Books Received November 16 to December 5 2007
Abel, Emily K. Suffering in the Land of Sunshine. A Los Angeles Illness Narrative. xviii + 177 pp., illus., index. Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2007. $24.95 (paper). ISBN: 9780813539010
Abel, Emily K. Tuberculosis & the Politics of Exclusion. A History of Public Health & Migration to Los Angeles. 208 pp., illus., index. Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2007. $23.95 (paper). ISBN: 9780813541761
Asdal, Kristin, Brita Brenna, and Ingunn Moser (eds.). Technoscience and the Politics of Interventions. 351 pp. Portland: International Specialized Book Services Inc., 2007. $34.50 (paper). ISBN: 9788274773004
Bartky, Ian R. One Time Fits All. The Campaigns for Global Uniformity. + 292 pp., illus., tables, biblio., index. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2007. $49.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780804756426
Bensaude-Vincent, Bernadette; William R. Newman. The Artificial and the Natural: An Evolving Polarity. 320 pp., figs., index. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2007. US $40.00 (cloth). ISBN: 9780262026208
Bernstein, Jeremy. Nuclear Weapons. What You Need to Know. xi + 299 pp., figs., index. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. $27 (cloth). ISBN: 9780521884082
Bird, Alexander. Nature's Metaphysics: Laws and Properties. 231 pp., figs., bibl., index. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. $49 (cloth). ISBN: 9780199227013
Brandt, Allan. The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product that Defined America. 600 pp. plates, index. New York: Basic Books, 2007. $36 (cloth). ISBN: 9780465070473
Bucciantini, Massimo. Galileo e Keplero: Filosophia, cosmologia e teologia nell'Età della Controrigorma. (Biblioteca di cultura storica). Xxxii + 359pp., illus., index. Turin: Einaudi, 2003. €36 (cloth). ISBN: 8806165968
Bucciantini, Massimo. Italo Calvino e la Scienza. Gli Alfabeti del Mondo. 184 pp., index. Roma: Donzelli editore, 2007. €25, 00 (cloth). ISBN: 9788860361639
Carlino, Andrea et Alexandre Wenger. Littérature et médecine. Approches et perspectives (XVIe-XIXe siècles). 288 pp., index. Genève: Librairie Droz S.A., 2007. ISBN: 9782600011464
Collins, Harry and Robert Evans. Rethinking Expertise. 160pp., illus., figs., tables, biblio., index. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. US $29.99 (cloth). ISBN: 9780226113609
Engels, Eve-Marie. Charles Darwin. 256 pp., figs., biblio., index. München: Verlag C. H. Beck, 2007. €20, 00 (paper). ISBN: 9783406547638
Gossin, Pamela. Thomas Hardy's Novel Universe; Astronomy, Cosmology, and Gender in the Post-Darwinian World. (The Nineteenth Century.) xvii + 318 pp., illus., biblio., index. Ashgate, 2007. $99.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780754603368
Green, Ronald M. Babies by Design. The Ethics of Genetic Choice. 288 pp., illus., index. New Haven: Yale University Press, $26 (cloth). ISBN: 9780300125467
Grell, Ole Peter and Andrew Cunningham (eds.). Medicine and Religion in Enlightenment Europe (The History of Medicine in Context Series). 267 pp., illus., index. Burlington VT.: Ashgate, 2007. $99.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780754656388
Grier, David Alan. When Computers Were Human. 424 pp., apps., biblio. index. Princeton University Press, 2005. $19.95 (paper). ISBN: 9780691133829
Gronim, Sara S. Everyday Nature. Knowledge of the Natural World in Colonial New York. x + 261 pp., index. Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2007. $49.95 (cloth). ISBN: 0813540240
Hoskin, Michael. The Herschels of Hanover. x + 182 pp., figs., index. Cambridge: Science History Publications Ltd., 2007. $70 (cloth). ISBN: 9780905193076
Hopkins, Peter Gwynvay (ed.). Bernard Heuvelmans' The Natural History of Hidden Animals. xii + 145 pp., figs., index. London: Kegan Paul, 2007. $120 (cloth). ISBN: 9780710313331
Jacob, Margaret C. The Origins of Freemasonry. Facts and Fiction. 168 pp., illus., figs., index. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. $19.95 (paper). ISBN: 0812219880
Kemp, Martin. The Human Animal in Western Art and Science. 320 pp. illus., figs., bibl., index. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. $40 (cloth). ISBN: 9780226430331
King, David A. Astrolabes and Angels, Epigrams and Enigmas: From Regiomontanus' Acrostic for Cardinal Bessarion to Piero della Francesca's Flagellation of Christ. (Boethius, 56.) 348 pp., illus., figs., bibl., index, CD ROM. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2007. ISBN: 9783515090612
Largent, Mark A. Breeding Contempt: The History of Coerced Sterilization in the United States. x + 240 pp., figs., tables, index. Rutgers University Press, 2007. $34.95, (cloth). ISBN: 9780813541822
Lightman, Bernard. Victorian Popularizers of Science. Designing Nature for New Audiences. xvi + 528 pp., figs., biblio., index. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. $45 (cloth). ISBN: 9780226481180
McCarthy, Tom. Auto Mania. Cars, Consumers, and the Environment. xi + 384 pp., illus., index. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. $32.50 (cloth). ISBN: 9780300110388
McGhee, Robert. The Last Imaginary Place. A Human History of the Arctic World. 296 pp., maps, index. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2007. $18 (cloth). ISBN: 9780226500898
Montforte, Guillermo Lusa (Editor). La Escuela de Ingenieros en Guerra (1936-1938). (Documentos de la Escuela de Ingenieros Industriales de Barcelona, 17.) 308 pp., figs. Barcelona: Guillermo Lusa Monforte, 2007. ISBN: 11370238
Morrison, Robert G. Islam and Science. The intellectual career of Nizam al-Din al Nisaburi. viii + 301 pp., figs., biblio., index. London: Routledge, 2007. $140 (cloth). ISBN: 9780415772341
Mühlberger, Kurt. Palast der Wissenschaft. Ein historischer Spaziergang durch das Hauptgebäude der Alma Mater Rudolphina Vindobonensis. Vienna: Böhlau Wien Ges.m.b.H. & Co.KG, 2007. € 24.90 (cloth). ISBN: 9783205776192
Murphy, Nancey and Warren S. Brown. Did My Neurons Make Me Do It? Philosophical and Neurobiological Perspectives on Moral Responsibility and Free Will. xvii + 334 pp., figs., tables, biblio., index. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. $65 (cloth). ISBN: 9780199215393
Mussell, James. Science, Time and Space in Late Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press. (The Nineteenth Century Series.) xiii + 252 pp., figs., bibl., index. Ashgate, 2007. $99.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780754657477
Nummedal, Tara. Alchemy and Authority in the Holy Roman Empire. xiii + 256 pp., figs., biblio., index. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. $37.50 (cloth). ISBN: 9780226608563
Parezo, Nancy J. and Don D. Fowler. Anthropology Goes to the Fair. The 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition. xiii + 538 pp., illus., apps., index. Lincoln NE.: University of Nebraska Press, 2007. $68.75 (cloth). ISBN: 9780803237599
Rabinow, Paul. Marking Time. On the Anthropolgy of the Contemporary. xiv + 149 pp., biblio., index. New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2007. $19.95 (paper). ISBN: 9780691133638
Reagan, Leslie J., Nancy Tomes, and Paula A. Treichler (eds.). Medicine's Moving Pictures. Medicine, Health, and Bodies in American Film and Television. vi + 343 pp., illus., index. University of Rochester Press, 2007. $85 (cloth). ISBN: 9781580462341
Renwick Monroe, Kristen, Ronald B. Miller & Jerome Tobis (eds.). Fundamentals of the Stem Cell Debate. The Scientific, Religious, Ethical & Political Issues. 218 pp., index. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. £11.95 (paper). ISBN: 9780520252127
Richardson, Alan and Thomas Uebel (eds.). The Cambridge Companion to Logical Empiricism. 431 pp., biblio., index. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. $34.99 (paper). ISBN: 9780521796286
Schickore, Jutta. The Microscope and the Eye. A History of Reflections, 1740-1870. ix+ 320 pp., illus., index. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. $40 (cloth). ISBN: 9780226717843
Selfridge-Field, Eleanor. Song and Season. Science, Culture, and Theatrical Time in Early Modern Venicehttp://www.amazon.com/Song-Season-Theatrical-Calendar-Venetian/dp/0804757658/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1197399837&sr=1-5. 391 pp., illus., figs., tabs., abbs., index. Palo Alto, California: Stanford University Press, 2007. $60 (cloth). ISBN: 9780804757652
Shell-Gellasch, Amy (ed.). Hands on History. A Resource Guide for Teaching Mathematics. 220 pp. Washington, D.C.: The Mathematical Associations of America, 2007. $44.95 (paper). ISBN: 9780883851814
Stanley, Matthew. Practical Mystic. Religion, Science, and A. S. Eddington. x + 320 pp., figs., biblio., index. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. $37.50 (cloth). ISBN: 9780226770970
Tavernor, Robert. Smoot’s Ear. The Measure of Humanity. 224 pp., illus., index. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. $25 (cloth). ISBN: 9780300124927
Zone, Ray. Stereoscopic Cinema and the Origins of 3-D Film 1838-1952. ix + 232 pp., figs., index. The University Press of Kentucky, 2007. $42 (cloth). ISBN: 9780813124612
