Isis Books Received
29 September 2007 to 15 November 2007
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Alder, Ken. The Lie Detectors: The History of an American Obsession. xiv + 336 pp., figs., bibl., index. New York: Free Press, 2007. $27 (cloth). ISBN: 9780743259880
Andersen, Kirsti. The Geometry of an Art: The History of the Mathematical Theory of Perspective from Alberti to Monge. (Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences.) xxxvii + 812 pp., illus., figs., apps., bibls., indexes. New York: Springer-Verlag, 2006. $199 (cloth). ISBN: 0387259619
Barsky, Robert F. The Chomsky Effect: A Radical Works Beyond the Ivory Tower. xviii + 381 pp., illus., bibl., index. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007. $29.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780262026246
Batiuk, Tom. Lisa's Story: The Other Shoe. ix + 246 pp., illus. Kent: Kent State University Press, 2007. $18.95 (paper). ISBN: 9780873386242
Baum, Richard. Haunted Observatories: Curiosities from the Astronomer's Cabinet. 415 pp., figs., bibl., index. New York: Prometheus Books, 2007. $28 (cloth). ISBN: 9781591025122
Bertucci, Paola. Viaggio Nel Paese Delle Meraviglie: Scienza e Curiosità Nell'Italia del Settecento. (Nuova Cultura, 161.) 294 pp., figs., bibl., index. Turin: Bollati Boringhieri, 2007. €28 (paper). ISBN: 9788833918020
Brianta, Donata. Europa Mineraria. Circolazione delle élites e trasferimento tecnologico (secoli XVIII-XIX). 447 pp., apps., index. Milano: Franco Angeli, 2007. €26, 00 (paper). ISBN: 9788846488183
Burnett, D. Graham. Trying Leviathan: The Nineteenth-Century New York Court Case That Put the Whale on Trial and Challenged the Order of Nature. xiv + 304 pp., figs., bibl., index. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. $29.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780691129501
Churchland, Paul. Neurophilosophy at Work. ix + 249 pp.,figs., biblio., index. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. $70 (cloth). ISBN: 9780521692007
Ciardi, Marco (Editor). Il Fisico Sublime: Amedeo Avogadro e la Cultura Scientifica del Primo Ottocento. 271 pp., bibl., index. Bologna: Il Mulino, 2007. €21 (paper). ISBN: 9788815118899
Cipriani, Curzio; Scarpellini, Alba. Un Contributo all Mineralogia Settecentesca. La Collezione di Giovanni Targioni Tozzetti. (Accademia Toscana di Scienze e Lettere. La Colombari, 239.) viii + 200 pp., illus., figs., apps., bibl., index. Florence, Italy: Leo S. Olschki, 2007. €22 (cloth). ISBN: 9788822256362
Clark, William. Academic Charisma and the Origins of the Research University. 662 pp., figs., apps., bibl., index. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. $22.50 (paper). ISBN: 9780226109880
Collier, Aine. The Humble Little Condom: A History. 371 pp., illus., index. Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books, 2007. $18.95 (paper). ISBN: 9781591025566
Coste, Joël. Représentations et comportements en temps d'épidémie dans la littérature imprimée de peste (1490-1725): Contribution à l'histoire culturelle de la peste en France à l'époque moderne. Foreworded by Yves-Marie Bercé. (Sciences, Techniques et Civilisations du Moyen Âge à L'Aube des Lumières.) 837 pp., illus., figs., tables, bibls. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2007. €130 (cloth). ISBN: 9782745315328
Cristiani, Marta; Panti, Cecilia; Perillo, Graziano (Editors). Harmonia Mundi: Musica Mondana e Musica Celeste fra Antichità e Medioevo. (Micrologus' Library, 19.) 228 pp., illus., figs., indexes. Florence: Sisem, Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2007. €42 (paper). ISBN: 888450239X
Crowe, Michael J. Mechanics From Aristotle to Einstein. xxii + 331 pp., illus., figs., bibl., index. Santa Fe, New Mexico: Green Lion Press, 2007. $17.95 (paper). ISBN: 1888009322
DasGupta, Sayantani; Hurst, Marsha (Editors). Stories of Illness and Healing: Women Write Their Bodies. (Literature and Medicine, 10.) xiii + 329 pp., index. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2007. $37.95 (paper). ISBN: 9780873389167
Daston, Lorraine; Galison, Peter. Objectivity. 502 pp., figs., index. New York: Zone Books, 2007. $38.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9781890951788
Denny, Mark W.; Gaines, Steven D. (Editors). Encyclopedia of Tidepools and Rocky Shores. (Encylopedia of the Natural World, 1.) xxviii + 705 pp., illus., figs., tables, index. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. $95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780520251182
De Risi, Vincenzo. Geometry and Monadology: Leibniz's Analysis Situs and Philosophy of Space. (Historical Studies, 33.) xx + 658 pp., illus., bibl., index. Birkhäuser Verlag, 2007. €139 (cloth). ISBN: 9783764379858
DeRosier Jr., Arthur H. William Dunbar: Scientific Pioneer of the Old Southwest. 280 pp., illus., bibl., index Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2007. $55 (cloth). ISBN: 9780813124551
DiSalle, Robert. Understanding Space-Time: The Philosophical Development of Physics from Newton to Einstein. xiii + 173 pp., figs., bibl., index. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. $75 (cloth). ISBN: 9780521857901
Doyen-Higuet, Anne-Marie. L'Épitomé de la Collection d'hippiatrie grecque: Histoire du texte, édition critique, traduction et notes (Tome I). (Publications de L'Institut Orientaliste de Louvain, 54.) 242 pp., tables, bibl. Louvain: Institut Orientalist de L'Université Catholique de Louvain, 2006. €78 (paper). ISBN: 9789042915770
Fairchild, Amy L.; Bayer, Ronald; Colgrove, James (with Daniel Wolfe). Searching Eyes: Privacy, the State, and Disease Surveillance in America. Foreword by Daniel M. Fox and Samuel L. Milbank (California/Milbank Book on Health and the Public, 18.) xxiv + 342 pp., figs., index. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2007. $19.95 (paper). ISBN: 9780520253254
Freinkel, Susan. American Chestnut: The Life, Death, and Rebirth of a Perfect Tree. xi + 284 pp., illus., index. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. $27.50 (cloth). 9780520247307
Füssel, Stephan. Gutenberg
and the Impact of Printing. Translated
by Douglas Martin. 216 pp., illus., bibl., index. Burlington, VT: Ashgate,
2005. $59.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780754635376
Garte, Seymour. Where We Stand: A Surprising Look at the Real State of our Planet. xiv + 290 pp., figs., bibl., index. New York: American Management Association, 2007. $24.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780814409107
Grosholz, Emily R. Representation and Productive Ambiguity in Mathematics and the Sciences. xviii + 313 pp., figs., bibl., index. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. $63 (cloth). ISBN: 9780199299737
Kaplan, Benjamin J. Divided by Faith: Religious Conflict and the Practice of Toleration in Early Modern Europe. 415 pp., figs., illus., index. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007. $29.95 (cloth). ISBN: 0674024303
Kavey, Allison. Book of Secrets: Natural Philosophy in England, 1550-1600. x + 197 pp., figs., bibl., index. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007. $40 (cloth). ISBN: 9780252032097
Keel, Othmar. L'Avènement de la Médecine Clinique Moderne en Europe 1750-1815. 542 pp., biblio., index. Montréal: Les Presses Université de Montréal, 2001. $59.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9782825707623
Lazardig, Jan. Theatermaschine und Festungsbau. Paradoxien der Wissensproduktion im 17. Jahrhundert. 322 pp., illus., figs., bibl., index. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2007. €49.80 (cloth). ISBN: 9783050043418
Leane, Elizabeth. Reading Popular Physics: Disciplinary Skirmishes and Textual Strategies. x + 198 pp., bibl., index. Hampshire: Ashgate, 2007. 208 pp., index. $99.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780754658504
Lewis, Rhodri. Language, Mind and Nature: Artificial Languages in England from Bacon to Locke. (Ideas in Context, 80.) xvi + 262 pp., illus., bibl., index. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. $90 (cloth). ISBN: 9780521874755
Lodwick, Francis. A Country Not Named (MS. Sloane 913, Fols. 1R-33R): An Edition with an Annotated Primary Bibliography and an Introductory Essay on Lodwick and his Intellectual Context. Edited by William Poole. (Medieval and Rennaissance Texts and Studies, 314.) xii + 148 pp., bibl., index. ISBN: 9780866983594
Lohff, Brigitte; Conrads, Hinderk. From Berlin to New York: Life and Work of the Almost Forgotten German-Jewish Biochemist Carl Neuberg (1877-1956). Translated by Anthony Mellor-Stapelberg. (History and Philosophy of Medicine, 5.) 294 pp., figs., tables, bibl., indexes. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2007. €45 (cloth). ISBN: 9783515090629
Maierù, Luigi. John Wallis: Una Vita per un Progetto. 601 pp., illus., figs., bibl., index. Soveria Manelli: Rubbettino, 2007. €40 (cloth). ISBN: 9788849819045
Miller, Shawn William. An Environmental History of Latin America. (New Approaches to the Americas.) xi + 257 pp., illus., figs, bibl., index. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. $22.99 (paper). ISBN: 9780521612982
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., figs., bibl., index. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo, 2007. $27.50 (cloth). ISBN: 9780306815805
Nield, Ted. Supercontinent: Ten Billion Years in the Life of our Planet. xv + 288 pp., illus., figs., bibl., index. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007. $29.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780674026599
Norton, David Fate; Norton, Mary J. (Editors). David Hume: A Treatise of Human Nature: A Critical Edition (Two Volumes). xvi + 1173 pp. apps., bibl., indexes. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. $199 (cloth). ISBN: 9780199263851
Ottaviani, Alessandro; Trabucco, Oreste. Theatrum naturae: La Ricerca Natralistica tra erudizione e nuova scienza nell'Italia del primo Seicento. (Testi e Documenti per la storia della Scienza nel Mezzogiorno, 4.) 177 pp., illus., app., index. Napoli: La Città del Sole, 2007. €22 (cloth). ISBN: 9788882923631
Paligot, Carole Reynaud. Races, Racisme et Antiracisme dans les Annés 1930. (Science, Histoire et Société.) x + 173 pp., bibl., index. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2007. € 20 (paper). ISBN: 9782130561644
Porter, Roy (Editor). The Cambridge History of Medicine. vi + 408 pp., illus., bibl., indexes. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. $55 (cloth). ISBN: 9780521864268
Rafinesque, Jean. Constantin-Samuel Rafinesque: Voyages a Travers L'Amerique (1802-1840), La Nature et les Hommes. 172 pp., illus., figs., index. Issy-les Moulineaux: Jean Rafinesque, 2007. €23 (paper). ISBN: 9782952944106
Rothenberg, Marc; Dorman, Lathleen W.; Millikan, Frank R. (Editors); Jeffries, Deborah Y.;
Shoenfeld, Sarah (Assistants). The
Papers of Joseph Henry. Volume 10: January 1858-December 1865, The Smithsonian
Years. lvii + 613pp., index. Washington,
D.C.: The Smithsonian Institute/Science History Publications, 2004. $89.95
(cloth). ISBN: 0881353582
Schreibman, Laura. The Science and Fiction of Autism. 293 pp., index. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007. $15.95 (paper). ISBN: 9780674025691
Schroeder, Ralph. Rethinking Science, Technology, and Social Change. ix + 179 pp., figs., table, bibl., index. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2007. $39.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780804755887
Smail, Daniel Lord. On Deep History and the Brain. xiv + 271 pp., bibl., index. University of California Press, 2007. $21.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780520252899
Stabile, Giorgio. Dante e la Filosofia dela Natura: Percezioni, Linguaggi, Cosmologie. (Micrologus' Library, 20.) 416 pp., index. Florence: Sismel, Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2007. €58 (cloth). ISBN: 9788884502476
von Rainer Egloff, Herausgegeben. Tatsache-Denkstil-Kontroverse: Auseinandersetzungen mit Ludwik Fleck. 98 pp., ilus., figs. Zürich: Collegium Helveticum, 2005. ISBN: 3952244120
Warren, James. Presocratics: Natural Philosophers before Socrates. xv + 224 pp., bibl., index. Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 2007. $19.95 (paper). ISBN: 9780520253698
