Isis Books Received
23 May 2007-28 August 2007
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Aldana, Gerardo. The Apotheosis of Janaab' Pakal: Science, History, and Religion at Classic Maya Palenque. xxxiv + 320 pp., figs., bibl., index. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2007. $55 (cloth). ISBN: 9780870818660
Anak Agung Banyu Perwita. Indonesia and the Muslim World: Islam and Secularism in the Foreign Policy of Soeharto and Beyond. xvi + 222 pp., figs., app., bibl., index. Leifsgade: NIAS, 2007. $25 (cloth). ISBN: 9788791114922
Arikha, Noga. Passions and Tempers: A History of the Humours. xxi + 376pp., figs., bibl., index. New York: HaperCollins, 2007. $27.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780060731168
Bideau, Alain; Guy Brunet. Essai de Démographie Historique et de Génétique des Populations: Une Population du Jura Méridonal du XVIIe Siècle à Nos Jours. (Études & Enquétes Historiques) xii + 252 pp., figs., tables, bibl. Paris: Institut National d'Études Démographiques, 2007. €20.00 (paper). ISBN: 9782733210352
Boiko, Bob. Laughing at the CIO: A Parable and Prescription for IT Leadership. xxiii + 195 pp., figs., tables, index. Medford: CyberAge Books, 2007. $29.95 (paper). ISBN: 9780910965781
Bradley, Robert E.; Lawrence A. D'Antonio; C. Edward Sandifer (Editors). Euler at 300: An Appreciation. (Spectrum Series.) xvi + 298 pp., figs., tables, bibl., index. Washington: The Mathematical Association of America, 2007. $51.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780883855652
Braun, R.; R. Hinde; D. Krieger; H. Kroto; S. Milne (Editors). Joseph Rotblat: Visionary for Peace. xiv + 355 pp., figs., Weinheim: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, 2007. $53.99 (cloth). ISBN: 9783527406906
Broderick, James F.; Darren W. Miller. Consider the Source: A Critical Guide to 100 Prominent News and Information Sites on the Web. xiii + 457 pp., figs., tables, app., index. Medford: CyberAge Books, 2007. $24.95 (paper). ISBN: 9780910965774
Brown, Craig. A Generation of Excellence: A History of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. xiii + 352 pp., figs., apps., bibl., index. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007. $65 (cloth). ISBN: 0802092322
Brunschön, C. W.; D. Sider (Editor). Theophrastus of Eresus: On Weather Signs. x + 265 pp., apps., biblio., indexes. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2007. $134 (cloth). ISBN: 9789004155930
Buchanan, Brenda J. (Editor.) Gunpowder, Explosives and the State: A Technological History. Foreword by Bert Hall. xxiii + 425 pp., figs., tables, index. Burlington: Ashgate, 2006. $99.95 (cloth). ISBN: 0754652599
Bud, Robert. Penicillin: Triumph and Tragedy. ix + 330 pp., figs., bibl., index. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. $55 (cloth). ISBN: 9780199254064
Burt, Christopher. Extreme Weather: A Guide and Record Book, climate change edition. 303 pp., illus., figs., tables, apps, bibl., index. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2007. $25.95 (paper). ISBN: 9780393330151
Cassidy, Victor M. Henry Chandler Cowles: Pioneer Ecologist. vii + 354 pp., plates, index. Chicago: Kedzie Sigel Press, 2007. $22.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9781934087206
Chambers, Neil (Editor). The Scientific Correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks, 1765-1820. Volumes 1-6 (The Pickering Masters). 3088 pp., index. London: Pickering & Chatto Publishers, 2007. $995.00 (cloth). ISBN: 9781851967667
Chassagne, Annie. La bibliothèque de l’Académie royale des sciences au XVIII siècle. 303 pp., illus., bibl. Paris: Éditions du CTHS, 2007. € 37 (paper). ISBN: 9782735506378
Chaves-Carballo, E. The Tropical World of Samuel Taylor Darling: Parasites, Pathology and Philanthropy. Foreward by Gerald L. Baum. xx + 260 pp., figs., tables, apps., bibls., indexes. Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 2007. $75 (cloth). ISBN: 9781845191832
Cipriani, Curzio; Alba Scarpellini. Un contributo alla mineralogia settecentesca: La collezione di Giovanni Targioni Tozzetti. viii + 200 pp., figs., table, apps., bibl., indexes. Firenze: Leo S. Olschki, 2007. €22 (paper). ISBN: 9788822256362
Coen, Deborah R. Vienna in the Age of Uncertainty. Science, Liberalism, and Private Life. xi + 380 pp., figs., app., bibl., index. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. $45 (cloth). ISBN: 0226111725
Comfort, Nathaniel (Editor). The Panda's Black Box. Opening up the Intelligent Design Controversy. Foreword by Daniel J. Kevles. xv + 165 pp., index. Baltimore, MD:The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. $20 (cloth). ISBN: 080188599X
Corfield, Penelope J. Time and the Shape of History. xx + 309 pp., figs., bibl., index. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. $45 (cloth). ISBN: 3780300115581
Crowther, Anne M.; Marguerite W. Dupree. Medical Lives in the Age of Surgical Revolution. (Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time.) xvi + 425 pp., figs., tables., apps., bibls., index. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. $120 (cloth). ISBN: 9780521835480
Cueto, Marcos. Cold War, Deadly Fevers: Malaria Eradication in Mexico 1955-1975. xvi + 264 pp., figs., tables, bibl., index. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. $45 (cloth). ISBN: 9780801886454
Davies, Gordon L. Herries. Whatever is Under the Earth: The Geological Society of London 1807-2007. Foreword by Richard Fortey. Xiii + 356 pp., illus., figs., app., bibl., index. London: The Geological Society of London, 2007. $ 50 (cloth). ISBN: 9781862392144
Dawson, Gowan. Darwin, Literature and Victorian Respectability. xii + 282 pp., figs., bibl., index. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. $90 (cloth). ISBN: 978521872492
de Conchis, Guillelmus. Glosae super Platonem. (Corpus Christianorum; Instrumenta Lexicologica Latina - Series A: Formae). vii + 59 pp., tables., Turnhout: Brepols, 2007. €50 (paper). ISBN: 9782503525952
de Romo, Ana Cecilia Rodríguez. Claude Bernard: El Sebo de Vela y la Originalidad Científica. Foreward by Josep L. Barona. 200 pp., figs., tables, bibl., index. Mexico: Siglo, 2006. $140 pesos. ISBN: 9682326508
Demaitre, Luke. Leprosy in Premodern Medicine: A Malady of the Whole Body. xv + 323 pp., figs., tables, index. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. $45 (cloth). ISBN: 0801886139
Denny, Mark. Ingenium: Five Machines That Changed the World. xvi + 176 pp., figs., index. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. $25 (cloth). ISBN: 9780801885860
Doern, Bruce G. and Jeffrey S. Kinder. Strategic Science in the Public Interest: Canada's Government Laboratories and Science-Based Agencies. xiii + 235 pp., tables, bibl., index. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007. $50 (cloth). ISBN: 9780802088536
Dumont, Simone. Un Astronome Des Lumières: Jérôme Lalande. Foreward by Jean-Claude Pecker. viii + 359 pp., figs., bibl., index. Paris: Vuibert/Observatoire de Paris, 2007. €35 (paper). ISBN: 9782711740284
Eastwood, Bruce S. Ordering the Heavens: Roman Astronomy and Cosmology in the Carolingian Renaissance. Edited by J.M.M.H. Thijssen and C.H. Lüthy. (History of Science and Medicine Library, 4; Medieval and Early Modern Science, 8.) xxii + 452 pp., figs., app., bibl., index. Leiden: Brill, 2007. €99 (cloth). ISBN: 9789004161863
Ebeling, Florian. The Secret History of Hermes Trismegistus: Hermeticism from Ancient to Modern Times. Foreword by Jan Assmann. Translated by David Lorton. xiii + 158pp., figs., bibl., index.Originally published in German as _Das Geheimnis de Hermes Trismegistos_. Itaca: Cornell University Press, 2007. $29.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780801445460
Egan, Michael. Barry Commoner and the Science of Survival: The Remaking of American Environmentalism. xi + 283 pp., illus., bibl., index. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2007. $28 (cloth). ISBN: 9780262050869
Endersby, Jim. A Guinea Pig's History of Biology: The plants and animals who taught us the facts of life. xii + 499 pp., bibl., index. London: Random House, 2007. £20 (cloth). ISBN: 9780434012596
Epstein, Steven. Inclusion: The Politics of Difference in Medical Research. xi + 416 pp., index. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. $29 (cloth). ISBN: 0226213099
Fine, Gary Alan. Authors of the Storm: Meteorologists and the Culture of Prediction. xii + 294 pp., index. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. $39 (cloth). ISBN: 0226249522
Francis, Mark. Herbert Spencer and the Invention of Modern Life. xiv + 434 pp., figs., bibl., index. Itaca: Cornell University Press, 2007. $45 (cloth). ISBN: 9781844650866
Gianquitto, Tina. "Good Observers of Nature": American Women and the Scientific Study of the Natural World, 1820-1885. xii + 216 pp., figs., bibl., index. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2007. $19.95 (paper). ISBN: 9780820329192
Gilbert, Sandra M. Death's Door: Modern Dying and the Ways We Grieve. xxv + 580 pp., figs., bibl., index. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2007. $17.95 (paper). ISBN: 9780393329698
Gilfoyle, Timothy J. A Pickpocket's Tale: The Underworld of Nineteenth-Century New York. xvii + 460 pp., illus., figs., apps., index. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2007. $16.95 (paper). ISBN: 9780393329896
Golinski, Jan. British Weather and the Climate of Enlightenment. xv + 284 pp. figs., bibl., index. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. $35 (cloth). ISBN: 0226302059
Gould, Stephen J. Punctuated Equilibrium. viii + 396 pp., figs., app., bibl., index. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007. $18.95 (paper). ISBN: 0674024443
Gray, Jeremy J.; Karen Hunger Parshall (Editors). (History of Mathematics, Volume 32) Episodes in the History of Modern Algebra (1800-1950). viii + 336 pp., tables, bibl., index. Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society, 2007. $69 (cloth). ISBN: 9780821843437
Gunn, Moira A. Welcome to Biotech Nation: My Unexpected Odyssey into the Land of Small Molecules, Lean Genes, and Big Ideas. 258 pp., index. New York: Amacom, 2007. $24.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780814409237
Gutiérrez, Alberto Gómez; Ignacio Briceño Balcázar; Jaime Eduardo Bernal Villegas. Hereditas Diversitas et Variatio: Approximación a la historia de la genética humana en Colombia. xv + 231 pp., figs., app., bibl., indexes. Bogotá: Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, 2007. $15 (paper). ISBN: 9789586839433
Hall, J. Storrs. Beyond AI: Creating the Conscience of the Machine. 408 pp., figs., bibl., index, New York: Prometheus Books, 2007. $28 (cloth). ISBN: 9781591025115
Hodge, Joseph Morgan. Triumph of the Expert: Agrarian Doctrines of Development and the Legacies of British Colonialism. (Series in Ecology and History). xiv + 402 pp., illust., tables, plates, figs., biblio., index. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2007. $26.95. ISBN: 0821417177
Holowchak, M. Andrew. Critical Reasoning and Science: Looking at Science with an Investigative Eye. xi + 273 pp., figs., bibl. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 2007. $38 (paper). ISBN: 0761837949
Hoyano, Laura; Caroline Keenan. Child Abuse: Law and Policy Across Boundaries. lxxix + 1002 pp., tables, bibl., index. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. $175 (cloth). ISBN: 9780198299462
Hunley, J. D. The Development of Propulsion Technology for U.S. Space-Launch Vehicles, 1926-1991. Edited by Roger D. Launius. (Centennial of Flight Series.) xi + 383 pp., figs., tables, index. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2007. $65 (cloth). ISBN: 9781585445882
Hyman, Anthony. The Selfseeker. 144 pp., apps., index. Exeter:The Barne House, Christow, 2007. ISBN: 9780955538704
Johnston, Nancy E.; Alwilda Scholler-Jaquish (Editors). Meaning in Suffering: Caring Practices in the Health Professions. ix + 293 pp., illus., figs., indexes. Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 2007. $26.96 (paper). ISBN: 9780299222543
Johnstone, Bob. Brilliant! Shuyi Nakamura and the Revolution in Lightning Technology. 336 pp., plates. Index. Amherst, NY:Prometheus Books. $28 (cloth). ISBN: 9781591024620
Juste, David. Les Alchandreana Primitifs: Étude sure les Plus Anciens Traités Astrologiques Latins D'Origine Arabe (Xe Siècle). Edited by Hans Van Ruler. (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History 152; Brill's Texts and Sources in Intellectual History 2.) fig., tables, apps., bibl., indexes. Brill Academic Publishing, 2007. $194. ISBN: 9789004158276
Kahn, Didier. Alchimie et Paracelsisme en France (1567-1625). (Cahiers d'Humanisme et Renaissance, Vol. 80) x + 806 pp., figs., table, bibls., indexes, Genève: Droz Publications, 2007. (paper). ISBN: 9782600006880
Kalas, Rayna. Frames, Glass, Verse: The Technology of Poetic Invention in the English Renaissance. xix + 248 pp., figs., index. Itaca: Cornell University Press, 2007. $39.95 (cloth). ISBN: 97808144415
Katz, Jonathan Ned. The Invention of Heterosexuality. ix + 291pp., bibl., index. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. $16 (cloth). ISBN: 0226426017
Kenny, Robert. The Lamb Enters the Dreaming Nathanael Pepper & the Ruptured World. xi + 384 pp., figs., bibl., index. Victoria: Scribe Publications, 2007. $39.95 (paper). ISBN: 9781921215162
King, Helen. Midwifery, Obstetrics and the Rise of Gynaecology: The Uses of a Sixteenth-Century Compendium. Edited by Allyson Poska and Abby Zanger. (Women and Gender in the Early Modern World.) x + 228 pp., fig(s)., bibl., index. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007. $99.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9781921215162
Lamoreaux, Noami R.; Kenneth L. Sokoloff. (editors). Financing Innovation in the United States: 1870 to the Present. Foreword by William Janeway.xii + 503 pp., tables, bibls., index. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2007. $45 (cloth). ISBN: 9780262122894
Laubichler, Manfred D.; Jane Maienschein (Editors). From Embryology to Evo-Devo: A History of Developmental Evolution. Dibner Institute Studies in the History of Science and Technology Series. vii + 569pp., figs., tables, index. Cambridge: MIT press, 2007. $55 (cloth). ISBN: 9780262122832
Le Gall, Philippe. A History of Econometrics in France: From nature to models. Foreward by Mary S. Morgan. (Routledge Studies in the History of Economics.) xx + 296 pp., figs., tables, bibl., index. Routledge: Abingdon, 2007. $75 (cloth). ISBN: 9780415322553
Lehrich, Christopher I. The Occult Mind: Magic and Theory in Practice. xv + 246 pp., illus., bibl., index. New York: Cornell University Press, 2007. $ 39.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780801445385
Leys, Ruth. From Guilt to Shame: Auschwitz and After. Edited by Walter Benn Michaels. (20/21) viii + 200 pp., app., index. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. $27.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780691130804
Lipatito, Kenneth; Orville R. Butler. A History of the Kennedy Space Center. xvi + 478pp., figs., index. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2007. $39.95 (Hardcover). ISBN: 9780813030692
Lloyd, G. E. R. Cognitive Variations: Reflections on the Unity and Diversity of the Human Mind. viii + 201 pp., figs., bibl., index. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. $45 (cloth). ISBN: 9780199214617
Lockman, F. J.; F. D. Ghigo; D. S. Balser (Editors). But it was Fun: The First Forty Years of Radio Astronomy at Green Bank. xiv + 583 pp., figs., tables, index. Green Bank, West Virginia: National Radio Astronomy Observatory, 2007. $25 (paper). ISBN: 0970041128
Lowengard, Sarah. The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe. vi + 391 pp., exhibits, tables. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007. $49.50 (electronic). ISBN: 9780231503693
Mandler, George. A History of Modern Experimental Psychology. From James and Wundt to Cognitive Science. xx + 287 pp., bibl. Index. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2007. $34 (cloth). ISBN: 0262134756
Manor, Eli. The Pythagorean Theorem: A 4,000-Year History. xvi + 259 pp., figs., plates, apps, bibl., index. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. $24.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780691125268
Manzoni, Tullio. Aristotele e il cervello. Le teorie del più grande biologo dell'antichità nella storia del pensiero scientifico. 239 pp., apps., biblio., index. Rome: Carocci editore, 2007. € 21, 50. ISBN: 9788843042203
Martin, Emily. Bipolar Expeditions: Mania and Depression in American Culture. xxiv + 370 pp., figs., tables, app., index. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2007. $35 (cloth). ISBN: 9780691004235
Megill, Alan. Historical Knowledge, Historical Error: A Contemporary Guide to Practice. xvi + 288 pp., tables., index. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. $60 (cloth). ISBN: 0226518299
Mentgen, Gerd. Astrologie und Öffentlichkeit im Mittlelalter. x + 358 pp., bibl., index. Stuttgart: Hiersemann, 2005. € 149 (cloth). ISBN: 9783777205120
Miller, Susan A. Growing Girls: The Natural Origins of Girls' Organizations in America. Edited by Myra Bluebond-Langner. (The Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies.) x + 270 pp., figs., bibl., index. Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2007. $23.95 (paper). ISBN: 9780813540461
Moran, Bruce T. Andreas Libavius and the Transformation of Alchemy: Separating Chemical Cultures with Polemical Fire. vi + 344 pp., figs., bibl., index. Sagamore Beach: Science History Publications/USA, 2007. $49.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780881353952
Morrison-Low, A. D. Making Scientific Instruments in the Industrial Revolution. Foreword by Ludmilla Jordanova. (Science, Technology and Culture 1700-1945.) xiii + 408 pp., figs., graphs, tables, app, bibl., index. Burlington: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2007. $99.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780754657583
Mosley, Adam. Bearing the Heavens: Tycho Brahe and the Astronomical Community of the Late Sixteenth-Century. xiv + 354 pp., illus., figs., app., bibl., index. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. $99 (cloth). ISBN: 9780521838665
Nahin, Paul J. Chases and Escapes: The Mathmatics of Pursuit and Evasion. xiv + 253 pp., figs., tables, apps., bibl., index. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. $24.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780691125145
Neufeld, Michael J. Von Braun: Dreamer of Space. Engineer of War. xiii + 562 pp., bibl., index. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007. $35 (paper). ISBN: 9780307262929
Nonimous, A. The Wonderful Adventures of Nat Selleck and Eva Lou Shinn in Sci fi Land: A Spoof on Evolution and Natural Selection. 85 pp., Claremont: The Paige Press, 2007. $14.95 (paper). ISBN: 1930053525
Oehler-Klein, Sigrid; Volker Roelcke (Editors). Vergangenheitspolitik in der universitären Medizin nach 1945: Institutionelle und individuelle Strategien im Umgang mit dem Nationalsozialismus. 419 pp., figs., index. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2007. €69 (cloth). ISBN: 9783515090155
Ogborn, Miles. Indian Ink: Script and Print in the Making of the English East India Company. xxiii + 318 pp. figs., bibl., index. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. $40 (cloth). ISBN: 0-226-62041-7
Page, Benjamin B.; David A. Valone. (Editors). Philanthropic Foundations and the Globalization of Scientific Medicine and Public Health. xviii + 195 pp., figs. Index. Lanham: University Press of America, 2007. $29.95 (paper). ISBN: 9780761838197
Pesante, Luca. Il Tesoro Dei Poveri: Thesaurus Pauperum. 246 pp., figs., indexes. San Sepolcro: Aboca Museaum Edizioni, 2007. € 38.00 (cloth).
Pettegrew, John. Brutes in Suits: Male Sensibility in America, 1890-1920. xi + 409 pp., figs., index. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. $60 (cloth). ISBN: 9780801886034
Pielke Jr., Roger A. The Honest Broker: Making Sense of Science in Policy and Politics. x + 188 pp., figs., tables, app., bibl., index. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. $29.99 (paper). ISBN: 0521694817
Pighetti, Clelia. La Cifra Di Passo: Una loggia spagnola del Settecento. 168 pp., apps., bibl., index. Milano: FrancoAngeli, 2007. €17 (paper). ISBN: 88-464-8718-6
Pogliano, Claudio (Editor). Scienze e storia nell'Italia del Novecento. (Centro Studi Enriques). 383 pp., app, index. Pisa: Pisa University Press, 2007. € 22 (paper). ISBN: 9788884923523
Preston, Vernon (Editor). Lewis & Clark: Weather and Climate Data from the Expidition Journals. Forward by Terry Nathans. xvii + 523 pp., figs., tables, apps., bibl. Boston: American Meteorological Society, 2006. $90 (cloth). ISBN: 9781878220752
Price, Huw; Richard Corry (Editors). Causation, Physics, and the Constitution of Reality: Russell's Republic Revisited. 403 pp., figs., bibls., index. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. $35 (paper). ISBN: 9780199276190
Pursell, Carroll. Technology in Postwar America: A History. xvi + 280 pp., figs., bibl., index. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007. $35 (cloth). ISBN: 9780231123044
Reid. Robert G. B. Biological Emergences: Evolution by Natural Experiment. xv + 517 pp., figs., tables, bibl., index. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2007. $38 (cloth). ISBN: 9780262182577
Richet, Pascal. A Natural History of Time. Translated by John Venerella. xiv + 471 pp., figs., tables, app., bibl., index. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. $29 (cloth). ISBN: 9780226712871
Riskin, Jessica (ed.). Genesis Redux. Essays in the History and Philosophy of Artificial Life. xv + 389 pp. figs., index. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. $25 (paper). ISBN: 0226720802
Rothbart, Daniel. Philosophical Instruments: Mind and Tools at Work. xiv + 138 pp., figs., tables, bibl., index. University of Illinois Press, 2007. $35 (cloth). ISBN: 0252031369
Rudman, Peter S. How Mathematics Happened: The First 50,000 Years. 314 pp., figs., tables, index. New York: Prometheus Books, 2007. $26.00 (cloth). ISBN: 9781591024774
Rupke, Nicolaas A. (Editor). Eminent Lives in Twentieth-Century Science & Religion. 255 pp., app., bibls., index. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2007. $45.95 (paper). ISBN: 9783631568033
Sawyer, G. J.; Viktor Dean (creators.) The Last Humans: A Guide to Twenty-Two Species of Extinct Humans. Esteban Sarmiento; G.J.Sawyer; Richard Milner; Donald C. Johanson; Meave Leakey; Ian Tattersall (contributors). 256 pp., illus., figs., tables, apps., index. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. $45 (hardcover). ISBN: 9780300700471
Schmitt, Stéphane. Les Forces Vitales et Leur Distribution dans la Nature. (De Diversis Artibus). 240 pp., tables, apps., bibl., Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2006. € 56 (cloth). ISBN: 2503524427
Segal, Judy Z. Health and the Rhetoric of Medicine. x + 217 pp., bibl., index. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2007. $50 (cloth). ISBN: 0-8093-2677-9
Sharp, Patrick B. Savage Perils: Racial Frontiers and Nuclear Apocalypse in American Culture. xiii + 288 pp., illus. figs., bibl., index. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007. $34.95 (cloth). ISBN: 978080613822
Shrum, Wesley; Joel Genuth; Ivan Chompalov. Structures of Scientific Collaboration. Edited by Wiebe E. Bijker, W. Bernard Carlson, Trevor Pinch. (Inside Technology.) xi + 280 pp., figs., tables, apps., bibl., index. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2007. ISBN: 9780262195591
Smith, P.D. Doomsday Men: The Real Dr. Strangelove and the Dream of the Superweapon. xxii + 553 pp., figs., bibl., index. London: Penguin Press, 2007. £ 20 (cloth). ISBN: 9780713998153
Stafford, Barbara Maria. Echo Objects. The Cognitive Work of Images. xiii + 281 pp., illust., figs., index. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2007. $45 (cloth). ISBN: 0226770516
Swartz, Conrad and Edward Shorter. Psychotic Depression. xv + 327 pp., apps., index. Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. $85 (cloth). ISBN:
Taylor, Michael W. The Philosophy of Herbert Spencer. Edited by James Fieser. (Continuum Studies in British Philosophy.) xiv + 183 pp., index. London: Continuum Books, 2007. £60 (cloth). ISBN: 9780826487230
Toeplitz, Otto. The Calculus: A Genetic Approach. Foreward by David Bressoud. xvi + 192 pp., figs., bibl., index. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. $24.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780226806686
Uttal, William R. The Immeasurable Mind: The real science of psychology. 296 pp., app., bibl., indexes. Amherst: Prometheus Books, 2007. $29 (cloth). ISBN: 978159015252
Vilenkin, Alex. Many Worlds in One: The Search for Other Universes. viii + 235 pp., figs., index. New York: Hill and Wang, 2007. $15 (paper). ISBN: 9780809067220
Walton, Steven A. (Editor). Wind and Water in the Middle Ages: Fluid Technologies from Antiquity to the Renaissance. (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 322; Penn State Medieval Studies, 2.) xxvii + pp. 300, illus., figs., tables, index. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medical and Renaisance Studies, 2006 .$55 (cloth). ISBN: 0866983678
Westermann, Andrea. Plastik und politische Kultur in Westdeutschland. 387 pp., figs., bibl., index. Zurich: Chronos Verlag, 2007. € 38 (paper). ISBN: 9783034008495
White, Randall. L'affaire de l'abri du poisson, patrie et préhistoire. 237 pp., illus., figs., bibl. Périgueux: Fanlac, 2007. 19€ (paper). ISBN: 9782865772537
Williams, Simon J. Sleep and Society: Sociological Ventures into the (Un)known. ix + 198 pp., bibl., index. New York: Routledge, 2005. £75 (cloth). ISBN: 0415354188
Wimsatt, William C. Re-Engineering Philosophy for Limited Beings: Piecewise Approximations to Reality. xvi + 450 pp., figs., tables, apps., bibl., index. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007. $49.95 (cloth). ISBN: 0674015452
Withers, Charles W. J. Placing the Enlightenment. Thinking Geographically about the Age of Reason. xiii + 330 pp., figs., bibl., index. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. $45 (cloth). ISBN: 0226904059
Zdravkovska, Smilka.; Peter L. Duren (Editors). Golden Years of Moscow Mathematics. (History of Mathematics.) Volume 6. xi + 306 pp., figs., index. Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society, 2007. $47 (cloth). ISBN: 9780821842614
Zhmud, Leonid (translated by Alexander Chernoglazov). The Origin of the History of Science in Classical Antiquity. 331 pages. Walter de Gruyter, 2006. $118.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9783110179668
