Isis Books Received
3 September - 1 October 2008
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Albert the Great. Albert the Great: Questions Concerning Aristotle's On Animals. Translated by Irven M. Resnick; Kenneth F. Kitchell, Jr. (The Fathers of the Church, Vol. 9.) xxxiii + 674 pp., index. Washington: the Catholic University of America Press, 2008. $69.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780813215198.
Baatz, Simon. For the Thrill of It: Leopold, Loeb, and the Murder that Shocked Chicago. xiii + 541 pp., illus., index. New York: HarperCollins, 2008. $27.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780060781002.
Bensaude-Vincent, Bernadette and Christine Blondel. Science and Spectacle in the European Enlightenment. (Science, Technology and Culture, 1700-1945.) xi+164 pp., illus., index. Aldershot, Eng.: Ashgate, 2008. £55 (cloth). ISBN: 9780754663706.
Borrelli, Arianna. Aspects of the Astrolabe: 'architectonica ratio' in tenth- and eleventh-century Europe. (Sudhoffs Archiv: Beihefte, 57.) 270 pp.,figs., apps., bibl., indexes. StuttgartFranz Steiner Verlag, 2008. €44 (cloth). ISBN: 9783515091299.
Brotóns, Víctor Navarro and William Eamon (Editors). Beyond the Black Legend: Spain and the Scientific Revolution. 529 pp., bibls. València: Publications de la Universitat de València, 2007. €30 (paper). ISBN: 9788437067919.
Chimisso, Cristina. Writing the History of the Mind. (Science, Technology and Culture, 1700-1945.) Forward by David M. Knight. ix + 209 pp., table, bibl., index. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2008. £55 (cloth). ISBN: 9780754657057.
Craig, William Lane and Quentin Smith (Editors). Einstein, Relativity and Absolute Simultaneity. vi+302 pp., illus., bibls., index. New York: Routledge, 2008. $135.00 (cloth). ISBN: 9780415701747.
Demeulenaere-Douyere, Christiane and David J. Sturdy. L'Enquête Du Régent, 1716-1718. Sciences, Techniques et Politique dans la France Pré-Industrielle. (De Diversis Artibus, Vol. 83.) 992 pp, illus., tables, app., index. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2008. € 101.53 (cloth). ISBN: 9782503528175.
Durand, Aline (Editor). Jeux d'eau: moulins, meuniers et machines hydrauliques, études offertes à Georges Comet. (Cahier d'Histoire des Techniques, Vol. 7.) 288 pp., illus., tables, bibl. Aix-en-Provence: Publications de L'Université de Provence, 2008. € 28. ISBN: 9782853996921.
Dyck, Erika. Psychedelic Psychiatry: LSD From Clinic to Campus. xiii + 199 pp., illus., bibl., index. Baltimore: The John Hopkins University Press, 2008. $35 (cloth). ISBN: 9780801889943.
Gliboff, Sander. H. G. Bronn, Ernst Haeckel, and the Origins of German Darwinism: A Study in Translation and Transformation. (Studies in the History of Science and Technology.) xii + 259 pp., bibl., index. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2008. $35 (cloth). ISBN: 9780262072939.
Gouguenheim, Sylvain. Aristote au Mont-Saint-Michel: Les racines grecques de l'Europe chrétienne. (L'Univers Historique.) 280 pp., illus., tables, bibl.. Paris: Seuil, 2008. €21.00 (cloth). ISBN: 9782020965415.
Imber, Jonathan B. Trusting Doctors: The Decline of Moral Authority in American Medicine. xix + 275 pp., apps., bibls., index. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008. $29.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780691135748.
Johach, Eva. Krebszelle und Zellenstaat: Zur medizinischen und politischen Metaphorik in Rudolf Virchows Zellularpathologie. (Berliner Kulturwissenschaft, 5.) 379 pp., fig., bibl. Freiburg: Rombach Verlag, 2008. €49.20 (cloth). ISBN: 9783793095118.
Maimonides. On Asthma, Volume 2. Edited and Translated by Gerrit Bos and Michael R. McVaugh. (The Medical Works of Moses Maimonides.) lxii + 726 pp., indexes. Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University Press, 2008. $74.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780842526906.
Nicoud, Marilyn. Les Régimes de Santé au Moyen Âge: Naissance et Diffusion D'une Écriture Médicale (XIIIe-Sve Siècle). 2 Volumes.illus., tables, apps., bibl., index. Rome: École française de Rome, 2007. €129 (cloth). ISBN: 9782728308019.
Partington, John S. (Editor). H. G. Wells in Nature, 1893-1946: A Reception Reader. (Arbeiten zur Literarischen Phantastik, 3.) x + 514 pp., bibl. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2008. $115.95 (paper). ISBN: 9783631571101.
Priestley, Rebecca (Editor). The Awa Book of New Zealand Science. xvi+368 pp, illus., bibl., index. Wellington, New Zealand: Awa Press, 2008. $48 (cloth). ISBN: 9780958262996.
Scerri, Eric R. Collected Papers on Philosophy of Chemistry. x +235 pp., illus., tables, bibls., index. London: Imperial College Press, 2008. $95 (cloth). ISBN: 9781848161375.
Shapin, Stephen. The Scientific Life: A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation. xvii+468 pp, illus., bibl., index. Chicago/London: The University of Chicago Press, 2008. $29.00 (cloth). ISBN: 9780226750248.
Tsouyopoulos, Nelly. Asklepios und die Philosophen: Paradigmawechsel in der Medizin im 19. Jahrhundert. Edited by Claudia Weisemann, Barbara Bröker, and Sabine Rogge. Foreword by Claudia Weisemann. (Medizin und Philosophie: Beiträge aus der Forschung, 2.) 265 pp., bibl., index. Stuttgart: Frommann-Holzboog, 2008. €48 (cloth). ISBN: 9783772816352.
Wexler, Alice. The Woman Who Walked into the Sea: Huntington's and the Making of a Genetic Disease. Foreward by Nancy S. Wexler. xxiv + 253 pp., illus., bibl., index. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. $30 (cloth). ISBN: 9780300105025.
