Isis Books Received
1 June-30 June 2008
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Alvarez, Walter. T. rex and the Crater of Doom. Foreword by Carl Zimmer. xxii + 185 pp., illus., figs., index. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008. $16.95 (paper). ISBN: 9780691131030
Anastopoulos, Charis. Particle or Wave: The Evolution of the Concept of Matter in Modern Physics. xx + 410 pp., illus., figs., tables, bibl., index. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008. $35 (cloth). ISBN: 9780691135120
Anderson, Warwick. Colonial Pathologies: American Tropical Medicine, Race, and Hygiene in the Phillipines. ix + 355 pp., figs., bibl., index. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006. $23.95 (paper). ISBN: 978082233432
Ayres, Peter. The Aliveness of Plants: The Darwins at the Dawn of Plant Science. xiii + 227 pp., figs., tables, bibl., index. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2008. $99 (cloth). ISBN: 9781851969708
Barr, Donald A. Health Disparities in the United States: Social Class, Race, Ethnicity, and Health. xv + 295 pp., illus., figs., tables, bibl., index. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. $40 (paper). ISBN: 9780801888212
Bennett, Tony. Critical Trajectories: Culture, Society, Intellectuals. ix + 207 pp., figs., bibl., index. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2007. $31.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9781405156998
Colp Jr., Ralph. Darwin's Illness. Foreword by James Moore. xiv + 337 pp., app., bibl., index. Gainesville, Florida: University Press of Florida, 2008. $44.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780813032313
Cooper, Rachel. Psychiatry and Philosophy of Science. (Philosophy and Science.) x + 197 pp., bibl., index. Montreal, QC: McGill-Queens University Press, 2007. $27.95 (paper). ISBN: 9780773533875
De Koninck, Charles. The Writings of Charles De Koninck. Edited and Translated by Ralph McInerny. Volume One. ix + 483 pp., index. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 2008. $50 (cloth). ISBN: 9780268025953
Farley, John. Brock Chisholm, the World Health Organization, and the Cold War. xiv + 254 pp., figs., tables, bibl., index. Vancouver, BC: University of British Columbia Press, 2008. $85 (cloth). ISBN: 9780774814768
González, Alejandro García (Editor). Alphita. (La Scuola Medica Salernitana, 2.) xii + 604 pp., bibl., indexes. Florence: Sismel Edizioni Del Galluzzo, 2007. €54 (paper). ISBN: 9788884502629
Gorman, Jonathan. Historical Judgement. xi + 258 pp., bibl., index. Montreal, Quebec: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2008. $27.95 (paper). ISBN: 9780773534100
Guérin-Pace, France; Filippova, Elena (Editors). Ces Lieux qui Nous Habitent: Identité des territoires, territoires des identités. 275 pp., illus., figs., tables. La Tour d'Aigues: Éditions de l'Aube, 2008. €25 (paper). ISBN: 9782752604941
Hanawalt, Barbara A.; Kiser, Lisa J. (Editors). Engaging with Nature: Essays on the Natural World in Medieval and Early Modern Europe. vii + 236 pp., figs., bibl., index. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2008. $30 (paper). ISBN: 9780268030834
Harman, Oren; Michael R. Dietrich (Editors). Rebels, Mavericks, and Heretics in Biology. 400 pp., figs., index. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008. $40 (cloth). ISBN: 9780300116397
Hauptman, Robert. Documentation: A History and Critique of Attribution, Commentary, Glosses, Marginalia, Notes, Bibliographies, Works-Cited Lists, and Citation Indexing and Analysis. ix + 229 pp., figs., bibl., index. North Carolina and London: McFarland & Company, 2008. $35 (paper). ISBN: 9780786433339
Haycock, David Boyd. Mortal Coil: A Short History of Living Longer. x + 308 pp., illus., bibl., index. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008. $30 (cloth). ISBN: 9780300117783
Healy, David. Mania: A Short History of Bipolar Disorder. Foreword by Charles E. Rosenberg. xxii + 296 pp., illus., index. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. $24.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780801888229
Hendrickx, Katrien. The Origins of Banana-Fibre Cloth in the Ryukyus, Japan. Foreword by Josef Kreiner. (Studia Anthropologica.) 336 pp., illus., figs., tables, apps., bibl. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2007. $42.95 (paper). ISBN: 9789058676146
Huenemann, Charlie. Understanding Rationalism. (Understanding Movements in Modern Thought. ix + 166 pp., bibl., index. Stocksfield: Acumen, 2008. $22.95 (paper). ISBN: 9781844651139
Ivison, Duncan. Rights. (Central Problems of Philosophy.) viii + 288 pp., bibl., index. Montreal, QC: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2008. $22.95 (paper). ISBN: 9780773533295
Kelty, Christopher M. Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software. xvi + 380 pp., illus., bibl., index. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2008. $23.95 (paper). ISBN: 9780822342649
Kim, Mi Gyung. Affinity, That Elusive Dream: A Genealogy of the Chemical Revolution. (Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology.) xii + 599 pp., figs., bibl., index. Originally published in 2003. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2008. $29 (paper). ISBN: 9780262612234
Kragh, Helge S. Entropic Creation: Religious Contexts of Thermodynamics and Cosmology. (Science, Technology and Culture 1700-1945.) 272 pp., bibl., index. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2008. £60 (cloth). ISBN: 9780754664147
Lindner, Stephan H. Inside IG Farben: Hoechst During the Third Reich. Foreword by Peter Hayes. Translated by Helen Schoop. xx + 388 pp., figs., tables, bibl., index. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. $60 (cloth). ISBN: 9780521887663
MacDonald, Sara. Finding Freedom: Hegel's Philosophy and the Emancipation of Women. (McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas, 45.) xii + 156 pp., bibl., index. Montreal, Quebec: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2008. $75 (cloth). ISBN: 9780773533752
Macdougall, Doug. Nature's Clocks: How Scientists Measure the Age of Almost Everything. xi + 272 pp., illus., figs., tables, apps., bibl., index. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2008. $24.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780520249752
Matthews, Steven. Theology and Science in the Thought of Francis Bacon. ix + 150 pp., apps., bibl., index. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2008. £50 (cloth). ISBN: 9780754662525
McGarity, Thomas O.; Wagner, Wendy E. Bending Science: How Special Interests Corrupt Public Health Research. viii + 384 pp., figs., index. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008. $45 (cloth). ISBN: 9780674028159
Mulgan, Tim. Understanding Utilitarianism. (Understanding Movements in Modern Thought.) v + 194 pp., index. Stocksfield: Acumen, 2007. £13.99 (paper). ISBN: 9781844650903
Mumford, Stephen. David Armstrong. (Philosophy Now.) x + 206 pp., illus., bibls., index. Montreal, QC: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2007. $27.95 (paper). ISBN: 9780773533318
Nola, Robert; Sankey, Howard. Theories of Scientific Method. x + 381 pp., bibl., index. Montreal, Quebec: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2007. $80 (cloth). ISBN: 9780773533448
North, John. Cosmos: An Illustrated History of Astronomy and Cosmology. xxv + 876 pp., illus., figs., bibl., index. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. $95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780226594408
Nutton, Vivian (Editor). Pestilential Complexities: Understanding Medieval Plague. (Medical History, Supplement No. 27.) viii + 130 pp., illus., figs., tables, index. London: The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, 2008. $72 (cloth). ISBN: 9780854841161
Olivier, Guilhem. Mockeries and Metamorphoses of an Aztec God: Tezcatlipoca, "Lord of the Smoking Mirror".Translated by Michel Besson. Foreword by Davíd Carrasco. xiii + 403 pp., illus., figs., bibl., index. Originally published in 2003. Boulder, CO: University Press of Colorado, 2008. $39.95 (paper). ISBN: 9780870819070
Owen, David. Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morality. xii + 179 pp., index. Montreal, QC: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2007. $22.95 (paper). ISBN: 9780773533493
Proctor, Robert N.; Schiebinger, Londa (Editors). Agnotology: The Making and Unmaking of Ignorance. viii + 298 pp., tables, figs., index. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2008. $65 (cloth). ISBN: 9780804756525
Richards, Robert J. The Tragic Sense of Life: Ernst Haeckel and the Struggle over Evolutionary Thought. xx + 512 pp., apps., figs., bibl., index. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. $39 (cloth). ISBN: 9780226712147
Rudwick, Martin J. S. Worlds Before Adam: The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Reform. xvii + 800 pp., illus., bibl., index. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. $49 (cloth). ISBN: 9780226731285
Schmidt, Ulf; Frewer, Andreas (Editors). History and Theory of Human Experimentation: The Declaration of Helskinki and Modern Medical Ethics. (Geschichte und Philosophie der Medizin, 2.) illus., tables. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2007. ISBN: 9783515088626
Standish, David. Hollow Earth: The Long and Curious History of Imagining Strange Lands, Fantastical Creatures, Advanced Civilizations, and Marvelous Machines Below the Earth's Surface. 303 pp., figs., bibl., index. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2006. $16.95 (paper). ISBN: 0306815338
Stoney, William S. Pioneers of Cardiac Surgery. xviii + 572 pp., illus., index. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2008. $75 (cloth). ISBN: 9780826515940
Tinguely, Frédéric. La Renaissance Décentrée. (Based on papers presented at Le Colloque International "La Renaissance décentrée", University of Geneva, September 28-29 2006, Geneva.) 224 pp., figs., index. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2008. ISBN: 9782600012164
Torrella, Jérôme (Hieronymus Torella). Opus præclarum de imaginibus astrologicis. Edited by Nicolas Weill-Parot. (Micrologus' Library, 23.) 304 pp., app., bibl., indexes. Florence: Sismel Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2008. €48 (paper). ISBN: 9788884502698
van Berkel, Klaas. De Stem van de Wetenschap. Geschiedenis van de Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen Deel I: 1808-1914. 676 pp., figs., bibl., index. Amsterdam: Uitgeverij Bert Bakker, 2008. €31.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9789035132672
Witkowski, Jan; Gann, Alexander; Sambrook, Joseph (Editors). Life Illuminated: Selected Papers from Cold Spring Harbor, Volume 2, 1972-1994. xv + 242 pp., figs., indexes, CD. Woodbury, NY: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2008. $39 (cloth). ISBN: 9780879698041
