The Society: Isis Books Received, 4th Quarter 2003
Every quarter, Isis receives a substantial number of new books in the history of science, technology and medicine. New books are listed here, and also published in the HSS Newsletter.
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Allen, Garland, E.; MacLeod, Roy, M. (eds). Science, History and Social Activism: A Tribute to Everett Mendelsohn. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science. Volume 228. X+388pp. Index. Dordrecht/Boston/London: Kluwer Academic publishers, 2002. &124 (cloth). Click here to order this book.
Allen, Peter. A Geological Survey in Transition. British Geological Survey Occasional Publication No. 1. xi+220pp. Illus. Tables. Apprn. Index. British Geological Survey, 203. Click here to order this book.
Angel, Katherine; Jones, Edgar; Neve, Michael (eds). European Psychiatry on the Eve of War: Aubrey Lewis, the Maudsley Hospital and the Rockefeller Foundation in the 1930s. Medical History, supplement No.22, 2003. Vii+189pp. Illus. Index. London: The Wellcome Trust Center for the History of Medicine at UCL, 2003. $50 (cloth). Click here to order this book.
Bickle, John. Philosophy and Neuroscience: A Ruthlessly Reductive Account. Studies in Brain and Mind. Volume 2. Xvi+235pp. Figs. Bibl. Index. Dordrecht/Boston/London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003. €39 (paper). Click here to order this book.
Biletzki, Anat. (Over) Interpreting Wittgenstein. Synthese Library: Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science. Volume 319. X+237pp. Bibl. Index. Dordrecht/Boston/London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003. $99 (cloth). Click here to order this book.
Bjeliu, Duöan, I. Galileo's Pendulum: Science, Sexuality, and the Body-instrument Link. Foreword by Michael Lynch. Xv+205pp. Illus. Figs. Bibliographical notes. Index. State University of New York Press, 2003. $18.95 (paper). Click here to order this book.
Black, Jeremy. Italy and the Grand Tour. xi+255pp. Maps. Illus. Bibl. Index. New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 2003. $35 (cloth). Click here to order this book.
Booth, Christopher C. A Physician Reflects: Herman Boerhaave and other Essays. Foreword by Tilli Tansey. Xiii+206pp. Illus. Index. The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London, 2003. £15 (paper). Click here to order this book.
Braman, Sandra. (ed). Communication Researchers and Policy-Making. MIT Press Sourcebooks. xiii+603 pp. Illus. Figs. table. Bibl. Index. Cambridge, Massachusetts/London, England: the MIT Press, 2003. $44.95(paper). Click here to order this book.
Brantlinger, Patrick. Dark Vanishings: Discourse on the Extinction of Primitive Races, 1800-1930. x+248 pp. Bibl. Index. Ithaca/London: Cornell University Press, 2003. $19.95 (paper). Click here to order this book.
Brenner, Anastasios. Les origines francaises de la philosophie des sciences. Science, histoire et societe. 224 pp. Bibl. Index. Presses Universitaires de France, 2003. €18 (paper). Click here to order this book.
Buisseret, David. The Mapmaker's Quest: Depicting New Worlds in Renaissance Europe. xxi+227 pp. Illus. Bibl. Index. Oxford University Press, 2003 $35 (cloth). Click here to order this book.
Bushnell, Rebecca. Green Desire: Imagination in Early Modern English Gardens. x+198 pp. Illus. Index. Ithaca/London: Cornell University press, 2003. $29.95 (cloth). Click here to order this book.
Cahan, David (ed). From Natural Philosophy to the Sciences: Writing the History of Nineteenth-Century Science. xi+456pp. Bibl. Index. The University of Chicago Press, 2003. $85 (cloth). Click here to order this book.
Cookson, Gillian and Hempstead, Colin A. A Victorian Scientist and Engineer: Fleeming Jenkin and the Birth of Electrical Engineering. Ashgate. Cloth. Click here to order this book.
Crane, Tim. The Mechanical Mind: A Philosophical Introduction to Minds, Machines and Mental Representation. Second edition. First published in 1995. Xi+259 pp. Figs. Index. London/New York: Routledge, 2003. $16.95 (paper). Click here to order this book.
Dahlstrom, Daniel, O. (ed). Husserl's Logical Investigations. Synthese library; Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science. Volume 318. 187pp. Dordrecht/Boston/London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003. $82 (cloth). Click here to order this book.
Didi-Huberman, Georges. Invention of Hysteria: Charcot and the Photographic Iconography of the Salpêtrière. Translated by Alisa Hartz. xii+373pp. Illus. Appen. Bibl. Index. Cambridge, Massachusetts/London, England: The MIT press, 2003. $34.95 (cloth). Click here to order this book.
Dolman, Claude, E.; Wolfe, Richard, J. Suppressing the Diseases of Animals and Man: Theobald Smith, Microbiologist. ix+691pp. Illus. Bibliographical notes. Index. Boston: The Boston Medical Library in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, 2003. $45 (cloth). Click here to order this book.
Domaradskij, Igor, V.; Orent, Wendy. Biowarrior: Inside the Soviet/Russian Biological War Machine. Foreword by Judith Miller and Alan P. Zelicoff. 341pp. Illus. Apps. Bibl. Index. Prometheus Books, 2003. $28 (cloth). Click here to order this book.
Faria, Luiz, de castro. Another Look: A Diary of the serra do norte Expedition. 213 pp. Illus. Ouro sobre azul, 2003. ISBN: 8588777029.
Freudenthal, Gad (ed). Aleph-Historical Studies in Science & Judaism. No 3. 416 pp. Bibl. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2003. ISBN: 15651525.
Ghiselin, Michael, T. The Triumph of the Darwinian Method. Originally published in 1969. Xvi+287 pp. Figs. bibliographical notes. Index. Mineola, New York, 2003. $16.95 (paper). Click here to order this book.
Grattan-Guinness, I. (ed). Companion Encyclopedia of the History and Philosophy of the Mathematical Sciences. Volume 1. Xiv+842 pp. Illus. Figs. Bibl. Baltimore/London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. $49.95(paper). Click here to order this book.
Grattan-Guinness, I. (ed). Companion Encyclopedia of the History and Philosophy of the Mathematical Sciences. Volume 2. Originally published in 1994. Xi+864 pp. Illus. Figs. Bibl. Index. Baltimore/London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. $49.95 (paper). Click here to order this book.
Greene, Brian. The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory. xv+448 pp. Figs. Tables. Bibl. Index. New York/London: W.W. Norton & Company, 2003. $19.95 (cloth). Click here to order this book.
Haack, Susan. Defending Science-within Reason: Between Scientism and Cynicism. 411pp. Bibl. Index. Prometheus Books, 2003. $28 (cloth). Click here to order this book.
Hartcup, Guy. The Effect of Science on the Second World War. Foreword by Sir Bernard Lovell. Xv+214 pp. Index. Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. $26.95(paper). Click here to order this book.
Hau, Michael. The Cult of Health and Beauty in Germany: A Social History, 1890-1930. x+286pp. Illus. Bibl. Index. Chicago/London: the University of Chicago Press, 2003. $22 (paper). Click here to order this book.
Houzel, Christian. La Géométrie Algébrique. (Collection Sciences dans l'Histoire) Preface by Roshdi Rashed. V+365 pp. bibl. Index. Paris: Albert Blanchard, 2003. €68 (cloth); €52 (paper). Click here to order this book.
Huff, Toby, E. The Rise of Early Modern Science: Islam, China, and the West. Second edition. First published in 1993. Xx+425pp. Illus. Figs. bibl. Index. Cambridge University Press, 2003. $30 (paper). Click here to order this book.
Hurst, J., Willis; Conti, C., Richard; Fye, W., Bruce. (eds). Profiles in Cardiology: A Collection of Profiles Featuring Individuals Who Have Made Significant Contributions to the Study of Cardiovascular Disease. Volume 1. xiv+514pp. Illus. Table. Bibl. Index. Mahwah, New Jersey: The Foundation for Advances in Medicine and Science, Inc., 2003. $69.95 (cloth). ISBN: 0615120849.
Ickes, William. Everyday Mind Reading: Understanding What other People Think and Feel. Foreword by Elliot Aronson. 349pp. Figs. Bibl. Index. Prometheus books, 2003. $25(cloth). Click here to order this book.
Inglis, John, R.; Sambrook, Joseph; Witkowski, Jan, A. (eds). Inspiring Science: Jim Watson and the age of DNA. Foreword by Matt Ridley. Xxxi+503pp. Illus. Figs. Tables. Bibl. Index. Cold Spring Harbor, New York: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 2003. $35.00(cloth). Click here to order this book.
Jones, Eric. The European Miracle: Environments, Economies and Geopolitics in the History of Europe and Asia. Third edition. First edition published in 1981, second in 1987. Xxxix+301pp. Illus. Tables. Bibl. Index. Cambridge University Press, 2003. $23(paper). Click here to order this book.
Krafft, Fritz. Christus ruft in die Himmelsapotheke: die Verbildlichung des Heilandrufs durch Christus als Apotheker. Quellen und Studien zur Geschichte der Pharmazie. Herausgegeben von Fritz Krafft und Christoph Friedrich. Band 81. vii+336pp. Illus. Bibl. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft Stuttgart, 2002. €34 (paper). Click here to order this book.
Krieger, Gerhard. Subjekt und Metaphysik: die Metaphysik des Johannes Buridan. Beiträge zur Geschichte der Philosophieund Theologie des Mittelalters. Neue Folge, Band 65. 336 pp. Bibl. Index. Aschendorff Verlag, 2003. €47 (paper). Click here to order this book.
Lagerkvist, Ulf. Pioneers of Microbiology and the Nobel Prize. ix+178 pp. Illus. Bibl. Index. New Jersey/London/Singapore/Hong Kong, World Scientific, 2003. $24 (paper). Click here to order this book.
Laidler, Keith, J. Energy and the Unexpected. xiii+146 pp. Illus. Fig. Table. Index. Oxford University Press, 2002. $29.95 (cloth). Click here to order this book.
Lenard, Philipp. Wissenschaftliche Abhandlungen, Band 4. Herausgegeben und Kritisch Kommentiert. SchönbeckWissenschaftliche Abhandlungen, Band 4. 617pp. Illus. Figs. Tables. Bibl. Index. Diepholz/Berlin: Verlag für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften und der Technik, 2003. €60.00 (cloth). ISBN: 3928186353
Lienhard, John, H. Inventing Modern: Growing Up with X-rays, Skyscrapers, and Tailfins. ix+292pp. Illus. Index. Oxford University Press, 2003. $28 (cloth). Click here to order this book.
Mäki, Uskali (ed). Fact and Fiction in Economics: Models, Realism and Social Construction. xvi+384pp. Figs. bibl. Index. Cambridge University Press, 2003. $27 (paper). Click here to order this book.
Matricon, Jean; Waysand, Georges. Cold Wars: A History of Superconductivity. xiii+27 pp., illus. Index. Translated by Charles Glashauser. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2003. $65 (cloth); $26 (paper). Click here to order this book.
Midgley, Mary. The Myths We Live by. x+192pp. Index. London/New York: Routledge, 2003. $29.95 (cloth). Click here to order this book.
Miller, Keith, B. (ed). Perspectives on an Evolving Creation. Xiv+528pp. Illus. Figs. Grand Rapids, Michigan/Cambridge, UK: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2003. $36 (paper). Click here to order this book.
Montaigne, Michek de. Apology for Raymond Sebond. Translated, with introduction, by Roger Ariew and Marjorie Grene. X+164pp. Bibl. Indianapolis/Cambridge: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 2003. $9.95(paper). Click here to order this book.
Moran, Jack. An Introduction to Theoretical and Computational Aerodynamics. 464 pp. Figs. Apps. Index. Mineola, New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 2003. $429.95 (paper). Click here to order this book.
Morris, Simon, Conway. Life's Solution: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe. xxi+464 pp. Illus. Figs. Bibliographic notes. Index. Cambridge University Press, 2003. $30 (cloth). Click here to order this book.
Morse, Kathryn. The Nature of Gold: An Environmental History of the Klondike Gold Rush. Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books. Foreword by William Cronon. Xviii+290 pp. Illus. Bibl. Index. Seattle/London: University of Washington Press, 2003. $29.95 (cloth). Click here to order this book.
Oudshoorn, Nelly. The Male Pill: A Biography of a Technology in the Making. Durham/London: Duke University Press, 2003. $21.95 (paper). Click here to order this book.
Rieber, Robert, W.; Robinson, David, K. (eds). Wilhelm Wundt in History: The Making of a Scientific Psychology. Path in Psychology series. Edited in collaboration with Arthur L. Blumenthal and Kurt Danziger. Xvii+302pp. Illus. Figs. Bibl. Index. New York/Boston/Dordrecht/London/Moscow: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 2001. Click here to order this book.
Sarmiento, Augusto. Bare Bones a Surgeon's Tale: The Price of Success in American Medicine. With the assistance of Mark Dorfman. Illus. 379pp. Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books, 2003. $32 (cloth). Click here to order this book.
Schmuhl, Hans-Walter (ed). Rassenforschung an kaiser-Wilhelm-Instituten vor und nach 1933. Geschichte der Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft im Nationalsozialismus. Band 4. 357pp. Index. Wallstein Verlag, 2003. €27 (paper). Click here to order this book.
Schneider, Laurence. Biology and Revolution in Twentieth-century China. Aisa/Pacific/Perspectives. Series editor: Mark Selden. 307pp. Bibl. Index. Lanham/Boulder/New York/Toronto/Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2003. $75 (cloth). Click here to order this book.
Schullery, Paul; Whittlesey, Lee. Myth and History in the Creation of Yellowstone National Park. xv+125pp. Illus. App. Index. Lincoln/London: University of Nebraska Press, 2003. $22 (cloth). Click here to order this book.
Simha, Robert, O. MIT Campus Planning 1960-2000: An Annotated Chronology. 160pp. Illus. Cambridge, Massachusetts/London, England: The MIT Press, 2003. $29.95 (paper). Click here to order this book.
Staum, Martin, S. Labeling People: French Scholars on Society, Race, and Empire 1815-1848. McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas series. Editor: Philip J. Cercone. Xiv+245pp. Illus. Bibl. Index. Montreal & Kingston/London/Ithaca: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2003. $39.95 (cloth). Click here to order this book.
Taub, Liba. Ancient Meteorology. Sciences of Antiquity. xiv+271pp. Illus. Bibl. Index. London/New York: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2003. $28.95 (paper). Click here to order this book.
Thackray, John, C. (ed). To See the Fellows Fight: Eye Witness Accounts of Meetings of the Geological Society of London and its Club, 1822-1868. BSHS Monographs 12. Xviii+243pp. Bibl. Index. The British Society for the History of Science, 2003. $26 (paper). Click here to order this book.
Tobias, Michael; Timmers, Teun; Wright, Gill. (eds). A Parliament of Science: Science for the 21st Century. Introduction by Michael Tobias. Vii+171pp. Illus. Index. State University of New York Press, 2003. $18.95 (paper). Click here to order this book.
Toulmin, Stephen. Return to Reason. x+243pp. Bibliographical notes. Index. Cambridge, Massachusetts/London, England: Harvard University Press, 2003. $16.95 (paper). Click here to order this book.
Turchin, Peter. Historical Dynamics: Why States Rise and Fall. Princeton Studies in Complexity. Xii+245pp. Figs. Apps. Bibl. Index. Princeton/Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2003. $35.00 (cloth). Click here to order this book.
Turner, Gerard, L.E. Renaissance Astrolabes and their Makers. Variorum Collected Studies Series. Xii+294pp. Illus. Figs. Tables. Bibl. Index. Ashgate Variorum, 2003. $122.95 (cloth). Click here to order this book.
Van Noy, Rick. Surveying the Interior: Literary Cartographers and the Sense of Place. xxii+220pp., illus. Bibl. Index. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2003. $44.95 (cloth); $21.95 (paper). Click here to order this book.
Weart, Spencer, R. The Discovery of Global Warming. New Histories of Science, Technology, and Medicine. Series editors: Margaret C. Jacob, Spencer R. Weart, and Harold J. Cook. X+228pp. Figs. Index. Cambridge, Massachusetts/London, England: Harvard University Press, 2003. $24.95 (cloth). Click here to order this book.
Wecht, Cyril; Saitz, Greg; Curriden, Mark. Mortal Evidence: The Forensics behind Nine Shocking Cases. Foreword by Dr. Henry C. Lee. 315pp. Illus. Bibl. Index. Prometheus Books, 2003. $26 (cloth). Click here to order this book.
Wilson, Teddy. Teddy Wilson Talks Jazz (Bayou Jazz Lives). With Arie Ligthart and Humphrey Van Loo. Foreword by Benny Goodman. Xi+179pp. Illus. Index. New York/London: Continuum, 2001. $11.87 (paper). Click here to order this book.
Winther, Paul, C. Anglo-European Science and the Rhetoric of Empire: Malaria, Opium, and British Rule in India, 1756-1895. xviii+429pp. Apps. Tables. Bibl. Index. Lanham/Boulder/New York/Oxford: Lexington Books, 2003. $90 (cloth). Click here to order this book.