Isis Books Received
6 December 2007 to 17 January 2008
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Akerman, James R.; Karrow, Robert W. Jr. Maps: Finding Our Place in the World. ix + 400 pp., figs., bibl., index. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. $55 (cloth). ISBN: 9780226010755
Ansermet, Francois; Germond, Marc; Mauron, Véronique; André,
Marie; Cascino, Francesca. Clinique de la procréation et mystère de l'incarnation
L'ombre du futur. xxvi + 182 pp.,
illustrations. Paris: Presses
Universitaires de France, 2007.
€24 (paper). ISBN: 9782130562306
Aronson, Jay D.
Genetic Witness: Science, Law, and Controversy in the Making of DNA
Profiling. xii + 304 pp., figs.,
bibl., index. New Jersey: Rutgers. $23.95 (paper). ISBN: 9780813541877
Bais, Sander. Very
Special Relativity: An Illustrated Guide.
120 pp., illus., bibl., index. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007.
$20.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780674026117
Bartel, Hans-Georg; Huebener, Rudolf P. Walther
Nernst: Pioneer of Physics and of Chemistry. xii + 320 pp., name index. New Jersey: World Scientific Press, 2007. $52
(cloth). ISBN: 9812565604
Biehl, João. Will To Live: Aids Therapies and the Politics of Survival. xii + 466 pp., illus., figs., tables, bibl., index. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007. $29.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780691130088
Blay, Michael. La science du mouvement des eaux de Torricelli à Lagrange. 288 pp., illus., figs., bibl. Paris: Belin, 2007. €30 (paper). ISBN: 9782701138701
Brain, Robert M.; Cohen, Robert S.; Knudsen, Ole (Editors). Hans
Christian Ørsted and the Romantic Legacy in Science: Ideas, Disciplines,
Practices. (Boston Studies in the
Philosophy of Science, 241.) 444 pp., apps., index. Dordrecht: Springer, 2007.
$199 (cloth). ISBN: 9781402029790
Bredekamp, Horst. Darwins Korallen: Die frühen
Evolutionsdiagramme und die
Tradition der Naturgeschichte. 112 pp., figs. 2nd Ed.
Berlin: Klaus Wagenbach, 2006. €18.50 (paper). ISBN: 3803151732
Chakravartty, Anjan. A
Metaphysics for Scientific Realism: Knowing the Unobservable. xvi + 272 pp., figs, tables, index. New York: Cambridge
University Press, 2007. ₤45 (cloth). ISBN: 9780521876490
Chang, Hasok; Jackson, Catherine (Editors). Technology
and War. ix + 407 pp., tables, index.
London: Hasok Chang and Catherine Jackson and the British Society for the
History of Science, 2007. ₤22 (paper). ISBN: 9780906450017
Clarke, George ‘Woody’. Justice
and Science: Trials and Triumphs of DNA Evidence. xi + 216 pp., index. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2007. ISBN:
9780813541921
de Sousa Santos, Boaventura. Cognitive Justice in a Global World: Prudent Knowledges for a Decent Life. (Graven Images.) xv + 446 pp., illus. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2007. $54.95 (paper). ISBN: 0739121952
Desroches. Dennis.
Francis Bacon and the Limits of Scientific Knowledge. (Continuum Studies in British Philosophy.) x + 208
pp., index. New York: Continuum,
2004. $120 (cloth). ISBN: 9780826486819
Dunmore, John. Storms
and Dreams. Louis de Bougainville: Soldier, Explorer, Statesman. 296 pp., maps, figs, apps., bibl., index. Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
2007. $45 (cloth). ISBN: 9781602230002
Eaton, William. Boyle
on Fire: The Mechanical Revolution in Scientific Explanation. (Continuum Series in British Philosophy.) viii + 224
pp., bibl., index. New York: Continuum, 2004. $120
(cloth). ISBN: 9780826478271
Ellard, Peter. The
Sacred Cosmos: Theological, Philosophical, and Scientific Conversations in the
Twelfth Century School of Chartres.
xxvii + 320 pp., apps., bibl., index.
Scranton and London: University of Scranton Press, 2007. $30 (paper). ISBN: 1589661400
Elwick, James. Styles
of Reasoning in British Life Sciences: Shared Assumptions, 1820-1858. viii + 233 pp., illus., figs., bibl., index. London:
Pickering & Chatto Publishers, 2007. $99 (cloth). ISBN: 9781851969203
Feistauer, Daniela; Monecke, Uta; Müller, Irmgard; Röther, Bastian
(Editors). Christian Gottfried Nees von Esenbeck: Die Bedeutung der Botanik
als Naturwissenschaft in der ersten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts. Methoden und
Entwicklungswege. (Acta Historica
Leopoldina, 47). 368 pp., figs., tables, bibl., index. Halle (Saale): Deutsche
Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina, 2006. € 19.95 (cloth). ISBN: 3804723659
Finn, Stephen J. Thomas
Hobbes and the Politics of Natural Philosophy. (Continuum Studies in Philosophy.) ix + 208 pp., bibl., index. New York: Continuum, 2004. $120
(cloth). ISBN: 9780826486428
Friberg, Jöran. Amazing
Traces of a Babylonian Origin in Greek Mathematics. xx + 496 pp., apps., bibl., index. New Jersey: World Scientific Press, 2007. $98 (cloth). ISBN:
9789812704528
Fyfe, Aileen; Lightman, Bernard (Editors). Science
in the Marketplace: Nineteenth-Century Sites and Experiences. x + 432 pp., figs., index. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. $45 (cloth). ISBN: 9780226276502
Haraway, Donna J. When
Species Meet. x + 360 pp., photos,
index. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008. $24.95 (paper). ISBN: 9780816650453
Harris, Stephen. The
Magnificent Flora Graeca: How the Mediterranean Came to the English Garden.
189 pp., figs., bibl. Chicago: University
of Chicago Press, 2007. $60 (cloth). ISBN: 9781851243068
Higgitt, Rebekah. Recreating
Newton: Newtonian Biography and the Making of Nineteenth Century History of
Science. ix + 286 pp., figs., table,
app., bibl., index. London: Pickering & Chatto Publishers, 2007. $99
(cloth). ISBN: 9781851969067
Hoogvliet, Margriet. Pictura et scriptura: Textes,
images, et herméneutique des mappae mundi (XIIIe - XVIe siècles). 391 pp., plates, bibl., index. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2007. €
65 (cloth). ISBN: 9782503520650
Jorink, Eric. Het Boeck der Natuere: Nederlandse
wtenschappers en de wonderen van Gods schepping 1575-1715. 510 pp., figs., bibl., index. Leiden: Primavera Press, 2006. € 34.50
(paper). ISBN: 9789059910274
Lehoux, Daryn. Astronomy, Weather, and Calendars in the Ancient World. xii + 580 pp., illus., apps., bibl., index. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. $130.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780521851817
Lister, Adrian; Bahn, Paul. Mammoths:
Giants of the Ice Age. Foreword by Jean
M. Auel. 192 pp., illus., figs., bibl., index. Berkeley: University of
California Press, 2007. $29.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780520253193
Mazzotti, Massimo. The
World of Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Mathematician of God. xx + 217 pp., bibl., index. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University
Press, 2007. ISBN: 9780801887093
Mickulas, Peter. Britton's
Botanical Empire: The New York Botanical Garden and American Botany, 1888-1929. (Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden, 94) 318
pp., figs., index. New York: The
New York Botanical Garden Press, 2007. $45 (cloth). ISBN: 9780893274795
Mollan, Charles. It's
Part of What We Are. (Science and Irish
Culture, 3.) 2 Volumes. liii + 1770 pp., figs., bibl., index. Dublin: Royal
Dublin Society, 2007. € 60 (cloth). ISBN: 9780860270553
Pérez-Bustmante, Juan Antonio; Fernández, Cándido Martín;
González, Francisco José; Wulff Barreiro, Enrique; González, José Francisco
Casanueva; Rodriguez, Francisco Herrera (Coordinators). Actas del IX
Congreso de la Sociedad Española de Historia de las Ciencias y de las Técnicas. (Based on papers presented at Congress of the
Spanish Society of the History of the Sciences and the Techniques, September
27-30, 2005, Cádiz, Spain.) 2 Volumes. 1325 pp., illus., figs., tables,
indexes. Cádiz, Spain: Sociedad Española de Historia de las Ciencias y de las
Técnicas, 2006. ISBN: 9788469035559.
Rheinberger, Hans-Jörg. Historische Epistemologie zur
Einführung. 155 pp., bibl., index. Hamburg:
Junius-Verlag, 2007. €12.90
(paper). ISBN: 9783885066361
Roos, Anne Marie. The
Salt of the Earth: Natural Philosophy, Medicine, and Chymistry in England,
1650-1750 (History of Science and
Medicine Library, 3.) xvi + 296 pp., figs., bibl., index. Leiden: Brill, 2007. $129.00 (cloth). ISBN:
9789004161764
Sakwa, Richard. Putin:
Russia's Choice. xi + 388 pp., tables,
app., bibl., index. New York: Routledge, 2008. $32 (paper). ISBN: 9780415407663
Sedley, David. Creationism
and Its Critics in Antiquity. xvii +
270 pp., bibl., index. Berkeley:
University of California Press, 2007. $29.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780520253643
Shakry. Omnia El. The
Great Social Laboratory: Subjects of Knowledge in Colonial and Postcolonial
Egypt. xii + 328 pp., bibl.,
index. California: Stanford
University Press, 2007. $55
(cloth). ISBN: 9780804755672
Shorter, Edward; Healy, David. Shock
Therapy: A History of Electroconvulsive Treatment in Mental Illness. xii + 384 pp., illus., index. Toronto: University of
Toronto Press, 2007. $45.00 (cloth). ISBN: 9780802093479
Sykes, Bryan. Saxons,
Vikings, and Celts: The Genetic Roots of Britain and Ireland. xvii + 306 pp., illus., figs., app., index. New York:
W. W. Norton & Company, 2007. $16.95 (paper). ISBN: 0939330755
Taylor, Michael. Hugh
Miller: Stonemason, Geologist, Writer. 144
pp., maps, figs., index.
Edinburgh: National Museums of Scotland, 2007. £12.99 (paper). ISBN: 9781905267057
Van Riper, A. Bowdoin.
Rockets & Missiles: The Life Story of a Technology. xiv + 192
pp., figs., index. Baltimore: The
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.
$19.95 (paper). ISBN: 9780801887925
Wette, Wolfram. The
Wehrmacht: History, Myth, Reality.
Foreword by Manfred Messerschmidt. Translated by Deborah Lucas Schneider. xix +
372 pp., index. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007. $17.95 (paper). ISBN:
9780674025776
Zimmerman, Virgina. Excavating Victorians. x + 231 pp., figs., bibl., index. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2007. $65 (cloth). ISBN: 9780791472798
