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Books Received 4 June to 28 June 2010
Altschuler, Richard (ed.).
Seminal Sociological Writings: From Auguste Comte to Max Weber.
xx + 166 pp., bibl. New York: Gordian Knot Books, 2010. $22.95 (paper).
ISBN#: 9781884092978
Aratus; Poochigian, Aaron (trans).
Phaenomena.
xxxi + 72 pp., apps., bibl. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010. $50 (cloth); $25.00 (paper).
ISBN#: 9780801894657
Barca-Salom, Francesc X. et al.
Fàbrica, taller i laboratori. La Junta de Comerç de Barcelona. Ciència i tècnica per a la indústria i el comerç (1769-1851). 372 pp., illus., tables, bibls, index. Barcelona: Cambra Oficial de Comerç, Indústria i Navegació de Barcelona, 2009. (cloth).
ISBN#: 8495829665
Bergstein, Mary.
Mirrors of Memory: Freud, Photography, and the History of Art.
v + 335 pp., illus., bibl., index. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2010. $29.95 (cloth).
ISBN#: 9780801448195
Blay, Michel.
Penser avec l'infini: La fécondité d'une notion mathématique et philosophique, de Giordano Bruno aux lumiéres.
vi + 135 pp., illus., bibl., index. Paris: Vuibert, 2010. €17.00 (paper).
ISBN#: 9782311001464
Brenner, Anastasios; Petit, Annie.
Science, histoire & philosophie selon Gaston Milhaud: La constitution d'un champ disciplinaire sous la Troisieme Republique.
(Cahiers d'histoire et de philosophie des science) ix + 278 pp., illus., bibls., index. Paris: Vuibert, 2009. €29.00 (paper).
ISBN#: 9782711796014
Brown, Karen; Gilfoyle, Daniel (eds).
Healing the Herds: Disease, Livestock Economies, and the Globilization of Veterinary Medicine.
(Ohio University Press Series in Ecology and History). lx + 299 pp., illus., tables, app., bibl., index. Athens: Ohio University
Press, 2010. $49.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).
ISBN#: 9780821418840
Buchanan, Roderick D.
Playing With Fire: The Controversial Career of Hans J. Eysenck.
xi + 475 pp., illus., bibl., index. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. 65.00 (cloth).
ISBN#: 9780198566885
Busch, John Laurence.
Steam Coffin: Captain Moses Rogers and the Steamship Savannah Break the Barrier.
726 pp., illus., bibl., indexes. Hodos Historia, 2010. $35.00 (cloth).
ISBN#: 9781893616004
Cassedy, James H.
John Shaw Billings: Science and Medicine in the Gilded Age.
253 pp., index. Philadelphia: Xlibris Corporation, 2009. $29.99 (cloth); $19.99 (paper).
ISBN#: 9781441595171
Collins, Harry.
Tacit and Explicit Knowledge.
xiv + 186 pp., illus., tables., apps., bibl., index. Chicago: The University of Chicago, 2010. $32.50 (cloth).
ISBN#: 9780226113807
Denny, Mark.
Super Structures: The Science of Bridges, Buildings, Dams, and Other Feats of Engineering.
vii + 266 pp., illus., tables, app., bibl. Index. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010. $65.00 (cloth); $30.00 (paper).
ISBN#: 9780801894374
Dingus, Lowell; Norell, Mark A.
Barnum Brown: The Man Who Discovered Tyrannosaurus Rex.
xiv + 368 pp., illus., table, apps., bibl., index. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010. $29.95 (cloth).
ISBN#: 9780520252646
Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge; Abeles, Francine F. (ed.).
The Logic Pamphlets of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson and Related Pieces.
(The Pamphlets of Lewis Carroll, Vol 4.) xx + 271 pp., illus., tables, bibl., index. New York: The Lewis Carroll Society of North America, 2010. $75.00 (cloth)
ISBN#: 9780930326258
Donato, Maria Pia; Kraye, Jill (eds).
Conflicting Duties: Science, Medicine and Religion in Rome, 1550-1750.
(Warburg Institute Colloquia, Vol 15.) xiv + 389 pp., illus., index. London: Warburg Institute, 2009. £50.00 (paper).
ISBN#: 9780854811496
Doody, Aude.
Pliny's Encyclopedia: The Reception of the Natural History.
viii + 194 pp., bibl., index. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. $95.00 (cloth).
ISBN#: 9780521491037
Ellis, Albert; Ellis, Debbie Joffe.
All Out!: An Autobiography.
668 pp., illus., apps., bibl., index. Amherst: Prometheus Books, 2010. $32.00 (cloth).
ISBN#: 9781591024521
Fayer, Michael D.
Absolutely Small: How Quantum Theory Explains our Everyday World.
ix + 383 pp., illus., index. New York: Amacom Books, 2010. $24.00 (cloth).
ISBN#: 9780814414880
Feenberg, Andrew.
Between Reason and Experience: Essays in Technology and Modernity.
xxv + 257 pp., illus., bibl., index. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2010. $22.00 (paper).
ISBN#: 9780262514255
Griener, Pascal.
La République de l'œil: L'Expérience de l'art au siècle des Lumières.
329 pp., illus. Paris: Odile Jacob, 2010. €29 (paper).
ISBN#: 9782738124432
Harris, Paul G.
World Ethics and Climate Change: From International to Global Justice.
x + 214 pp., bibl., index. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010. $85.00 (cloth); $29.50 (paper).
ISBN#: 9780748639106
Holmes, Brooke.
The Symptom and the Subject: The Emergence of the Physical Body in Ancient Greece.
xxiii + 355 pp., bibl., indexes. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010. $45.00 (cloth).
ISBN#: 9780691138992
Jacobs, Robert A.
The Dragon's Tail: Americans Face the Atomic Age.
(Culture, Politics, and the Cold War) xii + 151 pp., illus. index. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2010. $80.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).
ISBN#: 9781558497276
Latour, Bruno; Lépinay, Vincent Antonin.
The Science of Passionate Interests: An Introduction to Gabriel Tarde's Economic Anthropology. 87 pp. Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press, 2009. $12.95 (paper).
ISBN#: 9780979405778
López-Ruiz, Carolina.
When the Gods Were Born: Greek Cosmogonies and the Near East.
xii + 302 pp., tables, app., bibl., index. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2010. $39.95 (cloth).
ISBN#: 9780674049468
Marr, Alexander (ed).
The Worlds of Oronce Fine: Mathematics, Instruments and Print in Renaissance France.
xv + 272 pp., illus., index. Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2009. £40.00 (cloth).
ISBN#: 9781900289962
McDonald, Lynn.
Florence Nightingale at First Hand.
xv + 197 pp., bibl., index. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2010. $24.95 (paper).
ISBN#: 9781554581917
McElheny, Victor K.
Drawing the Map of Life: Inside the Human Genome Project.
xiii + 361 pp., illus., index. New York: Basic Books, 2010. $28.00 (cloth).
ISBN#: 9780465043330
McEvoy, John G.
The Historiography of the Chemical Revolution: Patterns of Interpretation in the History of Science.
xiii + 328 pp., bibl., index. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2010. $99.00 (cloth).
ISBN#: 9781848930308
Mészáros, István.
Social Structure and Forms of Consciousness, Volume I. The Social Determination of Method.
463 pp., index. New York: Monthly Review Press, 2010. $29.95 (paper).
ISBN#: 9781583672044
de Nantes Barrera, Oliva Sabuco; Pomata, Gianna (eds & trans).
The True Medicine.
(The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series, Vol, 4.) x + 267 pp., bibl., index. Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2010. $24.50 (paper).
ISBN#: 9780772720672
de Pace, Anna.
Niccolò Copernico e la fondazione del cosmo eliocentrico: con testo, traduzione e commentario del Libro I de Le revoluzioni celesti.
450 pp., illus., bibl., index. Milan: Bruno Mondadori, 2009. €32.00 (paper).
ISBN#: 9788861590717
Picciotto, Joanna.
Labors of Innocence in Early Modern England.
ix + 863 pp., bibl., index. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2010. $49.95 (cloth).
ISBN#: 9780674049062
Pieper, Christine; Uekötter, Frank (eds).
Vom Nutzen der Wissenschaft: Beiträge zu einer prekären Beziehung.
(Wissenschaft, Politik und Gesellschaft, 6.) 284 pp., illus., tables, indexes. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2010. €37 (paper).
ISBN#: 9783515094399
Purves, Alex C.
Space and Time in Ancient Greek Narrative.
xi + 273 pp., bibl., indexes. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. $85.00 (cloth).
ISBN#: 9780521190985
Pyenson, Lewis.
The Passion of George Sarton: a Modern Marriage and Its Discipline.
xlvi + 495 pp., illus., app., index. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 2007. $90.00 (cloth).
ISBN#: 9780871692603
Bradwardine, Thomas; Oresme, Nicolas; Ronnevaux, Sabine (ed).
Traité des rapports entre les rapidités dans les mouvements. Suivi de: Sur les rapports de rapports.
(Sagesses médiévales) lxvi + 189 pp., bibl., index. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2010. €29.00 (paper).
ISBN#: 9782251181097
Schiaparelli, Giovanni.
Forme organiche naturali e forme geometriche pure: Studio comparativo.
xl + 367 pp., illus. Milano: Lampi di Stampa, 2010. €12.00 (paper).
ISBN#: 9788848809986
Schmalhausen, Ivan I.; Hoßfeld, Uwe; Olsson, Lennart; Levit, Georgy S.; Breidbach, Olaf (eds).
Ivan I. Schmalhausen: Die Evolutionsfaktoren.
(Wissenschaftskultur um 1900, Vol, 7.) lix + 434 pp., illus., tables, apps., bibl., index. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2010. €59.00 (paper).
ISBN#: 9783515096249
Selcer, Daniel.
Philosophy and the Book: Early Modern Figures of Material Inscription.
(Philosophy, Aesthetics and Cultural Theory) xiii + 258 pp., illus., bibl., index. London: Continuum International Publishing
Group, 2010. $39.95 (paper).
ISBN#: 9781441150097
Shapin, Steven.
Never Pure: Historical Studies of Science as if It Was Produced by People with Bodies, Situated in Time, Space, Culture, and Society, and Struggling for Credibility and Authority. ix + 552 pp., illus., index. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010. $70.00 (cloth); $30.00 (paper).
ISBN#: 9780801894206
Stalnaker, Joanna.
The Unfinished Enlightenment: Description in the Age of the Encyclopedia.
xvi + 240 pp., illus., bibl., index. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2010. $45.00 (cloth).
ISBN#: 9780801448645
Szpiro, George G.
Numbers Rule: The Vexing Mathematics of Democracy, from Plato to the Present.
xi + 226 pp., tables, apps., bibli., index. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010. $26.95 (cloth).
ISBN#: 9780691139944
Tobies, Renate.
"Morgen möchte ich wieder 100 herrliche Sachen ausrechnen": Iris Runge bei Osram und Telefunken.
(Boethius. Texte und Abhandlungen zur Geschichte der Mathematik und der Naturwissenschaften, 61.) 412 pp., illus.,
tables., apps., bibli., index. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2010. €72.00 (cloth).
ISBN#: 9783515096386
Tomic, Sacha.
Aux origines de la chimie organique: Méthodes et pratiques des pharmaciens et des chimistes (1785-1835).
322 pp., illus., tables, app, bibl., index.Campus de la Harpe: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2010. €20 (paper).
ISBN#: 9782753510180
Vesel, Ziva; Tourkin, Serge; Porter, Yves (editors). Beschaouch (coordinator).
Images of Islamic Science: Illustrated Manuscripts from the Iranian World, Vol. 1.
323 pp., illus., bibls., index. Tehran: Institut Français de Recherche en Iran. $120 (cloth).
ISBN#: 9789642232307
Voss, Julia; Lantz, Lori (trans).
Darwin's Pictures: Views of Evolutionary Theory, 1837-1874.
vii + 340 pp., illus., bibl., index. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010. $45.00 (cloth).
ISBN#: 9780300141740
Wallis, Faith (ed).
Medieval Medicine: A Reader.
(Readings in Medieval Civilizations and Cultures, Vol. XV). xxvii + 563 pp., illus., index. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010. $42.95 (paper): $85.00 (cloth).
ISBN#: 9781442601031
Ward, Peter D.
The Flooded Earth: Our Future in a World Without Ice Caps.
261 pp., illus., tables, bibl., index. New York: Basic Books, 2010. $25.95 (cloth).
ISBN#: 9780465009497
Whitmarsh, Ian; Jones, David S. (eds).
What's the Use of Race?: Modern Governance and the Biology of Difference.
viii + 303 pp., illus, tables, bibls., index. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 2010. $22.00 (paper).
ISBN#: 9780262514248