Isis Books Received
1 July - 30 July 2008
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Beretta, Marco; Grandin, Karl; Lindqvist, Svante (Editors). Aurora Torealis: Studies in the History of Science and Ideas in Honor of Tore Frängsmyr. vi + 314 pp., illus., figs., index. Sagamore Beach, MA: $49.95 (cloth). ISBN: 978088135398
Caron, Simone. Who Chooses? American Reproductive History Since 1830. xvi + 361 pp., tables, apps., bibl., index. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2008. $69.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780813031996
Cotrugli, Benoît. Traité de la marchandise, et du parfait marchand, disposé en quatre livres. Edited by Luc Marco and Robert Noumen. Translated by Jean Boyron. (Les classiques en Gestion, 1). xlvii + 124 pp., illus., tables, index. Originally published in 1582. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2008. €16.50 (paper). ISBN: 9782903628031
Dick, Steven J.; Launius, Roger D. (Editors). Societal Impact of Spaceflight. xv + 680 pp., figs., index. Washington, D.C.: NASA, 2007. ISBN: 9780160801907
Duris, Pascal (Editor). Traduire la science: Hier et aujourd'hui. 231 pp., illus., figs., index. Pessac: Maison des Sciences de l'Homme d'Aquitaine, 2008. €24 (paper). ISBN: 9782858923526
Fried, Michael N.; Unguru, Sabetai. Apollonius of Perga's Conica: Text, Context, Subtext. xii + 499 pp., illus., bibl., index. Leiden: Brill, 2001. $122 (cloth). ISBN: 9004119779
Gágyor, Ildikó. Johannes Müller und die Pathologische Anatomie. Eine kommentierte Edition der Vorlesugsmitschrift von Jakob Henle (1830). (Studies on History, Theory and Ethics of Medicine, 17.) 224 pp., illus., app., bibl., index. Hildesheim: Georg Olms, 2008. €58 (cloth). ISBN: 97834871535953
Goosen, Gideon. Spacetime and Theology in Dialogue. (Marquette Studies in Theology, 57.) 181 pp., bibl., index. Milwaukee, WI: Marquette University Press, 2008. $22 (paper). ISBN: 9780874627343
Greenberg, Arthur. From Alchemy to Chemistry in Picture and Story. xxiv + 637 pp., figs., index. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Interscience, 2006. $69.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780471751540
Hansen, James R. (Editor). The Wind and Beyond. A Documentary Journey into the History of Aerodynamics in America. Volume II: Reinventing the Airplane. xxvii + 957 pp., figs., index. Washington, D.C.: NASA, 2007.
Harries, Patrick. Butterflies & Barbarians: Swiss Missionaries & Systems of Knowledge in South-East Africa. xvi + 286 pp., illus., bibl., index. Oxford: James Currey; Harare: Weaver Press; Johannesburg: Wits University Press; Athens: Ohio University Press, 2007. $26.95 (paper). ISBN: 9780852559833
Heppenheimer, T. A. Facing the Heat Barrier: A History of Hypersonics. xii + 336 pp., figs., bibl., index. Washington, D.C.: NASA, 2006.
Hill, Peggy S. M. Vibrational Communication in Animals. ix + 261 pp., illus., figs., bibl., indexes. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008. $39.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780674027985
Mindell, David P. The Evolving World: Evolution in Everyday Life. viii + 341 pp., illus., tables, index. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006. $16.95 (paper). ISBN: 0674021916
Monosson, Emily (Editor). Motherhood, The Elephant in the Laboratory: Women Scientists Speak Out. x + 219 pp., Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2008. $25 (cloth). ISBN: 9780801446641
Parot, Françoise (Editor). Les fonctions en psychologie: Enjeux et débats. 334 pp., Illus., table, index. Wavre: Éditions Mardaga, 2008. €32 (paper). ISBN: 9782870099889
Sarma, Sreeramula Rajeswara. The Archaic and the Exotic: Studies in the History of Indian Astronomical Instruments. 319 pp., figs., index. Darayanganj, New Delhi: Manohar Publishers and Distributors, 2008. $19.88 (cloth). ISBN: 9788173045712
Sawday, Jonathan. Engines of the Imagination: Renaissance Culture and the Rise of the Machine. xxii + 402 pp., figs., index. New York: Routledge, 2007. $33.95 (paper). ISBN: 9780415350624
Shapiro, Marc. B. Studies in Maimonides and His Interpreters. xvi + 172 +33 pp., bibl., index. Chicago: University of Scranton Press, 2008. $10.00 (paper). ISBN: 9781589661653
Speller, Jules. Galileo's Inquisition Trial Revisited. 431 pp., bibl., index. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2008. $99.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9783631562291
Taub, Liba. Aetna and the Moon: Explaining Nature in ancient Greece and Rome. Foreword by Mary Jo Nye. (The OSU Press Horning Visiting Scholars Publication Series.) xiv + 138. figs., bibl., index. Corvallis, Oregon: Oregon state University Press, 2008. $24.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780870711961
Tsiao, Sunny. "Read You Loud and Clear!" The Story of NASA's Spaceflight Tracking and Data Network. xlii + 481 pp., apps., bibl., index. Washington, D.C.: NASA, 2008. ISBN: 9780160801914
Woodward, David (Editor). The History of Cartography, Volume 3: Cartography in the European Renaissance. 2 Volumes. xlii + 2272 pp. illus., figs., tables, bibl., index. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. $400 (cloth). ISBN: 9780226907325
