Isis Books Received
- October 2012 - December 2012
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Marianne Gosztonyi Ainley. Creating Complicated Lives: Women and Science at English-Canadian Universities, 1880-1980. Edited by Marlene Rayner-Canham; Geoff Rayner-Canham. Foreword by Alison Prentice. xi + 200 pp. bibl., index. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2012. $29.95 (paper). ISBN#: 9780773540675\
Marco Beretta, Francesco Citti, Lucia Pasetti.Seneca E Le Scienze Naturali, vi + 271 pp., bibl., index. Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 2012. € 29.00 (cloth), ISBN#: 9788822261892
Dieter Blume, Mechthild Haffner, and Wolfgang Metzger. Sternbilder des Mittelalters: Der gemalte Himmel Zwischen Wissenschaft und Phantasie. Band I: 800-1200. Teilband I.1: Text und Katalog der Handschriften, 651 pp., app., bibl., index. Teilband I.2: Abbildungen, 404 pp.plates., ISBN#: 9783050056647
Dana G. Dalrymple.Artemisia annua, Artemisinin, ACTs & Malaria Control in Africa: Tradition, Science and Public Policy, xvi + 254 pp., bibl. Washington, DC: Politics & Prose, 2012, ISBN#:9780615615998
Karel Davids.Religion, Technology, and the Great and Little Divergences: China and Europe Compared.(History of Science and Medicine Library, Volume 32; Knowledge Infrastructure and Knowledge Economy, Volume 2). xii + 278 pp. illus., bibl., index. Leiden: Brill, 2013. $152.00 (cloth). ISBN#: 9789004233881
Hugh Everett III. The Everett Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics: Collected Works 1955-1980 with Commentary, Edited by Jeffery A. Barrett & Peter Byrne. Xii + 392 pp., illus., apps., index. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012. $75.00 (cloth). ISBN#: 978069114507
Peter Keating; Alberto Cambrosio. Cancer on Trial: Oncology as a New Style of Practice, xviii + 456 pp., tables, illus., bibl., index. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012. $40 (cloth), ISBN#: 9780226428918. Also available in Kindle version.
Randal L. Hall. Mountains on the Market: Industry, the Environment, and the South, 322 pp. Lexingon: University Press of Kentury, 2012. $40.00 (cloth), ISBN#: 9780813136240. Also available in Kindle version.
David Kaiser. How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival, xxvi + 372 pp., illus., bibl., index. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2011. $26.95 (cloth). ISBN#: 9780393076363
Bernhard Kleeberg (Hg.). Schlechte Angewohnheiten - Eine Anthologie 1750–1900, 446 pp., tables, bibl. Berlin: Suhrkamp. €17,00 (paper), ISBN#: 9783518296028
Thomas F. Mayer (Editor). The Trial of Galileo, 1612-1633, xii + 210 pp., illus., index. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012. $24.95 (paper), ISBN#: 9781442605190
Vivian Nutton (Editor). Ancient Medicine, (Sciences of Antiquity). xiv + 488 pp., illus., bibl., index. Originally published in 2004, Abingdon: Routledge, 2013. $46.95 (paper)002EISBN#:9780415520942. Also available in Kindle version.
Alexandra Minna Stern. Telling Genes: The Story of Genetic Counseling in America, ix + 238 pp., apps, bibl, index. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012. ISBN#:9781421406671. Also available in Kindle version.
Alina Payne and Goivanni Maria Fara (Editors). Teofilo Gallaccini: Selected Writings and Library, ix + 412 pp., index. Florence: Olschki, 2012. € 45.00 (paper), ISBN#: 9788822261632
William C. Summers. The Great Manchurian Plague of 1910-1911: The Geopolitics of an Epidemic Disease.xiii + 202 pp., illus., app., index. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012. $40.00 (cloth).ISBN#: 9780300183191. Also available in Kindle version.
Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer.The Slumbering Masses: Sleep, Medicine, and Modern American Life, xvi + 288 pp., app. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012. $24.95 (cloth), ISBN#:9780816674749. Also available in Kindle version.
