Isis Books Received
2 October - 31 October 2008
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Agostini, Igor. L'infinità di Dio: Il dibattito da Suárez a Caterus (1597-1641). 438 pp., bibl., index. Rome: Editori Riuniti University Press, 2008. € 32.00 (paper). ISBN: 9788835960706.
Aveni, Anthony (Editor). Foundations of New World Cultural Astronomy: A Reader with Commentary. xii + 826 pp., illus., index. Boulder, Colorado: University Press of Colroado, 2008. $34.95 (paper). ISBN: 9780870819001.
Ballstadt, Kurt. Diderot: Natural Philosopher. (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century.) viii + 246 pp., bibl., index. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2008. $115.00 (paper). ISBN: 9780729409483.
Brianta, Donata; Laureti, Lamberto. Cartografia, scienza di governo e territorio nell'Italia liberale. 265 pp., illus., apps., bibl., indexes. Milan: Unicopli, 2006. €17.00 (paper). ISBN: 9788840011448.
Carroll, Victoria. Science and Eccentricity: Collecting, Writing and Performing Science for Early Nineteenth-Century Audiences. (Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century, 4.) x + 254 pp., illus., bibl., index. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2008. $99.00 (cloth). ISBN: 9781851969401.
Chamayou, Grégoire. Les Corps Vils: Expérimenter sur les êtres humains aux XVIIIe et XIXe siècles. 422 pp., illus., tables, bibl,. index. Paris: Éditions La Découverte, 2008. €24.50 (paper). ISBN: 9782707156464.
Clarsen, Georgine. Eat My Dust: Early Women Motorists. (Studies in Historical and Political Science, 1.) xi + 196 pp., illus., index. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. $50.00 (cloth). ISBN: 9780801884658.
Corsi, Pietro. Fossils and Reputations. A Scientific Correspondence: Pisa, Paris, London, 1853-1857. 411 pp., illus., bibl., index. Pisa: Edizioni Plus-Pisa University Press, 2008. €25.00 (paper). ISBN: 9788884925640.
Galilei, Galileo. The Essential Galileo. Edited and translated by Maurice A. Finocchiaro. ix + 380 pp., illus., index. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing, 2008. $12.95 (paper). ISBN: 9780872209374.
Gooday, Graeme. Domesticating Electricity:Technology, Uncertainty and Gender, 1880-1914. (Science and Culture in the Ninteenth Century, 7.) x + 292 pp., illus., tables, bibl., index. London: Pickeering & Chatto, 2008. $99.00 (cloth). ISBN: 9781851969753.
Jacyna, L. S. Medicine and Modernism: A Biogrpahy of Sir Henry Head. (Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century, 6.) viii + 353 pp., illus., bibl., index. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2008. $99.00 (cloth). ISBN: 9781851969074.
Karafyllis, Nicole C.; Ulshöfer, Gotlind (Editors). Sexualized Brains: Scientific Modeling of Emotional Intelligence from a Cultural Perspective. xvii + 429 pp., illus., bibl., index. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2008. $50.00 (cloth). ISBN: 9780262113175.
Kohn, Martin; Donley, Carol (Editors). Return to the House of God: Medical Resident Education 1978-2008. (Literature and Medicine, 15.) xv + 241 pp. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2008. $24.95 (paper). ISBN: 9780873389839.
Laboratoire Épistémé. Histoire et éthique des sciences et des techniques. (Cahiers d'Épistémé, 1.) 159 pp. Bordeaux: Laboratoire Épistémé, Université Bordeaux, 2006. €20.00 (paper). ISSN: en cours.
Laboratoire Épistémé. Histoire et philosophie des sciences et des techniques. (Cahiers D'Épistémé, 2.) 222 pp., illus. Bordeaux: Laboratoire Épistémé, Université Bordeaux, 2007. €25.00 (paper). ISSN: 19503903.
Li, Chengzhi. A Draft History of Space Technology in China: Volume 2. (Zhongguo jin xian dai ke xue ji shu shi yan jiu cong shu.) 939 pp., bibl., index. Jinan: Shandong Education Press (Shandong jiao yu chu ban she), 2007. ? 106.00 (paper). ISBN: 9787532849840.
Marsh, Margaret; Ronner, Wanda. The Fertility Doctor: John Rock and the Reproductive Revolution. 374 pp., illus., index. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. $29.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780801890017.
Mather, John C.; Boslough, John. The Very First Light: The True Inside Story of the Scientific Journey Back to the Dawn of the Universe. xxi + 353 pp., illus., bibl., index. New York: Basic Books, 2008. $17.95 (paper). ISBN: 9780465005291.
Millstone, Erik; Lang, Tim. The Atlas of Food: Who Eats What, Where, and Why. Foreword by Marion Nestle. 128 pp., illus., tables, bibl., index. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. $19.95 (paper). ISBN: 9780520254091.
Nicholson, W. Keith. Linear Algebra with Applications (5th ed.). xii + 532 pp., illus., apps., index. Toronto: McGraw-Hill, 2006. $53.50 (cloth). ISBN: 9780390866695.
Nocks, Lisa. The Robot: The Life Story of a Technology. xxx + 192 pp., illus., bibl., index. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. $19.95 (paper). ISBN: 9780801890710.
Norton, Marcy. Sacred Gifts, Profane Pleasures: A History of Tobacco and Chocolate in the Atlantic World. xiv + 334 pp., illus., index. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2008. $35.00 (cloth). ISBN: 9780801444937.
Otter, Chris. The Victorian Eye: A Political History of Light and Vision in Britain, 1800-1910. x + 382 pp., illus., bibl., index. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. $25.00 (paper). ISBN: 9780226640778.
Poole, Robert. Earthrise: How Man First Saw the Earth. xvi + 236 pp., illus., index. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008. $26.00 (cloth). ISBN: 978030013766.
Richardson, Nigel. Typhoid in Uppingham: Analysis of a Victorian Town and School in Crisis, 1875-1877. (Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century, 5.) xix + 268 pp., bibl., index. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2008. $99.00 (cloth). ISBN: 9781851969913.
Robson, Eleanor. Mathematics in Ancient Iraq: A Social History. xxx + 441 pp., illus., tables, apps., bibl., indexes. New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2008. $49.50 (cloth). ISBN: 9780691091822.
Scazzieri, Roberto; Simili, Raffaella (Editors). The Migration of Ideas. ix + 245 pp., bibls., index. Sagamore Beach: Science History Publications/USA, 2008. $40.00 (cloth). ISBN: 9780881353976.
Sherman, William H. Used Books: Marking readers in Renaissance England. (Material Texts.) xx + 255 pp., illus., bibl., index. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. $45.00 (cloth). ISBN: 9780812240436.
Sinha, Jagdish N. Science, War and Imperialism: India in the Second World War. (Social Sciences in Asia, 18.) xiv + 278 pp., apps., bibl., index. Leiden: Brill, 2008. $118.00 (paper). ISBN: 9789004166455.
Steele, David Ramsay. Atheism Explained: From Folly to Philosophy. (Ideas Explained.) xiii + 318 pp., bibl., index. Chicago: Open Court, 2008. $17.95 (paper). ISBN: 9780812696370.
Thornton, Robert J. Unimagined Community: Sex, Networks, and AIDS in Uganda and South Africa. (California Series in Public Anthropology, 20.) xxi + 282 pp., illus., bibl., index.Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. $24.95 (paper). ISBN: 9780520255531.
Turkel, William J. The Archive of Place: Unearthing the Pasts of the Chilcotin Plateau. Foreword by Graeme Wynn. (Nature | History | Society.) xxvi + 322 pp., illus., apps., bibl., indexes. Vacouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2008. $32.95 (paper). ISBN: 9780774813778.
Volpe, Tony. Science et Théologie: Dans les Débats Savants de la Seconde Moitié du XVIIe Siècle. (Bibliothèque de L'école des Hautes Études Sciences Religieuses, 133.) 467 pp., illus., tables, app., bibl., index. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2008. € 65.00 (paper). ISBN: 9782503525846.
Vrolijk, Arnoud; Hogendijk, Jan P. (Editors). O ye Gentlemen: Arabic Studies on Science and Literary Culture. In Honour of Remke Kruk. (Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science, 74.) xxi + 535 pp., illus., index. Leiden: Brill, 2007. $256.00 (cloth). ISBN: 9789004157941.
Worek, Michael (Editor). Nobel: A Century of Prize Winners. 320 pp., illus., index. Richmond Hill, ON: Firefly Books, 2008. $24.95 (paper). ISBN: 9781554074167.
Wuidar, Laurence. Musique et Astrologie Apres le Concile de Trente. 219 pp., illus., bibl., index. Brussels: Institut Historique Belge de Rome, 2008. ISBN: 9789074461702.
Paul Ziche. Wissenschaftslandschaften um 1900: Philosophie, die Wissenschaften und der nichtreduktive Szientismus. (Legierungen, 3.) 410 pp., illus., bibl., index. Zurich: Chronos, 2007. €42.00 (cloth). ISBN: 978303408778.
