Isis Books Received
1 November - 30 November 2008
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Anderson, Warwick. The Collectors of Lost Souls: Turning Kuru Scientists into Whitemen. 318 pp., illus., bibl., index. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. $24.95 (coth). ISBN: 9780801890406.
Bala, Poonam (Editor). Biomedicine as a Contested Site: Some Revelations in Imperial Contexts. x + 197 pp., illus., index. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2009. $26.05 (paper). ISBN: 9780739124611.
Clericuzio, Antonio; Ernst, Germana; Conforti, Maria. Le Scienze. (Il Rinascimento Italiano e l'Europa, 5.) xviii + 820 pp., illus., index. Treviso: Fondazione Cassamarca ; Costabissara: Angelo Colla Editore, 2008. €95.00 (cloth). ISBN: 9788889527429.
Danziger, Kurt. Marking the Mind: A History of Memory. viii + 305 pp., index. bibl., New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. $45.00 (paper). ISBN: 9780521726412.
Goldenbaum, Ursela; Jesseph, Douglas (Editors). Infinitesimal Differences: Controversies between Leibniz and his Contemporaries. vi + 327 pp., bibl., index. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2008. €72.90 (cloth). ISBN: 9783110202168.
Gray, Jeremy. Plato's Ghost: The Modernist Transformation of Mathematics. x + 515 pp., illus., app., bibl., index. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008. $45.00 (cloth). ISBN: 9780691136103.
Hiatt, Alfred. Terra Incognita: Mapping the Antipodes before 1600. xii + 298 pp., illus., bibl., indexes. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. $60 (cloth). ISBN: 9780226333038.
Popper, Karl. After the Open Society: Selected Social and Political Writings. Edited by Jeremy Shearmur and Piers Norris Turner. xxxiv + 493 pp., index. New York: Routledge, 2008. $90 (cloth). ISBN: 9780415309080.
