Isis Books Received
17 January 2008 to 26 February 2008
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Anglicus, Bartholomaeus. De Proprietatibus Rerum: Volume I (Prohemium, Libri I-IV). Edited by Heinz Meyer, Michael W. Twomey, Bernd Roling, and James Long. (Collections of Studies from the International Academy of the History of Science, 78.) x + 242 pp., fig., bibl.. Turnhout: Brepols, 2007. €50.00 (cloth). ISBN: 9782503512693
Anglicus, Bartholomaeus. De Proprietatibus Rerum: Volume VI (Liber XVII). Edited by Lolanda Ventura. (Collections of Studies from the International Academy of the History of Science, 79.) XLIXI + 262 pp., bibl.. Turnhout: Brepols, 2007. €50.00 (cloth). ISBN: 9782503525372
Augustine, Dolores L. Red Prometheus: Engineering and Dictatorship in East Germany, 1945-1990. xxvii + 448 pp., illus., apps., bibl., index. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2007. $40.00 (cloth). ISBN: 9780262012362
Bartz, Olaf. Der Wissenschaftsrat: Entwicklungslinien der Wissenschaftspolitik in der Bundesrepublik Deutchland 1957-2007. 328 pp., figs., apps., bibl., index. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2007. €44.00 (paper). ISBN: 9783515090742
Bentley, Peter J. The Book of Numbers: The Secret of Numbers and How They Changed the World. 272 pp., illus., figs., tables, bibl., index. Buffalo: Firefly Books, 2008. $29.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9781554073610
Booker, John. Maritime Quarantine: The British Experience, c.1650-1900. (The History of Medicine in Context.) 624 pp., illus., figs., tables, apps., bibl., index. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007. $124.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780754661788
Bray, Francesca; Dorofeeva-Lichtmann, Vera; Métailié, Georges (Editors). Graphics and Text in the Production of Technical Knowledge in China: The Warp and the Weft. (Sinica Leidensia, 79.) xiii + 772 pp., illus., figs., tables, index. Leiden: Brill, 2007. $199.00 (cloth). ISBN: 9789004160637
Burek, C.V.; Higgs, B. (Editors).The Role of Women in the History of Geology. (Geological Society Special Publication, 281). viii + 352 pp., figs., index. London: The Geological Society, 2007. $102 (cloth). ISBN: 9781862392274
Campbell, Nancy D. Discovering Addiction: The Science and Politics of Substance Abuse Research. xviii + 301 pp., figs., bibl., index. Michigan: University of Michigan Press, 2007. $50.00 (cloth). ISBN: 9780472116102
Carhart, Michael C. The Science of Culture in Enlightenment Germany. xii + 360 pp., illus., index. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007. $49.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780674026179
Carrier, Martin; Howard, Don; Kourany, Janet (Editors). The Challenge of the Social and the Pressure of Practice: Science and Values Revisited. x + 262 pp., index. Pittsburg: University of Pittsburg, 2008. $50.00 (cloth). ISBN: 9780822943174
Chappert, André. Histoire de l'optique ondulatoire De Fresnel à Maxwell. 314 pp., biblio., index. Paris: Éditions Belin, 2007. €35 (paper). ISBN: 97820701133454
Collet, Dominik. Die Welt in der Stube: Begegnungen mit Außereuropa in Kunstkammern der Frühen Neuzeit. (Veröffentlichungen es Max-Planck-Instituts für Geschichte, 232.) 403 pp., illus., figs., app., bibl., indexes. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2007. € 68,90 (cloth). ISBN: 9783525358887
Crozier, Ivan (Editor). Sexual Inversion. Havelock Ellis and John Addington Symonds. A Critical Edition. vii + 352 pp., apps., bibl., index. Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. $18.99 (cloth). ISBN: 978023000803
d'Alembert, Jean Le Rond. Textes De Mathématiques Pures 1745-1752. (Oeuvres Complètes, Série I: Traités et Mémoires Mathématiques 1736-1756, 4a.) cxviii + 436 pp., figs., bibls., indexes. Paris: CNRS Éditions, 2007. €60.00 (cloth). ISBN: 9782271060133
Delbourgo, James; Dew, Nicholas (Editors). Science and Empire in the Atlantic World. xiv + 365 pp., figs., tables, index. New York and London: Routledge, 2008. $31.95 (paper). ISBN: 9780415961271
d'Espagnet, Jean. La Philosophie Naturelle Rétablie en sa Pureté suivi de L'Ouvrage Secret de la Philosophie d'Hermès. Foreword by Didier Kahn. Translated by Jean Bachou. (Beya Éditions, 8). xxxvi + 192 pp. Originally published in 1651. Brussels: Beya Éditions, 2007. €34.00 (cloth). ISBN: 9782960057515
Doncel, Manuel García; Rosell, Antoni Roca. Observatorio del Ebro. Un siglo de historia (1904-2004). 310 pp., illus., maps, bibl., index. Publicaciones del Observatorio del Ebro, memoria no. 18. Roquetes: Observatorio del Ebro, 2007. ISBN: 9788488253057
Downey, Gregory J. Closed Captioning: Subtitling, Stenography, and the Digital Convergence of Text with Television. (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology.) xii + 387 pp., figs., index. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. $52.00 (cloth). ISBN: 9780801887109
Durant, Aline (Editor). Plantes Exploitées Plantes Cultivées: Cultures, Techniques et Discours. (Cahier d'Histoire des Techniques, 6.) 177 pp., figs., tables, bibl.. Aix-en-Provence: Publications de l'Université de Provence, 2007. €20.00 (paper).ISBN: 9782853996822
Ehrenreich, Eric. The Nazi Ancestral Proof. Genealogy, Racial Science, and the Final Solution. xvii + 234 pp., apps., bibl., index. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007. $34.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780253349453
Elkins, James (Editor). Visual Practices Across the University. 30 pp., illus., figs. Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2007. €34.90 (paper). ISBN: 9783770543731
Fairbanks, Daniel J. Relics of Eden: The Powerful Evidence of Evolution in Human DNA. 281 pp., illus., figs., apps., bibl., index. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2007. $24.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9781591025641
Ferry, Georgina. Max Perutz and the Secret of Life. xii + 352 pp., illus., figs., index. Woodbury, NY: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2007. $39 (cloth). ISBN: 9780879697853
Fische, Manuela; Bolz, Peter; Kamel, Susan (Editors). Adolf Bastian and his Universal Archive of Humanity: The Origins of German Anthropology. 637 pp., illus., figs., bibl., index. Hildesheim: Georg Holms Verlag, 2007. €78 (paper). ISBN: 9783487135281
Gardey, Delphine. Écrire, calculer, classer. Comment une révolution de papier a transformé les sociétés contemporaines (1800-1940). 320 pp., bibl., table. Paris: Éditions La Découverte, 2008. €25 (paper). ISBN: 9782707153678
Golley, Gregory. When Our Eyes No Longer See: Realism, Science, and Ecology in Japanese Literary Modernism. (Harvard East Asian Monographs, 296.) 394 pp., bibl., index. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2008. $39.95 (cloth). 9780674027947
Gordon, Stewart. When Asia Was the World: Traveling Merchants, Scholars, Warriors, and Monks Who Created the 'Riches of the East'. viii + 228 pp., illus., figs., bibl., index. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2007. $26 (cloth). ISBN: 9780306815560
Grant, Peter R.; Grant, B. Rosemary. How and Why Species Multiply: The Radiation of Darwin's Finches. xix +218 pp., illus., figs., bibl., indexes. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008. $35 (cloth). ISBN: 9780691133607
Grinevald, Jacques. La Biosphère de l'Anthropocène: Climat et Pétrole, la Double Menace. Repères Transdisciplinaires (1824-2007). (Collection Stratégies Énergétiques, Biosphères & Société.) 293 pp., illus., figs., index. Chêne-Bourg/Geneva: Georg Éditeur, 2007. €30 (paper). ISBN: 9782825709412
Gunn, Angus M. Encyclopedia of Disasters: Environmental Catastrophes and Human Tragedies, 2 vols. 735 pp., illus., figs., tables, apps., bibl., index. Westport: Greenwood Press, 2008. $175 (cloth). ISBN: 9780313340031 (vol. 1). ISBN: 9780313340048 (vol. 2).
Hedeen, Stanley. Big Bone Lick: The Cradle of American Paleontology. Foreword by John Mack Faragher. xviii + 182 pp., illus., figs., index. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2008. $24.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780813124858
Hackett, Edward J.; Amsterdamska, Olga; Lynch, Michael; Wajcman, Judy. The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies. xi + 1080 pp., illus., indexes. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007. $55.00 (cloth). ISBN: 9780262083645
Haney, David Paul. The Americanization of Social Science: Intellectuals and Public Responsibility in the Postwar United States. xii + 283 pp., bibl., index. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2008. $39.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9781592167138
Hansell, Mike. Built by Animals: The Natural History of Animal Architecture. viii + 268 pp., illus., figs., bibl., index. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. $29.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780199205561
Herrán, Néstor; Simon, Josep; Guillem-Llobat, Ximo; Navarro, Tayra Lanuza; Castel, Pedro Ruiz; Navarro, Jaume (Editors). Synergia: Primer Encuentro de Jóvenes Investigadores en Historia de la Ciencia. 447 pp., figs. Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigadores Científiqas, 2007. € 29.00 (paper). ISBN: 9788400085780
Hiscock, Nigel. The Symbol at Your Door: Number and Geometry in Religious Architecture of the Greek and Latin Middle Ages. 421 pp., illus., figs., bibl., index. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007. $99.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780754663003
Hope, Janet. Biobazaar: The Open Source Revolution and Biotechnology. 428 pp., bibl., index. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007. $27.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780674026353
Hughes, Barnabas (Editor). Fibonacci's De Practictica Geometrie. Foreword by Frank Swetz. (Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences.) xxxvi + 412 pp., figs., tables, app., bibl., index. New York: Springer Science+Business Media, 2008. $129.00 (cloth). ISBN: 9780387729305
Hughes, J. T. Essays in Medical Biography. xi + 204 pp., illus., figs., index. Oxford: Rimes House, 2008. £20.00 (cloth). ISBN: 9781874317012
Hull, David L.; Ruse, Michael (Editors). The Cambridge Companion to the Philosophy of Biology. xxvii + 513 pp., illus., figs., tables, bibl., index. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. $34.99 (paper). ISBN: 9780521616713
Jackson, P. N. Wyse (Editor). Four Centuries of Geological Travel: The Search for Knowledge on Foot, Bicycle, Sledge and Camel. (Geological Society Special Publications, 287.) vi + 415 pp., illus., figs., index. Bath: Geological Society Publishing House, 2007. $180 (cloth). ISBN: 9781862392342
King, Mike. Secularism: The Hidden Origins of Disbelief. 323 pp., bibl., index. Cambridge: James Clark. $39 (paper). ISBN: 9780227172452
Koblitz, Neal. Random Curves: Journeys of a Mathematician. 392 pp., figs., index. Berlin: Springer, 2008. $49.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9783540740773
Kuklick, Henrika (Editor). A New History of Anthropology. viii + 402 pp., illus., figs., bibl., index. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2008. $39.99 (paper). ISBN: 9780631226000
Lesy, Michael. Murder City: The Bloody History of Chicago in the Twenties. 344 pp., figs., index. New York: W. W. Norton, 2008. $15.95 (paper) ISBN: 9780393330595
Longeway, John Lee. Demonstration and Scientific Knowledge in William of Ockham. A Translation of Summa Logicae III-II: De Syllogismo Demonstrativo, and Selections from the Prologue to the Ordinato. xx + 433 pp., apps., bibl., index. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2007. $58 (cloth). ISBN: 9780268033781
McConnell, Anita. Jesse Ramden (1735-1800): London's Leading Instrument Maker. (Science, Technology and Culture, 1700-1945.) Foreword by Lord Martin Rees. xxii + 318 pp., illus., figs., apps., bibl., index. Burlington: Ashgate, 2007. $99.95 (cloth). ISBN: 978075466138
Martin, Thierry (Coordinator). Le Tout & Les Parties Dans les Systèmes Naturels: Écologie, Biologie, Médecine, Astronomie, Physique et Chimie. (Philosophie des Sciences.) ix + 241 pp., illus., bibl., index. Paris: Vuibert, 2007. €28 (paper).ISBN: 9782711740468
Mattulat, Martin. Medizinethik in historischer Perspektive: Zum Wandel ärztlicher Moralkonzepte im Werk von Georg Benno Gruber (1884-1977). (Geschicte und Philosophie der Medizin, 3) 187 pp., figs., tables, app., bibl.. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2007. €39.00 (cloth). ISBN: 9783515088633
Moon, Suzanne. Technology and Ethical Idealism. A History of Development in the Netherlands East Indies. (Studies in Overseas History, 9.) viii + 186 pp., illus., bibl., index. Leiden: CNWS Publications, 2007. €35 (paper). ISBN: 9789057891564
Morton Jr., David L.; Gabriel, Joseph. Electronics: The Life Story of a Technology. xi + 201 pp., illus., figs., bibl., index. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. $19.95 (paper). ISBN: 9780801887734
Nuzzaci, Francesco. L’idea Della Vita: Saggio su Claude Bernard.(Saggi, 16.) 373 pp., bibl., index. Leece: Edizioni Milella, 2006. €20.00 (paper).ISBN: 978870750836
O'Connor, Ralph. The Earth on Show. Fossils and the Poetics of Popular Science, 1802-1856. xiii+ 541 pp., illus., figs., app., bibl., index. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. $45 (cloth). ISBN: 9780226616681
Olson, Richard G. Science and Scientism in Nineteenth-Century Europe. ix + 349 pp., figs., index. Champaign: IL: University of Illinois Press, 2007. $27 (paper). ISBN: 9780252074332
Owen, Richard. On The Nature of Limbs. A Discourse. Edited by Ron Amundson. cii + 120 pp., figs., plates. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2007. $20 (paper).ISBN: 9780226641935
Packard, Randall M. The Making of a Tropical Disease: A Short History of Malaria. Foreword by Charles E. Rosenberg. xvii + 296 pp., figs., tables, index. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. $24.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780801887123
Payne, Linda. With Words and Knives. Learning Medical Dispassion in Early Modern England. x + 182 pp., illus., bibl., index. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2007. $99.95 (cloth). ISBN: 978075463689
Pedersen, Olaf. The Two Books. Historical Notes on Some Interactions Between Natural Science and Theology. Edited by George V. Coyne and Tadeusz Sierotowicz. xix + 424 pp., app., bibl., index. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 2007. $22 (paper). ISBN: 9788820979010
Peitzman, Steven J. Dropsy, Dialysis, Transplant: A Short History of Failing Kidneys. Foreword by Charles E. Rosenberg. (Johns Hopkins Biographies of Disease.) xxi + 213 pp., illus., figs., index. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. $24.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780801887345
Poinar Jr., George; Poinar, Roberta. What Bugged the Dinosaurs? Insects, Disease, and Death in the Cretaceous. x + 264 pp., illus., figs., apps., bibl., index. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008. $29.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780691124315
Prescott, Heather Munro. Student Bodies: The Influence of Student Health Services in American Society and Medicine. (Conversations in Medicine and Society.) Foreword by Alexandra Minna Stern and Howard Markel. xiv + 234 pp., figs., bibl., index. Michigan: University of Michigan Press, 2007. $50.00 (cloth). ISBN: 9780472116089
Quinlan, Sean M. The Great Nation in Decline. Sex, Modernity and Health Crises in Revolutionary France c. 1750-1850. x + 265 pp., bibl., index. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2007. $99.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780754660989
Quinn, Helen R.; Nir, Yossi. The Mystery of the Missing Antimatter. x + 278 pp., figs., app., index. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008. $29.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780691133096
Rabusseau, Raphaël; Delvaux, Pascal. Les Neiges Labiles: Une histoire culturelle de l'avalanche au XVIIIe siècle. (Travaux d'Histoire Suisse, 4.) xvi + 176pp. Geneva: Presse d'Histoire Suisse, 2007. $60 (cloth). ISBN: 9782970046141
Radick, Gregory. The Simian Tongue. The Long Debate about Animal Language. xiv + 577 pp., figs., bibl., index. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. $45 (cloth). ISBN: 9780226702247
Reeves, Eileen. Galileo's Glassworks: The Telescope and the Mirror. 231 pp., index. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008. $21.95 (cloth). ISBN: 978067402667
Ruggles, Clive; Urton, Gary (Editors). Skywatching in the Ancient World: New Perspectives in Cultural Astronomy. (Mesoamerican Worlds Series.) xxiii + 392 pp., illus., fogs., tables, index. Boulder, Colorado: University Press of Colorado, 2007. $65 (cloth). ISBN: 9780870818875
Rosenberg, Charles E. Our Present Complaint. American Medicine, Then and Now. vi + 214 pp., index. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. $19.95 (paper). ISBN: 9780801887161
Rütten, Thomas. Geschichten vom Hippokratischen Eid. Wolfenbüttel: Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel, 2007. €20 (CD-Rom). ISBN: 9783447056793
Schultka, Rüdiger; Neumann, Josef N. (Editors); with assistance from Susanne Weidemann. Anatomie und Anatomische Sammlungen im 18. Jahrhundert. Anlässlich der 250. Wiederkehr des Geburtstages von Phillip Friedrich Theodor Meckel (1755-1803). (Wissenschsftsgeschichte, 1.) 516 pp., illus., figs. Berlin: LIT Verlag, 2007. € 49.90 (cloth). ISBN: 9783825897559
Siraisi, Nancy G. History, Medicine, and the Traditions of Renaissance Learning. xvii + 438 pp., figs., bibl., index. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2007. $75 (cloth). ISBN: 9780472116027
Smith, P. D. Doomsday Men: The Real Dr. Strangelove and the Dream of the Superweapon. xxii + 553 pp., figs., bibl., index. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2007. $27.95 (cloth). ISBN: 031237397X
Steel, Daniel P. Across the Boundaries: Extrapolation in Biology and Social Science. (Environmental Ethics and Science Policy Series, 5.) xii + 241pp., figs., bibl., index. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. $65.00 (cloth). ISBN: 9780195331448
Summers-Bremner, Eluned. Insomnia: A Cultural History. 176 pp., illus., figs., bibl. London: Reaktion Books, 2007. $29.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9781861893178
Szasz, Thomas. Coercion as Cure: A Critical History of Psychiatry. xv + 293 pp., bibl., index. New Jersey: Transaction Publishers, 2007. $34.95. ISBN: 9780765803795
Thiele, Rüdiger. Von der Bernoullischen Brachistochrone zum Kalibrator-Konzept. (De Diversis Artibus: Collection de Travaux de l'Académie Internationale D'Histoire des Sciences, 80.) 828 pp., figs., app., bibl., indexes. Turnhout: Brepolis, 2007. (cloth). ISBN: 9782503524382
Tucker, Todd R. The Great Starvation Experiment. Ancel Keys and the Men Who Starved for Science. 288 pp., index. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008. $17.95 (paper). ISBN: 978816651610
Van den Abeele, Baudouin (Editor). Bestiaires Médiévaux: Nouvelles Perspectives sur les Manuscrits et les Traditions Textuelles. (Publications de l'Institut d'Études Médiévales, 21.) (Communications présentées au XVe Colloque de la Société Internationale Renardienne, August 19-22, 2003, Louvain-la-Neuve.) x + 318 pp., illus, figs., bibl., indexes. Louvain-la-Neuve: Université Catholique de Louvain, 2005. €45.00 (paper). ISBN: 9782503519838
Vernet, Joan; Parés, Ramon (Editors). Del Naixement de la Ciència Moderna a la il Lustració. (La Ciència en la Hisòria dels Països Catalans, II.) 775 pp., illus., figs., tables, indexes. CITY: Institut d'Estudis Catalans, 2007. €50.00 (cloth). ISBN: 9788437060484
Veron, J. E. N. A Reef in Time. The Great Barrier Reef From Beginning to End. ix + 289 pp., glossary, index. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2008. $35 (cloth). ISBN: 9780674026797
Wald, Priscilla. Contagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative. xiii + 373 pp., illus., bibl., index. Durham: Duke University Press, 2008. $23.95 (paper). ISBN: 9780822341536
Wallace IV, Edwin R.; Gach, John (Editors). History of Psychiatry and Medical Psychology. xlix + 862 pp., glossary, index. New York: Springer Science, 2008. $89 (cloth). ISBN: 9780387347073
