Isis Books Received
1 May - 30 May 2009
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Boyd, Brian. On the Origin of Stories: Evolution, Cognition, and Fiction. xii + 540 pp., illus., bibl., index. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009. $35 (cloth). ISBN: 9780067403357
Brieger, Gert H. (Editor). Medical America in the Nineteenth Century: Readings from the Literature. x + 338 pp., index. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. $30 (paper). ISBN: 9780801892684
Brown, Richard C. Are Science and Mathematics Socially Constructed? A Mathematician Encounters Postmodern Interpretations of Science. xviii + 317 pp., bibl., index. Singapore: World Scientifc Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., 2009. $72 (cloth). ISBN: 9789812835246
Cook, Harold J.; Bhattacharya, Sanjoy; Hardy, Anne (Editors). History of the Social Determinants of Health: Global Histories, Contemporary Debates. (New Perspectives in South Asian History.) xvi + 364 pp., illus., tables, bibl., index. Andhra Pradesh, India: Orient Blackswan, 2009. Rs 895 (cloth). ISBN: 9788125035084
Crook, Paul. Darwin's Coat-Tails: Essays on Social Darwinism. xiv + 340 pp., index. New York: Peter Lang, 2007. $79.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780820481388
Darwin, Charles. The Annotated Origin: A Facsimile of the First Edition of On the Origin of Species. Annotated by James T. Costa. xx + 537 pp., bibl., index. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 2009. $35 (cloth). ISBN: 9780674032811
Dennehy, Myriam; Ramond, Charles (Editors). La Philosophie naturelle de Robert Boyle. Foreword by Michel Malherbe. (Analyse et Philosophie.) 416 pp., indexes. Paris: Librarie Philosophique J. VRIN, 2009. €52 (paper). ISBN: 9782711621446
Ferngren, Gary B. Medicine & Health Care in Early Christianity.
xiv + 246 pp., bibl., index. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkinds University Press, 2009. $35 (cloth). ISBN: 9780801891427
Flood, Raymond; McCartney, Mark; Whitaker, Andrew (Editors). Kelvin: Life, Labours and Legacy. Foreword by Brian Pippard. xii + 358 pp., illus., index. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. $110 (cloth). ISBN: 9780199231256
Foster, John Bellamy. The Ecological Revolution: Making Peace with the Planet. 328 pp., index. New York: Monthly Review Press, 2009. $17.95 (paper). ISBN: 9781583671795
Gere, Cathy. Knossos and the Prophets of Modernism. x + 277 pp., illus., bibl., index. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. $27.50 (cloth). ISBN: 9780226289533
Hanks, Craig (Editor). Technology and Values: Essential Readings.
xv + 542 pp., illus., bibl. Chichester, England: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. $59.95 (paper). ISBN: 9781405149013
Hanson, Craig Ashley. The English Virtuoso: Art, Medicine, and Antiquarianism in the Age of Empiricism. xvii + 316 pp., illus., bibl., index. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. $50 (cloth). ISBN: 9780226315874
Hermanowicz, Joseph C.. Lives in Science: How Institutions Affect Academic Careers. xiii + 323 pp., tables, apps., bibl., index. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. $55 (cloth). ISBN: 9780226327617
Hockey, Thomas (Editor). The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. 2 Volumes. xlv + 1341 pp., illus. bibl., indexes. New York: Springer, 2007. $499 (cloth). ISBN: 9780387310220
Knight, Leah. Of Books and Botany in Early Modern England: Sixteenth-Century Plants and Print Culture. (Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity.) xviii + 163 pp., illus., bibl., index. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2009. $99.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780754665861
Li, Jie Jack. Triumph of the Heart: The Story of Statins. Foreword by E. J. Corey. xvii + 201 pp., illus., app., index. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. $29.95 (cloth).ISBN: 9780195323573
Lightman, Bernard. Evolutionary Naturalism in Victorian Britain: The 'Darwinians' and their Critics. (Variorum Collected Studies.) xviii + 348 pp., illus., index. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2009. $134.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780754659877
Mallard, Grégoire; Paradeise, Catherine; Peerbaye, Ashveen (Editors).Global Science and National Sovereignty: Studies in Historical Sociology of Science. xii + 231 pp., tables, bibl., index. New York, NY: Routledge, 2009. $100 (cloth). ISBN: 9780415963459
Malone, John C. Psychology: Pythagoras to Present. viii + 560 pp., illus., bibls., index. Cambridge, MA/London: The MIT Press, 2009. $40 (cloth). ISBN: 9780262012966
McGrew, Timothy; Alspector-Kelly, Marc; Allhoff, Fritz (Editors). Philosophy of Science: An Historical Anthology. (Blackwell Philosophy Anthologies, 30.) Chichester, England: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. $65.95 (paper). ISBN: 9781405175425
Möbius, Karl. Ästhetik der Tierwelt. Foreword by Christoph Kockerbeck. (Wissenschaftskultur um 1900, 5.) lx + 128 pp., illus. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2008. €42 (paper). ISBN: 9783515092814
Nathoo, Ayesha. Hearts Exposed: Transplants and the Media in 1960s Britain. (Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History.) xv + 262 pp., illus., bibl., index. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. £52 (cloth). ISBN: 9781403987303
Nozal, Raúl Rodríguez; Bueno, Antonio González (Editors). El medicamento de fabricación industrial en la España contemporánea. 416 pp., illus., bibl. Madrid:Imprime C.E.R.S.A, 2008. €50 (cloth). ISBN: 9788492539284
Romano, Antonella (Editor). Rome et la Science Moderne: Entre Renaissance et Lumières.
(Collection de L'École Française de Rome, 403.) 751 pp., illus., bibl., index. Rome: École Française de Rome, 2008. €88 (paper). ISBN9782728308330
Rottenburg, Richard. Far-Fetched Facts: A Parable of Development Aid. Translated by Allison Brown and Tom Lampert. (Inside Technology.) xxxvii + 235 pp., illus., bibl., index. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2009. $30 (cloth). ISBN: 9780262182645
Schiemann, Gregor. Hermann von Helmholtz's Mechanism: The Loss of Certainty. (Archimedes: New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology.) x + 282 pp., bibls., index. New York: Springer, 2009. $99.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9781402056291
Schüring, Michael. Minervas verstoßene Kinder: Vertribene Wissenschaftler und die Vergangenheitspolitik der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft. 416 pp., tables, bibl., index. Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2006. € 35. ISBN: 9783892448792
Shukin, Nicole. Animal Capital: Rendering Life in Biopolitical Times. (posthumanities, 6.) viii + 306 pp., illus., index. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009. $22.50 (paper). ISBN: 9780816653423
Wiesner-Hanks, Merry. The Marvelous Hairy Girls. xiv + 248 pp. illus., index. New Haven, CT: Yale University, 2009. $30 (cloth). ISBN: 9780300127331
