Isis Books Received
29 April-30 May 2008
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Baneke, David. Synthetisch denken: Natuurwetenschappers over hun rol in een moderne maatschappij, 1900-1940. 240 pp., figs., bibls., index. Hilversum, Netherlands: Uitgeverij Verloren, 2008. €19 (paper). ISBN: 9789087040345
Bickel, Marcel H. Die Lehrbücher und Gesamtdarstellungen der Geschichte der Medizin 1696-2000: Ein Beitrag zur medizinischen Historiographie. 303 pp., illus., figs., tables, bibl., index. Switzerland: Basel: Schwabe AG Verlag, 2007. € 47.50 (cloth). ISBN: 9783796522468
Boersema, David. Philosophy of Science: Text with Readings. viii + 568 pp., figs., app., bibl.. New York: Pearson Education, Inc., 2009. $64.60 (paper). ISBN: 978032143112
Boisvert, Kate Grayson. Religion and the Physical Sciences. Foreword by Richard Olson. (Greenwood Guides to Science and Religion.) xxx + 317 pp., illus., figs., bibl., index. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2008. $65 (cloth). ISBN: 9780313332845
Bömelburg, Helen. Der Arzt und sein Modell: Porträtfotografien aus der deutschen Psychitrie 1880 bis 1933. (Medizin, Gesellschaft und Geschichte, 30.) 238 pp., illus., figs., bibls., index. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2007. €38 (paper). ISBN: 9783515090698
Contosta, David R. Rebel Giants: The Revolutionary Lives of Abraham Lincon & Charles Darwin. 365 pp., illus., bibl., index. New York: Prometheus Books, 2008. $26.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780591026105
Ceruzzi, Paul E. Internet Alley: High Technology in Tysons Corner, 1945-2005. (Lemelson Center Studies in Invention and Innovation.) ix + 242 pp., illus., figs., index. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2008. $30 (cloth). ISBN: 9780262033749
Davis, Robert J. The Healthy Skeptic: Cutting Through the HYPE About Your Health. 243 pp., illus., index. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. $21.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780520249189
Dawkins, Richard. The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing. xviii + 419 pp., illus., figs., index. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. $34.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780199216802
de Mayo, Thomas B. The Demonology of William of Auvergne: By Fire and Sword. Foreword by Alan E. Bernstein. v + 249 pp., bibl., index. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellon, 2008. $109.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780773452428
Delisle, Richard. Debating Humankind's Place in Nature 1860-2000: The Nature of Paleoanthropology. (Advances in Human Evolution.) xvi + 447 pp., figs., app., bibl., index. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2007. $63.20 (paper). ISBN: 9780131773905
Doel, Ronald E.; Söderqvist, Thomas (Editors). The Historiography of Contemporary Science, Technology, and Medicine: Writing Recent Science. (Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, 4.) xvi + 313 pp. figs., index. Originally published in 2006 by Routledge. London: Routledge, 2006. $131 (cloth). ISBN: 9780415391429
Dunmore, John. Where Fate Beckons: The Life of Jean-François de la Pérouse. (Lives of Great Explorers, 2.) 292 pp., illus., figs., bibl., index. Fairbanks, Alaska: University of Alaska Press, 2007. $24.95 (paper). ISBN: 9781602230026
Endersby, Jim. Imperial Nature: Joseph Hooker and the Practices of Victorian Science. 400 pp., illus. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. $35 (cloth). ISBN: 9780226207919
Foellmer, René. Naturlehre: Die Entwicklung des Physikunterrichts an den Volksschulen der Rheinprovinz (1815-1968). (Beiträge zur Historischen Bildungsforschung, 34.) 301 pp., bibls. Köln: Cologne: Böhlau Verlag, 2007. €37.90 (paper). ISBN: 9783412137069
Galison, Peter L.; Holton, Gerald; Schweber, Silvan S. (Editors). Einstein for the 21st Century: His Legacy in Science, Art, and Modern Culture. xviii + 363 pp., illus., figs., tables, index. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2008. $35 (cloth). ISBN: 9780691135205
Godin, Oleg A.; Palmer, David R. (Editors). History of Russian Underwater Acoustics. xx + 1211 pp., illus., figs., tables. New Jersey: World Scientific Publishing, 2008. $170 (cloth). ISBN: 9789812568250
Graham, Peter W. Jane Austen & Charles Darwin: Naturalists and Novelists. xviii + 196 pp., bibl., index. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2008. $99.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780754658511
Greene, Meg. Jane Goodall: A Biography. xviii + 146 pp., figs., bibl., index. Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books, 2008. $16.95 (paper) ISBN: 9781591026112
Hoffmann, Dieter. Max Planck: Die Enterstehung der modernen Physik. 128 pp., illus., figs., index. Munich: C. H. Beck, 2008. €7.90 (paper). ISBN: 9783406562426
Hulin, Nicole. Les Femmes, L'Enseignement et les Sciences: Un Long Cheminement (XIXe - XXe siècle). Afterword by Claudine Hermann. (Histoire des Sciences Humaines.) 238 pp., tables, index. Originally published in 2002 by Presse Universitaires de France. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2008. €24 (paper). ISBN: 9782296056060
Knellwolf, Christa; Goodall, Jane (Editors). Frankenstein's Science: Experimentation and Discovery in Romantic Culture, 1780-1830. x + 225 pp., figs., bibl., index. 226 pp., bibl., index. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2008. $99.95 (cloth). ISBN: 978754654476
Larsson, Ulf. Alfred Nobel: Networks of Innovation. 216 pp., figs. Sagamore Beach, MA: Science History Publications/USA, 2008. $40 (paper). ISBN: 9780881353990
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm. Protogaea. Edited and Translated by Claudine Cohen and Andre Wakefield. xlii + 173 pp., 204 pp., illus., figs., app., bibl., index. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. $55 (cloth). ISBN: 9780226112961
Lloyd, Elisabeth A. Science, Politics and Evolution. (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Science.) 301 pp., index. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. $85 (cloth). ISBN: 9780521865708
Man, John. The Terra Cotta Army: China's First Emperor and the Birth of a Nation. xvi + 288 pp., illus., figs., apps., index. Cambridge: Da Capo Press, 2008. $26 (cloth). ISBN: 9780306817441
Mark, Harry H. Introduction to Optokinetics: The Amazing Speeds of Lights. xiv + 177 pp., illus., index. New York: iUniverse, Inc., 2008. $26.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780595487301
Mauch, Christof; Zeller, Thomas (Editors). The World Beyond the Windshield: Roads and Landscapes in the United States and Europe. Foreword by David E. Nye. xv + 283 pp., figs., index. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2008. $22.95 (paper). ISBN: 9780821417683
Mills, David. Difficult Folk? A Political History of Social Anthropology. (Methodology and History in Anthroplogy, 19.) x + 221 pp., bibl., index. New York: Berghahn Books, 2008. $70 (cloth). ISBN: 9781845454500
Norton, Peter D. Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City. (Inside Technology.) xii + 396 pp., illus., figs., index. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2008. $35 (cloth). ISBN: 9780262141000
Reidy, Michael S. Tides of History: Ocean Science and Her Majesty's Navy. xiv + 389 pp., bibl., index, figs. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. $40 (cloth). ISBN: 9780226709321
Rupke, Nicolaas A. Alexander von Humboldt: A Metabiography. 316 pp., illus., figs., bibl., index. Originally published in 2005 by Peter Lang Publishing Group. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. $21 (paper). ISBN: 9780226731490
Schadewald, Robert J. Worlds of Their Own. A Brief History of Misguided Ideas: Creationism, Flat-Earthism, Energy Scams, and the Velikovsky Affair. Edited by Lois A. Schadewald. 272 pp., figs., bibl., index. Minneapolis: Lois A. Schadewald, 2008. $19.99 (paper). ISBN: 9781436304344
Schmidt, Stanley. The Coming Convergence: The Surprising Ways Diverse Technologies Interact to Shape our World and Change the Future. Foreword by Paul Levinson. 270 pp., illus., figs., index. New York: Prometheus Books, 2008. $27.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9781591026136
Schwartz, James. In Pursuit of the Gene: From Darwin to DNA. xiii + 310 pp., illus., index. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008. $29.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780674026704
Schwinges, Rainer Christoph (Editor). Examen, Titel, Promotionen. Akademisches und staatliches Qualifikationswesen vom 13. bis zum 21. Jahrhundert. (Veröffentlichungen der Gesellschaft für Universitätsund Wissenschaftsgeschichte, 7.) x + 776 pp., illus., figs., tables, index. Basel, Switzerland: Schwabe & Co AG Verlagl, 2007. €89.50 (cloth). ISBN: 9783796551553
Smith, Pamela H.; Schmidt, Benjamin (Editors). Making Knowledge in Early Modern Europe: Practices, Objects, and Texts, 1400-1800. xi + 360 pp., figs., index. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. $28 (paper). ISBN: 9780226763286
Sober, Elliott. Evidence and Evolution: The Logic Behind the Science. xx +392 pp., figs., bibl., index. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. $29.99 (paper). ISBN: 9780521692748
Talley, Colin L. A History of Multiple Sclerosis. Foreword by John Parascandola. (Healing Society: Disease, Medicine, and History.) xviii + 201 pp., bibl., illus., figs, tables, index. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2008. $49.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780275997885
Tessenow, Hermann; Unschuld, Paul U. A Dictionary of the Huang Di Nei Jing Su Wen. (Huang Di nei jing su wen Project.) viii + 812 pp., apps.. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. $95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780520253582
Thomson, Keith. The Legacy of the Mastodon: The Golden Age of Fossils in America. xvii + 386 pp., maps, tables, apps., index. New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2008. $35 (cloth). ISBN: 9780300117042
Vogel, Jakob. Ein schillerndes Kristall: Eine Wissensgeschichte des Salzes zwischen Früher Neuzeit und Moderne. 522 pp., bibls., indexes. Köln :Böhlau Verlag Köln, 2008. €64.90 (cloth). ISBN: 979341215006
Westman, Robert S.; Biale, David (Editors). Thinking Impossibilities: The Intellectual Legacy of Amos Funkenstein. xiv + 365 pp., illus., bibl., index. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008. $65.00 (cloth). ISBN: 9780802097958
Williams, Rosalind. Notes on the Underground: An Essay on Technology, Society, and the Imagination. 283 pp., figs., index. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2008. $19.95 (paper). ISBN: 9780262731904
