The Society: Isis Books Received, 4th Quarter 2002

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Dimensions of Time: The structures of the time of humans, of the world, and of God.
Achtner, Wolfgang; Kunz, Stefan; Walter, Thomas.
Translated by Arthur H. Williams, Jr. viii + 196 pp. Figs., bibl., index. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing,
0-8028-4998-9

From 0 to 1: An Authoritative History of Modern Computing.
Akera, Atsushi: Nebeker, Frederick.
Edited by Atsushi Akera and Frederik Nebeker. xi + 228 pp. Illus., apps., index. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
0-19-514025-7

The Measure of All Things: The Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error that Transformed the World.
Alder, Ken.
Frontis., illus., index. New York: The Free Press, 2002. $ 27.00 (cloth).
0-7432-1675-X

Geometrical Landscapes: The Voyages of Discovery and the Transformation of Mathematical Process.
Alexander, Amir R.
Writing Science Series. xv + 293 pp. Illus., figs., bibl., index. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2002. $ 65.00 (c
0-8047-3260-4

Journal of a Georgia Woman, 1870-1872.
Andrews, Eliza Frances; Rushing, S. Kittrell.
xliv + 142 pp. Frontis., illus., bibl., index. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2002. $ 25.00 (cloth).
1572331715

The Double Bond: Primo Levi, a biography.
Angier, Carole.
xxvi + 898 pp. Frontis., illus., bibl., index. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2002. $ 40.00 (cloth).
374113157

A New History of Identity: A Sociology of Medical Knowledge.
Armstrong, David.
x + 213 pp. Bibl., index. New York: Palgrave, 2002. $ 62.00 (cloth).
0-333-96892-1

Averroes: A Rationalist in Islam.
Arnaldez, Roger.
Translated by David Streight. 157 pp. Bibl., index. Notre Dame, IN: Notre Dame University Press, 2000. $ 34.95 (cloth).
268020078

Empires of Time: Calendars, clocks, and cultures. Revised edition.
Aveni, Anthony.
Mesoamerican Worlds series. 332 pp. Illus., tables, index. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2002. $ 22.95 (paper).
0-87081-672-1

Literate Experience: The Workof Knowing in Seventeenth-Century English Writing.
Barnaby, Andrew; Schnell, Lisa J.
x + 243 pp. Index. New York: Palgrave, 2002. $ 55.00 (cloth).
0-312-29351-8

To the Digital Age: Research Labs, Start-Up Companies, and the Rise of MOS Technology.
Bassett, Ross Knox.
Johns Hopkins Series in the History of Technology. xii + 421 pp. Illus., figs., apps., index. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Uni
801868092

Towards a History of Construction: Dedicated to Edoardo Benvenuto.
Becchi, Antonio; Corradi, Massimo; Foce, Federico; Pedemonte, Orietta, eds.
xiii + 795 pp. Frontis., illus., tables, index. Basel: Birkhauser Verlag, 2002. EUR63.55; $ 63.82 (cloth).
3-7643-6880-2

Making Genes, Making Waves: A social activist in science.
Beckwith, Jon.
242 pp. Bibl., index. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002. $ 27.95 (cloth).
0-674-00928-2

The Voluntary City: Choice, community, and civil society.
Beito, David T.; Gordon, Peter; Tabarrok, Alexander.
Foreword by Paul Johnson. Economics, Cognition and Society Series. Xiii + 462 pp. Index. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan
0-472-08837-8

Die Werke von Daniel Bernoulli. Band 5. Hydrodynamik II.
Bernoulli, Daniel.
xix + 729 pp. Frontis., illus., tables, indexes. Basel: Birkhauser, 2002. EUR230; $ 230.98 (cloth).

Eudemus of Rhodes.
Bodnar, Istvan; Fortenbaugh, William W., eds.
Edited by Istvan Bodnar and William W. Fortenbaugh. Rutgers University Studies in Classical Humanities volume XI. Ix + 383 pp
0-7568-0134-5

Topik.
Boehm, Rudolf.
Phaenomenologica 162. 203 pp. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002. $ 71.00 (cloth).
1-4020-0629-2

Deduction: Introductory Symbolic Logic. 2nd edition.
Bonevac, Daniel.
x + 514. Bibl., index. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2002. $ 44.95 (paper).
0-631-22713-X

Lebensführung in der Moderne: Karl Jaspers und die Psychoanalyse.
Bormuth, Matthias.
Medizin und Philosophie series, volume 7. 382 pp. Bibl., index. Stuttgart: Friedrich Frommann Verlag, 2002. €45.
3 7728 2201 0

Instruments, Travel, and Science: Itineraries of precision from the seventeenth to the twentieth century.
Bourguet, Marie-Noelle; Licoppe, Christian; Sibum, Otto H., eds.
Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine. Xi + 303 pp. Illus., index. London: Routledge, 2002.
0-415-27295-5

Sir Charles Wheatstone FRS 1802-1875.
Bowers, Brian.
Foreword by Margaret Weston. IEE History of Technology Series vol. 29. Xvii + 235 pp. Illus., figs., app. , index. Herts, UK
0 85296 103 0

Innovation and the Communications Revolution: From the Victorian Pioneers to Broadband Internet.
Bray, John.
Foreword by Raymond Baxter. Illus., figs., indexes. xx + 313 pp. Edison: Institution of Electrical Engineers, 2002.
0-85296-218-5

L'Etat, l'armee, la science: L'invention de la recherche publique en France, 1763-1830.
Bret, Patrice.
Collection Carnot. 483 pp. Tables, bibl., index. Rennes Cedex: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2002. EUR 28.00; $ 28.28 (
2-86847-655-4

Charles Darwin: The Power of Place.
Browne, Janet.
Volume II of a biography. 591 pp. Frontis., illus., bibl., index. New York: Knopf, 2002. $ 37.50 (cloth).
0-679-42932-8

Ingenieurs et Fortifications avant Vauban: L'organisation d'un service royal aux XVI-XVII siecles.
Buissert, David.
Geographie Series v. 1. 142 pp. Illus., bibl., index. Paris: CTHS, 2000. EUR 33.00; $ 33.33 (cloth).
27355-0478-6

Who Invented the Computer? The Legal Battle That Changed Computing History.
Burks, Alice Rowe.
Foreword by Douglas R. Hofstadter. 432 pp. Frontis., iIllus. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2002. $ 35 (cloth).
1-59102-034-4

A History of Yale's School of Medicine: Passing Torches to Others.
Burrow, Gerard N.
384 pp. Illus. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002. $ 40.00.
0-300-09207-5

Dear Professor Einstein: Albert Einstein's letters to and from children.
Calaprice, Alice, ed.
227 pp. Foreword by Evelyn Einstein. Frontis., illus. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2002. $ 24.00 (cloth).
1-59102-015-8

Nature, Man and God in Medieval Islam. Vol. 1.
Calverley, Edwin E.; Pollock, James W., Editors.
Islamic Philosophy Theology and Science series, Vol. XLV. Translated by Edwin E. Calverley and James W. Pollock. xlv + 723 pp
9004121021

Nature, Man and God in Medieval Islam. Vol. 2
Calverley, Edwin E.; Pollock, James, W. (eds.)
Islamic Philosophy Theology and Science series, Vol. XLV. Translated by Edwin E. Calverley and James W. Pollock. Xiv + 725-11
90-04-12382-2

The Nuclear Muse: Literature, Physics, and the First Atomic Bomb.
Canaday, John.
xv + 310 pp. Frontis., illus., bibl., index. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2000. $ 60.00 (cloth).
0-229-16850-6

Latitude: How American Astronomers Solved the Mystery of Variation.
Carter, Bill; Carter, Merri Sue.
272 pp. Illus., bibl., index. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2002. $ 24.95 (cloth).
1-55750-016-9

The Laboratory of Poetry: Chemistry and Poetics in the Work of Friedrich Schlegel.
Chaouli, Michel.
Parallax Series. xiv +290 pp. Bibl., index. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. $ 45.00 (cloth).
0-8018-6884-X

Explaining the Universe: The new age of physics.
Charap, John M.
xii + 226 pp. Illus., figs., bibl., index. Princeton: Princeton Uinversity Press, 2002. $ 29.95 (cloth).
0-691-00663-6

A Treatise on the Astrolabe.
Chaucer, Geoffrey.
Edited by Sigmund Eisner. A varorium edition of the works of Geoffrey Chaucer, vol. 6. The prose treatises, pt. 1. Xxiv + 35
0-8061-3413-5

On Tycho's Island: Tycho Brahe, Science, and Culture in the Sixteenth Century.
Christianson, John Robert.
xii + 361 pp. Frontis. illus., bibl., index. First published 2000. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. $ 22.00 (pa
0-521-00884-0

From Energy to Information: Representation in Science and Technology, Art, and Literature.
Clarke, Bruce; Henderson, Linda Dalrymple, eds.
Edited by Bruce Clarke and Linda Dalrymple Henderson. Writing Science Series. Illus., index. Xviii + 440 pp. Stanford: Sta
0-8047-4210-3

Life Science Ethics.
Comstock, Gary L.
xviii + 380 pp. Figs., apps., index. Ames, IA: Iowa State Press, 2002. $ 64.99 (cloth).
0-8138-2835-X

Word, Image, Number: Communication in the Middle Ages.
Contreni, John J.; Casciani, Santa.
Edited by John J. Contreni and Santa Casciani. Micrologus' Library vol. 8. 457 pp. Illus., figs., indexes. Firenze: Sismel-
88-8450-021-4

Anaximander in Context: New Studies in the Origins of Greek Philosophy.
Couprie, Dirk L.; Hahn, Robert; Naddaf, Gerard.
SUNY Series in Ancient Greek Philosophy. xiii +290 pp. Illus., figs., tables, bibl., indexes. Albany: State University of N
0-7914-5538-6

Radioactive Substances.
Curie, Marie.
94 pp. Figs., tables. Originally published in 1904. Mineola, NY: Dover Publicatoins, 2002. $ 7.95 (paper).
0-486-42550-9

From Nuclear Transmutation to Nuclear Fission, 1932-1939.
Dahl, Per F.
xxii + 304 pp. Illus., bibl., indexes. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2002. $ 75.00 (cloth).
0-7503-0865-6

Becoming John Dewey: Dilemmas of a Philosopher and Naturalist.
Dalton, Thomas C.
xi + 377 pp. Illus., bibl., index. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002. $ 45.00 (cloth).
0-253-34082-9

Life Evolving: Molecules, Mind, and Meaning.
de Duve, Christian.
xv + 341 pp. Illus., index. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. $ 30.00 (cloth).
0-19-515605-6

L'Argumentation Preuve et Persuasion.
de Fornel, Michel; Passeron, Jean-Claude.
Enquete 2. 191 pp. Tables. Paris: Editions de L'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, 2002. EUR 18.00; $ 18.18 (pap
2-7132-1423-8

Research in Science and Technology Studies: Knowledge and Technology Transfer.
de Laet, Marianne, ed.
Knowledge and Society Series, vol. 13. Vii + 265 pp. Ilus., figs. Amsterdam: JAI, 2002. $ 88.00 (cloth).
0-7623-0890-7

Federal Bodysnatchers and the New Guinea Virus: Tales of Parasites, People, and Politics.
Desowitz, Robert S.
x + 262 pp. Index. New York: Norton, 2002. $ 24.95 (cloth).
0-393-05185-4

The Milennium Problems: The Seven Greatest Unsolved Mathematical Puzzles of Our Time.
Devlin, Keith.
x + 237 pp. Figs., index. New York: Basic Books, 2002. $ 26.00 (cloth).
0-465-01729-0

Geschichte des Ungeborenen: Zur Erfahrungs- und Wissenschaftsgeschichte der Schwangerschaft.
Duden, Barbara; Schlumbohn, Jürgen; Veit, Patrice (Editors).
Veroffentlichungen des Max-Planck-Institut fur Geschichte, v. 170. 328 pp. Illus. Gottingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2002.
3-525-35365-0

Stability Theory and Its Applications to Structural Mechanics.
Dym, Clive L.
vii + 191 pp. Figs., indexes. Originally published in 1974. Mineola, NY: Dover, 2002. $ 14.95 (paper).
0-486-42541-X

The Goddess Natura in Medieval Literature.
Economou, George B.
xxi +213 pp. Bibl., index. Notre Dame: Notre Dame University Press, 2002. $ 18.00 (paper).
0-268-02955-5

The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, volume 7. The Berlin Years: Writings, 1918-1921.
Einstein, Albert.
Translated by Alfred Engel. The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein Series, vol. 7. Xv + 383 pp. Index. Princeton: Princet
0-691-05718-4

MIT and the Rise of Entrepreneurial Science.
Etzkowitz, Henry.
Studies in Global Competition Series. Ix + 173 pp. Tables, index. London: Routledge, 2002. $ 95.00 (cloth).
0-415-28516-X

Evolutionary Theory and Victorian Culture.
Fichman, Martin.
Control of Nature Series. 256 pp. Bibl., index. Amherst, NY: Humanity Books, 2002. $ 21.00 (paper).
1-59102-003-4

Radio Man: The remarkable rise and fall of C.O. Stanley.
Frankland, Mark.
History of Technology Series 30. xvii + 356 pp. Illus., bibl., index. London: The Institution of Electrical Engineers, 2002
0-85296-203-7

Selectivity and Discord: Two problems of experiment.
Franklin, Allan.
290 pp. Figs., tables, bibl., index. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002. $ 37.50 (cloth).
0-8229-4191-0

Coal: A Human History.
Freese, Barbara.
v + 300 pp. Illus., bibl. Cambridge, MA: Perseus Publishing, 2003. $ 25.00 (paper).
0-7382-0400-5

Dragon Hunter: Roy Chapman Andrews and the Central Asiatic Expeditions.
Gallenkamp, Charles.
In Association with the American Museum of Natural History. Foreword by Michael J. Novacek. Xxiv + 344 pp. Illus., bibl.,
0-670-89093-6

Economics as an Evolutionary Science: From Utility to Fitness.
Gandolfi, Arthur E.; Gandolfi, Anna Sachko; Barash, David P.
273 pp. Apps., bibl., index. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 2002. $ 49.95 (cloth).
0-7658-0123-X

The Enlightenment and the Origins of European Australia.
Gascoigne, John.
xiii + 233 pp. Illus., bibl., index. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. $ 65.00 (cloth).
0-521-80343-8

An Annotated Census of Copernicus' De revolutionibus (Nuremberg, 1543 and Basel, 1566).
Gingerich, Owen.
Studia Copernicana--Brill's series, vol. 2. xxxi + 402 pp. Illus., apps., indexes. Leiden: Brill, 2001. $ 132.50 (cloth).
90 04 11466 1

Mojsisovics on the Triassic Reefs of the Dolomites (1879).
Gischler, Eberhard, ed.
Edited by Ebrhard Gischler. Translated by Gabriela Meyer. Geological Milestones volume V. Xi + 106 pp. Illus., figs., table
0-930050-05-3

Par la science, pour la patrie: L'association francaise pour l'avancement des sciences (1872-1914).
Gispert, Helene ed..
372 pp. Tables, bibl., index. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2002. EUR 23.00; $ 23.22.
2-86847-681-3

Per una storia della fisica italiana, 1945-1965, v I.
Giuliani, Giuseppe, ed.
Edited by Giuseppe Giuliani. Percorsa della Fisica, vol. 6. iv + 336 pp. Figs., tables. Pavia, Italy: La Goliardica Pave
88-7830-377-1

Histoire de la pensee geographique: II - Conception du monde au Moyen Age.
Glacken, Clarence J.
Edited by Philippe Pinchemel. Frontis. 319 pp. Paris: Editions du comite des travux historiques et scientifiques, 2002. EU
9-782735-504763

Un pubblico per la scienza: La divulgazione scientifica nell'Italia in formazione.
Govoni, Paola.
Studi Storici Carroci 27. 351 pp. Illus., index. Rome: Carocci Editore, 2002. EUR 23.50; $ 23.71.
88-430-2321-7

The Deadly Truth: A History of Disease in America.
Grob, Gerald N.
x + 349 pp. Index. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002. $ 35.00 (cloth).
0-674-00881-2

Ganz normale Bilder: Hitoriche Beitrage zur visuellen Herstellung von Seibstverstandlichkeit.
Gugerli, David; Orland, Barbara.
Edited by David Gugerli and Barbara Orland. 277 pp. App. Zurich: Chronos-Vrelag, 2002. EUR25.90, $ 25.64 (paper).
3-0340-0551-2

Animal Attractions: Nature on display in American zoos.
Hanson, Elizabeth.
x + 243 pp. Illus., index. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002. $ 29.95 (cloth).
0-691-05992-6

Women in Physics: The IUPAP International Conference on Women in Physics, Paris, France, 2002.
Hartline, Beverly K.; Li, Dongqi, eds.
Edited by Beverly K. Hartline and Dongqi Li. Ix + 263 pp. Illus., tables, apps., index. Melville, NY: Amreican Institute o
0-7354-0074-1

Les Usages Politiques du Passe.
Hartog, Francois; Revel, Jacques.
Enquete 1. 206 pp. Paris: Editions de l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, 2001. EUR 20; $ 20.20 (paper).
2-7132-1405-X

Die "Wissenschaft Hinter dem eisernen Vorhang": Realitaten und Mythen der Sowjetishcen Wissenchaft.
Heinemann, Manfred; Kolchinsky, Eduard I., eds.
526 pp. Index. St. Petersburg: Russian Academy of Sciences.
5-86007-328-3

Quack, Quack, Quack: The Sellers Nostrums in Prints, Posters, Ephemera, & Books.
Helfand, William H.
252 pp. Illus., bibl., index. New York: The Grolier Club, 2002. $ 40.00 (cloth).
0-910672-40-7

The Papers of Joseph Henry, vol. 9. January 1854-December 1857: The Smithsonian Years.
Henry, Joseph.
Edited by Marc Rothenberg. L + 516 pp. Frontis., illus., index. Canton, MA: Science History Publications, 2002. $ 79.95 (cl
0-88135-363-9

Trailblazers in Nursing Education: A Caribbean Perspective.
Hewitt, Hermi Hyacinth.
xxii +268 pp. Illus., bibl. Index. Barbados: Canoe Press, 2002. $ 25 (paper).
976-8125-78-0

Meselson, Stahl, and the Replication of DNA: A History of "The Most Beautiful Experiment in Biology".
Holmes, Frederic Lawrence.
xii + 503 pp. Illus., figs., index. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001. $ 40.00 (cloth).
0-300-08540-0

Prematurity in Scientific Discovery: On resistance and neglect.
Hook, Ernest B., ed.
378 pp. Illus., tables, index. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. $ 80.00 (cloth).
0-520-23106-6

The Life of Frank Coles Phillips (1902-1982) and the Structural Geology of the Moine Petrofabric Controversy.
Howarth, R.J.; Leake, B.E.
vii + 95 pp. Illus., figs., tables, bibl., index. London: The Geological Society, 2002. GBP45.00, $ 70.40 (paper).
1-86239-102-5

Greek Science of the Hellenistic Era: A Sourcebook.
Irby-Massie, Georgia; Keyser, Paul T.
xxxv + 392 pp. Illus., figs., tables, bibl., indexes. New York: Routledge, 2002. $ 27.95 (paper).
0-415-23848-X

The Earth Remains Forever.
Jackson, Rob.
Foreword by John Graves. Xi + 169 pp. Bibl., index. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002. $ 19.95 (paper).
0-292-74055-7

Atmospheric Pollution: History, Science, and Regulation.
Jacobson, Mark Z.
399 pp. Illus., tables, index. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. $ 110.00 (cloth).
521811716

Merciful Release: The history of the British euthanasia movement.
Kemp, N.D.A.
vii + 242 pp. Bibl., index. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2002. $ 74.95 (cloth).
0-7190-6123-7

Rethinking Reality: Lucretius and the Textualization of Nature.
Kennedy, Duncan F.
Studies in Literature and Science Series. viii + 145 pp. Bibl., index. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002. $ 44.
0-472-11288-0

The statistical mind in a prestatistical era: The Netherlands, 1750-1850.
Klep, Paul M.M.; Stamhuis, Ida H., eds.
374 pp. Frontis., illus., bibl., indexes. Amsterdam: Aksant, 2002. $ 29.95 (paper).
90-5742-034-1

Herman Boerhaave (1668-1738): Calvinist chemist and physician.
Knoeff, Rina.
History of Science and Scholarship in the Netherlands Series, vol. 3. xvi + 237 pp. App. , bibl., index. Amsterdam: Koninkli
90-698-342-0

Landscapes and Labscapes: Exploring the Lab-Field Border in Biology.
Kohler, Robert E.
xv +326 pp. Frontis., illus., bibl., index. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002. $ 58.00 (cloth).
0-226-45009-0

Amchitka and the Bomb: Nuclear Testing in Alaska.
Kohlhoff, Dean W.
x + 166 pp. Index. University of Washington Press, 2002. $ 25 (cloth).
0-295-98255-1

Between Science and Ideology.
Kolchinsky, E.I., ed.
Russian-German Links in Biology and Medicine Issue III. 244 pp. St. Petersburg: Russian Academy of Sciences, 2002.
5-7187-0401-5

Arabic Astronomy in Sanskrit: Al-Birjandi on Tadhkira II, Chapter 11 and its Sanskrit Translation.
Kusaba, Takanori; Pingree, David, Editors.
Translated by Kusaba, Takanori; Pingree, David. Islamic Philosophy Theology and Science Series, vol. XLVII. vii + 287 pp. F
90 04 12475 6

Science Fiction After 1900: From the Steam Man to the Stars.
Landon, Brooks.
Genres in Context Series. Xxxii + 251 pp. Bibl., index. Originally published in 1995 by Twayne Publishing. New York: Routl
0-415-93888-0

La Mente in Cartesio.
Landucci, Sergio.
228 pp. Apps., index. Milan: FrancoAngeli, 2002. EUR 19.00; $ 19.19 (paper).
88-464-3894-9

The Art is Long: On the sacred disease and the scientific tradition.
Laskaris, Julie.
Studies in Ancient Medicine 25. ix + 171 pp. Bibl., indexes. Leiden: Brill, 2002. $ 81.00 (cloth).
90-04-12152-8

Iconoclash: Beyond the Image Wars in Science, Religion, and Art.
Latour, Bruno; Weibel, Peter, eds.
703 pp. Illus., index. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2002. $ 45.00 (paper).
0-262-62172-X

Freud's Footnotes.
Leader, Darian.
253 pp. App. , index. London: Faber and Faber, 2000. GBP9.99, $ 15.62 (paper).
0-571-19585-7

Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets of Nature.
Lederer, Susan E.
ix + 78 pp. Illus. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2002. $ 30.00 (paper).
0-8135-3200-0

The Eureka! Moment: 100 Key Scientific Discoveries of the 20th Century.
Lee, Rupert.
xviii + 275 pp. Illus., index. New York: Routledge, 2002. $ 25.00 (cloth).
0-415-93941-0

Managing a Global Resource: Challenges of Forest Conservation and Development.
Lele, Uma, ed.
World Bank Series n Evaluation and Development, vol 5. xvii + 312 pp. Tables, index. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers,
0-7658-0137-X

The Way and the Word: Science and Medicine in Early China and Greece.
Lloyd, Geoffrey; Sivin, Nathan.
xvii + 368 pp. Bibl., index. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002. $ 35.00 (cloth).
0-300-09297-0

Consciousness and the Novel: Collected essays.
Lodge, David.
xii + 320 pp. Index. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002. $ 24.95 (cloth).
0-674-00949-5

Openness, Secrecy, Authorship: Technical Arts and the Culture of Knowledge from Antiquity to the Renaissance.
Long, Pamela O.
xii + 384 pages, illus., notes, bibl., index. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, 2001. Cloth $ 55.00.
801866065

Museum Politics: Power Plays at the Exhibition.
Luke, Timothy W.
xxvi + 265 pp. Index. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002. $ 52.95 (cloth); $ 18.95 (paper).
0-8166-1988-3

Children of Prometheus: A History of Science and Technology. 2nd edition.
MacLachlan, James.
xxvii + 466 pp. Frontis., illus., index. Toronto: Wall & Emerson, Inc., 2002. $ 39.95 (paper).
0921332-51-3

Who Owns Life?
Magnus, David; Caplan, Arthur; McGee, Glenn, eds.
291 pp. Index. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2002. $ 26 (cloth).
1-57392-986-7

Water Technology in the Middle Ages: Cities, Monasteries, and Waterworks after the Roman Empire.
Magnusson, Roberta J.
xiv + 238 pp. Illus., index. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. $ 38.00 (cloth).
0-8018-6626-X

Faster than the Speed of Light: The Story of a Scientific Speculation.
Magueijo, Joao.
vi + 266 pp. Cambridge, MA: Perseus Publishing, 2003. $ 26.00 (cloth).
0-7382-0525-7

Traume nach Freud: Die "Traumdeutung" und de Geschichte der psychoanalytischen Bewegung.
Marinelli, Lydia; Mayer, Andreas.
216 pp. Wien: Turia & Kant, 2002. EUR22; $ 22.09 (paper).
3-85132-321-1

Mikroskopie der Psyche: Die Anfange der Psychoanalyse im Hypnose-Labor.
Mayer, Andreas.
283 pp. Illus., bibl., index. Gottingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2002. EUR 28; $ 28.23.
3-89244-616-4

Missions for Science: U.S. Technology and Medicine in America's African World.
McBride, David.
viii + 308 pp. Illus., tables, bibl., index. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2002. $ 40.00 (cloth).
0-8135-3067-9

Nuclear Reactions: The Politics of Opening a Radioactive Waste Disposal Site.
McCutcheon, Chuck.
xi + 231 pp. Illus., index. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2002. $ 24.95 (cloth).
0-8263-2209-3

Watson and DNA: Making a Scientific Revolution.
McElheny, Victor K.
384 pp. Illus. Cambridge, MA: Perseus Publishing, 2003. $ 27.50 (cloth).
0-7382-0341-6

A Guide to the End of the World: Everything you never wanted to know.
McGuire, Bill.
xix + 191 pp. Figs., illus., index. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. $ 25.00 (cloth).
0-19-280297-6

Right Hand, Left Hand: The origins of asymmetry in brains, bodies, aoms, and cultures.
McManus, Chris.
xix + 412 pp. Illus., figs., tables, index. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002. $ 27.95 (cloth).
0-674-00953-3

Under the Canopy: The archaeology of tropical rain forests.
Mercader, Julio, ed.
vii + 322 pp. Illus., figs., tables, index. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2002. $ 60.00 (cloth).
0-8135-3142-X

The Columbia Guide to American Environmental History.
Merchant, Carolyn.
The Columbia Guides to American History and Cultures. Bibl., index. 400 pp. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. $ 50
0-231-11232-7

How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States.
Meyerowitz, Joanne.
363 pp. Illus., index. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002. $ 29.95 (cloth).
0-674-00925-8

Intelligence, Race and Genetics: Conversations with Arthur Jensen.
Miele, Frank.
243 pp. Apps., index. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2002. $ 26.00 (cloth).
0-8133-4008-X

The Scopes Trial: A Brief History with Documents.
Moran, Jeffrey P.
The Bedford Series in History and Culture. X + 230 pp. Illus., apps. Index. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2002. $ 14.95 (pa
0-312-24919-5

Into Our Own Hands: The Women's Health Movement in the United States, 1969-1990.
Morgen, Sandra.
xv + 284 pp. Bibl., index. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2002. $ 24.95 (paper).
0-8135-3070-9

What Genes Can't Do.
Moss, Lenny.
xx + 228 pp. Bibl., index. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003. $ 34.95 (cloth).
0-262-13411-X

Wireless Nation: The Frenzied Launch of the Cellular Revolution.
Murray, James B.
xiii + 352 pp. Index. Cambridge, MA: Perseus Publishing, 2002. $ 17.00 (paper).
0-7382-0688-1

The Cambridge History of Science: Volume 5. The Modern Physical and Mathematical Sciences.
Nye, Mary Jo, ed..
The Cambridge History of Science, Volume 5. Xxvii + 678 pp. Illus., index. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. $ 9
0-521-57199-5

Time and the Astrolabe in the Canterbury Tales.
Osborn, Marijane.
Series for Science and Culture. 320 pp. , 46 b&w illus. Illus., bibl., index. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2002.
0-8061-3403-8

Medieval Astrology in Manuscripts.
Page, Sophie.
64 pp. , 50 color illus., index. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002. Paper $ 19.95.
0-8020-8511-3

From Certainty to Uncertainty: The Story of Science and Ideas in the Twentieth Century.
Peat, F. David.
xiv + 230 pp. App. , index. Washington, DC: Joseph Henry Press, 2002. $ 24.95 (cloth).
0-309-07641-2

Aristotle's Zoology and its Renaissance Commentators, 1521-1601.
Perfetti, Stefano.
Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, De Wulf-Mansion Centre, Series I, XXVII. X + 258 pp. Bibl., indexes. Leuven: Leuven Univer
90-5867-050-3

Seeing Double: Shared Identities in Physics, Philosophy, and Literature.
Pesic, Peter.
192 pp. Illus. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2002. $ 24.95 (cloth).
0-262-16205-9

Analog Days: The Invention and Impact of the Moog Synthesizer.
Pinch, Trevor; Trocco, Frank.
352 pp. Illus., index. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002. $ 29.95 (cloth).
0-674-00889-8

The Yogasastra of Hemacandra: A twelfth-century handbook on Svetambara Jainism.
Quarnstrom, Olle, trans.
Translated by Olle Quarnstrom. Harvard Oriental Series, vol. 60. v + 230 pp. Bibl., index. Cambridge: Harvard University
0-674-00934-7

In Amazonia: A Natural History.
Raffles, Hugh.
xiii + 302 pp. Illus., bibl., index. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002. $ 17.95 (paper).
0-691-04885-1

Strategic Computing: DARPA and the Quest for Machine Intelligence, 1983-1993.
Roland, Alex; Shiman, Philip.
History of Computing Series. 440 pp. Illus., index. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2002. $ 50.00 (cloth).
0-262-18226-2

Making Medicine Scientific: John Burdon Sanderson and the Culure of Victorian Science.
Romano, Terrie M.
xi + 225 pp. Illus., index. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. $ 39.95 (cloth).
0-8018-6897-1

Chronology of Science: From Stonehenge to the Human Genome Project.
Rosner, Lisa (Editor).
Edited by Lisa Rosner. 566 pp. Illus., figs., index. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2002. $ 85 (cloth).
1-57607-954-6

Savages and Beasts: The Birth of the Modern Zoo.
Rothfels, Nigel.
Animals, History and Culure series. xii + 268 pp. Illus., index. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. $ 34.95 (
0-8018-6910-2

The Sea Knows No Boundaries: A Century of Marine Science Under ICES.
Rozwadowski, Helen.
ix + 410 pp. Illus., bibl., index. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2002. $ 50, £37.95 (cloth).
0-295-98259-4

Computing in Organizations: Myth and Experience.
Rule, James B.; Gimlin, Debra; Sievers, Sylvia J.
vii + 148 pp. Tables, bibl., index. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 2002. $ 39.95 (cloth).
0-7658-0141-8

Sesame and Lilies.
Ruskin, John.
Edited by Deborah Epstein Nord. Editorial Committee for Rethinking the Western Tradition Series. xxiv + 207. Illus. Origina
0-300-09260-1

Starring T. Rex! Dinosaur Mythology and Popular Culture.
Sanz, Jose Luis.
Translated by Philip Mason. 152 pp. Illus., index. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002. $ 42.95 (cloth).
0-253-34153-1

New Trends in Theoretical and Observational Cosmology.
Sato, K.; Shiromizu, T., eds.
RESCEU International Symposium Series, no. 5. Xvi + 407 pp. Frontis., figs., tables, index. Tokyo: Univresal Academy Press,
4-946443-73-8

High altitude energy: A history of fossil fuels in Colorado.
Scamehorn, Lee.
Mining the American West Series. 244 pp. Illus., index. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2002. $ 27.50 (cloth).
870816616

Nature Writing: The Pastoral Influence in America.
Scheese, Don.
Genres in Context Series. xxi + 227 pp. Illus., index. Originally published in 1995 by Twayne Publishers. New York: Rout
0-415-93889-9

Surgery, Science and Industry: A revolutoin in fracture care, 1950s-1990s.
Schlich, Thomas.
Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History series. xi + 349 pp. Ilus., bibl., index. New York: Palgrave, 2002. $ 65
0-333-99305-5

Rockefeller Philanthropy and Modern Biomedicine: International Initiatives from World War I to the Cold War.
Schneider, William H., ed.
Philanthropic and Nonprofit Studies Series. 288 pp. Tables, app. , index. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002. $ 44.
0-253-34151-5

Prager Jesuiten-Mathematik von 1600-1740.
Schuppener, Georg; Macak, Karel.
232 pp. Illus., bibl., index. Leipzig: Leipziger Universitatsverlag, 2002. EUR 32.00; $ 32.31 (paper).
3-936522-18-9

How fluids unmix: Discoveries by the School of Van der Waals and Kamerlingh Onnes.
Sengers, Johanna Levelt.
History of Science and Scholarship in the Netherlands, vol. 4. Xv + 302 pp. Figs., index. Amsterdam: KNAW, 2002. EUR 45.00
90-6984-340-4

In Darwin's Shadow: The Life and Science of Alfred Russel Wallace.
Shermer, Michael.
xx + 368 pp. Illus., apps., bibl., index. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. Cloth $ 35.00
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A Sourcebook of Dental Medicine.
Shklar, Gerald; Chernin, David.
xxi + 839 pp. Illus., indexes. Waban, MA: Maro Publications, 2002. $ 90.00 (cloth).
0-9717480-0-4

Undead Science: Science Studies and the Afterlife of Cold Fusion.
Simon, Bart.
x + 252 pp. Bibl., index. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2002. $ 22.00 (paper).
0-8135-3154-3

One World: The Ethics of Globalization.
Singer, Peter.
Terry Lecture Series. xiii + 235 pp. Index. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002. $ 21.95 (cloth).
0-300-09686-0

The Soul's Economy: Market Society and Selfhood in American Thought, 1820-1920.
Sklansky, Jeffrey.
xiii + 313 pp. Index. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. $ 19.95 (paper).
0-8078-5398-4

The Earth's Biosphere: Evolution, Dynamic, and Change.
Smil, Vaclav.
viii + 346 pp. Figs., tables, bibl., indexes. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2002. $ 32.95 (cloth).
0-262-19472-4

Einstein from 'B' to 'Z'.
Stachel, John.
Einstein Studies Series vol. 9. xi + 556 pp. Boston: Birkhauser, 2002. $ 69.95 (cloth).
0-8176-4143-2

The Backbone of History: Health and Nutrition in the Western Hemisphere.
Steckel, Richard H.; Rose, Jerome C., eds.
xx + 633 pp. Frontis., illus., figs., tables, index. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. $ 75.00 (cloth).
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Mammoth: The Resurrection of an Ice Age Giant.
Stone, Richard.
xii + 242 pp. Illus., index. Cambridge, MA: Perseus Publishing, 2002. $ 15.00 (paper).
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Mendeleyev's Dream: The Quest for the Elements.
Strathern, Paul.
ix + 309 pp. Illus., index. New York: Penguin Putman Inc., 2002. $ 14 (paper).
0-425-18467-6

The Difference Engine: Charles Babbage and the Quest to Build the First Computer.
Swade, Doron.
x + 342 pp. Illus., bibl., index. New York: Viking, 2001. $ 24.95 (cloth).
0-670-91020-1

Physics with GeV Electrons and Gamma Rays.
Tamae, T.; Kasagi, J.; Terasawa, T.; Yamazaki, H.
Frontiers Science Series, no. 36. Ix + 204 pp. Frontis., figs., tables, index. Tokyo: Universal Academic Press, 2002. $ 67.
4-946443-66-5

Der Charlatan strebt nicht nach Wahrheit, er verlangt nur nach Geld.
Teichler, Jens-Uwe.
Medizin, Gesellschaft and Geschichte-Beihefte 18. 233 pp. Illus., bibl. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2002. EUR 34; $ 34
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Semiotic Flesh: Information & the Human Body.
Thurtle, Phillip; Mitchell, Robert, eds.
Short Studies Series. Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities. 71 pp. Illus.. Seattle: University of Washington Pre
0-295-98200-4

The Science Education of American Girls: A Historical Perspective.
Tolley, Kim.
Studies in the History of Education Series. Xvi + 287 pp. Frontis., illus., tables, index. New York: Routledge, 2002. $ 24.
0-415-93472-9

The Funding of Scientific Racism: Wickliffe Draper and the Pioneer Fund.
Tucker, William H.
304 pp. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2002. $ 34.95 (cloth).
0-252-02762-0

The Strangled Traveler: Colonial Imaginings and the Thugs of India.
van Woerkens, Martine.
Translated by Catherine Tihanyi. xiii + 360 pp. Illus., index. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002. $ 24.00 (paper).
0-226-85086-2

The Calvinist Copernicans: The reception of the new astronomy in the Dutch Republic, 1575-1750.
Vermij, Rienk.
History of Science and Scholarship in the Netherlands Series, vol. 1. x + 433 pp. Bibl., index. Amsterdam: Koninklijke Nede
90-6984-340-4

Repertorium zu Albrecht von Hallers Korrespondenz, 1724-1777.
von Hallers, Albrecht.
Edited by Urs Boschung, Barbara Braun-Bucher, Stefan Hachler, Anne Kathirin Ott, Hubert Steinke, and Martin Stuber. Foreword
3-7965-1325-5

Rustungsforschung im Nationalsozialismus: Organisation, Mobilisierung un Entgrenzung der Technikwissenschaften.
von Helmut Maier, Herausgegeben.
Geschichte der Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft im Nationalsozialismus vol. 3. 396 pp. Illus., index. Gottingen: Wallstein Verla
3-89244-497-8

Brave New Judaism: When Science and Scripture Collide.
Wahrman, Miryam Z.
xix + 287 pp. Bibl., index. Hanover: Brandeis University Press, 2002. $ 29.95 (paper).
1-58465-031-1

The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the revolution that made computing personal
Waldrop, M. Mitchell
502 pp. Bibl., index. New York: Viking, 2001. $ 16.00 (paper).
670899763

Genes, Girls, and Gamow.
Watson, James D.
Foreword by Peter Pauling. xxvii + 259 pp. Frontis., illus., app. New York: Knopf, 2002. $ 26.00 (cloth).
0-375-41283-2

Science in the American Southwest: A Topical History.
Webb, George E.
xxi + 271 pp. Illus., tables, bibl., index. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2002. $ 48.00 (cloth).
0-8165-2188-3

The Great Instauration: Science, Medicine, and Reform 1626-1660. 2nd edition.
Webster, Charles.
Studies in the History of Medicine, vol. 3. xl + 630 pp. Bibl., index. Originally published in 1975. Oxford/Bern: Pete
3-906768-37-6

Heart to Heart: The Twentieth Century Battle Against Cardiac Disease, an Oral History.
Weisse, Allen B.
xvii + 415 pp. Illus., indexes. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2002. $ 35.00 (cloth).
0-8135-3157-8

Broader Horizons: A Study of Johannes Witts de Heses _Itinerarius_ and Medieval Travel Narratives.
Westrem, Scott D.
xix + 359 pp. Illus., figs., bibl., index. Cambridge, MA: The Medieval Academy of America, 2001. $ 50.00 (cloth).
0-915651-13-0

Leerer Raum in Minervas Haus: Experimtenelle Naturlehre an der Universitat Leiden, 1675-1715.
Wiesenfeldt, Gerhard.
History of Science and Scholarship in the Netherlands Series, vol. 2. Xviii + 464 pp. Illus., apps., bibl., index. Amsterdam
90-6984-339-0

Retooling: A historian confronts technological change
Williams, Rosalind
xv + 252 pp. Index. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2002. $ 27.95 (cloth).
0-262-23223-5

Science and Medicine in the Scottish Enlightenment.
Withers, Charles W.J.; Wood, Paul, eds.
Edited by Charles W.J. Withers and Paul Wood. xiv + 364 pp. Illus., tables, index. East Linton: Tuckwell, 2002. $ 39.95 (pap
1-86232-285-6

The Political Geographies of Pregnancy.
Woliver, Laura R.
x + 238 pp. Bibl., index. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002. $ 34.95 (cloth).
0-252-02778-7

A Historical Approach to Entropy: Collected papers of Eri Yagi and her coworkers.
Yagi, Eri.
Includes supplement, "A Supplement of the Collected Papers of Eri Yagi and her coworkers." 186 pp. + 72 pp. supplement. Fig
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Strasse, Bahn, Panorama: Verkehrswege und Ladschafts-veranderung in Deutschland von 1930 bis 1990.
Zeller, Thomas.
Deutsches Museum Bietrage zur Historischen Verkehrsforschung Band 3. 451 pp. Illus., bibl. Frankfurt: Campus Verlag, 2002.
3-593-36609-6

Voyage Through Time: Walks in Life to the Nobel Prize.
Zewail, Ahmed.
xii + 287 pp. Illus., index. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2002. $ 22.95 (cloth).
977-424-677-2

Microchip: An Idea, Its Genesis, and the Revolution It Created.
Zygmont, Jeffrey.
256 pp. Perseus Publishing, 2002. $ 25.00 (cloth).
0-7382-0561-3

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