Isis Books Received
- 1 January - 28 February 2010
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Allen, John S.. The Lives of the Brain: Human Evolution and the organ of the mind. 338pp., illus., bibl. Index. MA, Cambridge:Harvard University Press, 2009. $39.95 (cloth). ISBN# 9780674035348
Althoff, William F.. Forgotten Weapon: U.S. Navy airships and the u-boat war. xiv + 419pp., illus., tables., apps., bibl., index. Maryland, Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2009. $49.95 (cloth). ISBN# 9781591140108
Antognazza, Maria R.. Leibniz: An Intellectual Biography. xxviii + 623 pp., illus., table.,
apps., bibls., index. NY, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. $39.95, (cloth). ISBN# 9780521806190
Barrett, Deirdre. Supernormal Stimuli: How primal urges overan their evolutionary purpose. 206pp., illus., bibl. NY, New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. 2010. $24.95, (paper). ISBN# 9780393068481
Bernstein, Jeremy. Quantum Leaps. 230pp., index. MA, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2009. $18.95 (cloth). ISBN# 9780674035416
Bodek, Richard and Simon Lewis (Editors). The Fruits of Exile: Central European Intellectual Immigration to America in the Age of Fascism. xii + 2300pp., illus., index. SC, Columbia: The University of South Carolina Press, 2010. $49.95 (cloth). ISBN# 9781570038532
Bos, Gerrit and Michael R. McVaugh (Editors, Translators). Maimonides on Asthma, Volume 2. (The Medical Works of Moses Maimonides.) lxii + 726 pp., indexes. Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University Press, 2008. $74.95 (cloth). ISBN# 9780842526906
Brianta, Donata. Europa Mineraria. Circolazione delle élites e trasferimento tecnologico secoli XVIII-XIX). 447 pp., apps., index. Milano: Franco Angeli, 2007. €26, 00 (paper). ISBN# 9788846488183
Cecil, Leslie and Timothy Pugh (editors). Maya worldviews at conquest. xx + 426pp., illus., tables., bibl., index. CO, Boulder: University of Colorado Press, 2009. $60.00, (cloth). ISBN# 9780870819452
Dalzell, Frederick. Engineering Invention. Frank J. Sprague and the U.S. Electrical Industry. xiv + 288pp., illus., index. MA, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2010. $30.00 (paper). ISBN# 9780262042567
Durbach, Nadja. Spectacle of Deformity. Freak Shows and Modern British Culture. xiv + 273pp., illus., bibl., index. CA, Berkely:University of California Press, 2010. $39.95 (cloth). ISBN# 9780520257689
Engelstein, Stefani. Anxious Anatomy. The Conception of the Human Form in Literary and Naturalist Discourse. xiv + 326pp., illus., bibl., index. NY, Albany: State University of New York Press, 2008. $24.95 (paper). ISBN# 9780791474785
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
Green, Christopher D. and Ludy T. Benjamin Jr. (Editors). Psychology gets in the game. Sport, Mind and Behaviour, 1880-1960. 313pp., illus., index. NE, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009. $30.00 (paper). ISBN# 978080322267
Gutting, Gary. What Philosophers Know: Case studies in recent analytic Philosophy. x + 253pp., bibl., index. NY, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. $29.99 (paper). ISBN# 9780521672221
Hecht, Gabrielle. The Radiance of France: Nuclear power and National Identity after WWII. Forward by Michel Callon. Xxx+ 465pp., illus., tables., bibl., index. MA, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2009. $18.95, (paper). ISBN# 9780262582810
Howard, Nicole. The Book. The Life Story of a Technology. xiv + 171pp., illus., bibl., index. ML, Baltimore:Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. $25.00 (paper). ISBN# 9780801893117
Hsia, Florence C.. Sojourners in a Strange Land: Jesuits and Their Scientific Missions in Late Imperial China. xvi + 273pp., illus., bibl., index. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. $45 (cloth). ISBN# 9780226355597
Hughes T. J. Thomas Willis 1621-1675: His Life and Work. xvi + 143pp., illus., bibl., index. UK, London:Royal Society of Medicine Services Ltd. UK, Oxford: Rimes House, 2009. £20.00, (cloth). ISBN# 9781874317036
Keiner, Christine. The Oyster Question: Scientists, Watermen, and the Maryland Chesapeake Bay since 1880. xx + 331pp., illus., bibl., index. Athens, Georgia: Universtiy of Georgia Press, 2009. $44.95, (cloth). ISBN# 9780820326986
Kubbinga Henk. The molecularization of the world picture, or the rise of the Universum Arausiacum. 2 Volumes. xxxviii + 480pp., illus. Groningen, Groningen University Press, 2009. (paper). ISBN# 9789081442817
Leibniz, Gottfried W.. Sämtliche Schriften und Briefe. XLV + 680 pp., illus., tables, apps., index. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2009. € 258.00. ISBN# 9783050045870
Lightman, Bernard. Evolutionary Naturalism in Victorian Britain: The 'Darwinians' and their Critics. (Variorum Collected Studies.) xviii + 348 pp., illus., index. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2009. $134.95 (cloth). ISBN# 9780754659877
Maines, Rachel P.. Hedonizing Technologies: Paths to pleasure in Hobbies and Leisure. xii + 211pp., illus., tables., bibl., index. MaryLand, Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 2009. $55.00 (cloth). ISBN# 9780801891465
Meacham, Sarah H. Every home a Distillery. Alcohol, gender and technology in the Colonial Chesapeake. xiv + 187pp., illus., index. ML, Baltimore:Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. $48.00 (cloth). ISBN# 9780801893124
Mortimer, Ian. The Dying and The Doctors; The medical Revolution In Seventeenth-Century England. ( Royal Historical Society Studies in History New Series.) 232 pp., illus., tables,app., bibl., index. Rochester, NY:The Boydell Press, 2009. $95.00 (cloth). ISBN# 9780861933020
Muller, Martin N. and Richard W. Wrangham (Editors). Sexual Coercion in primates and animals: An evolutionary perspective on male aggression against females. 483pp., illus., tables., bibl., indexes. MA, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2009. $55.00 (cloth). ISBN# 9780674033245
Powers, Richard. Generosity: An enhancement. 296pp., New York:Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2009. $25.00, (cloth). ISBN# 9780374161149
Rees, Amanda. The Infanticide Controversy. Primatology and the Art of Field Science. 228pp., app., bibl., index. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2009. $40.00, (cloth). ISBN# 9780226707112
Reinarz, Jonathan. Health Care in Birmingham. The Birmingham Teaching Hospitals 1779-1939. xii + 276pp., illus., app., bibl., index. NY, Rochester: Boydell Press, 2009. $115.00 (cloth). ISBN# 9781843835066
Resnick, Irven M. and Kenneth F. Kitchell Jr. Albert the Great: Questions Concerning Aristotle's On Animals. (The Fathers of the Church, Vol. 9.) xxxiii + 674 pp., index. Washington: the Catholic University of America Press, 2008. $69.95 (cloth). ISBN# 9780813215198
Rumerman, Judy A.. NASA Historical Data Book, Vol VII. (NASA Launch Systems, Space Transportation/Human Spaceflight, and Space Science, 1989-1998.) Vol. VII. Xxiii + 1050 pp., illus., tables, index. Washington: NASA History Division, 2009. $55.00. ISBN# 9780160805011
Ruse, Michael. Defining Darwin. Essays on The History and Philosophy of Evolutionary Biology. 271pp., bibl., index. NY, Amherst, 2009. $26.98 (cloth). ISBN# 9781591027256
Salmond, Anne. Aphrodite's Island. The European Discovery of Tahiti. 537pp., illus., index. CA, Berkeley:University of California Press, 2010. $29.92 (cloth). ISBN# 9780520261143
Sanders, Karin. Bodies in the Bog and the Archaeological Imagination. xxii + 317pp., illus., bibl., index. IL, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. $37.50 (cloth). ISBN# 9780226734040
Scarborough, John. Pharmacy and Drug Lore in Antiquity. Greece, Rome, Byzantium. xxviii + 384pp., illus., index. VT, Burlington: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2010. $144.95 (cloth). ISBN# 9780754659549
Scerri, Eric C. Collected papers on the Philosophy of Chemistry. 235pp., illus., tables, index. UK, London: Imperial College Press, 2008. $101.00 (cloth). ISBN# 9781848161375
Shvarts, Shifra. Health and Zionism. xxii + 322pp., illus., tables, bibl., index. NY, Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2008. $80.00 (cloth). ISBN# 9781580462792
Sjoerdsma, Ann G.. Starting with Seratonin: How a high rolling father of drug discovery repeatedly beat the odds. x + 617 pp., illus., bibl., index. MD, Silver Spring: Improbable Books, 2008. $ 27.50, (cloth). ISBN# 9780615165585
Storey, William K.. The First World War: A concise Global History. xii + 193pp., illus., tables., bibl., index. ML, Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2009. $34.95, (cloth). ISBN# 9780742541450
Suzuki, Jezz. Mathematics in Historical Context. x + 409pp., illus., bibl., index. DC, Washington: The Mathematical Association Of America, 2009. $58.50, (cloth). ISBN# 9780883855706
Taylor, Eugene. The Mystery of Personality. A history of psychodynamic theories. xii + 405pp., illus., bibl., index. New York, NY: Springer Science and Business media, 2009. $119.00, (cloth). ISBN# 9780387981031
Tort, Patrick and Aurélien Berra (Translators). L'origine des espèces: Par le moyen de la sélection naturelle, ou la préservation des races favorisées dans la lutte pour la vie. Volume XVII. 918pp., illus., table., app., index. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2009. €22.50, (paper). ISBN# 9782745318626
Waldbauer, Gilbert. Fireflies, Honey and Silk. xii + 233pp., illus., bibl., index. CA, Berkley: University of California Press, 2009. $25.95, (cloth). ISBN# 9780520258839
Weeks, John M. (editor). The Carnegie Maya II: The Carnegie Institution of Washington, Current Reports, 1952-1957. Foreword by Marilyn A. Masson. xxiv + 625 pp., illus., tables, app., bibl., index, CD-ROM. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2009. $225 (cloth). ISBN# 9780870819582
Woolfson, Michael M.. Materials, Matter and Particles: A brief History. 316pp., illus., tables., index. NJ, Hackensack: Imperial College Press, 2009. $35.00, (paper).
