Isis Books Received
26 February - 22 May 2007
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Akera, Atsushi. Calculating A Natural World: Scientists, Engineers, and Computers During the Rise of U.S. Cold War Research. ix + 427 pp., illus., bibl., index. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007. $40 (cloth). 9780262012317.
Andriesse, C. D. Huygens. The Man Behind the Principle. Translated by Sally Miedema. xxvi + 440 pp., figs., bibl., index. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. $116.95 (cloth). 0521850908.
Artigas, Mariano; Thomas F. Glick; Rafael A. Martinez. Negotiating Darwin. The Vatican Confronts Evolution, 1877-1902. viii + 326 pp., illus., bibl., index. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. $50 (cloth). 080188389x.
Atlan, Henri; Mylène Botbol-Baum. De embryons et des hommes. vi + 139 pp., bibl. Paris: Presse Universitaires de France, 2007. Euro15 (paper). 9782130542827.
Babini, Valeria P.; Simili, Raffaella (Editors). More than Pupils: Italian Women in Science at the Turn of the 20th Century. (Biblioteca di «Nuncius».) Vol. 63. xviii + 213 pp., index. Firenze: Leo S. Olschki, 2007. Euro 24 (cloth). 9788822256331.
Barrera, Oliva Sabuco de Nantes. New Philosophy of Human Nature: Neither Known to nor Attained by the Great Ancient Philosophers, Which Will Improve Human Life and Health. Edited and Translated by Mary Ellen Waithe; Maria Colomer Vintró; C. Angel Zorita. x + 340 pp., apps., bibl., index. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007. $50 (cloth). 9780252031113.
Baruch, Jay. Fourteen Stories: Doctors, Patients, and Other Strangers. viii + 143 pp., Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2007. $18.95 (paper). 9780873388948.
Bauer, Henry H. The Origin, Persistence and Failings of HIV/AIDS Theory. xiv + pp. 282., figs., tables, bibl., index. Jefferson: McFarland & Company, Inc. 2007. $35 (paper). 9780786430482.
Benson, Keith R.; Helen M. Rozwadowski (Editors). Extremes: Oceanography's Adventures at the Poles. xiv + 393 pp., illus., bibl., index. Sagamore Beach, MA: Science History Publications/USA, 2007. $54.95 (cloth). 0881353736.
Boudet, Jean-Patrice. Entre Science et Nigromance: Astrologie, divination et magie dans l'Occident médiéval (XIIe-Xve siècle). 624 pp., figs., tables, bibl., index. Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 2006. Euro 45 (cloth). 2859445447.
Bourne, Craig. A Future for Presentism. xiii + 242 pp., figs., bibl., index. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. $55 (cloth). 0199212805.
Chambers, Neil A. Joseph Banks and the British Museum: The World of Collecting, 1770-1830. Foreward by Michael Dixon. xiv + 195 pp., figs., table, app, bibl., index. London: Pickering & Chatto Publishers, 2006. $99.95 (cloth). 185196858x.
Clark, Stuart. The Sun Kings: The Unexpected Tragedy of Richard Carrington and the Tale of How Modern Astronomy Began. xii + 211 pp., figs., bibl., index. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007. $24.95 (cloth). 9780691126609.
Cockayne, Emily. Hubbub: Filth, Noise and Stench in England. xiv + 335 pp., illus., bibl., index. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. $35 (cloth). 9780300112146.
Cooper, Alix. Inventing the Indigenous: Local Knowledge and Natural History in Early Modern Europe. xi + 218 pp., illus., bibl., index. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. $75 (cloth). 9780521870870.
Crosland, Maurice. Scientific Institutions and Practice in France and Britain, c. 1700 - c. 1870. (Variorum Collected Studies Series.) xiv + 421 pp., figs., tables, index. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2007. $109.95 (cloth). 9780754659136.
Debs, Talal A.; Michael G. Redhead. Objectivity, Invariance, and Convention. Symmetry in Physical Science. xii + 194 pp., figs., apps., index. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007. $39.95 (cloth). 067402298x.
Donhauser, Peter. Elektrische Klangmaschinen. Die Pionierzeit in Deutschland und Österreich. 348 pp., figs., tables, apps., index. Vienna: Böhlau Wien Ges.m.b.H. & Co.KG, 2007. Euro 39 (paper). 9783205775935.
Dougherty, Kerrie; Donald C. Elder (Editors). History of Rocketry and Astronautics: AAS History Series, Volume 27, IAA History Symposia, Volume 18. xii + 403 pp., figs., tables, apps, indexes. San Diego: American Astronautical Society, 2007. $70 (paper). 9780877035367.
Edmond, Rod. Leprosy and Empire: A Medical and Cultural History. (Cambridge Social and Cultural Histories.) x + 255 pp., illus., index. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. $90 (cloth). 9780521865845.
Ewing, Heather. The Lost World of James Smithson: Science, Revolution, and the Birth of the Smithsonian. x + 432 pp., figs., index. New York: Bloomsbury, 2007. $29.95 (cloth). 1596910291.
Fagan, Brian M. Return to Babylon. Travellers, Archaelogists, and Monuments in Mesopotamia. Revised Edition. xix + 386 pp., illus., index. Boulder, CO: University Press of Colorado, 2007. $19.95 (paper). 9780870818677.
Fassin, Didier. When Bodies Remember: Experiences and Politics of AIDS in South Africa. Translated by Amy Jacobs and Gabrielle Varro. xxiv + 365 pp., bibl., index. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2007. $21.95 (paper). 0520250273.
Fleming, James Rodger. The Callendar Effect: The Life and Work of Guy Stewart Callendar (1898-1964), the Scientist Who Established the Carbon Dioxide Theory of Climate Change. xv + 155 pp., figs., apps., index. Boston, MA: American Meteorological Society, 2007. $34.95 (cloth). 1878220764.
Friedel, Robert. A Culture of Improvement. Technology and the Western Millennium. xi + 588 pp., figs., index. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2007. $39.95 (cloth). 0262062623.
Franklin, Sarah. Dolly Mixtures: The Remaking of Genealogy. x + 253 pp., illus., bibl., index. Durham: Duke University Press, 2007. $22.95 (paper). 9780822339205.
Fruton, Joseph S. Fermentation. Vital or Chemical Process? (History of Science and Medicine Library, Volume 1.) xv + 141 pp., figs., bibl., index. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2006. $98 (cloth). 9004152687.
Frye, Ellen (Editor). Knowledge with Know-How: Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth. Foreword by Myron Tribus. 220 pp., illus., index. Lebanon, NH: University Press of New England, 2007. $24.95 (cloth). 1584656506.
Gaukroger, Stephen. The Emergence of a Scientific Culture: Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1210-1685. ix + 563 pp., figs., bibl., index. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. 35 pounds (cloth). 0199296448.
Gay, Hannah. The History of Imperial College London, 1907-2007: Higher Education and Research in Science, Technology and Medicine. Foreword by Richard Sykes. xxvii + 825 pp. illus., figs., tables, apps., index. Imperial College Press, 2007. $48 (paper). 9781860947087.
Goldgar, Anne. Tulipmania: Money, Honor, and Knowledge in the Dutch Golden Age. xx + 425 pp., illus., figs., index. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. $30 (cloth). 9780226301259.
Goldhill, Simon; Robin Osbourne (Editors). Rethinking Revolutions through Ancient Greece. vx + 318 pp., illus., bibl., index. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. $100 (cloth). 9780521862127.
Govoni, Paolo. Storia, Scienza e Societá: Ricerche sulla scienza in Italia nell'età moderna e contemporanea. (Bologna Studies in the History of Science, 11.) 303 pp., tables. Bolonga: Università di Bologna, 2006.
Haggerty, Robert J.; Frederick H. Lovejoy Sr. Charles A. Janeway: Pediatrician to the World's Children. xii + 453 pp., figs., index. Boston: Harvard University Press, 2007. $35 (cloth). 0674023803.
Halfon, Saul. The Cairo Consensus: Demographic Surveys, Women’s Empowerment, and Regime Change in Population Policy. xix + 260 pp., bib., figs., index. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2006. $60 (cloth). 0739111760.
Harig, Georg. Aufsätze Zur Medizin- Und Wissenschaftsgeschichte. Foreword by Hans-Uwe Lammel. 258 pp., index. Marburg: Basilisken-Presse, 2007. Euro 24 (paper). 9783925347863.
Harman, Graham. Heidegger Explained: From Phenomenon to Thing. x + 193 pp., index. Ashland: Open Court Publishing, 2007. $19.95 (cloth). 0812696174.
Harmon, Joseph E.; Gross, Alan G. (Editors). The Scientific Literature: A Guided Tour. xxiv + 327 pp., illus., figs., bibl., index. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. $29 (paper). 0226316556.
Haven, Hendall. 100 Greatest Science Discoveries of All Time. xiv + 255 pp., bibl., apps., index. Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited, 2007. $35 (paper). 1591582652.
Heinecke, Berthold; Hartmut Hecht (Editors). Am Mittelpunkt der zwischen Hannover und Berlin vorfallen Mitteilungen: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz in Hundisburg. 193 pp., figs., tables. Hundisburg: KULTUR-Landschaft, 2006. $no listed price (cloth).
Hey, Nigel. The Star Wars Enigma. Behind the Scenes of the Cold War Race for Missile Defense. xii + 275 pp., bibl., index. Dulles, Virginia: Potomac Books, Inc., 2006. $27.95 (cloth). 1574889818.
Hoeppe, Götz. Why the Sky is Blue: Discovering the Color of Life. Translated with John Stewart. xv + 336 pp., illus., figs., index. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2007. $29.95 (cloth). 0691124531.
Hoquet, Thierry. Buffon: histoire naturelle et philosophie. Edited by Raymond Trousson; Antony McKenna. (Les Dix-Huitème Siècles, No. 92.) 809 pp., app., bibl., index. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2006. Euro 115 (cloth). 2745312464.
Hunter, Michael. The Boyle Papers. Understanding the Manuscripts of Robert Boyle. xi + 674 pp., apps., index. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2006. $99.95 (cloth). 0754655687.
Jackson, Myles W. Harmonious Triads: Physicists, Musicians, and Instrument Makers in Nineteenth-Century Germany. (Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology Series). x + 395 pp., illus., bibl., index. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007. $40 (cloth). 9780262101165.
Jeanneney, Jean-Noël. Google and the Myth of Universal Knowledge. A View from Europe. Translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan. xvi + 92 pp. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2006. $18. (cloth). 0226395774.
Kassell, Lauren. Medicine and Magic in Elizabethan London. Simon Forman: Astrologer, Alchemist, & Physician. xviii + 281 pp. illus., bibl., indexes. New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. 58 pounds (cloth). 0199279055.
Keller, Agathe. Expounding the Mathematical Seed: A Translation of Bhaskara I on the Mathematical Chapter of the Aryabhatiya. 2 Volumes. liii + 172 pp., xi + 240 pp., figs., tables, bibls., indexes. Basel: Birkhäuser Verlag AG, 2006. Euro 128 (cloth). 9783764372910.
Keller, Eve. Generating Bodies and Gendered Selves: The Rhetoric of Reproduction in Early Modern England. xi + 248 pp., figs., bibl., index. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2007. $30 (paper). 0295986417.
Keller, Richard C. Colonial Madness: Psychiatry in French North Africa. xi + 294 pp., bibl., index. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. $25 (paper). 0226429733.
Kennefick, Daniel. Traveling at the Speed of Thought: Einstein and the Quest for Gravitational Waves. xii + 319 pp., illus., figs., bibl., index. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. $35 (cloth). 9780691117270.
Kincaid, Harold; John Dupré; Alison Wylie (Editors). Value-Free Science? Ideals and Illusions. xiv + 241 pp., bibls., index. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. $65 (cloth). 9780195308969.
Kirsch, Scott. Proving Grounds. Project Plowshare and the Unrealized Dream of Nuclear Earthmoving. xi + 257 pp., figs., tables, index. Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2005. $39.95 (cloth). 0813536669.
Kitcher, Philip. Living With Darwin: Evolution, Design, and the Future of Faith. xiv + 192 pp., fig., index. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. $20 (cloth). 9780195314441.
Kolchinsky, Eduard I. Ernst Mayr and Modern Evolutionary Synthesis. 147 pp., figs., tables, bibl., index. Moscow: KMK Scientific Press, 2006. (paper). (text in Russian). 5873172455.
Kolchinsky, Eduard I. Biology in Germany and Russia-USSR: Under Conditions of Social-Political Crises of the First Half of the XX Century. 637 pp., figs., index. St. Petersburg: Nestor-Historia Publishers, 2006. (cloth). (text in Russian). 5981871725.
Krauss, Gregory L.; Robert S. Fisher. The Johns Hopkins Atlas of Digital EEG. An Interactive Training Guide. ix + 360 pp., figs., bibl., index. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. $125 (cloth). 0801883725.
Kraus, Scott D.; Rosalind M. Rolland (Editors). The Urban Whale. North Atlantic Right Whales at the Crossroads. xviii + 543 pp., illus., figs., bibl., tables, index. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007. $55 (cloth). 0674023277.
Lakoff, Andrew. Pharmaceutical Reason. Knowledge and Value in Global Psychiatry. Edited by Nikolas Rose and Paul Rabinow. (Cambridge Studies in Society and the Life Sciences.) x + 206 pp., bibl., index. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. $88.95 (cloth). 052183760X.
Lamar, Jake (Editor). Sixty Years of Science at UNESCO, 1945-2005. 695 pp., illus., figs., tables, apps., bibl., index. Paris: UNESCO Publishing, 2006. Euro 30 (paper). 9789231040054.
Little, Lester K. Plague and the End of Antiquity: The Pandemic of 541-750. xiv + 360 pp., bibl., index. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. $75 (cloth). 9780521846294.
LoLordo, Antonia. Pierre Gassendi and the Birth of Early Modern Philosophy. x + 283 pp., bibl., index. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. $88.95 (cloth). 0521866138.
Lovett, Laura L. Conceiving the Future. Pronatalism, Reproduction, and the Family in the United States, 1890-1938. xi + 236 pp., illus., bibl., index. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. $19.95 (paper). 9780807858035.
Low, Morris. Japan on Display: Photography and the Emperor. (Routledge/Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) East Asia Series.) xii + 199 pp., illus., figs., bibl., index. New York: Routledge, 2006. $120 (cloth). 0415371481.
Lynch, Peter. The Emergence of Numerical Weather Prediction: Richardson’s Dream. xii + 279 pp., illus., figs., tables, apps., bibl., index. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. $88.95 (cloth). 0521857295.
Maddox, Brenda. Freud’s Wizard: The Enigma of Ernest Jones. xiv + 354 pp., figs., illus., bibl., index. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2007. $25 (cloth). 9780306815553.
Megill, Allan. Historical Knowledge, Historical Error. A Contemporary Guide to Practice. xvi + 288 pp., index. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. $25 (paper). 0226518299.
Miller, Jeffrey C.; Daniel H. Janzen; Winifred Hallwachs.
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Butterflies and Moths: Portraits from the Tropical Forests of Costa Rica.
256 pp., figs., bibl., indexes. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University
Press, 2007 $39.95 (cloth). 9780674023345.
Mittman, Greg. Breathing
Space: How Allergies Shape Our Lives and Landscapes. xv + 312 pp., figs.,
index. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. $30 (cloth). 9780300110357.
Montgomery, David R. Dirt. The Erosion of Civilizations. ix + 285 pp., illus., bibl., index. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. $24.95 (cloth). 9780520248700.
Mosini, Valeria (Editor). Equilibrium in Economics. Scope and Limits. (Routledge frontiers of political economy.) xxi + 284 pp., figs., index. London/New York: Routledge, 2007. 75 pounds (cloth). 0415391377.
Nöthlich, Rosemaire; Heiko Weber; Uwe Hoßfeld; Olaf Breidbach; Erika Krauße. “Substanzmonismus” und/oder “Energetik”: Der Briefwechsel von Ernst Haeckel und Wilhem Ostwald (1910 bis 1918). (Ernst-Haeckel-Haus-Studien, Band 10.) 231 p., illus., bibl. Berlin: Verlag für Wissenschaft und Bildung, 2006. Euro 28 (cloth). 9783861354901.
Otis, Laura. Müller's Lab: The Story of Jakob Henle, Theodor Schwann, Emil du Bois-Reymond, Hermann von Helmholtz, Rudolf Virchow, Robert Remak, Ernst Haeckel, and Their Brilliant, Tormented Advisor. xix + 316 pp., figs.,bibl., index. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. $55 (cloth). 9780195306972.
Palmer, Scott W. Dictatorship of the Air. Aviation Culture and the Fate of Modern Russia. (Cambridge Centennial of Flight, edited by John Anderson; Von Hardesty.) xx + 307 pp., figs., bibl., index. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. $46.95 (cloth). 0521859573.
Patton, Mark. Science, Politics and Business in the Work of Sir John Lubbock: A Man of Universal Mind. Edited by David M. Knight; Trevor Levere. (Science, Technology and Culture, 1700-1945.) x + 270 pp., figs., bibl., index. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2007. 9780754653219.
Pauwels, Luc (Editor). Visual Cultures of Science: Rethinking Representational Practices in Knowledge Building and Science Communication. (Interfaces: Studies in Visual Culture.) xix + 299 pp., illus. figs., tables, bibls, index. Lebanon: University Press of New England, 2005. $24.95 (paper). 1584655119.
Pettigrew, Todd H.J. Shakespeare and the Practice of Physic: Medical Narratives on the Early Modern English Stage. 197 pp., index. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2007. $43.50 (cloth). 100874139511.
Pormann Peter E.; Emilie Savage-Smith. Medieval Islamic Medicine. xiii + 223 pp., illus., bibl., index. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007. 18.99 pounds (paper). 9780748620678.
Pursell, Carroll. The Machine in America. A Social History of Technology. xvi + 398 pp., illus., notes, index. Second Edition. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. $22.95 (paper). 0801885795.
Raj, Kapil. Relocating Modern Science: Circulation and the Construction of Knowledge in South Asia and Europe, 1650-1900. xiii + 285 pp., illus., bibl., index. New York:Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. $74.95 (cloth). 0230507085.
Rose, Steven; Paul McGarr. The Richness of Life: The Essential Stephen Jay Gould. Foreword by Oliver Sacks. xiv + 654 pp., illus., bibl., index. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2007. $35 (cloth). 9780393064988.
Roux, Sophie (Editor). Retours Sur L'Affaire Sokal. Edited by Gilles Denis; Marie-José Durand-Richard; Sophie Roux. (Collection Histoire Des Sciences.) x + 190. tables., bibl. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2007. Euro 17.50 (paper). 9782296023895.
Rowe, David E.; Schulmann, Robert (Editors). Einstein in Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb. xxxiv + 523 pp., illus., bibl., index. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. $29.95 (cloth). 9780691120942.
Rudwick, Martin J.S. Bursting the Limits of Time: The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Revolution. xxiv + 708 pp., illus., figs., apps., bibl., index. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. $35 (paper). 0226731111.
Rutherford, Donald (Editor). The Cambridge Companion to Early Modern Philosophy. (The Cambridge Companion.) xv + 421 pp., tables, bibl, index. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. $29.99 (paper). 9780521529624.
Saliba, George. Islamic Science and the Making of the European Renaissance. xi + 315 pp., bibl., index. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2007. $40 (cloth). 0262195577.
Sandel, Michael J. The Case Against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering. x + 162 pp., index. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007. $18.95 (cloth). 9780674019270.
Sappol, Michael. Dream Anatomy. xii + 180 pp., figs., Washington, D.C: U.S Department of Health and Human Services, 2006. $24 (paper). 978016075926.
Savitt, Todd L. Race & Medicine in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century America. x + 453 pp., illus., bibl., index. Kent: The Kent State University Press, 2007. $49 (cloth). 087338878x.
Schmidt, Jeremy. Melancholy and the Care of the Soul. Religion, Moral Philosophy and Madness in Early Modern England. (The History of Medicine in Context.) vi + 217 pp., bibl., index. Aldershot: Ashgate: 2007. $99.95 (cloth). 9780754657484.
Sheffield, Suzanne Le-May. Women and Science. Social Impact and Interaction. (Science and Society Series). xxxv + 448 pp., gloss., bibl., docs., index. Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2005. $29.95 (cloth). 0813537371.
Sher, Richard B. The Enlightenment and the Book. Scottish Authors and Their Publishers in Eighteenth-Century Britain, Ireland, and America. xxvi + 815 pp., illus. figs., tables, apps., bibl., index. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2006. $40. (cloth). 0226752526.
Simões, Ana; Maria Paula Diogo; Ana Carneiro. Cidadão do Mundo: Uma Biografia Científica do Abade Correia da Serra. v + 185 pp., figs., bibl., index. Porto, Portugal: Porto Editora, 2006. Euro 17.50 (paper). 9720450878.
Soukup, Rudolf Werner. Chemie in Österreich. Bergbau, Alchemie und frühe Chemie. Von den Anfängen bis zum Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts. (Beiträge zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte und Wissenscaftsforschung, Bd. 7.) xviii + 623 pp., illus., apps., bibl., index. Vienna: Böhlau Wien Ges.m.b.H. & Co.KG, 2007. Euro 65 (cloth). 9783205775676.
Stewart, Ian. Why Beauty is Truth: A History of Symmetry. xiii + 290 pp., figs., index. New York: Basic Books, 2007. $26.95 (cloth). 9780465082360.
Strasser, Bruno J. La Fabrique d'une Nouvelle Science. La Biologie Moléculaire a l'âge atomique (1945-1964). (Bibliothèque d'Histoire des Sciences, vol. 8.) xxxiii + 450 pp., bibl., index. Firenze: Leo S. Olschki, 2006. Euro 48 (cloth). 8822254961.
Stuckenberger, Nicole A. (Editor). Thin Ice: Inuit Traditions within a Changing Environment. Introduction by Ross A. Virginia; Kenneth S. Yalowitz; Igor Krupnik. 80 pp., illus., index. Lebanon, NH: University Press of New England, 2007. $24.95 (paper). 0944722334.
Sugg, Richard. Murder After Death: Literature and Anatomy in Early Modern England. 259 pp., illus., apps., index. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2007. $45 (cloth). 9780801445095.
Thompson, Evan. Mind in Life. Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind. xiv + 543 pp., index. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007. $45 (cloth). 0674025113.
Thurmond, David L. A Handbook of Food Processing in Classical Rome: For Her Bounty No Winter. (Technology and Change in History, Volume 9.) x + 294 pp., illus., bibl., index. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2006. $138 (cloth). 9004152369.
Uekoetter, Frank. The Green and the Brown. A History of Conservation in Nazi Germany. (Studies in Environment and History.) xv + 230 pp., illus., app., bibl., index. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. $76.95 (cloth). 13978052184819.
Vollmann, William T. Uncentering the Earth: Copernicus and The Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres. 295 pp., figs., bibl. New York: W. W Norton and Company, 2006. $32 (cloth). 9780393059694.
Wagner, Wendy; Rena Steinzor (Editors). Rescuing Science from Politics. Regulation and the Distortion of Scientific Research. xxiii + 304 pp., figs., table, index. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. $88.95 (cloth). 0521855209.
Watkins, Elizabeth Siegel. The Estrogen Elixir. A History of Hormone Replacement Therapy in America. ix + 351 pp., notes, index. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. $45 (cloth). 0801886023.
Werth, Nicolas. Cannibal Island: Death in a Siberian Gulag. Foreword by Jan T. Gross. xxi + 223 pp. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007. $24.95 (cloth). 9780691130835.
Yoke, Peng Ho. Explorations
in Daoism: Medicine and Alchemy in Literature. Edited by John P.C. Moffett;
Cho Sungwu. Foreword by T.H. Barrett. (Needham Research Institute Series.) xxii
+ 221 pp., figs., tables, apps., bibl., index. $125 (cloth). 9780415404600.
