Books Received List March 2010 (March 22nd)

 

Adams, William J. The Life and Times of the Central Limit Theorem. History of
            Mathematics .Volume 35. xii+195pp.  App.,bibl.,index.  Second Edition. Providence,
            RI: American Mathematical Society, 2009. $53.00 (cloth). ISBN# 9780821748999

 

Barab, Peter. The Complimentary Nature of Reality. 527pp.  Bibl., index. Portland, OR: Open
            Way Press, 2010. $28.95 (cloth). ISBN# 9780982263709

 

Behringer, Wolfgang. A Cultural History of Climate. xvi + 295pp., illus., index. UK,
            Cambridge: Polity Press, 2010. $29.92, (paper). ISBN# 9780745645292

 

Boudia, S. et al. (Editors). Patrimoine et communautŽs savantes. 298pp.  Illus. France:
            Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2009. Û 22 (paper). ISBN# 9782753509061

 

Bowman- Kruhm, Mary.  The Leakeys: A Biography. 183 pp.Amherst, NY: Prometheus
            Books, 2010.  $17.00 (paper). ISBN# 9781591027614

 

Brancone, Valentina. Il tesoro dei cardinali del Duecento. Inventari di libri e beni mobili.
            Micrologus Library 31. 291pp., bibl., index. Firenze: Sismel, Edizioni del Galluzzo,
            2009. $92.50 (paper).ISBN# 9788884503336

 

Casagrande, Carla and Silvana Vecchio (Editors). Piacere e dolore.  Materiali per una storia
            delle passioni nel Medioevo. (Micrologus' Library 29) vi+240pp. Index.  Firenze,
            Italy: Sismel  Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2009. Û 44 (paper).ISBN# 9788884503256

 

Clarke, Bruce and Mark B. N. Hansen (Editors.) Emergence and Embodiment.  New Essays
            on Second-Order Systems Theory.  285pp., figs., index. Durham, NC: Duke
            University Press, 2009.  $84.95 (cloth). ISBN# 9780822345817

 

Espinosa, Mariola. Epidemic Invasions. Yellow Fever and the limits of Cuban Independence,
            1878-1930. x + 189pp., illus., bibl., index. IL, Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
            2009. $22.50, (paper). ISBN# 9780226218120

 

Gross, Charles G. A Hole in the Head: More Tales in the History of Neuroscience. x+356pp.
            Illus., Index. Cambridge MA: The MIT Press, 2009. $35.00 (cloth). ISBN#
            9780262013383

 

KŠndler,Wolfram C. Anpassung und Abgrenzung.  Zur Sozialgeschichte der Lehrstuhinhaber
            der Technischen Hochschule Berlin-Charlottenburg und ihrer VorgŠngerakademien,
            1851 bis 1945. Pallas Athene-31. 318 pp.,app.,bibl. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag,
            009. Û48 (paper).ISBN# 9783515093613.

 

Knight, David. The Making of Modern Science. xiv + 370pp., illus., index. UK, Cambridge:
            Polity Press, 2009. $31.95 (paper). ISBN# 9780745636764

Krebs, Stefan. Technikwissenschaft als sozial Praxis. †ber Macht und Autonomie der
            Aachener EisenhŸttenkunde 1870–1914. Vierteljahrschrift fŸr Sozial- und
            Wirtschaftsgeschichte – Beihefte Volume 204.  472pp. Illus. Stuttgart, Germany:
            Franz Steiner Verlag, 2009.  Û 72 (paper). ISBN# 9783515093484

 

Lavoisier, Antoine L. System der antiphlogistischen Chemie. Translated from French by
            Sigismund Friedrich Hermbstaed.  Commentary by Jan Frercks.  412pp.  Illus., bibl. 
            Frankfurt, Germany: Suhrkamp Verlag, 2008.  $12.00 (paper). ISBN#
            9783518270127

 

Magueijo, Jo‹o. A Brilliant Darkness: The Extraordinary Life and Mysterious
            Disappearance of Ettore Majorana, the Troubled Genius of the Nuclear Age.
            xxi+280pp.  Illus., index.  New York, NY: Basic Books, 2009.  $27.50 (paper).
            ISBN# 9780465009039

 

Nilsson, Nils J. The Quest for Artificial Intelligence: A History of Ideas and Achievements.
            xv+562pp. Index. Cambridge, NY: Cambridge Univeristy Press, 2010.  $39.99
            (paper). ISBN# 9780521116398

 

Noltie, H. J. Raffles' Ark Redrawn.  Natural History Drawings from the Collection of Sir
            Thomas Stamford Raffles. 180pp. Illus., index.  Chicago IL: The University of
            Chicago Press, 2009. $35.00 (paper). ISBN# 9780712350846

 

Paret, Peter. The Cognitive Challenge of War: Prussia 1806. x+ 164pp. Illus., index.
            Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009. $22.95, (cloth). ISBN#
            9780691135816.

 

Porter, Barbara N. (Editor). What Is a God?  Anthropomorphic and Non-Anthropomorphic
            Aspects of Deity in Ancient Mesopotamia. Transactions of the Casco Bay
            Assyriological Institute, Volume 2. xii+210pp. Illus. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns,
            2009. $37.50 (cloth). ISBN# 9780967425016

 

Rushton, Alan R. Genetics in Medicine In Great Britain 1600 to 1939. xv+ 377pp. Index.
            Victoria, Canada: Trafford Publishing, 2009. $32.95 (paper). ISBN# 9781426905551.

 

Schot, Johan et al. Technology and the making of the Netherlands. The Age of Contested
            Modernization, 1890-1970. 635pp., illus., index. MA, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2010.
            $51.95, (cloth). ISBN# 9780262013628

 

Simon, Christian. Natur-Geschichte. Das Naturhistorische Museum Basel im 19. und 20.
            Jahrhundert. BeitrŠge zur Basler Geschichte.  415pp. Illus. notes, app., bibli., index.
            Schweiz: Christoph Merian Verlag, 2009. Û 32.00 (paper). ISBN# 9783856164096

 

Smith, Barbara H. Natural Reflections: Human Cognition at the Nexus of Science and
            Religion. xvii+201pp. Bibl., index. New Haven CT: Yale Univerisity Press, 2009. 
            $28.00 (cloth). 9780300140347

 

Stšckel, Sigrid et al. Das Medium Wissenschaftszeitschrift seit dem 19. Jahrhundert:

  Verwissenschaftlichung der Gesellschaft – Vergesellschaftung von Wissenschaft.
            Wissenschaft, Politik und Gesellschaft Volume 5.  254pp. Illus.  Stuttgart, Germany:
            Franz Steiner Verlag, 2009.  Û34 (paper). ISBN# 9783515093422