Isis Books Received
29 August 2007-28 September 2007
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Bredekamp, Horst. Galilei der Künstler: Der Mond, Die Sonne, Die Hand. 517 pp., illus., figs., bibl., apps., index. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2007. €44.80 (cloth). ISBN: 9783050043197
Craver, Carl F. Explaining the Brain: Mechanisms and the Mosaic Unity of Neuroscience. xviii + 308 pp., figs., tables, bibl., index. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. $49.50 (cloth). ISBN: 9780199299317
Creager, Angela N. H.; Lunbeck, Elizabeth; Wise, M. Norton (Editors). Science Without Laws: Model Systems, Cases, Exemplary Narratives. 312 pp., figs., index. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2007. $22.95 (paper). ISBN: 9780822340461
Davies, J. Keith; Fichtner, Gerhard (Editors). Freud's Library: A Comprehensive Catalogue / Freuds Bibliothek: Vollstaendiger Katalog. 144pp., illus., tables, bibl. London: The Freud Museum; Tübingen: edition diskord, 2006. £24 (cloth). ISBN: 9783892957522
de Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc. Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière, avec la Description du Cabinet du Roy. Edited by Stéphane Schmitt (L'Âge Des Lumières, 41.) 1364 pp. illus., apps., bibl., indexes. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2007. €150 (cloth). ISBN: 9782745316011
de Ceglia, Francesco Paolo (Editor). Scienziati di Puglia secoli V a.C. - XXI d.C. 682 pp., figs., index. Bari: Mario Adda Editore, 2007. €50 (cloth). ISBN: 9788880826811
Dostaler, Gilles. Keynes and His Battles. vi + 384 pp., apps., bibl., index. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2007. $160 (cloth). ISBN: 9781858982663
Greenberg, Daniel S. Science for Sale: The Perils, Rewards, and Delusions of Campus Capitalism. viii + 324 pp., index. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2007. $25 (cloth). ISBN: 9780226306254
Hallyn, Fernand. Descartes: Dissimulation et Ironie. 216 pp., figs., bibl. Geneva: Librarie Droz, 2006.
€18 (paper). ISNB: 2600005358
Hart, Mitchell B. The Healthy Jew: The Symbiosis of Judaism and Modern Medicine. x + 280 pp., bibl., index. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. $28 (cloth). ISBN: 9780221877183
Hentschel, Klaus. The Mental Aftermath: The Mentality of German Physicists 1945-1949. 203 pp. figs., bibl., index. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. $49.50 (cloth). ISBN: 9780199205660
Hulin, Nicole. L'Enseignement Secondaire Scientifique en France d'un Siecle a l'Autre (1802-1980). 166 pp., bibl., index. Lyon: L'Institut National de Recherche Pédagogique, 2007. €20 (paper). ISBN: 9782734210832
Jacquart, Danielle; Bagliani, Agostino Paravicini (Editors). La Scuola Medica Salernitana: Gli Autori e I Testi.(Based on papers presented at Convegno Internazionale, Università degli Studi di Salerno, 3-5 November 2004.) xiv + 588 pp., figs., tables, indexes. Florence: Sismel Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2007. €68 (cloth). ISBN: 9788884502322
Josephson, Paul R. Motorized Obsession: Life, Liberty, and the Small-Bore Engine. xv + 258 pp., app., index. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. $22 (cloth). ISBN: 9780801886416
Leinkauf, Thomas (Editor). Giordano Bruno Werke Vol. 3. cliii + 537 pp., bibl., index. Hamburg: Felix Meiner Verlag, 2006. $148 (cloth). ISBN: 9783787318032
Leinkauf, Thomas (Editor). Giordano Bruno Werke Vol. 4. cxliii + 427 pp., bibl., index. Hamburg: Felix Meiner Verlag, 2006. $114 (cloth). ISBN: 9783787318049
Margolis, Eric; Laurence, Stephen (Editors). Creations of the Mind: Theories of Artifacts and their Representation. xi + 358 pp., figs., tables, bibls., index. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. $40 (cloth). ISBN: 9780199250998
Meyers, Richard L. The 100 Most Important Chemical Compounds: A Reference Guide. xxvi + 326 pp., illus., figs., tables, apps., bibls., index. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2007. $85 (cloth). ISBN: 9780313337581
Nawa, Christine; Meinel, Christoph. Von der Forschung Gezeichnet: Instrumente und Apparaturen in Heidelberger Laboratorien, skizziert von Friedrich Veith (1817-1907). 127 pp., figs. Regensburg: Universität Regensburg, 2007. ISBN: 9783938738221
Netz, Reviel; Noel, William.The Archimedes Codex: How a Medieval Prayer Book is Revealing the True Genius of Antiquity's Greatest Scientist. ix + 313 pp., illus., index. Cambridge: Da Capo Press, 2007. $27.50 (paper). ISBN: 9780906815805
Pritchard, Alan (Compiler). Alchemy: Bibliography of English Language Writings. June, 2007.
Rothenberg, Marc; Dorman, Kathleen W.; Milikan, Frank R. (Editors). The Papers of Joseph Henry: Vol. 11. lxvi + 800 pp., illus., app., index. Sagamore Beach, MA: Smithsonian SHP/USA, 2007. $110 (cloth). ISBN: 9780881353907
Satin, Morton. Death in the Pot: The Impact of Food Poisoning on History. 262 pp., illus., index. Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books, 2007. $24 (cloth). ISBN: 9781591025146
Schiebinger, Londa; Swan, Claudia (Editors). Colonial Botany: Science, Commerce, and Politics in the Early Modern World. 353 pp., illus., index. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. $59.95 (paper). ISBN: 9780812238273
Schröder, Wilfried. Naturerkenntnis und Christlicher Glaube. (Journal for the History of Geophysics and Cosmical Physics, vol. 7.). 38 pp., bibl. Potsdam: Science Edition, 2007. ISBN: 16152824
vom Bruch, Rüdiger; Gerhardt, Uta; Pawliczek, Aleksandra (Editors). Kontinuitäten und Diskontinuitäten in der Wissenschaftsgeschichte des 20: Jahrhunderts. (Wissenchaft, Politik und Gesellschaft.) 352 pp., index. Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg: Franz Steiner Verlag. ISBN: 3515089659
