Isis Books Received
1 January - 14 March 2009
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Akerman, James R. The Imperial Map: Cartography and the Mastery of Empire. (The Kenneth Nebenzahl, Jr., Lectures in the History of Cartography.) viii + 367 pp., illus., index. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. $60 (cloth). ISBN: 9780226010762.
Angulo, A. J. William Barton Rogers and the Idea of MIT. xv + 220 pp., illus., bibl., index. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. $55 (cloth). ISBN: 9780801890338.
Armus, Diego. La ciudad impura: Salud, tuverculosis y cultura en Buenos Aires, 1870-1950. 413 pp., illus., bibl. Buenos Aires: Edhasa, 2007. $45.88 (paper). ISBN: 9789876280020.
Artigas Mariano and Melchor Sánchez de Toca. Galileo y el Vaticano: Historia de la Comisión Pontificia de Estudio del Caso Galileo (1981-1992). xxiv + 225 pp., index. Madrid: Biblioteca de Autores Christianos, 2008. €14.50 (paper). ISBN: 9788479149192.
Ash, Mitchell and Thomas Sturm (Eds). Psychology's Territories: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives from Different Disciplines. Foreword by Paul B. Baltes. xxviii + 374 pp., illus., tables., bibl., indexes. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2007. $125.00 (cloth). ISBN: 9780805861365.
Bach, Thomas, Jonas Maatsch and Ulrich Rasche (Editors). Gelehrte Wissenschaft. Das Vorlesungsprogramm der Universität Jena um 1800. (Pallas Athene: Beiträge zur Universitäts und Wissenschaftsgeschichte, 26.) 329 pp., index. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2008. €44 (cloth). ISBN: 9783515089944.
Barroux, Gilles. Philosophie, maladie et médecine au XVIIIe siècle. (Les Dix-Huitièmes Siècles, 121.). 445 pp., app., bibl. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2008. $112.64 (cloth). ISBN: 9782745317827.
Bernoulli, Jacob. The Art of Conjecturing, together with Letter to a Friend on Sets in Court Tennis. Translated by Edith Dudley Sylla. xx + 430 pp.,illus., tables, bibl., index. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. $70 (cloth). ISBN: 0801882354.
Berti, Sylvio. La Lebbra a Firenze: I luoghi e I personnaggi. (Biblioteca di Medicina e Storia, 5.) 348 pp., illus., bibl., index. Florence: Edizioni Polistampa, 2005. €18 (paper). ISBN: 978888304293.
Bleichmar, Daniela, Paula De Vos, Kristin Huffine and Kevin Sheehan (Editors.) Science in the Spanish and Portuguese Empires, 1500-1800. xxii + 427 pp., illus., tables, index. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2009. $65 (cloth). ISBN: 9780804753586.
Boivin, Nicole. Material Cultures, Material Minds: The Impact of Things on Human Thought, Society and Evolution. xviii + 269 pp., illus., tables, bibl., index. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. $85.00 (cloth). ISBN: 9780521873970.
Bork, Robert and Andrea Kann (Editors). The Art, Science, and Technology of Medieval Travel. (AVISTA Studies in the History of Medieval Technology, Science and Art, 6.) xiv + 225 pp., tables, illus., index. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2008. 99.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780754663072.
Bourbon, Nicolas. Nugaes-Bagatelles 1533. Edited by Sylvie Laigneau-Fontaine. (Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance.) 1059 pp., apps., bibl. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2008. $172 (paper). ISBN: 9782600012263.
Barbour, Reid and Claire Preston (Editors.) Sir Thomas Browne: The World Proposed. xii + 368 pp., bibl., index. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. $120 (cloth). ISBN: 9780199236213.
Blackwell, Richard J. Behind the Scenes at Galileo's Trial: Including the First English Translation of Melchior Inchofer's Tractatus syllepticus. xiii + 245 pp. index., Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2006. $35 (cloth). ISBN: 0268022011.
Bridson, Gavin. The History of Natural History: An annotated bibliography - Second Edition. xxxii + 1032 pp., illus., tables, bibls., indexes. London: The Linnean Society of London, 2008. £65.00 (cloth). ISBN: 9780950620787.
Brush, Jack E. Naturwissenschaft als Herausforderung für die Theologie. Eine historisch-systematische Darstellung. (Natur, Wissenschaft, Theologie: Kontexte in Geschichte und Gegenwart, 3.) ii + 384 pp., bibl. Zürich: LIT Verlag, 2008. €34,90 (paper). ISBN: 9783037351772.
Van Brummelen, Glen. The Mathematics of the Heavens and the Earth: The Early History of Trigonometry. xvii + 329 pp., illus., bibl., index. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009. $39.50 (cloth). ISBN: 9780691129730.
de Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc. OEuvres complètes II: Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière, avec la description du Cabinet du Roy. Tome II (1749). Edited by Stéphane Schmitt and Cédric Crémière. (L'Âge Des Lumières, 45.) 805 pp. illus., apps., bibl., indexes. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2008. €130 (cloth). ISBN: 9782745317292.
Burdick, Bruce Stanley. Mathematical Works Printed in the Americas, 1554-1700. (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Mathematics.) x + 373 pp., illus., apps., bibl., indexes. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. $55 (cloth). ISBN: 9780801888236
Burguete, Maria and Lui Lam (Editors). Science Matters: Humanities as Complex Systems. xv + 271 pp., illus., index. Hackensack, NJ: World Scientific, 2008. $48 (cloth). ISBN: 9789812835932.
Canguilhem, Georges. Knowledge of Life. Edited by Paola Marrati and Todd Meyers. Translated by Stefanos Geroulanos and Daniela Ginsburg. xv + 202 pp., bibl., index. New York: Fordham University Press, 2008. $24 (paper). ISBN: 9780823229260.
Campi, Emidio, Simone De Angelis;, Anja-Silvia Goeing and Anthony T. Grafton (Editors). Scholarly Knowledge: Textbooks in Early Modern Europe. (Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance, 447.) 445 pp., illus., index. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2008. $110 (cloth). ISBN: 9782600011860.
Cessario, Romanus. The Moral Virtues and Theological Ethics (2nd ed.). Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 2009. $25 (paper). ISBN: 9780268022976.
Cheung, Tobias. Res vivens: Agentenmodelle organischer Ordnung 1600-1800. (Berliner Kelturwissenschaft, 8.) 317 pp., bibls., indexes. Freiburg: Rombach Verlag, 2008. €48 (cloth). ISBN: 9783793095422.
Conway, Erik M. Atmospheric Science at NASA: A History. (New Series in NASA History.) xx + 386 pp., illus., tables, index. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. $55.00 (cloth). ISBN: 9780801889844.
Cosans, Christopher E. Owen's Ape and Darwin's Bulldog: Beyond Darwinism and Creationism. xxi + 166 pp., illus., apps., bibl., index. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2009. $55 (cloth). ISBN: 9780253352729.
Craft, Stephen G. At War: Aviation Training During World War II. (The Florida History and Culture Series.) xv + 313 pp., illus., bibls., index. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2009. $34.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780813032993.
Crease, Robert P. The Great Equations: Breakthroughs in Science from Pythagoras to Heisenberg. 315 pp., illus., index. New York: W. W. Norton, 2008. $25.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780393062045.
Cross, Gary and Rick Szostak. Technology and American Society: A History (2nd ed.). xv + 368 pp., illus., index. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2005. $61.80 (paper). ISBN: 9780131896437.
Daston, Lorraine and Michael Stolleis (Editors). Natural Law and the Laws of Nature in Early Modern Europe: Jurisprudence, Theology, Moral and Natural Philosophy. xiii + 338 pp., illus., bibl., index. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2008. $134.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780754657613.
de Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc. OEuvres complètes II: Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière, avec la description du Cabinet du Roy. Tome II (1749). Edited by Stéphane Schmitt and Cédric Crémière. (L'Âge Des Lumières, 45.) 805 pp. illus., apps., bibl., indexes. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2008. €130 (cloth). ISBN: 9782745317292.
De Vun, Leah. Prophecy, Alchemy, and the End of Time: John of Rupescissa in the Late Middle Ages. xiii + 255 pp., illus., bibl., index. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. $50 (cloth). ISBN: 9780231145381.
Desmond, Adrian and James Moore. Darwin's Sacred Cause: How a Hatred of Slavery Shaped Darwin's Views on Human Evolution. xx + 455 pp., illus., bibl., index. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009. $30.00 (paper). ISBN: 9780547055268.
Desrosières, Alain. Gouverner par les nombres. L'argument statistique II. (Collection Scinces Sociales.) 336 pp., illus., bibl., index. Paris: Les Presses de l'École des Mines, 2008. €29 (paper). ISBN: 9782356710055.
Di Martino, Carla. Ratio Particularis: Doctrines des sens internes d'Avicenne à Thomas d'Aquin. (Études de Philosophie Médiévale, 94.) 187 pp., bibl. Paris: J. Vrin, 2008. €30 (paper). ISBN: 9782711619795.
Dick, Steven J. Remembering the Space Age: Proceedings of the 50th Anniversary Conference. xiii + 465 pp., illus., index. Washington, DC: NASA History Division, 2008. $54 (cloth). ISBN: 9780160817236.
Dorr, Gregory Michael. Segregation's Science: Eugenics & Society in Virginia. (Carter G. Woodson Institute Series). xi + 297 pp., illus., tables, bibls., index. Charlottesville/London: University of Virginia Press, 2008. $45 (cloth). ISBN: 9780813927558.
Drexler-Gormann, Birgit. Jüdische Ärzte in Frankfurt am Main, 1933-1945: Isolation, Vertreibung, Ermordung. Foreword by Jörg-Dietrich Hoppe. 142 pp., illus., tables, bibl. Frankfurt am Main: Mabuse-Verlag, 2009. €16.90 (paper). ISBN: 9783940529374.
Dreyfus, Hubert L. On the Internet. (Thinking in Action.) xii + 168 pp., illus., index. New York: Routledge, 2009, $17.95 (paper). ISBN: 9780415775168.
Duffin, Jacalyn. Medical Miracles: Doctors, Saints, and Healing in the Modern World. xviii + 285 pp., apps., illus., tables, bibl., index. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. $29.25 (cloth). ISBN: 9780195336504.
Dusenbery, David B. Living at Microscale: The Unexpected Physics of Being Small. xxx + 416 pp., illus., tables, bibl., index. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009. $49.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780674031166.
Ebert, Andreas D. Jüdische Hockschullehre an preußischen Universitäten (1870-1924): Eine quantitative Untersuchung mit biografischen Skizzen. 673 pp., illus., bibl., index. Frankfurt: Mabuse-Verlag, 2008. €68 (cloth). ISBN: 978938304525.
Eickhoff, Martjin. In the Name of Science? P.J.W. Debye and his career in Nazi Germany. 184 pp., bibl., index. Amsterdam: Aksant Academic Publishers, 2008. €24.90 (paper). ISBN: 9789052603278.
Eisenbichler, Konrad (Editor). Renaissance Medievalisms. (Essays and Studies, 18.) 360 pp., illus., index. Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2009. $37 (cloth). ISBN: 9780772720450.
Eddy, Matthew D. The Language of Minerology: Jahn Walker, Chemistry and the Edinburgh Medical School, 1750-1800. (Science, Technology and Culture, 1700-1954.) xii + 309 pp., illus., apps., bibl., index. Burlington, VT: Asgate, 2008. £60.00 (cloth). ISBN: 9780754663324.
Esther, Diana. Meyer: Le radici e l'orizzonte Storia dell'Ospedale Pediatrico Anna Meyer di Firenze (1884-1950). 159 pp., illus. Florence, Italy: Giunti, 2008.
Flint, Karen E. Healing Traditions: African Medicine, Cultural Exchange, and Competition in South Africa, 1820-1948. (New African Histories.) xiv + 274 pp., illus., bibl., index. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2008. $26.95 (paper). ISBN: 9780821418505.
Focaccia, Miriam. Anna Morandi Manzolini una Donna Fra Arte e Scienza: Immagini, documenti, repertorio anatomico. (Bilbioteca di Nuncius Studi e testi, 65.) x + 265 pp., illus., index. Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 2008. ISBN: 9788822257895.
Fokin, Sergei I. and Christiane Groeben (Editors.) Russian Scientists at the Naples Zoological Station, 1874-1934. 242 pp., illus., tables, index. Naples: Giannini Editore, 2008.€30 (paper). ISBN: 9788874314041.
Foster, John Bellamy, Brett Clark and Richard York. Critiques of Intelligent Design: Materialism versus Creationism From Antiquity to the Present. 240 pp., index. New York: Monthly Review Press, 2008. $15.95 (paper). ISBN: 9781583671733.
Forge, John. The Responsible Scientist: A Philosophical Inquiry. x + 272 pp., bibl., index. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008. $39.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780822943495.
Foster, John Bellamy and Fred Magdoff. The Great Financial Crisis: Causes and Consequences. 160 pp., illus., tables, index. New York: Monthly Review Press, 2009. $12.95 (paper). ISBN: 9781583671849.
Frank, Adam. The Constant Fire: Beyond the Science vs. Religion Debate. xi + 288 pp., index. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009. $24.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780520254121.
Galilei, Galileo. Lettera a Cristina di Lorena Brief an Christine von Lothringen. Italienisch-Deutsch. Edited by Michael Titzmann und Thomas Steinhauser. Translated by Thomas Steinhauser. 618 pp., bibl. Passau: Verlag Karl Stutz, 2008. €39.80 (cloth). ISBN: 9783888490712.
Gasper, Michael Ezekiel. The Power of Representation: Publics, Peasants, and Islam in Egypt. x + 294 pp., bibl., index. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2009. $55 (cloth). ISBN: 9780804758888.
Gates, Evalyn. Einstein's Telescope: The Hunt for Dark Matter and Dark Energy in the Universe. xiv + 305 pp., illus., index. New York: W. W. Norton, 2009. $28.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780393062380.
Gattei, Stefano. Karl Popper's Philosophy of Science: Rationality Without Foundations. (Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 5.) xv + 137 pp., bibl., indexes. New York: Routledge, 2009. $120 (cloth). ISBN: 9780415378314.
Ghidetti, Enrico and Esther Diana (Editors). La bellezza come terapia: Arte e assistenza nell'ospedale di Santa Maria Nuova a Firenze. (Biblioteca di Medicina e Storia, 6.) 598 pp., table, illus. Florence: Edizioni Polistampa, 2005. €24 (paper). ISBN: 9788883049408.
Gootenberg, Paul. Andean Cocaine: The Making of a Global Drug. xvii + 442 pp., illus., app., bibl., index. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. $65 (cloth). ISBN: 9780807859056.
Green, Judy and Jeanne LaDuke. Pioneering Women in American Mathematics: The Pre-1940 PhDs. (History of Mathematics, 34.) xviii + 349 pp., illus., tables, bibl., index. Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society, 2009; London: The London Mathematical Society, 2009. $79.00 (cloth). ISBN: 9780821843765.
Gordon, Rae Beth. Dances with Darwin, 1875-1910: Vernacular Modernity in France. xiv + 311 pp., illus., bibl., index. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2009. $85.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780754652464.
Grimaudo, Sabrina. Difendere la Salute: Igiene e disciplina del soggetto nel De sanitate tuenda di Galeno. (Elenchos, 44.) 280 pp., bibl., indexes. Napoli: Bibliopolis, 2008. €30 (cloth). ISBN: 9788870885439.
Hallpike, C.R. How We Got Here: From Bows and Arrows to the Space Age. xii + 609 pp., illus., bibl., index. Central Milton Keynes: AuthorHouse UK Ltd., 2008. $10.09 (paper). ISBN: 9780438908335.
Hammonds, Evelyn M. and Rebecca M. Herzig (Editors). The Nature of Difference: Sciences of Race in the United States from Jefferson to Genomics. xv + 380 pp., illus., index. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2009. $45 (paper). ISBN: 9780262582759.
Hankinson, R. J. The Cambridge Companion to Galen. xxi + 450 pp., apps., bibl., index. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. $29.99 (paper). ISBN: 9780521525589.
Hartbecke, Karin. Zwischen Fürstenwillkür und Menschheitswohl: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz als Bibliothekar. (Zeitschrift für Bibliothekswesen und Bibliographie Sonderbände, 95.) 277 pp., illus., index. Frankfurt: Vittorio Klostermann, 2008. €79 (cloth). ISBN: 973465035879.
Hecht, Hartmut, Regina Mikosch, Ingo Schwarz, Harald Siebert and Romy Werther (Editors). Kosmos und Zahl: Beiträge zur Mathematik- und Astronomiegeschichte, zu Alexander von Humboldt und Leibniz. (Boethius, 58.) 510 pp., illus. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2008.€72 (cloth). ISBN: 9783515091763.
Heidarzadeh, Tofigh. A History of Physical Theories of Comets, From Aristotle to Whipple. (Archimedes: New Studies in the History of Science and Technology, 19.) xiii + 275 pp., illus., tables, bibl., index. New York: Springer, 2009. ISBN: 9781402083228.
Henke, Christopher R. Cultivating Science, Harvesting Power: Science and Industrial Agriculture in California. (Inside Technology.) xi + 226 pp., illus., bibl., index. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2008. $32 (cloth). ISBN: 9780262083737.
Herran, Néstor. Aguas, Semillas y Radiaciones: El Laboratorio de Radiactividad de la Universidad de Madrid, 1904-1929. (Estudios Sobre la Scienca, 52.) 271 pp., illus., apps., bibls. Madrid:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 2008. €28 (cloth). ISBN: 9788400086923.
Herzberg, David. Happy Pills in America: From Miltown to Prozac. x + 279 pp., illus., index. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. $45 (cloth). ISBN: 9780801890307.
Hine, Christine. Systematics as Cyberscience: Computers, Change, and Continuity in Science. (Inside Technology.) x + 307 pp., illus., bibl., index. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. ISBN: 9780262083713.
Hirai, Hiro (Editor). Cornelius Gemma: Cosmology, Medicine and Natural Philosophy in Renaissance Louvain. (Bruniana & Campanelliana: Ricerche filosofiche e materiali storico-testuali, 24.) 153 pp., illus., index. Pisa: Fabrizio Serra, 2008. ISBN: 9788862271189.
Hoddeson, Lillian, Adrienne W. Kolb and Catherine Westfall. Fermilab: Physics, the Frontier, and Megascience. xiv + 497 pp., illus., bibl., index. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. $45.00 (cloth). ISBN: 9780226346236.
Hoffman, Christoph. Daten sichern. Schreiben und Zeichnen als Verfahren der Aufzeichnung. 201 pp., illus., index. Zürich: Diaphanes, 2008.€24,90 (paper). ISBN: 9783037340486.
Hoppen, K. Theodore (Editor). Papers of the Dublin Philosophical Society, 1683-1709. 2 Volumes. xlix + 1000 pp., illus., apps., index. Dublin: Irish Manuscripts Commission, 2008. €85 (cloth). ISBN: 9781874280842.
Houston, Alan. Benjamin Franklin and the Politics of Improvement. (The Lewis Alpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History.) xi + 321 pp., illus., app., index. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008. $35 (cloth). ISBN: 9780300124477.
Johnson, Mark. The Meaning of the Body: Aesthetics of Human Understanding. xviii + 308 pp., illus., bibl., index. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. $22.50 (paper). ISBN: 9780226401935.
Kanipe, Jeff. The Cosmic Connection: How Astronomical Events Impact Life on Earth. 296 pp., illus., index. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2009. $27.98 (cloth). ISBN: 9781591026679.
King, Mike. Postsecularism: The Hidden Challenge of Extremism. 279 pp., bibl., index. Cambridge: James Clark & Co., 2009. £25 (paper). ISBN: 9780227172476.
Koertge, Noretta (ed.). New Dictionary of Scientific Biography. 8 Volumes. 4400 pp., illus., bibl., index. Farmmington Mills, MI: Gale, 2007. $995.00 (cloth). ISBN: 9780684313207.
Kraeutler, Hadwig. Otto Neurath. Museum and Exhibition Work. Spaces (Designed) for Communication. 289 pp., illus., bibls. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2008. $74.95 (paper). ISBN: 9783631559734.
Kragh, Helen. The Moon that Wasn't: The Saga of Venus' Spurious Satellite. (Science Networks | Historical Studies, 37.) xii + 199 pp., illus., bibl., index. Basel: Birkhäuser, 2008. €42.69 (cloth). ISBN: 9783764389086.
Lampland, Martha and Susan Leigh Star (Editors). Standards and Their Stories: How Quantifying, Classifying, and Formalizing Practices Shape Everyday Life. xiii + 244 pp., illus., tables, app., bibl., index. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 2009. $65 (cloth). ISBN: 9780801447174.
Lassman, Thomas C. Sources of Weapon Systems Innovation in the Department of Defense: The Role of In-House Research and Development, 1945-2000. xii + 153 pp., bibl., index.
Washington, D.C.: United States Army Centre of Military History, 2008. $16.00 (paper). ISBN: 9780161794186.
Launay, Françoise. Un Globe-Trotter de la physique céleste: L'astronome Jules Janssen. vi + 281 pp., illus., bibl., index. Paris: Vuibert, 2008. €30 (paper). ISBN: 9782711770694.
Lefèvre, Wolfgang. Die Entstehung der biologischen Evolutionstheorie. (Suhrkamp taschenbuch wissenschaft.). 339 pp., illus., bibl., index. Frankfurt: Suhrkamp Verlag, 2009. €13 (paper). ISBN: 9783518295052.
Leung, Angela Ki Che. Leprosy in China: A History. (Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.) xi + 373 pp., illus., bibl., index. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. $50 (cloth). ISBN: 9780231123006.
Lichtenberg, Georg Christoph. Vorlesungen zur Naturlehre. Notizen und Materialien zur Experimentalphysik, Teil I. (Gesammelte Schriften Historisch-kritische und kommentierte Ausgabe, 3.) Edited by the Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen. xxxviii + 802 pp., illus., bibl. Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2007. €98 (cloth). ISBN: 9783835302136.
Linguerri, Sandra and Raffaella Simili (Editors). Einstein parla italiano: Itinerari e polemiche. x + 359 pp., illus., index. Bologna: Edizioni Pendragon, 2008. €20 (paper). ISBN: 9788883425301.
Locher, Fabien. Le savant et la tempête: Étudier l'atmosphère et prévoir le temps au xixe siècle. (Collection Carnot.) 221 pp., illus., bibl., index. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2008. €17 (paper). ISBN: 9782753506961.
Lucier, Paul. Scientists & Swindlers: Consulting on Coal and Oil in America, 1820-1890. (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology.) xvi + 426 pp., illus., tables, index. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. $65.00 (cloth). ISBN: 9780801890031.
Marchant, Jo. Decoding the Heavens. A 2,000-Year-Old Compute--and the Century-Long Search to Discover Its Secrets. 328 pp., illus., bibl., index. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Da Capo Press, 2009. $25 (cloth). ISBN: 9780306817427.
Mariner, Rosemary B. and G. Kurt Piehler (Editors). The Atomic Bomb and American Society: New Perspectives. xvii + 447 pp., illus., index. Knoxville, Tennessee: University of Tennessee Press, 2009. $42 (cloth). ISBN: 9781572336483.
Milburn, Colin. Nanovision: Engineering the Future. ix + 280 pp., illus., bibl., index. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008. $22.95 (paper). ISBN: 9780822342656.
Mouracade, John (Editor). Aristotle on Life (Based on papers presented at the Aristotle on Life Conference, University of Alaska, 2007, Anchorage, Alaska.) x + 197 pp., indexes. Kelowna, BC: Academic Printing and Publishing, 2008. $28.95 (paper). ISBN: 9780920980972.
Pickering, Andrew and Keith Guzik (Editors). The Mangle in Practice: Science, Society, and Becoming. (Science and Cultural Theory.) xiv + 306 pp., bibl, index. Durham: Duke University Press, 2009. $23.95 (paper). ISBN: 9780822343516.
Pinch, Trevor and Richard Swedberg (Editors). Living in a Material World: Economic Sociology Meets Science and Technology Studies. (Inside Technology.) vi + 403 pp., illus., index. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2008. $30 (paper). ISBN: 978262662079.
Plofker, Kim. Mathematics in India. xiv + 357 pp., illus., apps., bibl., index. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009. $39.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780691120676.
Portolano, Marlana. The Passionate Empiricist: The Eloquence of John Quincy Adams in the Service of Science. xiii + 231 pp., bibl., index. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 2009. $70 (cloth). ISBN: 9780791476994.
Powell, James Lawrence. Dead Pool: Lake Powell, Global Warming, and the Future of the Water in the West. x + 283 pp., illus., index. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. $27.50 (cloth). ISBN: 9780520254770.
Power, Henry. Experimental Philosophy. 193 pp., illus. Oxford: Rimes House, 2009. £50 (cloth). ISBN: 9781874317029.
Radelet-de Grave, Patricia (Editor). Liber Amicorum Jean Dhombres. 582 pp., illus. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2008. €79.50 (paper). ISBN: 9782503528144.
Rehg, William. Cogent Science in Context: The Science Wars, Argumentation Theory, and Habermas. (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought.) x + 344 pp., illus., tables, bibl., index. Cambridge/London: The MIT Press, 2009. $40.00. ISBN: 9780262182713.
Rentetzi, Maria. Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices: Radium Research in Early 20th Century Vienna. x + 279 pp., tables, bibl. New York: Columbia University Press: 2009. $60.0 (cloth). ISBN: 9780231135580.
Rice, Prudence M. and Don S. Rice (Editors). The Kowoj: Identity, Migration, and Geopolitics in Late Postclassic Petén, Guatemala. (Mesoamerican Worlds: From the Olmecs to the Dazantes.) xix + 458 pp., illus., tables, bibl., index. Boulder, Colorado: University Press of Colorado, 2009. $65 (cloth). ISBN: 9780870819308.
Rodgers, Diane M. Debugging the Link Between Social Theory and Social Insects. vii + 214 pp., bibl., index. Baton Rouge, Lousiana: Louisiana State University Press, 2008. $22.95 (paper). ISBN: 9780807133699.
Roth, Ariel A. Science Discovers God: Seven Convincing Lines of Evidence for His Existence. 251 pp., illus., index. Hagerstown, MD: Autum House Publishing, 2008. $19.99 (cloth). ISBN: 9780812704488.
Rowland, Ingrid D. Giordano Bruno. Philosopher/Heretic. viii + 335 pp., bibl., index. New York: Farrar, Struass and Giroux, 2008. $27 (cloth). ISBN: 9780809095247.
Rowley-Conwy, Peter. From Genesis to Prehistory: The Archaeological Three Age System and its Contested Reception in Denmark, Britain, and Ireland. (Oxford Studies in the History of Archaeology.) xvii + 362 pp., illus., bibl., index.Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. $150 (cloth). ISBN: 9780199227747.
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