Isis Books Received
28 March 2008 - 28 April 2008
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Bartlett, Robert. The
Natural and the Supernatural in the Middle Ages: The Wiles Lecture Given at the
Queen's University of Belfast, 2006.
The Wiles lectures. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.$85 (cloth). ISBN: 9780521878326.
Biard, Joël; Sabine Rommevaux (Editors).Mathématiques et théorie du
mouvement: XIVe-XVIe siècles.
Histoire des sciences. Villeneuve d'Ascq: Presses universitaires du
septentrion, 2008. €20.00 (paper). ISBN: 9782757400166.
Boon, Timothy. Films
of Fact: A History of Science in Documentary Films and Television. London: Wallflower, 2008.£16.99 (paper). ISBN: 9781905674374.
Bucciantini, Massimo, Michele Camerota, and Sophie Roux. Mechanics
and Cosmology in the Medieval and Early Modern Period. Biblioteca di Nuncius, 64. Firenze: L.S. Olschki,
2007. €23.00 (cloth). ISBN: 9788822256614.
Chester, R. Furnace
of Creation, Cradle of Destruction: A Journey to the Birthplace of Earthquakes,
Volcanoes, and Tsunamis. New York:
AMACOM, 2008.$24.95 (paper). ISBN: 9780814409206.
Cummins, Juliet, and David Burchell. Science,
Literature, and Rhetoric in Early Modern England. Literary and scientific cultures of early modernity. Aldershot, Hants,
England: Ashgate, 2007.$99.95
(cloth). ISBN: 9780754657811.
Darby, Andrew. Harpoon:
Into the Heart of Whaling. Crows Nest,
N.S.W.: Allen & Unwin, 2007.$25.00
(cloth). ISBN: 9780306816291.
Delaporte, François,
and Todd Meyers. Anatomy
of the Passions. Cultural memory in the present. Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press,
2008.$24.95 (paper). ISBN: 9780804758512.
Draelants, Isabelle. Le Liber de virtutibus herbarum, lapidum et animalium (Liber
aggregationis). Un texte à succès attribué à Albert le Grand.(Micrologus'
Library, 22.) 492 pp., figs., bibl., indexes. Italy: Sismel Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2007. €64
(paper). ISBN: 9788884502612.
Fieschi, Caroline. Photographier les plantes au XIXe
siècle: la photographie dans les livres de botanique. CTHS-Sciences. Paris: CTHS, 2008. €35.00 (cloth). ISBN: 9782735506545.
Franklin, Allan. Ending
the Mendel-Fisher Controversy.
Pittsburgh PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008.$27.95 (paper). ISBN: 9780822959861.
Generali, Dario, and Marc Ratcliff, International Workshop on the History of Microscopy. From makers to users: microscopes, markets, and
scientific practices in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries = Dagli
artigiani ai naturalisti : microscopi, offerta dei mercati e pratiche
scientifiche nei secoli XVII e XVIII.
Biblioteca dell'Edizione nazionale delle opere di Antonio Vallisneri, 3. Milan:
Leo S. Olschki Editore, 2007. €35.00
(cloth). ISBN: 9788822256690.
Hamerow, Theodore S. Why We Watched: How Anti-Semitism in
the Allied Nations Allowed Hitler to Exterminate European Jewry. New
York: W.W. Norton & Co, 2008.$35.00
(cloth). ISBN: 9780393064629.
Hess, Peter M. J., and Paul L. Allen. Catholicism
and Science. Greenwood guides to
science and religion. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 2008.$65 (cloth). ISBN: 9780313331909.
Klingle, Matthew W. Emerald
City: An Environmental History of Seattle.
The Lamar series in western history. New Haven: Yale University Press,
2007.$30 (cloth). ISBN: 9780300116410.
Krankheit in Briefen im deutschen und französischen Sprachraum: 17.-21.
Jahrhundert. Medizin, Gesellschaft und
Geschichte, 29. Stuttgart: Steiner, 2007. € 37.00 (paper). ISBN: 9783515089494.
LaFollette, Marcel C. Reframing
Scopes: Journalists, Scientists, and Lost Photographs from the Trial of the
Century. Lawrence, Kan: University
Press of Kansas, 2008.$45.00
(cloth). ISBN: 978070061681.
Leas, Connie. Fat:
It's Not What You Think. Amherst, N.Y.:
Prometheus Books, 2008.$15.95
(paper). ISBN: 9781591026129.
Lindberg, David C. The
Beginnings of Western Science: The European Scientific Tradition in
Philosophical, Religious, and Institutional Context, 600 B.C. to A.D. 1450. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992.$25 (paper). ISBN: 9780226482057.
Livingstone, David N. Adam's
Ancestors: Race, Religion, and the Politics of Human Origins. Medicine, science, and religion in historical context. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
University Press, 2008.$35.00
(cloth). ISBN: 9780801888137.
Lorenz, Ralph, and Jacqueline Mitton. Titan
Unveiled : Saturn's Mysterious Moon Explored. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press,
2008.$29.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780691125879.
Macrakis, Kristie. Seduced
by Secrets: Inside the Stasi's Spy-Tech World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.$28 (cloth). ISBN: 9780521887472.
Magee, Dennis W., and Harry E. Ahles. Flora
of the Northeast: A Manual of the Vascular Flora of New England and Adjacent
New York. Amherst: University of
Massachusetts Press, 2007.$95
(cloth). ISBN: 9781558495777.
McCray, W. Patrick. Keep Watching the Skies! The Story of
Operation Moonwatch & the Dawn of the Space Age. Princeton Univ Pr,
2008.$29.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780691128542.
Meisen, Lydia. Die Charakterisierung der Tiere in Buffons
Histoire naturelle. Epistemata, Bd. 623. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2008.DM 38.00 (paper). ISBN: 9783826037351.
Mildenberger, Florian. Umwelt als Vision: Leben und Werk
Jakob von Uexkülls
(1864-1944). Sudhoffs Archiv, Heft 56.
Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 2007. €56.00
(paper). ISBN: 9783515091114.
Mindell, David A. Digital Apollo: Human and Machine in Spaceflight. Cambridge, MA: The
MIT Press, 2008.$29.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780262134972.
Monroe, John Warne. Laboratories
of Faith: Mesmerism, Spiritism, and Occultism in Modern France. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2008.$35.00 (cloth). ISBN: 9780801445620.
Neufeld, Michael J. Von
Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf in association with the National Air and Space
Museum, Smithsonian Institution, 2007.$35 (cloth). ISBN: 9780307262929.
Nur, Amos, and Dawn Burgess. Apocalypse:
Earthquakes, Archaeology, and the Wrath of God. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008.$26.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780691016023.
O'Leary, Don. Roman
Catholicism and Modern Science: A History. New York: Continuum, 2006.$34.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780826418685.
Pont, Jean-Claude. Pour comprendre le XIXe: histoire et
philosophie des sciences à la fin du siècle. [Florence, Italy]: L.S. Olschki, 2007. €56 (paper). ISBN: 9788822256119.
Quenet, Grégory. Les tremblements de terre aux
XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles: la naissance d'un risque. Epoques. Seyssel: Champ Vallon, 2005. €32.00 (paper). ISBN: 9782876734142.
Radkau, Joachim. Nature
and Power: A Global History of the Environment. Publications of the German Historical Institute. Washington, D.C.:
German Historical Institute, 2008.$24.99 (paper). ISBN: 9780521616737.
Ratcliff, Jessica. The
Transit of Venus Enterprise in Victorian Britain. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2008.$99 (cloth). ISBN: 9781851965410.
Raulff, Helga, and Michael Dorrmann, Deutsches Hygiene-Museum (Dresden). Schlaf & Traum [eine Ausstellung des Deutschen
Hygiene-Museums Dresden in Zusammenarbeit mit der Wellcome Collection, London,
31. März bis 3.
Oktober 2007, Dresden ; Dezember 2007 bis März
2008, London. Koln: Bohlau,
2007. €14.90 (paper). ISBN: 9783412187064.
Ruiz, Hipólito, Raúl Rodríguez Nozal, and
Antonio González Bueno. Relación del viaje hecho a los reinos
del Perú y Chile por los botánicos y dibujantes enviados por el Rey
para aquella expedición, extractada de los diarios por el orden que. Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones
Científicas, 2007. €40
(paper). ISBN: 9788483193297.
Ruse, Michael. Charles
Darwin. Blackwell great minds, 5.
Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub, 2008.$25.00
(paper). ISBN: 9781405149136.
Samsó, Julio. Astronomy
and Astrology in Al-Andalus and the Maghrib. Aldershot [England]: Ashgate/Variorum, 2007. $124.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780754659341.
History
of Mathematical Sciences: Portugal and East Asia Iii. Singapore: World Scientific, 2008.$98.00 (cloth). ISBN: 9789812771254.
Schiebinger, Londa L.
Gendered Innovations in Science and Engineering. Stanford, Calif:
Stanford University Press, 2008.$24.95
(paper). ISBN: 9780804758154.
Shulman, Seth. The
Telephone Gambit: Chasing Alexander Graham Bell's Secret. New York: W. W. Norton & Co, 2008.$24.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780393062069.
Slingerland, Edward G. What
Science Offers the Humanities: Integrating Body and Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.$24.95 (paper). ISBN: 9780521701518.
Véronèse, Julien. L'Ars notoria au Moyen Age: introduction et
édition critique. Micrologus'
library, 21. Firenze: SISMEL edizioni del Galluzzo, 2007. €56 (paper). ISBN: 9788884502537.
Vitar, Beatriz. La pasión científica de un
liberal romántico: Lorenzo Gómez Pardo y Ensenyat (1801-1847). [Frankfurt am Main]: Vervuert Verlag, 2007. €24.00 (cloth). ISBN: 9788484893257.
