telegraphic: Women in the Telegraphic Office.
xii + 231 pp., illus., tables., bibl., index. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2000. $49.95 (cloth), $21.95 (paper).
ISBN#: 0821413430
Joerges, Bernward; Shinn, Terry (Editors).
Instrumentation Between Science, State and Industry.
(Sociology of the Sciences, 22.) x + 270 pp., illus., tables, bibl., index. Dordrecht/Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001.
$84, £58, € 99.5.
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Joseph, John E.
Limiting the Arbitrary: Linguistic Naturalism and its Opposites in Plato's Cratylus and Modern Theories of Language.
(Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 96.) x + 224 pp., bibl., index. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins
Publishing, 2000. $64.
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Joyce, Barry Alan.
The Shaping of American Ethnography: The Wilkes Exploring Expedition.
(Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology, 2.) xvi + 196 pp., illus., fig., bibl., index. Lincoln/London: University of Nebraska
Press, 2001. $40, £26.95.
ISBN#: 0803225911
Kadvany, John.
Imra Lakatos and the Guises of Reason.
(Science and Cultural Theory.) xx + 378 pp., illus., bibl., index. Durham/London: Duke University Press, 2001. $69.95 (cloth);
$23.95 (paper).
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Kalb, Jon.
Adventures in the Bone Trade: The Race to Discover Human Ancestors in Ethiopia's Afar Depression.
xvi + 389 pp., illus., figs., apps., bibl., index. New York: Copernicus Books, 2001. $29.
ISBN#: 0387987428
Karmiloff, Kyra; Karmiloff-Smith, Annette.
Pathways to Language: From Fetus to Adolescent.
(The Developing Child Series.) xii + 256 pp., illus., figs., bibl., index. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2001.
$27.95.
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Katscher, Friedrich.
Die Kubischen Gleichungen bei Nicolo Tartaglia: Die Relevanten Textstellen aus seinen "Quesiti et Inventioni Diverse" auf
Deutsch Übersetzt und Kommentiert.
(Veröffentlichungen der Kommission Für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Mathematik und Medizin, 53.) [iv] + 76 pp.,
bibl. Vienna: Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2001.
ISBN#: 370012984x
Kemp, Martin.
Visualizations: The Nature Book of Art and Science.
xvi + 202 pp., illus., bibl., index. Berkeley/Los Angeles: The University of California Press, 2000. $35.
ISBN#: 0520223527
Kemp, Martin; Wallace, Marina.
Spectacular Bodies: The Art and Science of the Human Body from Leonardo da Vinci to Now.
232 pp., frontis., illus. Berkeley/Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2000. (Paper.)
ISBN#: 0520227921
Larson, Edward J.
Evolution's Workshop: God and Science on the Galapagos Islands.
xiv + 320 pp., frontis., illus., index. New York: Basic Books, 2001. $27.50, Can $41.50.
ISBN#: 0465038107
Larsson, Ulf (Editor).
Cultures of Creativity: The Centennial Exhibition of the Nobel Prize.
Foreword by Svante Lindqvist. (Nobel Museum Archives, 2.) 228 pp., illus., index. Canton, Mass.: Science History
Publications, 2001. $40 (paper).
ISBN#: 0881352888
Lederman, Muriel; Bartsch, Ingrid (Editors).
The Gender and Science Reader.
xiv + 505 pp., tables, bibl., index. London/New York: Routledge, 2001. $90, Can. $135 (cloth); $29.95 Can. $44.95 (paper).
ISBN#: 0415213576
Levit, George S.
Biogeochemistry—Biosphere—Noosphere: The Growth of the Theoretical System of Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky.
(Studien zur Theorie der Biologie, 4.) 116 pp., bibl. Berlin: Verlag für Wissenschaft und Bildung, 2001. DM 28.
ISBN#: 3861353512
Levy, David H.
Starry Night: Astronomers and Poets Read the Sky.
203 pp., illus., index. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2001. (Paper.)
ISBN#: 1573928879
Lewand, Robert Edward.
Cryptological Mathematics.
xiv + 199 pp., tables, apps., index. Washington D.C.: The Mathematical Association of America, 2000. $29.95 (paper).
ISBN#: 0883857197
Linhard, Frank.
Historische Elemente einer Prinzipienphysik.
(Texte und Studien zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, 3.) [x] + 258 pp., bibl. Hildescheim Zurich: George Olms Verlag, 2000. DM 58
(paper).
ISBN#: 3487112922
Llinás, Rodolfo R.
I of the Vortex: From Neurons to Self.
xii + 302 pp., illus., figs., bibl., index. Cambridge, Mass./London: The MIT Press, 2001. $24.95.
ISBN#: 0262122332
MacLeod, Roy (Editor).
Nature and Empire: Science and the Colonial Enterprise.
(Osiris, 15.) [iv] + 323 pp., illus., figs., bibl., index. Chicago/London: The University of Chicago Press, 2000. $39 (cloth); $25
(paper).
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Malin, Shimon.
Nature Loves to Hide: Quantum Physics and the Nature of Reality, a Western Perspective.
xvi + 288 pp., illus., figs., apps., bibl., index. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. $27.50.
ISBN#: 0195138945
Mann, Alfred K.
For Better or for Worse: The Marriage of Science and Government in the United States.
xviii + 240 pp., illus., bibl., index. New York/Chichester: Columbia University Press, 2000.
ISBN#: 023111706X
Marrone, Steven P.
The Light of Thy Countenance: Science and Knowledge of God in the Thirteenth Century; Volume I: A Doctrine of Divine
Illumination; Volume II: God at the Core of Cognition.
(Studies in the History of Christian Thought, 98.) [xii + vi] + 250 + 611pp., bibl., indexes. Leiden/Boston: Brill Academic
Publishers, 2001.
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Martin, Thierry (Editor).
Mathématiques et Action Politique: Études d'histoire et de philosophie des mathématiques sociales.
(Classiques de l'Économie et de la Population: Études & Enquêtes Historiques.) xiv + 225 pp. illus., figs.,index. Paris: Éditions
de l'Institut national d'études démographiques, 2000. Fr 140, € 21.34 (paper).
ISBN#: 2733210211
Mayberry, Maralee; Subramaniam, Banu; Weasel, Lisa H. (Editors).
Feminist Science Studies: A New Generation.
x + 354 pp., illus., fig., index. New York/London: Routledge, 2001. $90, Can $135 (cloth); $23.95, Can $35.95 (paper).
ISBN#: 0415926963
McGowan, Christopher.
The Dragon Seekers: How an Extraordinary Circle of Fossilists Discovered the Dinosaurs and Paved the Way for Darwin.
xvi + 254 pp., illus., bibl., index. Cambridge, Mass.: Perseus Publishing, 2001. $26, Can $39.50.
ISBN#: 0738202827
McGuire, J.E.; Tuchanska, Barbara.
Science Unfettered: A Philosophical Study in Sociohistorical Ontology.
(Series in Continental Thought, 28.) x + 420 pp., bibl., index. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2000. $65 (cloth), $29.95 (paper).
ISBN#: 0821413503
McLean, Donald F.
Restoring Baird's Image.
(IEE History of Technology Series, 27.) xx + 295 pp., illus., table, bibl., index. London: The Institution of Electrical Engineers,
2000. $55.
ISBN#: 0852967950
McQuay, Peri Phillips.
A Wing in the Door: Life with a Red-Tailed Hawk.
(The World as Home.) [xviii] + 197 pp., illus., app., bibl. Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 2001. $15.95, Can $24.95 (paper).
ISBN#: 1571312390
Meulenbeld, G. Jan.
A History of Indian Medical Literature, Volume IA.
(Groningen Oriental Studies, 15.) xviii + 699 pp., frontis., app. Groningen: Egbert Forsten, 1999.
ISBN#: 9069801248
Meulenbeld, G. Jan.
A History of Indian Medical Literature, Volume IB.
(Groningen Oriental Studies, 15.) vi + 774 pp., frontis., app. Groningen: Egbert Forsten, 1999.
ISBN#: 9069801248
Meulenbeld, G. Jan.
A History of Indian Medical Literature, Volume IIB.
(Groningen Oriental Studies, 15.) viii + 1018 pp., frontis., apps., bibl. Groningen: Egbert Forsten, 1999.
ISBN#: 9069801248
Meulenbeld, G. Jan.
A History of Indian Medical Literature, Volume IIA.
(Groningen Oriental Studies, 15.) vi + 839 pp., illus, apps. Groningen: Egbert Forsten, 1999.
ISBN#: 9069801248
Miller, Arthur I.
Einstein, Picasso: Space, Time, and the Beauty that Causes Havoc.
x + 357 pp., illus., bibl., index. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 2001. $30, Can $44.95.
ISBN#: 0465018599
Mlodinow, Leonard.
Euclid's Window: The Story of Geometry from Parallel Lines to Hyperspace.
xii + 306 pp., illus., figs., index. New York/London: The Free Press, 2001. $26, Can $38.50.
ISBN#: 0684865238
More, Thomas.
Utopia.
Translated by Clarence H. Miller. xxx + 173 pp., illus., index. New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 2001. $20 (cloth);
$6.95 (paper).
ISBN#: 0300084285
Moulin, A. M.; Cambrosio, A. (Editors).
Singular Selves: Historical Issues and Contemporary Debates in Immunology.
(Collection Musée Claude Bernard.) (Based on papers presented at "Immunology: Historical Issues and Contemporary
Debates," June 4-6, 1998, Saint-Julien-en-Beaujolais, France.) 303 pp., illus., figs., tables, indexes. Amsterdam/New York:
Elsevier, 2001. € 49 (paper).
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Mudry, Philippe (Editor).
Le Traité des Maladies Aiguës et les Maladies Chroniques de Caelius Aurelianus: Nouvelles approaches.
With the collaboration of Olivier Bianchi and Daniela Castaldo. (Centre Caelius, Pensée médicale et tradition.) (Based on papers
presented at Actes du Colloque de Lausanne, 1996.) [iv] + 381 pp., tables., indexes. Nantes: Université de Nantes, 1999. Fr
200.
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Myers, Gerlad E.
William James: His Life and Thought.
xxiv + 628 pp., index. New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 1986. $19.95 (paper).
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Nielsen, Henry; Neilsen, Keld (Editors).
Neighbouring Nobel: The History of Thirteen Danish Nobel Prizes.
624 pp., illus., tables, apps., indexes. Aarhus/Oxford: Aarhus University Press, 2001. $52.95.
ISBN#: 8772888997
Nieto Olarte, Mauricio.
Remedios Para el Imperio: Historia Natural y la Apropriación del Nuevo Mundo.
280 pp., illus. Bogotá, Colombia: Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia, 2000.
ISBN#: 9589693075
Nonnoi, Giancarlo.
Saggi Galileiani: Atomi, immagini e ideologia.
(Collana Agorà, 11.) 238 pp., illus., index. Cagliari, Italy: AM&D Edizioni, 2000.
ISBN#: 8886799489
Oberhausen, Michael; Pozzo, Riccardo (Editors).
Vorlesungsverzeichnisse der Universität Königsberg (1720—1804).
(Forschungen und Materialien zur Universitätsgeschichte, 1.) 2 Volumes, lxviii + 778 pp., illus, indexes. Stuttgart:
Frommann-Holzborg, 1999.
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Paddle, Robert.
The Last Tasmanian Tiger: The History and Extinction of the Thylacine.
x + 273 pp., illus., figs., tables, bibl., index. Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. $64.95.
ISBN#: 0521782198
Paolo de Ceglia, Francesco.
De Natantibus: Una Disputa ai Confini tra Filosofia e Matematica nella Toscana Medicea (1611—1615).
(Universitá Degli Studi di Bari, Collana del Seminario di Storia della Scienza, 12.) 270 pp., app., bibl., index. Bari, Italy: Edizioni
Giuseppe Laterza, 1999. L40,000 (paper).
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Paolo de Ceglia, Francesco.
Introduzione alla Fisiologia di Georg Ernst Stahl.
236 pp., bibls., index. Lecce, Italy: Pensa Multimedia, 2000. L 28,000,€ 14.46 (paper).
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Paolo de Ceglia, Francesco.
Reazioni Romane: L'Idraulica Galileiana Negli Scritti di Giovanni Bardi e Giuseppe Biancani.
(Universita' Degli Studi di Bari, Collana del Seminario di Storia della Scienza, 3.) 127 pp., bibl., index. Bari, Italy: Edizioni
Giuseppe Laterza, 1999. L 20,000 (paper).
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Pesenti, Tiziana.
Il "Fasciculus Medicinae" Ovvero le Metamorfosi del Libro Umanistico.
2 Volumes. xxii + 217 pp., 53 pp., illus., indexes. Treviso, Italy: Edizioni Antilia, 2001.
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Peters, Margot.
May Sarton: A Biography.
xii + 477 pp., illus., bibl., index. New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1998. $14.95, Can $21 (paper).
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Peterson, Paul D. (Editor).
Stem Rust of Wheat: From Ancient Enemy to Modern Foe.
Foreword by Norman Borlaug. xii + 156 pp., illus., figs., tables, bibl., index. St. Paul, Minn.: American Phytopathological
Society, 2001. $69.
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Pickover, Clifford A.
Surfing through Hyperspace: Understanding Higher Universes in Six Easy Lessons.
xxvi + 239 pp., illus., figs., apps., bibl., index. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. (cloth), $14.95 (paper).
ISBN#: 0195130065
Pickstone, John V.
Ways of Knowing: A New History of Science, Technology and Medicine.
xii + 271 pp., bibl., index. Chicago/London: The University of Chicago Press, 2001.
ISBN#: 0226667944
Pigeaud, Alfrieda; Pigeaud, Jackie (Editors).
Les Textes Médicaux Latins comme Littérature.
(Centre Caelius, Pensée Médicale et Tradition.) (Based on papers presented at Actes du Vie colloque international sur les
textes médicaux latins, September 1-3, 1998, Nantes.) [xii] + 392 pp. Nantes: Université de Nantes, 2000. Fr 200.
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Plato.
Plato's Timaeus.
Translated by Peter Kalkavage. (The Focus Philosophical Library.) x + 161 pp., illus., figs., apps., bibl. Newburyport, Mass.:
Focus Publishing, 2001. $8.95 (paper).
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Plotkin, Mark.
Medicine Quest: In Search of Nature's Healing Secrets.
xvi + 224 pp., illus., bibl., index. New York: Penguin Putnam, 2000.
ISBN#: 0670869376
Pomar, Jaume Honorat.
El Códice de Jaume Honorat Pomar (c. 1550—1606): Plantas y Animales del Viejo Mundo y de América.
Edited by José María López Piñero. Prologues by Rita Barberá Nolla and María José Alcón Miquel. (Científicos Valencianos.) 89 pp. + 431 pp., illus., bibl. València, Spain: Ajuntament de València, 2000.
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Porter, Dale H.
The Thames Embankment: Environment, Technology, and Society in Victorian London.
(Technology and the Environment.) xvi + 318 pp., frontis., illus., bibl., index. Akron: The University of Akron Press, 1998.
$49.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).
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Potthast, Thomas.
Die Evolution und der Naturschutz: Zum Verhältnis von Evolutionsbiologie, Ökologie und Naturethik.
307 pp., tables, bibl. Frankfurt/New York: Campus, 1999. DM 68, SFr 64 (paper).
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Pullan, Wendy; Bhadeshia, Harshad (Editors).
Structure: In Science and Art.
(The Darwin College Lectures.) [vi] + 203 pp., illus., figs., tables, index. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. $34.95
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Pursell, Carroll (Editor).
American Technology.
(Blackwell Readers in American Social and Cultural History, 7.) x + 362 pp., illus., fig., tables, index. Malden, Mass./Oxford:
Blackwell Publishers, 2001. $64.95, £50 (cloth); $29.95, £15.99 (paper).
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Quinn, Susan.
Human Trials: Scientists, Investors, and Patients in the Quest for a Cure.
xiv + 297 pp. Cambridge, Mass.: Perseus Publishing, 2001. $26, Can $39.50.
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Ramón y Cajal, Santiago.
Vacation Stories: Five Science Fiction Tales.
Translated by Laura Otis. xxvi + 246 pp., illus., bibl. Urbana/Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2001. $19.95.
ISBN#: 0252026551
Rashed, R.; Vahabzadeh, B.
Al-Khayyam Mathématicien.
(Collection Sciences dans l'Histoire.) 428 pp., figs., app., indexes. Paris: Librairie Scientifique et Technique Albert Blanchard,
1999. (paper.)
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Rebert, Paula.
La Gran Línea: Mapping the United States—Mexico Boundary, 1849—1857.
xx + 259 pp., illus., figs., bibl., index. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2001. $45 (cloth); $22.95 (paper).
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Reid-Maroney, Nina.
Philadelphia's Enlightenment, 1740—1800: Kingdom of Christ, Empire of Reason.
(Contributions to the Study of World History, 81.) xvi + 199 pp., illus., bibl., index. $62.50.
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Renneville, Marc.
La Langage des crânes: Une Histoire de la Phrénologie.
Preface by Georges Lantéri-Laura. (Les Empêcheurs de Penser en Rond.) 354 pp., bibls., indexes. Paris: Institut d'édition
Sanofi-Synthélabo, 2000. Fr 98.
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Riché, Sophie; Riquier, Sylvain.
Des hôpitaux à Paris: Etat des fonds des Archives de l'AP-HP XIIème-XXème siecles.
864 pp., illus., tables. Paris: Assistance publique - Hôpitaux à Paris, 2000.
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Ripley, George.
George Ripley's Compound of Alchymy (1591).
Edited by Stanton J. Linden. lx + 138 pp., illus, index. Aldershot/ Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2001. $59.95.
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Roberts, Noel Keith.
From Piltdown Man to Point Omega: The Evolutionary Theory of Teilhard de Chardin.
(Studies in European Thought, 18.) xii + 239 pp., illus., index. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2000. $56.95.
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Rocke, Alan J.
Nationalizing Science: Adolphe Wurtz and the Battle for French Chemistry.
(Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology.) xvi + 443 pp., illus., bibl., index. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT
Press, 2001. $42.95.
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Rogers, Elizabeth C.; Reynolds, Barbara E.; Davidson, Neil A.; Thomas, Anthony D. (Editors).
Cooperative Learning in Undergraduate Mathematics: Issues that Matter & Strategies that Work.
(MAA Notes, 55.) xii + 128 pp., bibl. Washington D.C.: The Mathematical Association of America: 2001. $31.50 (paper).
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Rohrbasser, Jean-Marc; Véron, Jacques
Leibniz et les Raisonnements sur la Vie Humaine
(Classiques de l'Économie et de la Population: Études & Enquêtes Historiques.) xxiv + 134 pp., illus., figs., table. Paris: Éditions
de l'Institut national d'études démographiques, 2001. Fr 120, € 18.29 (paper).
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Rowland, Ingrid D.
The Ecstatic Journey: Athanasius Kircher in Baroque Rome.
Introduction by F. Sherwood Rowland. xiv + 110 pp., illus. Chicago: University of Chicago Library, 2000. $15, £9 (paper).
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Rubiés, Joan-Pau.
Travel and Ethnology in the Renaissance: South India through European Eyes, 1250—1625.
(Past and Present Publications.) xxii + 443 pp., illus., tables, bibl., index. Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press,
2001. $74.95.
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Rupke, Nicolaas A. (Editor).
Medical Geography in Historical Perspective.
(Medical History, 20.) xii + 227 pp., illus., index. London: The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, 2000.
$50, £32.
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Ruse, Michael; Sheppard, Aryne (Editors).
Cloning: Responsible Science or Technomadness?
(Contemporary Issues.) 332 pp., illus. Amherst, NY: Prometheus, 2001. $19 (paper).
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Sadeh, Avi.
Sleeping Like a Baby: A Sensitive and Sensible Approach to Solving Your Child's Sleep Problems.
xiv + 204 pp., illus., apps., index. New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 2001. $19.95, £14.95.
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Salmon, Michael A.
The Aurelian Legacy: British Butterflies and their Collectors.
Additional material by Peter Marren and Basil Harley. 432 pp., frontis., illus., apps., bibl., index. Berkeley/Los Angeles:
University of California Press, 2001. $35.
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Sassi, Maria Michela.
The Science of Man in Ancient Greece.
Foreword by Sir Geoffrey Lloyd. Translated by Paul Tucker. xxx + 224 pp., illus., bibl., index. Originally published in 1988.
Chicago/London: The University of Chicago Press, 2001. $34, £21.50.
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Schulten, Susan.
The Geographical Imagination in America, 1880—1950.
x + 319 pp., illus., figs., bibl., index. Chicago/London: The University of Chicago Press, 2001. $40, £25.
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Scott, Andrew C.; Freedberg, David.
Fossil Woods and Other Geological Specimens.
Documentation provided by Francesco Solinas. Contributions by Jo Taylor. (The Paper Museum of Cassiano Dal Pozzo, Series
B, 3.) 424 pp., illus., tables, apps., bibl., indexes. Turnhout, Belgium: Harvey Miller Publishers, 2000.
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Seife, Charles.
Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea.
248 pp., illus., apps., bibl., index. New York/London: Penguin Putnam, 2000. $13, Can $19 (paper).
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Shapiro, Judith.
Mao's War Against Nature: Politics and the Environment in Revolutionary China.
(Studies in Environment and History.) xviii + 287 pp., illus., figs., bibl., index. Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University
Press, 2001. $59.95.
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Sheehan, William; O'Meara, Stephen James.
Mars: The Lure of the Red Planet.
406 pp., illus., figs., apps., index. Amherst: Prometheus Books, 2001. $27.
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Shephard, Ben.
A War of Nerves: Soldiers and Psychiatrists 1914-1994.
xxiv + 487 pp., illus., bibl., index. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2001. $27.95.
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Sherman, Claire Richter.
Writing on Hands: Memory and Knowledge in Early Modern Europe.
Edited by Claire Richter Sherman and Peter M. Lukehart. Contributions by Brian P. Copenhaver, Martin Kemp, Sachiko
Kusukawa, and Susan Forscher Weiss. 278 pp., illus., bibl., indexes. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2001. $35
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Siegmund-Schultze, Reinhard.
Rockefeller and the Internationalization of Mathematics Between the Two World Wars: Documents and Studies for the Social
History of Mathematics in the 20th Century.
(Science Networks - Historical Studies, 25.) xiv + 341 pp., illus., apps., bibl., indexes. Basel/Boston: Birkhäuser Verlag, 2001.
DM 170, SFr 128.
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Simmons, Annette.
The Story Factor: Inspiration, Influence, and Persuasion through the Art of Storytelling.
Foreword by Doug Lipman. xviii + 254 pp., bibl., index. Cambridge, Mass.: Perseus Publishing, 2001. $25, Can. $37.95.
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Sindermann, Carl J.
Winning the Games Scientists Play: Strategies for Enhancing your Career in Science.
xiv + 290 pp., bibl., index. Cambridge, Mass.: Perseus Publishing, 2001. $18, Can $27.50 (paper).
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Slotten, Hugh R.
Radio and Television Regulation: Broadcast Technology in the United States, 1920—1960.
xviii + 308 pp., illus., bibl., index. Baltimore/London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. $45.
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Smith, Sherry L.
Reimagining Indians: Native Americans through Anglo Eyes, 1880—1940.
xii + 273 pp., illus., index. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. $35.
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Sobo, Elisa J.; Bell, Sandra (Editors).
Celibacy, Culture, and Society: The Anthropology of Sexual Abstinence.
x + 274 pp., index. Madison/London: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2001. $55 (cloth), $22.95 (paper).
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Sommerfeld, Arnold.
Wissenschaftlicher Briefwechsel, Volume I: 1892—1918.
Edited by Michael Eckert and Karl Märker. 694 pp., illus., bibls., index. Berlin/Diepholz: Verlag für Geschichte der
Naturwissenschaften und der Technik, 2000.
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Steinberg, Theodore.
Acts of God: The Unnatural History of Natural Disasters in America.
xiv + 294 pp., illus., bibls., index. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. $27.50.
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Stengers, Isabelle.
La guerre des sciences aura-t'elle lieu? Scientifiction.
(Les empêcheurs de penser en rond.) 184 pp. Paris: Pao éditions du Seuil, 2001. Fr 95.
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Stewart, Ian.
Flatterland: Like Flatland Only More So.
x + 301 pp., figs., index. Cambridge, Mass: Perseus Books Group, 2001. $25, Can $37.95.
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Stove, David.
Scientific Irrationalism: Origins of a Postmodern Cult.
Foreword by Keith Windschuttle. Afterword by James Franklin. [viii] + 218 pp., bibl., index. Originally published in 1998. New
Brunswick, N.J./London: Transaction Publishers, 2001. $32.95.
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Suutala, Maria.
Zur Geschichte der Naturzerstörung: Frau und Tier in der Wissenschaftlichen Revolution.
(European Studies in the History of Science and Ideas, 7.) 272 pp., illus., bibls. Frankfurt/Berlin: Peter Lang, 1999. $42.95
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Szulakowska, Urszula.
The Alchemy of Light: Geometry and Optics in Late Renaissance Alchemical Illustration.
(Symbola et Emblemata, 10.) xxii + 246 pp., frontis., illus., bibl., index. Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2000.
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Taub, Sarah F.
Language from the Body: Iconicity and Metaphor in American Sign Language.
xvi + 256 pp., illus., figs., tables, apps., bibl., index. New York/Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. $54.95.
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Tauber, Alfred I.
Henry David Thoreau and the Moral Agency of Knowing.
xii + 317 pp., frontis.,bibl., index. Berkeley/Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2001. $40, £29.95.
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Thijssen, J.M.M.H.; Zupko, Jack (Editors).
The Metaphysics and Natural Philosophy of John Buridan.
(Medieval and Early Modern Science, 2.) xviii + 302 pp., bibl., indexes. Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2001.
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Thompson, Richard L.
Mysteries of the Sacred Universe: The Cosmology of the Bhagavata Purana.
xii + 316 pp., illus., figs., tables, apps., bibl., index. Alachua, Fla.: Govardhan Hill Publishing, 2000. $15.95.
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Thorne, Robert (Editor).
Structural Iron and Steel, 1850—1900.
(Studies in the History of Civil Engineering, 10.) xxxii + 378 pp., illus., indexes. Aldershot, Eng./Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2000.
$156.
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Tims, Frank M.; Leukefeld, Carl G.; Platt, Jerome J. (Editors).
Relapse and Recovery in Addictions.
xii + 420 pp., figs., tables., index. New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 2001. $45.
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Tucker, Wallace; Tucker, Karen.
Revealing the Universe: The Making of the Chandra X-Ray Observatory.
viii + 295 pp., illus., figs., bibl., index. Cambridge, Mass./London: Harvard University Press, 2001. $27.95.
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Tugnoli Pàttaro, Sandra.
Osservazione di cose straordinarie: Il De observatione foetus in ovis (1564) di Ulisse Aldrovandi.
305 pp., index. Bologna: Cooperativa Libraria Universitaria Editrice Bologna, 2000. L45,000, € 23.24.
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Turner, Gerard L'E.
Elizabethan Instrument Makers: The Origins of the London Trade in Precision Instrument Making.
Foreword by R.G.W. Anderson. xiv + 305 pp., illus., tables, bibl., index. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
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Vallisneri, Antonio.
Epistolario, Volume I, 1679—1710.
Edited by Dario Generali. (Centro di Studi del Pensiero Filosofico del Cinquecento e del Seicento in Relazione ai Problemi Della
Scienza del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche: Testi, 9.) 639 pp., indexes. Milan: FrancoAngeli, 1991. L70,000 (paper).
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Van Der Eijk, Philip J.
Diocles of Carystus: A Collection of the Fragments with Translation and Commentary, Volume I.
(Studies in Ancient Medicine, 22.) xxxiv + 497 pp., bibl., indexes. Leiden/Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, 2000.
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Vandermeersch, Léon (Editor).
L'Art des Jardins dans les Pays Sinisés: Chine, Japon, Corée, Vietnam.
(Extrême-Orient, Extrême-Occident, Cahiers de recherches comparatives, 22.) 190 pp., illus. Saint-Denis: Presses
Universitaires de Vincennes, 2000. Fr 100, € 15,24 (paper).
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Varey, Simon; Chabrán, Rafael; Weiner, Dora B. (Editors.)
Searching for the Secrets of Nature: The Life and Works of Dr. Francisco Hernández.
xviii + 229 pp., frontis., illus., index. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000. $60.
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Voigts, Linda Ehrsam; Kurtz, Patricia Deery (Editors).
Scientific and Medicial Writings in Old and Middle English: An Electronic Reference.
Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2001. $54.50, £45 (CD-ROM).
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Von Baeyer, Hans Christian.
The Fermi Solution: Essays on Science.
173 pp. Originally published in 1993. Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications, 2001. $8.95 (paper).
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Wachhorst, Wyn.
The Dream of Spaceflight: Essays on the Near Edge of Infinity.
Foreword by Buzz Aldrin. xxii + 225 pp., app., bibl., index. Cambridge, Mass.: Da Capo Press, 2000. $13.50, Can $20.95
(paper).
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Ward, Peter D.
Rivers in Time: The Search for Clues to Earth's Mass Extinctions.
x + 315 pp., illus., bibl., index. Originally published in 1994. New York/Chichester, West Sussex, UK: Columbia University Press,
2000. $29.95.
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Warlick, M.E.
Max Ernst and Alchemy: A Magician in Search of Myth.
Foreword by Franklin Rosemont. (The Surrealist Revolution Series.) xxvi + 309 pp., illus., bibl., index. Austin: University of
Texas Press, 2001. $50 (cloth), $24.95 (paper).
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Warner, John Harley; Tighe, Janet A. (Editors).
Major Problems in the History of American Medicine and Public Health.
(Major Problems in American History.) xx + 539 pp., illus. Boston/New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2001. (Paper).
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Wear, Andrew.
Knowledge & Practice in English Medicine, 1550—1680.
viii + 496 pp., illus., table, index. Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. $74.95 (cloth), $27.95 (paper).
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Weikart, Richard.
Socialist Darwinism: Evolution in German Socialist Thought From Marx to Bernstein.
x + 257 pp., bibl., index. San Francisco/London: International Scholars Publications, 1999.
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Weliver, Phyllis.
Women Musicians in Victorian Fiction, 1860—1900: Representations of Music, Science and Gender in the Leisured Home.
(Music in Nineteenth-Century of Britain.) x + 330 pp., illus., tables, apps., bibl., index. Aldershot/Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate,
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Wells, Susan.
Out of the Dead House: Nineteenth-Century Women Physicians and the Writing of Medicine.
xii + 312 pp., illus., bibl., index. Madison/London: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2001. $57.95 (cloth), $22.95 (paper).
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Westman, Jack C. (Editor).
Parenthood in America: Undervalued, Underpaid, Under Siege.
Foreword by T. Berry Brazelton. xiv + 300 pp., fig., index. London/Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2001. $55
(cloth), $22.95 (paper).
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Whewell, William.
Of the Plurality of Worlds.
Edited by Michael Ruse. The University of Chicago Press, 2001.
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Wills, Christopher; Bada, Jeffrey.
The Spark of Life: Darwin and the Primeval Soup.
xx + 291 pp., illus., figs., index. Cambridge, Mass.: Perseus Publishing, 2000. $17 (paper).
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Wohl, Ellen E.
Virtual Rivers: Lessons from the Mountain Rivers of the Colorado Front Range.
xiv + 210 pp., illus., figs., tables, index. New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 2001. $35.
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Wolfe, David W.
Tales from the Underground: A Natural History of Subterranean Life.
xii + 221 pp., illus., figs., bibl., index. Cambridge, Mass.: Perseus Publishing, 2001. $26, Can $39.50.
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Wright, David.
Translating Science: The Transmission of Western Chemistry into Late Imperial China, 1840—1900.
(Sinica Leidensia, 48.) xxvi + 558 pp., illus., figs., tables, apps., bibls., index. Leiden/Boston: Brill Academic Publishers: 2000.
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