Isis Books Received
27 February 2008 - 27 March 2008
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Aboujaoude, Elias. Compulsive Acts:A Psychiatrist's Tales of Ritual and Obsession. xii + 175 pp., index. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. $24.95 (cloth). ISBN 9780520255678.
Alexander, Jennifer Karns. The Mantra of Efficiency: From Waterwheel to Social Control. x + 233 pp., figs., index. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. $49.95 (cloth). ISBN 978080186935.
Apple, Rima D.. Perfect Motherhood: Science and Childrearing in America. xii + 209 pp., illus., index. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2006. $22.95 (paper). ISBN 9780813538432.
Axpe, Isabel Garaizar. La Escuela Especial de ingenieros Industriales de Bilbao, 1897-1936: Educaciön y tecnología en el primer tercio del siglo xx. 329 pp., illus., figs., tables, apps., bibls. Bilbao: Colegio Oficial de Ingenieros industriales de Bizkaia y Escuela Superior de Ingeniería de Bilbao, 2008. ISBN 9788469101537.
Baader, Gerhard; Hofer, Veronika; Mayer, Thomas (Editors). Eugenik in Österrich: Biopolitische Strukturen von 1900 bis 1945. Forward by Michael Hubenstorf. 463 pp., figs., table, bibl., indexes. Originally published in 1999 by Gegründet. Vienna: Czernin Verlag, 2007. €26.00 (paper). ISBN 978370760215X.
Beranek, Leo. Riding the Waves: A Life of Sound, Science, and Industry. x + 230 pp., figs. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2008. $24.95 (cloth). ISBN 9780262026291.
Block, Irving. G-d, Rationality and Mysticism. (Marquette Studies in Philosophy, 53.) 214 pp., index. Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 2007. $25.00 (paper). ISBN 9780874627510.
Chadwick, Andrew. Internet Politics: States, Citizens, and New Communication Technologies. xiii + 384 pp. illus., figs., tables, bibl., index. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. $42.95 (paper). ISBN 9780195177732.
Collins, Harry; Pinch, Trevor. Dr. Golem: How to Think About Science and Medicine. xii + 246 pp., illus., bibl., index. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. $18.00 (paper). ISBN 0226113671.
Cuomo, S. Technology and Culture in Greek and Roman Antiquity. (Key Themes in Ancient History) xii + 212 pp.,figs., bibl., index.New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. $29.99 (paper). ISBN 9780521009034.
Dean, Dennis R. Romantic Landscapes: Geology and Its Cultural Influence in Britain, 1765-1835. (History of Earth Sciences Series). 406 pp., illus., biblio., apps., index. Ann Arbor: Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, 2007. $200.00 (cloth). ISBN 9780820115559.
Dear, Peter. The Intelligibility of Nature: How Science Makes Sense of the World. (science.culture.) xii + 242 pp., illus., figs., index. Originally published in 2006. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. $17.00 (paper). ISBN 9780226139494.
Dormand, Kathleen W. (Editor). Papers of Joseph Henry, Volume 12: Cumulative Index. (Papers of Joseph Henry, 12.) viii + 306 pp., index. Washington: Smithsonian Institution; Sagamore Beach: Science History Publications/USA, 2008. $53.95 (cloth). ISBN 9780881353914.
Drouin, Jean-Marc. L'herbier des philosophes. 315 pp., illus., bibl., index. Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 2008. €22.00 (paper). ISBN 9782020967341.
Eden, Trudy. The Early American Table: Food and Society in the New World. x + 193 pp., index. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2008. $37.00 (cloth). ISBN 9780875803838.
Egmond, Florike; Hoftijzer, Paul; Visser, Robert (Editors). Carolus Clusius: Towards a Cultural History of a Rennaisance Naturalist. (History of Science and Scholarship in the Netherlands, 8.) vi + 349 pp., illus., figs., bibl., index. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. $75.00 (cloth). ISBN 9789069845067.
Elkins, James. Six Stories from the End of Representation: Images in Painting, Photography, Astronomy, Microscopy, Particle Physics, and Quantum Mechanics, 1980-2000. xx + 274 pp., illus., figs., index. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2008. $29.95 (paper). ISBN 9780804741484.
Elliott, Clark A. Thaddeus William Harris (1795-1856): Nature, Science, and Society in the Life of an American Naturalist. 294 pp., figs., bibl, index. Bethlehem: Lehigh University Press, 2008. $75.00 (cloth). ISBN 9780934223911.
Fellman, Emil A. Leonhard Euler. Translated by Erika Gautschi and Walter Gautschi. xv + 179 pp., illus., figs., bibls., index. Basel: Birkhäuser, 2007. $39.95 (cloth). ISBN 9783764375386.
Fisch, Stefan; Gauzy, Florence; Metzger, Chantal (Editors). Lernen und Lehren in Frankreich und Deutschland / Apprendre et enseigner en Allmagne et en France. (Schriftenreihe des Deutsch-Französischen Historikerkomitees: Geschichte, 2.) 240 pp.. Munic: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2007. €43.00 (paper). ISBN 9783515089456.
Fisher, Celia. The Medieval Flower Book. 128 pp., illus., index. London: British Library, 2007. $29.95 (cloth). ISBN 9780712349451.
Flichy, Patrice. The Internet Imaginaire. 240 pp., index. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007. $29.95 (cloth). ISBN 9780262062619.
Forstner, Christian. Quantenmechanik im Kalten Krieg: Bavid Bohm und Richard Feyman. 224 pp., bibl., index. Berlin: Verlag für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften und Technik, 2007. €30.00 (paper). ISBN 9783928186810.
Frankel, Felice; Whitesides, George M. On the Surface of Things: Images of the Extraordinary in Science. 160 pp., figs., index. Cambridge, Ma: Harvard University Press, 2007. $24.95 (paper). ISBN 9780674026889.
Friedman, Michael; Creath, Richard (Editors). The Cambridge Companion to Carnap. xviii + 371 pp., bibl., index. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. $29.99 (paper). ISBN 9780521549455.
Gainor, Chris. To a Distant Day: The Rocket Pioneers. Forward by Alfred Worden. (Outward Odessy: A People's History of Spaceflight.) xxvi + 236 pp., figs., bibl., index. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008. $29.95 (cloth). ISBN 9780803222090.
Groen, Adriaan in't; Jan de Jonge, Henk; Klasen, Eduard; Papma, Hilje; van Slooten, Piet (Editors). Knowledge in Ferment: Dilemmas in Science, Scholarship and Society. 294 pp., figs., index. Amsterdam: Leiden University Press, 2007. $29.95 (cloth). ISBN 9789087280178.
Hamblin, Jacob Darwin. Poison in the Well: Radioactive Waste in the Oceans at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age. x + 311 pp., bibl., index. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2008. $49.95 (cloth). ISBN 9780813542201.
Hård, Mikael; Misa, Thomas J. (Editors). Urban Machinery: Inside Modern European Cities. (Inside Technology.) viii + 351 pp., figs., table, bibl., index. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2008. $45 (cloth). ISBN 9780262083690.
Hedenus, Michael. Der Komet in der Entladungsröhre: Eugen Goldstein, Wilhelm Foerster und die Elektrizität im Weltraum. 246 pp., figs., bibl., index. Diepholz: Verlag für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften und der Technik, 2007 €30.00 (paper). ISBN 9783928186827.
Heilbron, John L. (Editor). Advancements of Learning: Essays in Honour of Paolo Rossi. (Biblioteca di Nuncius, 62.) viii + 276 pp., figs., index. Florence, Italy: Leo S. Olschki, 2007. €30.00 (cloth). ISBN 9788822256553.
Hentschel, Klaus. Unsichtbares Licht? Dunkle Wärme? Chemische Strahlen? Eine wissenschaftshistorische und -theoretische Analyse von Argumenten für das Klassifizieren von Strahlungssorten 1650-1925 mit Schwerpunkt auf den Jahren 1770-1850. 665 pp., figs., tables, app., bibls.. Berlin: Verlag für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften und Technik, 2007. €40.00 (cloth). ISBN 9783928186841.
Humphreys, Margaret. Intensely Human: The Health of the Black Soldier in the American Civil War. xxii + 197 pp., figs., tables, index. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. $40.00 (cloth). ISBN 9780801886966.
Krause, Henning. Georg Gottlieb Schmidt (1768-1837) Der >>Luftschmidt<<: Ein biografischer Literaturbericht über den Gießener Physiker und Mathematiker. 88 pp., app., bibl., index. Berlin: Verag für Geschichte der Naturwissenschsften und der Technik, 2007. €15.00 (paper). ISBN 9783928186797.
Lemmerich, Jost. Aufrecht im Sturm der Zeit: Der Physiker James Franck 1882-1964. 362 pp., figs., index. Berlin: Verlag für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften und Technik, 2007. €28.00 (paper). ISBN 9783928186834.
Lindley, David. Uncertainty: Einstein, Heisenberg, Bohr, and the Struggle for the Soul of Science. 272 pp., bibl., index. New York: Doubleday, 2007. $26.00 (cloth). ISBN 9780385515061.
Loncke, Jeremy. La Practica Canum - Le De Cane D'Albert Le Grand L'Art De Soigner Les Chiens De Chasse Au Moyen Age. 192 pp., illus. Nogent le Roi : Jacques Laget, librairie des arts et métiers- éditions, 2007. € 60.00 (cloth). ISBN 9782854970777.
Monforte, Gillermo Lusa; Rosell, Antoni Roca; Álvarez, Jaume Valentines (Editors). Fem Memòria per fer Futur: Tècnica, Medicina I Guerra Civil. V Jornada Memorial Democràtoc a la UPC. (Publicacions Memorial Democràtic de la UPC, 5.) 188 pp., illus. Barcelona: Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2007. ISBN 18856837.
National Academy of Sciences, Institute of Medicine. Science, Evolution, and Creationism. xvi + 70 pp., illus., figs., index. Washington: The National Academies Press, 2008. $12.95 (paper). ISBN 9780309105866.
Ogilvie, Brian W. Science of Describing: Natural History in Renaissance Europe. xvi + 385 pp., figs., bibl., index. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. $27.00 (paper). ISBN 0226620883.
Paradis, James G. Samuel Butler, Victorian against the Grain: A Critical Overview. xii + 423 pp., figs., bibl., index. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007. $70.00 (cloth). ISBN 9780802097453.
Pauly, Philip J. Fruits and Plains: The Horticultural Transformation of America. xi + 336 pp., illus., figs., index. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007. $39.95 (cloth). ISBN 9780674026636.
Peniston, William A.; Erber, Nancy (Editors). Queer Lives: Men's Autobiographies form Nineteenth-Century France. Translated by William A. Peniston and Nancy Erber. xxii + 270 pp., illus., figs. Lincon: University of Nebraska, 2007. $34.95 (paper). ISBN 9780803260368.
Piccardi, L.; Masse, W. B. Myth and Geology. (Geological Society Special Publication, 273.) viii + 350 pp., illus., figs., index. Geological Society Publishing House, 2007. $180.00 (cloth). ISBN 9781862392168.
John V. Pickstone (Editor). The History of Science and Technology in the North West. (Manchester Region History Review, 18.) xiv + 178 pp., illus., figs. Manchester: Manchester Centre for Regional History, 2007. ISBN 09524320.
Pound, Richard W. Rocke Robertson: Surgeon and Shepherd of Change. xii + 317 pp., figs., apps., index. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2008. $45.00 (cloth). ISBN 9780773533745.
Rasmussen, Nicolas. On Speed: The Many Lives of Amphetamine. ix + 352 pp., illus., index. New York: New York University Press, 2008. $29.95 (cloth). ISBN 9780814776018.
Roberts, Lissa; Schaffer, Simon; Dear, Peter (Editors). The Mindful Hand: Inquiry and Invention from the Late Renaissance to Early Industrialisation. (History of Science and Scholarship in the Netherlands, 9.) xxvii + 503 pp., illus., bibl., index. Amsterdam: Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2007. $110.00 (cloth). ISBN 9069844834.
Smith, Mark M. Sensing the Past: Seeing, Hearing, Smelling, Tasting, and Touching in History. x +180 pp., bibl., index. Berkley: University of California Press, 2007. $19.95 (paper). ISBN 9780520254961.
Sommer, Marianne. Bones and Ochre: The Curious Afterlife of the Red Lady of Paviland. xiv + 397 pp., figs., tables, apps., bibl., index. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007. $39.95 (cloth). ISBN 9780674024991.
Taylor, Kenneth L. The Earth Sciences in the Enlightenment: Studies on the Early Development of Geology. (Variorum Collected Studies Series.) 300 pp., figs., index. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2007. $124.95 (cloth). ISBN 9780754659303.
Usborne, Cornelie. Cultures of Abortion in Weimar Germany. (Monographs in German History, 17.) xii + 284 pp., figs., bibl., index. New York: Berghahn Books, 2007. $90.00 (cloth). ISBN 9781845453893.
Witkowski, Jan A.; Inglis, John R. (Editors). Davenport's Dream: 21st Century Reflections on Heredity and Eugenics. xi + 298 pp., illus., apps., biblio., index. Cold Spring Harbor, New York: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2008. $55.00 (cloth). ISBN 9780879697563.
