Isis Books Received
- 1 October - 31 October 2010
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Agrippa, Camillo. Fencing: A Renaissance Treatise. xcvi + 138 pp., illus., tables, app., bibls., index. New York: Italica Press, 2009. $40.00 (paper). ISBN# 9781599101293
Balinska, Marta A.; Schneider; William H. (Editors). Ludwik Hirszfeld: The Story of One Life.xxxv + 456 pp., illus., table, bibl., index. Translated by Marta A. Balinska. New York: University of Rochester Press, 2010. $49.95 (cloth). ISBN# 9781580463386
Bokulich, Alisa; Jaeger, Gregg (Editors). Philosophy of Quantum Information and Entanglement. xxx + 277 pp., illus., figs., tables, index. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2010. $95.00 (cloth). ISBN# 9780521898768
Börner, Katy. Atlas of Science: Visualizing What We Know. 288 pp., illus., bibl., index. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2010. $29.95 (cloth). ISBN# 978026201445
Borrello, Mark E. Evolutionary Restraints: The Contentious History of Group Selection. xi + 215 pp., illus., fig., bibli., index. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010. $40.00 (cloth). ISBN# 9780226067018
Brown, Laura. Homeless Dogs and Melancholy Apes: Humans and other animals in the modern literary imagination. xi + 156 pp., index. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2010. $35.00 (cloth). ISBN# 9780801448287
Carter, Rita. Mapping The Mind. 224 pp., illus., bibl., index. Berkeley, CA: Univerisity of California Press, 2010. $29.95 (paper). ISBN# 9780520266285
Coole, Diane; Frost, Samantha. New Materialisms: Ontology, Agency, and Poltics. x + 336 pp., bibl., index. London: Duke University Press, 2010. $89.95 (cloth). ISBN# 9780822347729
Coopersmith, Jennifer. Energy, the Subtle Concept: The Discovery of Feynman's Blocks from Leibniz to Einstein. xiv + 400 pp., frontis., illus., figs., apps., bibli., index. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. $55.00 (cloth). ISBN# 9780199546503
Copeland, Jack B. (Editor). Colossus: The Secrets of Bletchley Park's Codebreaking Computers. xvi + 462 pp., illus., tables, apps., index. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. $24.95 (paper). ISBN# 9780199578146
Dick, Steven J; Lupisella, Mark L. (Editors). Cosmos and Culture: Cultural Evolution in a Cosmic Context. ix + 602 pp., illus., tables, bibls., index. Washington: NASA History Office, 2010. $61.00 (cloth). ISBN# 9780160826016
Dobrzycki, Jerzy. Selected Papers on Medieval and Renaissance Astronomy. 234 pp., illus., bibls. Warsaw: Instytut Historii Nauki PAN, 2010. (cloth). ISBN# 9788386062034
Donato, Maria Pia. Morti improvvise: Medicina e religione nel Settecento. 239 pp., bibl., index. Rome: Carocci Editore, 2010. 20,00 € (paper). ISBN# 9788843055036
Drisdelle, Rosemary. Parasites: Tales of Humanity's Most Unwelcome Guests. 258 pp., illus., bibl., index. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010. $27.50 (cloth). ISBN# 9780520259386
Elsner, Norbert; Rupke, Nicolaas A. (Editors). Wissenswelten - Bildungswelten. 143 pp., illus. Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2009. 14,00 € (cloth). ISBN# 9783835305748
Epple, Moritz; Zittel, Claus. Science as Cultural Practice. Volume 1: Cultures and Politics of Research From the Early Modern Period to the Age of Extremes. 283 pp., illus., bibl. Munich: Akademie Verlag, 2010. 59,80 € (cloth). ISBN# 9783050044071
Erlichman, Howard J. Conquest, Tribute, and Trade: The Quest For Precious Metals and the Birth of Globalization. 541 pp., illus., bibl., index. Amherst, MA: Promethus Books, 2010. $28.00 (cloth). ISBN# 9781616142117
Evans, Andrew D. Anthropology at War: World War I and the Science of Race in Germany. 312pp., Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010. $85.00 (cloth); $29.00 (paper). ISBN# 9780226222677
Focaccia, Miriam. Luigi Galvani: Un laboratorio sperimentale di Ostertricia. 191 pp., illus., tables, apps., bibl., indexs. Bologna: Pendragon, 2009. 18,00 € (paper). ISBN# 9788883427879
Friedberg, Errol C. Sydney Brenner: A Biography. xxvi + 333 pp., illus., tables, bibl., index. Cold Spring Harbor, NY: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2010. $39.00 (cloth). ISBN# 9780879699475
Friedlaender, Jonathan; Radin, Joanna. From Anthropology to Genomics: Reflections of a Pacific Fieldworker. xv + 244 pp., illus., apps. Bloomington, IN: iUniverse, 2009. $19.95 (paper). ISBN# 9781440176722
Frodeman, Robert (Editor). The Oxford Handbook of Interdisciplinarity. xxxix + 579 pp., illus., tables, bibls., index. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. $150.00 (cloth). ISBN# 9780199236916
Gayon, Jean; de Ricqlès, Armand. Les Fonctions: Des Organismes Aux Artifacts. 448 pp.,tables., bibl., index. Reille: Presses Universitaires de France, 2010. 29,00 € (paper). ISBN# 9782130574415
Guillot, Agnès; Meyer, Jean-Arcady. How to Catch a Robot Rat: When Biology Inspires Innovation. Translated by Susan Emanuel. xiii + 226 pp., illus., index. Cambridge, MA.: MIT Press, 2010. $29.95 (cloth). ISBN# 9780262014526
Hall, Marcus (Editor). Resoration and History: The Search for a Usable Environmental Past. xii + 329 pp., illus., tables, index. New York: Routledge, 2010. $95.00 (cloth). ISBN# 9780415871761
Hargittai, Istvan. Judging Edward Teller. 575 pp., illus., table., bibl., index. Amherst, MA: Prometheus Books, 2010. $35.00 (cloth). ISBN# 9781616142216
Hopwood, Nick; Schaffer, Simon; Secord, Jim (Editors). Seriality and Scientific Objects in the Nineteenth Century. Special Double Issue of History of Science. (48, parts 3 & 4) 248 pp., bibls., index. Cambridge, UK: Science History Publications, 2010. $10.00 (paper).
Hough, Susan. Predicting the Unpredictable: The Tumultuous Science of Earthquake Prediction. 260 pp., illus., indexes. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010. $24.95 (cloth). ISBN# 9780691138169
Hutchins, Roger. British University Observatories, 1772-1939. xxiii + 533 pp., illus., tables, bibli., index. Aldershot and Burlington: Ashgate, 2008. $114.95 (cloth). ISBN# 9780754632504
Jones, Susan D. Death In A Small Package: A Short History of Anthrax. (Biographies Of Disease) xviii + 329 pp., illus., bibl., index. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010. $24.95 (cloth). ISBN# 9780801896965
Kaiser, David (Editor). Becoming MIT: Moments of Decision. 224 pp., illus. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2010. $24.95 (cloth). ISBN# 9780262113236
Lander, James. Lincoln and Darwin: Shared Visions of Race, Science, and Religion. xv + 351 pp., illus., bibl., index. Carbondale, IL:Southern Illinois University Press, 2010. ISBN# 9780809329908
Lécuyer, Christophe; Brock, David C. Makers of the Microchip: A Documentary History of Fairchild Semiconductor. 368 pp., illus. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2010. $23.00 (cloth). ISBN# 9780262014243
Lindemann, Mary. Medicine and Society in Early Modern Europe. (New approaches to European history, 16.) xii + 300 pp., illus., table, bibli., index. Second edition. Originally published in 1999, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press; Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2010. $85.00 (cloth), $32.99 (paper). ISBN# 9780521732567
McCalman, Iain. Darwin's Armada: Four Voyages and the Battle for the Theory of Evolution. 422 pp., illus., bibl., index. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2009. $18.95 (paper). ISBN# 9780393338775
McClellan, James E., III. Colonialism and Science: Saint Domingue in the Old Regime. xx + 393 pp., illus., bibl., index. Originally published in 1992, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2010. $25.00 (paper). ISBN# 9780226514673
Oreskes, Naomi; Conway, Erik M. Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming. 355 pp., bibli., index. New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2010. $27.00 (cloth). ISBN# 9781596916104
Pfatteicher, Sarah K. A. Lessons Amid the Rubble: An introduction to post-disaster engineering and ethics. (Johns Hopkins Introductory Studies in the History of Technology.) 186 pp. illus., bibil. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010. $55.00 (cloth), $24.95 (paper). ISBN# 9780801897207
Reschetilowski, Wladimir; Hönle, Wolfgang (Editors). On Catalysis. (Edition Ostwald, 2.) iii + 268 pp., illus., figs., tables, app. Berlin: Verlag für Wissenschaft und Bildung, 2010. 34,00 € (paper). ISBN# 9783861352327
Rheinberger, Hans-Jörg. An Epistemology of the Concrete. (The Experimental Futures: Technology Lives, Scientific Arts, Anthropological Voices.) xix + 330 pp., illus., tables, bibl., index. London: Duke University Press, 2010. $89.95 (cloth). ISBN# 9780822345602
Richards, Richard A. The Species Problem: A Philosophical Analysis. (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology) x + 236 pp., bibl., index. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2010. $85.00 (cloth). ISBN# 9780521196833
Rommevaux, Sabine; Aurélien, Robert; Clucas, Stephen; Tanay, Dorit E.; Husson, Matthieu; Laird, Walter Roy; Roux, Sophie; Gessner, Samuel. Mathématiques et connaissance du monde réel avant Galilée. 348 pp., illus., bibl., index. Montreuil: Omniscience, 2010. 45,00 € (paper). ISBN# 9782916097268
Sample, Ian. Massive: The missing particle that sparked the greatest hunt in science. xi + 260 pp., bibl., index. New York: Basic Books, 2010. $25.95 (cloth). ISBN# 9780465019472
Sanders, Robert H. The Dark Matter Problem: A historical perspective. viii + 205 pp., illus., tables, bibl., index. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2010. $60.00 (cloth). ISBN# 9780521113014
Simili, Raffaella. Sotto falso nome: Scienziate italiane ebree (1938-1945). 158 pp., illus., bibl., index. Bologna: Pendragon, 2010. 14,00 € (paper). ISBN# 9788883428364
Smil, Vaclav. Prime Movers of Globalization: The History and Impact of Diesel Engines and Gas Turbines. 261 pp., illus., tables, bibl., indexes. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2010. $29.95 (cloth). ISBN# 9780262014434
Thacker, Eugene. After Life. xvi + 295 pp., bibl., index. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2010. $29.00 (paper). ISBN# 9780226793726
Turner, J. Scott. The Tinkerer's Accomplice: How design emerges from life itself. 282 pp., illus., bibl., index., Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007. $17.95 (paper). ISBN# 9780674057531
Vaupel, Elisabeth; Wolff, Stefan L. Das Deutsche Museum in der Zeit Nationalsozialismus. 710 pp., illus., bibl., indexes. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2010. 39,95 € (cloth). ISBN# 9783835305960
Winker, Kevin (Editor). Moments of Discovery: Natural History Narratives from Mexico and Central America. xiii + 401 pp., illus., bibl., index. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2010. $75.00 (cloth). ISBN# 9780813034171
Yau, Shing-Tung; Nadis, Steve. The Shape of Inner Space: String Theory and the Geometry of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions. xvi + 377 pp., illus., bibl., index. New York: Basic Books, 2010. $30.00 (cloth). ISBN# 9780465020232
