Isis Books Received
15 March - 30 April 2009
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Akasoy, Anna; Burnett, Charles; Yoeli-Tlalim, Ronit (Editors). Astro-Medicine: Astrology and Medicine, East and West. (Micrologus' Library, 25.) 277 pp., illus., indexes. xii + Florence: Sismel Edizioni Del Galluzzo, 2008. €46 (paper). ISBN: 9788884503008
Arnold, Dean E.. Social Change and the Evolution of Ceramic Production and Distribution in a Maya Community. xxx + 351 pp., figs., tables, index. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2008. ISBN: 9780870819230
Arrizabalaga, Jon (editor). Regiment Preservatiu e curatiu de la pestilència. 161 pp., index. Barcelona: Editorial Barcino, 2008. ISBN: 9788472267336
Avramescu, Catalin. An Intellectual History of Cannibalism. Translated by Alistair Ian Blyth. x + 350 pp., illus., bibl., index. Originally published as Filozoful Curd: O Istorie a Canibalismului, Bucharest: Humanitas: 2003. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009. $29.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780691133270
Baker, Robert B.; McCullough, Laurence B. (Editors). The Cambridge World History of Medical Ethics. xxviii + 876 pp., app., bibl., index. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. $279.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780521888790
Balibar, Sébastien. The Atom and the Apple: Twelve Tales from Contemporary Physics. x + 190 pp., illus., index. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008. $24.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780691131085
Barnes, Barry; Dupré, John. Genomes and What to Make of Them. viii + 273 pp., bibl., index. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. $25 (cloth). ISBN: 9780226172958
Beck, Lorenz Friedrich (Editor). Max Planck und die Max-Planck-Gesellschaft. Zum 150. Begurstag am 23. April 2008 aus den Quellen zusammengestellt. (Veröffentlichungen aus dem Archiv der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, 20.) 356 pp., illus. Berlin: Archiv der Max-Planck- Gessellscaft, 2008. ISBN: 9783927579248
Beecher, Donald; Williams, Grant (Editors). Ars Reminiscendi: Mind and Memory in Renaissance Culture. (Essays and Studies, 19.) 440 pp., index. Toronto: Center for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2009. $37 (paper). ISBN: 9780772720481
Bensaude-Vincent, Bernadette. Les Veriges de la Technoscience: Façonner le Monde Atome par Atome. (Sciences et Société.) 223 pp., bibl.. Paris: Éditions La Découverte, 2009. €17.00 (paper). ISBN: 9782707156334
Beretta, Marco; Citti, Francesco. Lucrezio la natura e la scienza. 237 pp., index. Firenze: Leo S. Olschki, 2008. €26 (paper). ISBN: 9788822258120
Besancenot, Olivier; Löwy, Michael. Che Guevera: His Revolutionary Legacy. Translated by James Membrez. 144 pp., bibl., index. New York: Monthly Review Press, 2009. $16.95 (paper). ISBN: 9781583671771
Blech, Jörg. Healing Through Exercise: Scientifically-Proven Ways to Prevent and Overcome Illness and Lengthen Your Life. xii + 243 pp., index. Philadelphia, PA: Da Capo Press, 2009. $26 (cloth). ISBN: 9780738212999
Bondio, Mariacarla Gadebusch; Ricklin, Thomas (Editors). Exempla medicorum: Die Ärte und ihre Beispiele (14.-18. Jarhundert). (Micrologus' Library, 26.) xx + 247 pp., illus., indexes. Florence: Sismel Edizioni Del Galluzzo, 2008. €46 (paper). ISBN: 9788884503084
Bousquet, Antoine. The Scientific Way of Warfare: Order and Chaos on the Battlefields of Modernity. (Critical War Studies.) ix + 265 pp., illus., bibl., index. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. $35 (cloth). ISBN: 9780231700788
Bowler, Peter J. Monkey Trials and Gorilla Sermons: Evolution and Christianity from Darwin to Intelligent Design. vii + 256 pp., bibl., index. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007. $17.95 (paper). ISBN: 9780674032200
Bronk, Richard. The Romantic Economist: Imagination in Economics. xviii + 382 pp., bibl., index. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. $27.99 (paper). ISBN: 9780521735155
Brown, Peter. Chaucer and the Making of Optical Space. 377 pp., illus., bibl., index. Bern: Peter Lang AG, 2007. $107.95 (paper). ISBN: 9783039113408
Buhs, Joshua Blu. Bigfoot: The Life and Times of a Legend. xv + 270 pp., 288 pp., illus., bibl., index. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. $29 (cloth). ISBN: 9780226079790
Burkhardt, Frederick (Editor).Charles Darwin: The Beagle Letters. Introduction by Janet Browne. xxx + 470 pp., illus., bibl., index. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. $32 (cloth). ISBN: 978052189838
Callon, Michel; Pierre Lascoumes; Yannick Barthe. Acting in an Uncertain World: An Essay on Technical Democracy. Translated by Graham Burchell. (Inside Technology.) 287 pp., illus., index. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2009. $35 (cloth). ISBN: 9780262033824
Camilleri, Kristian. Heisenberg and the Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics. xii + 199 pp., illus., bibl., index. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. $99 (cloth). ISBN: 9780521884846
Chela-Flores, Julian. A Second Genesis: Stepping-stones Towards the Intelligibility of Nature. xviii + 229 pp., bibl., index. Hackensack, NJ: World Scientific, 2009. $45 (cloth). ISBN: 9789812835031
Cook, Deborah (Editor). Theodor Adorno. Key Concepts. xii + 212 pp., index. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2008. $27.95 (paper). ISBN: 9781844651207
Crouch, Tom D. Lighter Than Air: An Illustrated History of Balloons and Airships. 191 pp., illus., apps., index. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. $35 (cloth). ISBN: 9780801891274
Crowe, Michael J. (Editor). The Extraterrestrial Life Debate, Antiquity to 1915: A Source Book.
xxi + 554 pp., illus., tables, app., bibl., index. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2008. $39 (paper). ISBN: 9780268023683
Curran, Brian A.; Grafton, Anthony; Long, Pamela O.; Weiss, Bejamin. Obelisk: A History. (Burndy Library Publications New Series, 2.) 383 pp., illus., bibl., index. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2009. $27.95 (paper). ISBN: 9780262512701
Dauser, Regina; Hächler, Stefan; Kempe, Michale; Mauelshagen, Franz; Stuber, Martin (Editors). Wissen im Netz: Botanik und Pflanzenetzen des 18. Jahrhunderts.(Colloquia Augustana, 24.) 427 pp., illus., bibl., index. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2008. €59.80 (cloth). ISBN: 9783050041445
Davis-Floyd, Robbie E.; Barclay, Lesley; Daviss, Betty-Anne; Tritten, Jan (Editors). Birth Models That Work. x + 484 pp., illus., tables, index. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009. $27.50 (paper). ISBN: 9780520258914
Detmer, David. Sartre Explained: From Bad Faith to Authenticity. xi + 244 pp., index. Chicago: Open Court Publishing Company, 2008. $19.95 (paper). ISBN: 9780812696318
Douglas, Bronwen; Ballard, Chris (Editors). Foreign Bodies: Oceania and the Science of Race, 1750-1940. xx +352 pp., illus., index. ANU E Press, 2008. $29.95 (paper). ISBN: 9781921313998
Dronamraju, Krishna. What I Require from Life: Writings on Science and Life from J.B.S. Haldane. xxxvi + 231 pp., index. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. $29.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780199237708
Dyke, Heather. From Truth to Reality: New Essays in Logic and Metaphysics. x + 310 pp., index. New York: Routledge, 2009. $105 (cloth). ISBN: 9780415988452
Edgerton, Samuel Y. The Mirror, the Window, and the Telescope: How Renaissance Linear Perspective Changed Our Vision of the Universe. xvi + 199 pp., illus., bibl., index. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2009. $19.95 (paper). ISBN: 9780801474804
Emerson, Roger L. Essays on David Hume, Medical Men and the Scottish Enlightenment: 'Industry, Knowledge and Humanity'. (Science, Technology and Culture, 1700-1945). xx + 295 pp., tables, bibl., index. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2009. $124.95 (cloth).ISBN: 9780754666288
Epstein, Steven. Inclusion: The Politics of Difference in Medical Research. (Chicago Studies in Practice of Meaning.) ix + 413 pp., index. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. $19 (paper). ISBN: 9780226213101
Fisher, Harwood. Self, Logic, and Figurative Thinking. xvii + 348 pp., index. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. $40 (cloth). ISBN: 9780231145046
Freidberg, Susanne. Fresh: A Perishable History. 408 pp., bibl., index. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009. $27.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780674032910
Gattei, Stefano. Thomas Kuhn's "Linguistic Turn" and the Legacy of Logical Empiricism: Incommensurability, Rationality and the Search for Truth. (Ashgate New Critical Thinking in Philosophy.) x + 277 pp., bibl., index. Ashgate, 2008. $114.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780754661603
Golumbia, David. The Cultural Logic of Computation. 257 pp., bibl., index. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009. $30 (cloth). ISBN: 9780674032927
Goyens, Michèle; de Leemans, Pieter; Smets, An (Editors.) Science Translated: Latin and Vernacular Translations of Scientific Treatises in Medieval Europe. (Mediaevalia Lovaniensia, 40.) xi + 478 pp., indexes. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2008. €65 (paper). ISBN: 9789058676719
Grafton, Anthony. Worlds Made by Words: Scholarship and Community in the Modern West. x + 422 pp., illus., index. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009. $29.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780674032576
Graham, Loren; Kantor, Jean-Michel. Naming Infinity: The True Story of Religious Mysticism and Mathematical Creativity. x + 239 pp., illus., index. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009. $25.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780674032934
Granada, Miguel Ángel; Mehl, Éduard. Nouveau Ciel Nouvelle Terre: La Révolution Copernicienne dans L'Allemagne de la Réforme (1530-1630). 442 pp., figs., tables, bibl., indexes. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2009. €37 (paper). ISBN: 9782251420370
Grapes, R. H.; Oldroyd, D.; Grigelis, A. (Editors.) History of Geomorphology and Quaternary Geology. (Geological Society Special Publication, 301.) vii + 336 pp., illus., tables, index. London: The Geological Society, 2008. $102 (cloth). ISBN: 9781862392557
Greene, Ann Norton. Horses: Harnessing Power in Industrial America. xiv + 322 pp., illus., index. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008. $29.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780674031296
Gribbin, John; Gribbin, Mary. James Lovelock: In Search of Gaia. xxiv +pp., 262 pp., illus., index. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009. $24.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780391137506
Griffin, Michael. Leadership in Space: Selected Speeches of NASA Administrator Michael Griffin, May 2005-October 2008. 329 pp., illus. Washington, DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2008. $38.75 (cloth). ISBN: 9780160815652
Hamilton, Alissa. Squeezed: What You Didn't Know About Orange Juice. xxviii + 247 pp., figs., index. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009. $30 (cloth).ISBN: 9780300124712
Helm, Jürgen; Wilson, Renate (Editors). Medical Theory and Therapeutic Practice in the Eighteenth Century: A Transantlantic Perspective. 344 pp., illus., index. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2008. €49 (paper). ISBN: 9783515088893
Herman, Ellen. Kinship by Design. A History of Adoption in the Modern United States. 368 pp., figs., index. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2009. $70 (cloth). ISBN: 9780226327594
Hills, Richard L. Development of Power in the Textile Industry from 1700-1930. 255 pp., bibl., index. Ashbourne: Landmark Publishing, 2008. £27.50 (cloth). ISBN: 9781843063206
Hoolihan. Christopher. An Annotated Catalogue of the Edward C. Atwater Collection of American Popular Medicine and Health Reform. Volume III, Supplement: A-Z. 763 pp., illus., index. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2008. ISBN: 9781580462846
Keyser, Paul T.; Irby-Massie, Georgia L. (Editors.) The Encyclopedia of Ancient Natural Scientists: The Greek Tradition and its Many Heirs. x + 1062 pp., indexes. New York: Routledge, 2008. $360 (cloth). ISBN: 9780415340205
Kirk-Montgomery, Allison; McKellar, Shelley. Medicine and Technology in Canada 1900-1950. (Transformation Collection, 16.) xii + 171 pp., figs., bibl., index. Ottawa: Canada Science and Technology Museum, 2008. $25 (paper).ISBN: 9781100107851
Kutcher, Gerald. Contested Medicine: Cancer Research and the Military. x + 247 pp., bibl., index. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. $35 (cloth). ISBN: 9780226465319
Ladd, Brian. Autophobia. Love and Hate in the Automotive Age. vii + 228 pp., illus., index. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2008. $22.50 (cloth). ISBN: 7980226467412
LaFleur; William R.; Böhme, Gernot; Shimazono, Susumu (Editors). Dark Medicine: Rationalizing Unethical Medical Research. 280 pp., index. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008. $35 (cloth). ISBN: 9780253220417
Lamont, Michèle. How Professors Think. Inside the Curious World of Academic Judgment. 330 pp., tables, app., bibl., index. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009. $27.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780674032668
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm. Mathematische Schriften. Band 5: 1674-1676. Infinitesimalmathematik. Edited by Leibniz-Forschungsstelle Hannover, Der Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, Beim Leibniz-Archiv der Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Bibliothek Hannover. Foreword by Herbert Berger. (Sämtliche Schriften und Briefe.) Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2008. €258 (cloth). ISBN: 978050045788
Lunning, French (Editor). Mechademia: Limits of the Human. xvi + 287 pp., figs. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008. $19.95 (paper). ISBN: 9780816654826
Maas, Ad; Hooijmaijers, Hans (Editors). Scientific Research in World War II: What Scientists Did in the War. (Routledge Studies in Modern History, 7.) xii + 240 pp., illus., index. New York: Routledge, 2009. $150 (cloth). ISBN: 9780710313409
Magoun, Alexander B. Television: The Life Story of a Technology. xviii + 209 pp., illus., bibl., index. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. £13 (paper). ISBN: 9780801890727
McDonald, Allen J.; Hansen, James R. Truth, Lies, and O-Rings: Inside the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster. Foreword by James R. Hansen. xix + 626 pp., illus., bibl., index. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2009. $39.95 ISBN: 9780813033266
Meyer, David L; Davis, Richard Arnold. A Sea Without Fish: Life in the Ordovician Sea of the Cincinnati Region. xv + 346 pp., illus., tables, bibl., index. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2009. $44.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780253351982
Meyerson, Émile. Lettres françaises. Edited by Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent and Eva Telkes-Klein. 986 pp., bibl., index. Paris: CNRS Éditions, 2009. €49 ISBN: 9782271068347
Mix, Lucas John. Life in Space: Astrobiology for Everyone. 331 pp., illus., index. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009. $29.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780674033214
Numbers, Ronald L. (Editor). Galileo Goes to Jail and Other Myths about Science and Religion. xi + 302 pp., index. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009. $27.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780674033276
Oldenziel, Ruth; Zachmann, Karin (Editors). Cold War Kitchen: Americanization, Technology, and European Users. (Inside Technology.) viii + 415 pp., illus., bibl., index. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2009. $36 (cloth). ISBN: 9780262151191
Olson, Gary M.; Zimmerman, Ann; Bos, Nathan (Editors). Scientific Collaboration on the Internet. Foreword by William A. Wulf. (Acting With Technology.) xii + 406 pp., illus., index. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2008. $45 (cloth).ISBN: 9780262151207
Ortolano, Guy. The Two Cultures Controversy: Science, Literature and Cultural Politics in Postwar Britain. xi + 295 pp., illus., bibl., index. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. $99 (cloth). ISBN: 9780521892049
Perutz, Max. What a Time I Am Having: Selected Letters of Max Perutz. Edited by Vivien Perutz. xxix + 506 pp., illus., index. Cold Spring Harbor, NY: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2009. $39 (cloth). ISBN: 9780879698645
Pethes, Nicolas; Richter, Sandra (Editors). Medizinische Schreibweisen. vi + 344 pp., index. Tübingen: Max Neimeyer Verlag, 2008. €67, 29 (paper). ISBN: 9783484351172
Polanyi, Michael. The Tacit Dimension. Foreword by Amartya Sen. xix + 108 pp., index. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. $16 (paper). ISBN: 9780226672984
Qiu. Jack Linchuan. Working-Class Network Society: Communication Technology and the Information Have-Less in Urban China. Foreword by Manuel Castells. xvi + 303 pp., illus., tables, bibl., index. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2009. $35 (cloth). ISBN: 9780262170062
Reynalde, Thomas. The Birth of Mankind. Otherwise Named, The Woman's Book. Edited by Elaine Hobby. (Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity.) xxxix + 310 pp., illus., bibl., index. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2009. $114.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780754638186
Roughgarden, Joan. The Genial Gene: Deconstructing Darwinian Selfishness. ix + 255 pp. tables, index. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2009. $24.95 (cloth). ISBN: 978052025826
Rushton, Alan R. Royal Maladies: Inherited Diseases in the Ruling Houses of Europe. xi + 261 pp., index. Oxford: Trafford Publishing, 2008. ISBN: 9781425168100
Santi, Claudio Leonardi e Francesco (Editor). Natura, scienze e società medievali: Studi in onore di Agostino Paravicini Bagliani. (Micrologus' Library, 28.) x + 429 pp., illus., index. Florence: Sismel Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2008. €65 (paper).ISBN: 9788884503015
Schayegh, Cyrus. Who Is Knowledgeable Is Strong. Science, Class, and the Formation of Modern Iranian Society, 1900-1950. x + 340 pp., bibl., index. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009. $49.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780520254473
Slater, Leo B. War and Disease: Biomedical Research on Malaria in the Twentieth Century. (Critical Issues in Health and Medicine.) x +249 pp., illus., index. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2009. $45.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780813544380
Smith, Roger. Being Human: Historical Knowledge and the Creation of Human Nature. viii + 288 pp., bibl., index. Columbia University Press, 2007. $30.50. ISBN: 9780231141666
Solberg, Winton U. Reforming Medical Education: The University of Illinois College of Medicine, 1880-1920. xvi + 309 pp., illus., tables, index. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2009. $35 (cloth). ISBN: 9780252033599
Stachurski, Richard. Longitude by Wire: Finding the North America. xii + 239 pp., illus., bibl., index. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina, 2009. $29.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9781570038013
Staley, Richard. Einstein's Generation: The Origins of the Relativity Revolution. x + 494 pp., illus., bibl., index. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. $38 (paper). ISBN: 9780226770574
Stresser-Péan, Guy. The Sun God and the Savior: The Christianization of the Nahua and Totonac in the Sierra Norte de Puebla, Mexico. Foreword by Alfredo López Austin. xxix + 627 pp., tables, bibl., index, DVD. Boulder, CO: University Press of Colorado, 2009. $75 (cloth). ISBN: 9780870819322
Symons, John; Calvo, Paco (Editors). The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Psychology. (Routledge Philosophy Companions.) xxii + 678 pp., illus., index. New York: Routledge, 2009. $190 (cloth). ISBN: 9780415396325
van der Lugt, Maaike; de Miramon, Charles (Editors). L'hérédité entre Moyen Âge et Époque moderne: Perspectives historiques. (Micrologus' Library, 27.) vi + 412 pp., illus., indexes. Florence: Sismel Edizioni Del Galluzzo, 2008. €58 (paper). ISBN: 9788884503091
Vescovini, Graziella Federici; Rignani, Orsola (Editors). Oggetto e spazio. Fenomenologia dell'oggetto, forma e cosa dai secoli XIII-XIV ai post-cartesiani. (Micrologus' Library, 24.) vi + 333 pp., illus., index. Florence: Sismel Edizioni Del Galluzzo, 2008. €45 (paper). ISBN: 9788884502681
Volk, Katharina. Manilius and His Intellectual Background. xiv + 314 pp., illus., bibl., index. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. $125 (cloth). ISBN: 9780199265220
Wanderer, Jeremy. Robert Brandom. xii + 240 pp., apps., index. Montreal: McGill-Queen's Press, 2009. $85 (cloth). ISBN: 9780773534865
Ward, Peter. The Medea Hypothesis: Is Life on Earth Ultimately Self-Destructive?
xiv + 180 pp., figs., bibl., index. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009. $24.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780691130750
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
Weeks, John M.; Sachse, Frauke; Prager, Christian M. Maya Daykeeping: Three Calendars from Highland Guatemala. (Mesoamerican Worlds: From the Olmecs to the Dazantes.) xii + 221 pp., illus., tables, apps., bibl., index. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2009. $55 (cloth). ISBN: 9780870819339
Woloshin, Steven; Schwartz. Lisa M.; Welch, Gilbert. Know Your Chances. Understanding Health Statistics. 158 pp., illus., index. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. $16.95 (paper). ISBN: 978052025226
Woodhouse, S. From Texas to San Diego in 1851: The Overland Journal of Dr. S. Woodhouse, Surgeon-Naturalist of the Sitgreaves. Edited and annotated by Andrew Wallace and Richard H. Hevly. (Grover E. Murray Studies in the American Southwest.) xl + 357 pp., illus., bibl., index. Lubbock, Texas: Texas Tech University Press, 2007. $45 (cloth). ISBN: 9780896725973
Yates, Michael D. Why Unions Matter (2nd ed.). 240 pp., index. New York, Monthly Review Press, 2009. $17.95 (paper). ISBN: 9781583671900
Zhang, Baichun; Tian, Miao. Chuanbo yu huitong : Qiqi tushuo yanjiu yu jiaoyi [Transmission and integration : 'Qiqi tushuo']. New research and annotated edition. Edited by Matthias Schemmel, Jürgen Renn, and Peter Damerow. 2 volumes. 335 pp. + 214 pp. Nanjing: Jiangsu Science and Technology Press, 2008. ?120 (paper). ISBN: 9787534558528
Zumstein, Hélène. Les Figures du Glacier: Histoire curturelle des nieges éternelles au XVIIIe siècle. (Travaux d'Histoire Suisse, 5.) x + 225 pp., figs., bibl.. Genève: Presses D'Histoire Suisse, 2009. ISBN: 9782970046158
