Isis Books Received
1 June - 30 June 2009
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Afary, Janet. Sexual Politics in Modern Iran. xvii + 423 pp., illus., bibl., index. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. $32.99 (paper). ISBN: 9780521727082
Auberger, Janick; Keating, Peter. Histoire humaine des animaux de l'Antiquité à nos jours. 277 pp., illus., bibl. Paris: Ellipses, 2009. €24 (paper). ISBN: 9782729841683
Baily, Mary Ann; Murray, Thomas H. (Editors). Ethics and Newborn Genetic Screening: New Technologies, New Challenges. xvi + 354 pp., illus., tables, app., index. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. $50 (cloth). ISBN: 9780801891519
Bailyn, Bernard; Denault, Patricia L. (Editors.) Soundings in Atlantic History: Latent Structures and Intellectual Currents, 1500-1830. x + 622 pp., illus., tables, index. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009. $59.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780674032767
Battista della Porta, Giovan. Pneumaticorum Libri Tres e in appendice I Tre Libri de' Spiritali cioè d'inalzar acque per forza dell'aria. Edited by Oreste Trabucco. (Edizione Nazionale delle Opere di Giovan Battista della Porta, 10.) lii + 171 pp., illus., indexes. Napoli: Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, 2008. €30 (paper). ISBN: 9788849514575
Bewick, Thomas. A General History of Quadrupeds. The Figures Engraved on Wood. Foreword by Yann Martel. vi + 526 pp., illus. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. $19 (paper). ISBN: 9780226044804
Bradley, Patricia E.; Norton, Robert L. (Editors). An Inventory of Breeding Seabirds of the Caribbean. Foreword by John Croxall. xxi + 353 pp., illus., tables, apps., bibl., index. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2009. $75 (cloth). ISBN: 9780813033297
Burnham, John C. Accident Prone: A History of Technology, Psychology, and Misfits of the Machine Age. viii + 328 pp., illus., index. Chicago: University of Chicago, 2009. $40 (cloth). ISBN: 9780226081175
Cevasco, George A.; Harmond, Richard P. (Editors). Modern American Environmentalists: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Foreword by Everett I. Mendelsohn. xv + 557 pp., bibl., index. Burlington, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. $110 (cloth). ISBN: 9780801891526
Chen, Fong-ching. Heritage and Betrayal: A Treatise on the Emergence of Modern Science in Western Civilization. xx + 718 pp. SDX Joint Publishing Company, 2009. 68 (paper). ISBN: 9787108030474
Duffner, Robert W. The Adaptive Optics Revolution: A History. Foreword by Robert Q. Fugate. xxviii + 457 pp., illus., index. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2009. $45 (cloth). ISBN: 9780826346919
Frampton, Michael. Embodiments of Will: Anatomical and Physiological Theories of Voluntary Animal Motion from Greek Antiquity to the Latin Middle Ages, 400 B.C-A.D. 1300. xxxv + 623 pp., illus., bibls., indexes. Saarbrücken, Germany: Verlag Dr. Müller, 2008. $100 (paper). ISBN: 9783639082944
Freeman, L. G. Anthropology Without Informants: Collected Works in Paleoanthropology. Foreword by Francis B. Harrold. xviii + 376 pp., illus., index. Boulder, CO: University Press of Colorado, 2009. $55 (cloth). ISBN: 9780870819476
Goodgall, Pedro M. Pruna. La Real Academia de Ciencias de la Habana, 1861-1898. (Estudios Sobre la Ciencia, 30.) 611 pp., illus., apps, bibl., index. Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 2002. €42 (cloth). ISBN: 8400081226
Grellard, Christophe; Robert, Aurélien (Editors). Atomism in Late Medieval Philosophy and Theology. (History of Science and Medicine Library, 8.) ix + 250 pp., illus., bibls., indexes. Leiden: Brill, 2009. $158 (cloth). ISBN: 9789004172173
Griffel, Frank. Al-Ghazali's Philosophical Theology. xiv + 408 pp., illus., bibl., index. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. $74 (cloth). ISBN: 9780195331622
Henderson, D. A. Smallpox: The Death of a Disease. The Inside Story of Eradicating a Worldwide Killer. Foreword by Richard Preston. 334 pp., illus., index. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2009. $27.98 (cloth). ISBN: 9781591027225
Ilardi, Stephen S. The Depression Cure: The 6-Step Program to Beat Depression Without Drugs. x + 289 pp., tables, bibl., index. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2009. $25 (cloth). ISBN: 9780738213132
Kölbl-Ebert, M. (Editor). Geology and Religion: A History of Harmony and Hostility. vi + 357 pp., illus., index. Bath: Geological Society Publishing House, 2009. $190 (cloth). ISBN: 9781862392694
Leavitt, Judith Walzer. Make Room for Daddy: The Journey from Waiting Room to Birthing Room. xi + 385 pp., illus., index. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2009. $35 (cloth). ISBN: 9780807932554
Levitt, Theresa. The Shadow of Enlightenment: Optical and Political Transparency in France, 1789-1848. 192 pp., illus., index. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. $70 (cloth). ISBN: 9780199544707
McCormick, Sabrina. Mobilizing Science: Movements, Participation, and the Remaking of Knowledge. 212 pp., tables, bibl., index Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2009. $58.50 (cloth). ISBN: 9781439900093
Mirowski, Philip; Plehwe, Dieter (Editors). The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making of the Neoliberal Thought Collective. vi + 469 pp., tables, index. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009. $55 (cloth). ISBN: 9780674033184
Moatti, Alexandre. Einstein, un siècle contre lui. 305 pp., bibl., index. Paris: Odile Jacob, 2007. €21.90 (paper). ISBN: 9782738120076
Nussbaumer, Harry; Bieri, Lydia. Discovering the Expanding Universe. xvii + 226 pp., illus., bibl., index. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. $59 (cloth). ISBN: 9780521514842
Olson, James S. Making Cancer History: Disease and Discovery at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. xiv + 369 pp., illus., bibl., index. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. $35 (cloth). ISBN: 9780801890567
Orain, Olivier. De plain-pied dans le monde: Écriture et réalisme dans la géographie française au Xxe siècle. 427 pp., bibl., index. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2009. €38.50 (paper). ISBN: 9782296079571
Petryna, Adrianna. When Experiments Travel: Clinical Trials and the Global Search for Human Subjects. xii + 258 pp., bibl., index. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009. $24.95 (paper). ISBN: 9780691126579
Ploeger, Joanna S. The Boundaries of the New Frontier: Rhetoric and Communication at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. (Studies in Rhetoric/Communication.) xiv + 199 pp., illus., bibl., index. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2009. $39.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9781570038082
Portuondo, Maria M. Secret Science: Spanish Cosmography and the New World. xiv + 335 pp., illus., bibl., index. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. $45 (cloth). ISBN: 978022667534
Power, Michael L.; Schulkin, Jay. The Evolution of Obesity. ix + 392 pp., illus., tables, bibl., index. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. $40 (cloth). ISBN: 9780801892622
Raley, Rita. Tactical Media. (Electronic Mediations, 28.) xii + 195 pp., illus., index. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009. $19.50 (paper). ISBN: 9780816651511
Ratcliff, Marc J. The Quest for the Invisible: Microscopy in the Enlightenment. xv + 315 pp., illus., tables, bibl., indexes. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2009. $124.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780754661504
Remmert, Volker R.; Schneider, Ute (Editors). Publikationsstrategien einer Disziplin: Mathematik in Kaiswerreich und Weimarer Republik. (Mainer Studien zur Buchwissenschaft, 19.) 220 pp., illus. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2008. €58 (cloth). ISBN: 9783447058056
Repcheck, Jack. The Man Who Found Time: James Hutton and the Discovery of the Earth's Antiquity. 247 pp., app., bibl., index. New York: Basic Books, 2003. $16.95 (paper). ISBN: 9780465013371
Robson, Eleanor; Stedall, Jacqueline (Editors). The Oxford Handbook of the History of Mathematics. vii + 918 pp., illus., tables, bibls., index. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. $150 (cloth). ISBN: 9780199213122
Rutherford, Alexandra. Beyond the Box: B. F. Skinner's Technology of Behavior from Laboratory to Life, 1950s-1970s. xi + 210 pp., illus., bibl., index. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009. $24.95 (paper). ISBN: 9780802096180
Sangalli, Arturo. Pythagoras' Revenge: A Mathematical Mystery. xv + 183 pp., apps. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009. $24.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780691049557
Schleiermacher, Sabine; Schagen, Udo (Editors). Wissenschaft macht Politik: Hochschule in den Politischen Systembrüchen 1933 und 1945. Wissenschaft, Politik und Gesellschaft, 3.) 266 pp., illus., tables. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2009. €34 (paper). ISBN: 9783515093156
Seposki , David ; Ruse, Michael (Editors). The Paleobiological Revolution: Essays on the Growth of Modern Paleobiology. xi + 568 pp., illus., index. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. $60 (cloth). ISBN: 9780226748610
Sternberg, Esther M. Healing Spaces: The Science of Place and Well-Being. 343 pp., bibl., index. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009. $27.95 (cloth).
ISBN: 9780674033368
Szabo, Jason. Incurable and Intolerable: Chronic Disease and Slow Death in Nineteenth-Century France. x + 295 pp., bibl., index. Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2009. $49.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780813545455
Tang, Chenxi. The Geographic Imagination of Modernity: Geography, Literature, and Philosophy in German Romanticism. x + 356 pp., illus., bibls., index. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2008. $65 (cloth). ISBN: 9780804758390
Thomson, Ross. Structures of Change in the Mechanical Age: Technological Innovation in the United States, 1790-1865. (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology.) xiv + 432 pp., illus., tables, app., bibl., index. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. $68 (cloth). ISBN: 9780801891410
Totelin, Laurence M.V. Hippocratic Recipes: Oral and Written Transmission of Pharmacological Knowledge in Fifth- and Fourth-Century Greece. (Studies in Ancient Medicine, 34.) xviii + 366 pp., illus., tables, bibl., indexes. Leiden: Brill, 2009. $179 (cloth). ISBN: 9789004171541
Wainer, Howard. Picturing the Uncertain World: How to Understand, Communicate, and Control Uncertainty through Graphical Display. xviii + 244 pp., illus., tables, bibl., index. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009. $29.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780691137599
Wakefield, Andre. The Disordered Police State: German Cameralism as Science and Practice. x + 226 pp., illus., tables, bibl., index. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. $45.00 (cloth). ISBN: 9780226870205
Weyl, Hermann. Mind and Nature: Selected Writings on Philosophy, Mathematics, and Physics. Edited by Peter Pesic. 261 pp., illus., bibl., index. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009. $35 (cloth). ISBN: 9780691135458
Weyl, Hermann. Philosophy of Mathematics and Natural Science. Introduction by Frank Wilczek. Translated by Olaf Helmer. xvii + 311 pp., illus., index. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009. $35 (cloth). ISBN: 9780691141206
Zittel, Claus; Engel, Gisela; Nanni, Romano; Karafyllis, Nicole C. (Editors). Philosophies of Technology: Francis Bacon and his Contemporaries. (Intersections: Yearbook for Early Modern Studies, 11.) 2 Volumes. xxix + 577 pp., illus., index. Leiden: Brill, 2008. $222 ISBN: 9789004170506
