June 2019: Books Received

Balashova, Yuliya B., Traditions of Science Mediatization in Russia in a Global Context. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019. Pp. 105. ISBN 978-1-5275-3029-4. £58.99 (hardback)

 Barney, Richard A. and Montag, Warren (eds.), Systems of Life: Biopolitics, Economics, and Literature on the Cusp of Modernity. New York: Fordham University Press, 2019. Pp. 268. ISBN 978-0-8232-8171-8. $35.00 (paperback)

 Barton, Michael D., Browne, Janet, Corbett, Ken and McMillan, Norman (eds.), The Correspondence of John Tyndall, Volume 6. The Correspondence, November 1856 - February 1859. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019. Pp. ix - 537. ISBN 978-0-8229-4533-8. $125.00 (cloth)

 Beech, Martin, Going Underground: The Science and History of Falling Through the Earth. New Jersey, London, Singapore, Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Taipei, Chennai and Tokyo: World Scientific, 2019. Pp. ix - 276. ISBN 978-981-3279-03-2. £35/$38 (paperback)

Bennett, Rober, Pill. New York, London, Oxford, New Delhi and Sydney: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. Pp. 166. ISBN 978-1-5013-4194-6. $14.95 (paperback)

Benton, Michael J., Dinosaurs Rediscovered: How a Scientific Revolution is Rewriting History. London: Thames & Hudson, 2019. Pp. 320. ISBN 978-0-500-05200-6. $34.95/£24.95 (hardcover)

Belyakov, Sergei, Liquidator: A Chernobyl Story. New Jersey, London, Singapore, Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Taipei, Chennai and Tokyo: World Scientific, 2019. Pp. ix - 175. ISBN 978-981-3228-68-9. £25.00 (paperback)

 Bonea, Amelia, Wallis, Jennifer, Dickson, Melissa and Shuttleworth, Sally, Anxious Times: Medicine and Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019. Pp. ix - 312. ISBN 978-0-8229-4551-2. $50.00 (cloth)

 Calvi, Pabl, Latin American Adventures in Literary Journalism. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019. Pp. ix – 276. ISBN 978-0-8229-4565-9. $45.00 (cloth)

 Craciun, Adriana and Terrall, Mary (eds.), Curious Encounters: Voyaging, Collecting, and Making Knowledge in the Long Eighteenth Century. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2019. Pp. ix - 244. ISBN 978-1-4875-0367-3. $75.00 (cloth)

 Crawford, Matthew James and Gabriel, Joseph M. (eds.), Drugs on the Page: Pharmacopoeias and Healing Knowledge in the Early Modern Atlantic World. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019, Pp. ix - 374. ISBN 978-0-8229-4562-8. $50.00 (cloth)

Crippa, David, The Impossibility of Squaring the Circle in the 17th Century: A Debate Among Gregory, Huygens and Leibniz. Basel: Birkhäuser, 2019. Pp. ix - 184. ISBN 978-3-030-01637-1. $54.99 (paperback)

 Cueto, Marcos, Brown, Theodore M., and Fee, Elizabeth, The World Health Organization: A History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. ix - 373. ISBN 978-1-108-72884-3. £26.99 (paperback)

Durkan, Colm, Size Really Does Matter: A Nanotechnology Revolution. New Jersey, London, Singapore, Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Taipei, Chennai and Tokyo: World Scientific, 2019. Pp. ix - 218. ISBN 978-1-78634-661-2. £ paperback prize not available (paperback) 

 Esterson, Allen and Cassidy, David C., Einstein’s Wife: The Real Story of Mileva Einstein-Maric. Cambridge, MA and London: The MIT Press, 2019. Pp. ix - 313. ISBN 978-0-262-03961-1. $29.95/£24.00 (hardback)

 Fan, Shelly, Will AI Replace Us?: A Primer for the 21st Century. London: Thames & Hudson, 2019. Pp. 144. ISBN 978-0-500-29457-4. $18.95/£12.95 (paperback)

 Gascoigne, John, Science and the State: From the Scientific Revolution to World War II. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. ix - 250. ISBN 978-1-316-60938-5. £22.99 (paperback)

Goldstein, Jürgen, Georg Forster: Voyager, Naturalist, Revolutionary. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2019. Pp. ix - 264. ISBN 978-0-226-46735-1. $45.00 (cloth)

Gonaver, Wendy, The Peculiar Institution and the Making of Modern Psychiatry, 1840–1880. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019. Pp. 256. ISBN 978-1-4696-4844-6. $32.95 (paperback)

Grapí, Pere, Inspiring air: A history of air-related science. Wilmington: Vernon Press, 2019. Pp. ix - 352. ISBN 1-62273-738-5. £44.00 (paperback)

 Harrison, Walter A., Practical Alchemy: A Memoir. New Jersey, London, Singapore, Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Taipei, Chennai and Tokyo: World Scientific, 2018. Pp. ix - 176. ISBN 978-981-3278-31-8. £25 (paperback)

Harwit, Martin, Cosmic Discovery: The Search, Scope, and Heritage of Astronomy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. ix - 348. ISBN 978-1-108-72204-9. £34.99 (paperback)

Hausman, Bernice L., Anti/Vax: Reframing the Vaccination Controversy. Ithaca and London: ILR Press, 2019. Pp. ix - 275. ISBN 978-1-5017-3562-2. £23.99 (hardcover)

 Heard, John, From Servant to Queen: A Journey through Victorian Mathematics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. 267. ISBN 978-1-107-12413-4. £34.99 (hardcover)

 Johnson, Bob, Mineral Rites: An Archaeology of the Fossil Economy. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 2019. Pp. ix - 231. ISBN 978-1-4214-2756-0. $49.95 (cloth)

 Kennefick, Daniel, No Shadow of a Doubt: The 1919 Eclipse That Confirmed Einstein's Theory of Relativity. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2019. Pp. ix - 403. ISBN 978-0-691-18386-2. $29.95/£24.00 (hardcover)

Kohler, Robert E., Inside Science: Stories from the Field in Human and Animal Science. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2019. Pp. 245. ISBN 978-0-226-61798-5. $35.00 (cloth)

 Meli, Domenico Bertoloni, Mechanism: A Visual, Lexical and Conceptual History. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019. Pp. ix - 188. ISBN 978-0-8229-4547-5. $45.00 (cloth)

 Miller, David Philip, The Life and legend of James Watt: Collaboration, Natural Philosophy, and the Improvement of the Steam Engine. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019. Pp. ix - 420. ISBN 978-0-8229-4558-1. $50.00 (cloth)

 Monti, Maria Teresa, Edizione nazionale delle opere di Lazzaro Spallanzani. Parte sesta: Manoscritti. Volume secondo. Modena: Mucchi Editore, 2018. Pp. 328. ISBN 9788870008036. €55.00 (hardcover)

 Oppenheimer, Michael, Oreskes, Naomi, Jamieson, Dale, Brysse, Keynyn, O’Reilly, Jessica, Shindell, Matthew and Wazeck, Milena, Discerning Experts: The Practices of Scientific Assessment for Environmental Policy. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2019. Pp. ix - 281. ISBN 978-0-226-60201-1. $35.00 (paperback)

 Portuondo, María M., The Spanish Disquiet: The Biblical Natural Philosophy of Benito Arias Montano. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2019. Pp. ix - 426. ISBN 978-0-226-59226-8. $65.00 (Cloth)

 Poskett, James, Materials of the Mind: Phrenology, Race, and the Global History of Science, 1815-1920. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2019. Pp. ix - 373. ISBN 978-0-226-62675-8. $45.00 (cloth)

Sheather, Julian, Is Medicine Still Good for Us?: A Primer for the 21st Century. London: Thames & Hudson, 2019. Pp. 144. ISBN 978-0-500-29458-1. $18.95 (paperback)

 Shifman, Mikhail, Love and Physics: The Peierlses. New Jersey, London, Singapore, Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Taipei, Chennai and Tokyo: World Scientific, 2019. Pp. ix - 457. ISBN 978-981-120-138-7. £40.00/$48.00 (paperback)

 Smith, Pamela H. (ed.), Entangled Itineraries: Materials, Practices, and Knowledges Across Eurasia. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019. Pp. ix - 396. ISBN 978-0-8229-6477-0. $55.00 (cloth)

 Sternberg, Robert J. and Pickren, Wade E. (eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of the Intellectual History of Psychology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Px. ix - 533. ISBN 978-1-108-40634-5. £44.99 (paperback)

Timberlake, Todd and Wallace, Paul, Finding Our Place in the Solar System: The Scientific Story of the Copernican Revolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. ix - 378. ISBN 978-1-107-18229-5. £ 29.99 (hardcover)

 Wallis, Jennifer, Investigating the Body in the Victorian Asylum: Doctors, Patients, and Practices. London, New York and Shanghai: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. Pp. ix - 276. ISBN 978-3-319-56713-6. £20.00 (hardcover)

 Werrett, Simon, Thrifty Science: Making the Most of Materials in the History of Experiment. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2019. Pp. 315. ISBN 978-0-226-61025-2. $45.00 (cloth)

 

March 2019: Books Received

 Anderson, Thomas J., Reassembling the Strange: Naturalists, Missionaries, and the Environment of Nineteenth-Century Madagascar. Lanham, Boulder, New York and London: Lexington Books, 2018. pp. ix - 236. ISBN 978-1-4985-7605-5. $95.00/£65.00 (hardback)

 Barton, Ruth, The X Club: Power and Authority in Victorian Science. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2018. pp. ix - 604. ISBN 978-0-226-55161-6. $55.00 (hardback)

 Bertucci, Paola, Artisanal Enlightenment: Science and the Mechanical Arts in Old Regime France. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2017. pp. xi - 300. ISBN 978-0-300-22741-3. $40.00 (hardback)           

Bisbee, Cynthia Carson, Bisbee, Paul, Dyck, Erika, Farrell, Patrick, Sexton, James and Spisak, James W., Psychedelic Prophets: The Letters of Aldous Huxley and Humphry Osmond. Montreal, Kingston, London and Chicago: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2018. pp. ix - 644. ISBN 978-0-7735-5506-8. £ 52.00 (hardback)

 Bravo, Michael, North Pole: Nature and Culture. London: Reaktion Books, 2019. pp. 254. ISBN 978-1-78914-008-8. $24.95/£14.96 (paperback)

 Duchesneau, François, Organisme et corps organique de Leibniz à Kant. Paris: Librairie philosophique J. Vrin, 2018. pp. 522. ISBN 978-2-7116-2818-6. €38.00 (paperback)

 Hartmann, Heinrich, The Body Populace: Military Statistics and Demography in Europe Before the First World War. Cambridge and London: The MIT Press, 2019. pp. ix - 256. ISBN 978-0-262-53632-5. £30.00/$40.00 (paperback)

 Hopwood, Nick, Flemming, Rebecca and Kassell, Lauren (eds.), Reproduction: Antiquity to the Present Day. Cambridge and London: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. ix – 730. ISBN 978-1-107-06802-5.  £94.99 (hardback)  

 Jones, Alexander and Taub, Liba (eds.), The Cambridge History of Science: Volume 1. Ancient Science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. pp. ix - 642. ISBN 978-0-521-57162-3. £120.00 (cloth)

 Leong, Elaine, Recipes and Everyday Knowledge: Medicine, Science, and the Household in Early Modern England. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2018. pp. 281. ISBN 978-0-226-58366-2. $32.50 (paperback)

 Long, Pamela O., Engineering the Eternal City: Infrastructure, Topography, and the Culture of Knowledge in Late Sixteenth-Century Rome. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2018. pp. ix - 369. ISBN: 978-0-226-59128-5. $45.00 (paperback)

 Losee, John, The Golden Age of Philosophy of Science 1945 to 2000: Logical Reconstructionism, Descriptivism, Normative Naturalism, and Foundationalism. London, New York, Oxford, New Delhi and Sydney: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. pp. 319. ISBN 978-1-350-07151-3. £85.00 (hardback)

 MacHale, Desmond and Cohen, Yvonne, New Light on George Boole. Cork: Cork University Press, 2018. pp. ix - 476. ISBN 978-1-78205-290-6. €19.95/£ 17.95 (hardback)

Machuca, Diego E. and Reed, Baron, Skepticism: From Antiquity to the Present. London, New York, Oxford, New Delhi and Sydney: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. pp. ix - 746. ISBN 978-1-350-09713-1. £32.99 (paperback)

Margócsy, Dániel, Somos, Mark and Joffe, Stephen N., The Fabrica of Andreas Vesalius: a worldwide descriptive census, ownership, and annotations of the 1543 and 1555 editions. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2018. pp. ix - 517. ISBN 978-90-04-33629-2. €165.00/$193.00 (hardback)

 Marr, Alexander, Garrod, Raphaële, Ramón Marcaida, José and Oosterhoff, Richard, Logodaedalus: Word Histories of Ingenuity in Early Modern Europe. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018. pp. ix - 358. ISBN 978-0-8229-4541-3. $45.00 (cloth)

Meggitt, Geoff, Taming the Rays: A History of Radiation and Protection. Lymm: Pitchpole Books, 2018. pp. ix - 449. ISBN 978-0-9575549-8-6. £21.50/$ 27.50 (paperback)

 Milam, Erika Lorraine, Creatures of Cain: The Hunt for Human Nature in Cold War America. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2019. pp. ix - 398. ISBN 978-0-691-181882. $29.95/£24.00 (cloth)

 Millard, André, Equipping James Bond: Guns, Gadgets, and Technological Enthusiasm. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 2018. pp. 212. ISBN 978-1-4214-2664-8. $49.95 (hardback)

 Oosterhoff, Richard J., Making Mathematical Culture: University and Print in the Circle of Lefèvre D'Étaples. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. pp. ix – 276. ISBN 978-0-19-882352-0. £65.00 (hardback)

 Parsons, Christopher M. A Not-So-New World: Empire and Environment in French Colonial North America. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. pp. 258. ISBN 978-0-8122-5058-9. $45.00/ £35.00 (cloth)

 Rabinovitch, Oded, The Perraults: A Family of Letters in Early Modern France. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2018. pp. ix - 233. ISBN 978-1-5017-2942-3. $57.95 (hardback)

 Rieppel, Lukas, Deringer, William and Lean, Eugenia (eds.), Science and Capitalism: Entangled Histories. Osiris, Volume 33. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019. pp. ix - 348. ISBN 9780226602325. $35.00/ £26.50 (paperback)

 Snead, James E, Relic Hunters: Archaeology and the Public in 19th Century America. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. pp. ix - 301. ISBN: 978-0-19-873627-1. £70.00 (hardback)

 Turchetti, Simone, Greening the Alliance: The Diplomacy of NATO's Science and Environmental Initiatives. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2018. pp. ix - 249. ISBN 978-0-226-59579-5. $37.50 (paperback) 

 Vinchur, Andrew J., The Early Years of Industrial and Organizational Psychology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. pp. ix - 363. ISBN 978-1-107-67168-3. £28.99 (paperback) 

 Vollset, Magnus, Hornnes, Rune and Ellingsen, Gunnar, Calculating the World: The History of Geophysics As Seen from Bergen. Bergen: Fagbokforlaget, 2018. pp. 415. ISBN 978-82-450-2197-4. kr 499.- 

Wardhaugh, Benjamin, Gunpowder and Geometry: The Life of Charles Hutton, Pit Boy, Mathematician and Scientific Rebel. London: William Collins, 2019. pp. 312. ISBN 978-0-00-829995-8. £20.00/$39.99 (hardback)

Wolfe, Audra J., Freedom’s Laboratory: The Cold War Struggle for the Soul of Science. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019. pp. ix - 302. ISBN 978-1-4214-2673-0. $29.95/£22.00 (cloth)

 Worboys, Michael, Strange, Julie-Marie and Pemberton, The Invention of the Modern Dog: Breed and Blood in Victorian Britain. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018. pp. ix – 282. ISBN 978-1-4214-2658-7. £29.50 

 December 2018: Books Received

Altschuler, Sari, The Medical Imagination: Literature and Health in the Early United States. Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. Pp. 301. ISBN 978-0-8122-4986-6. $55.00 (cloth)

Anable, Audrey, Playing with feelings: video games and affect. Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2018. Pp.ix-152. ISBN 978-1-5179-0025-0. $25.00 (paperback)

Barres, Ben, The Autobiography of a Transgender Scientist. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2018. Pp. ix – 142. ISBN 978-0-262-03911-6. $21.95/£16.99 (cloth)

Becker, Adam, What is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics. New York: Basic Books, 2018. Pp. 370. ISBN 978-0-465-09605-3. $32 / $42 (CAD) (cloth)

Bollyky, Thomas J., Plagues and the Paradox of Progress: Why the World Is Getting Healthier in Worrisome Ways. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2018. Pp. ix – 241. ISBN 978-0-262-03845-4. $27.95/ £22.00 (paperback)

Breyfogle, Nicholas B. (ed.), Eurasian Environments: Nature and Ecology in Imperial Russian and Soviet History. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018. Pp. ix - 401. ISBN 978-0-8229-6563-3. $34.95 (paperback)

Brock, William H., and Cantor, Geoffrey, The Correspondence of John Tyndall, Volume 5: The Correspondence, January 1855 – October 1856. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018. Pp. ix – 484. ISBN 978-0-8229-4532-1. $ 125.00 (cloth)

Brown, Michael, Death in the Garden: Poisonous Plants and Their Use Throughout History. Barnsley: White Owl, 2018. Pp. 248.  ISBN 9781526708380. £ 16.99/ $ 27.95 (paperback)

Cagle, Hugh, Assembling the Tropics: Science and Medicine in Portugal's Empire, 1450-1700. Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press, 2018. Pp. ix - 364. ISBN 978-1-107-19663-6. £ 35.99 (cloth)

Cahan, David, Helmholtz: A Life in Science. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018. Pp. 937. ISBN 978-0-226-48114-2. $55.00 (cloth)

Chico, Tita, The Experimental Imagination: Literary Knowledge and Science in the British Enlightenment. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2018. Pp. ix + 242. ISBN 978-1-5036-0544-2. $60.00 (hardcover)

Clark, David D., Designing an Internet. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2018. Pp. ix – 419. ISBN 978-0-262-03860-7. $32.95/£26.00 (cloth)

Curry, H. A., Jardine, N., Secord, J. A. and Spary, E. C. (eds.), Worlds of Natural History. Cambridge: University of Cambridge, 2018. Pp. ix - 656. ISBN 978-1-316-64971-8. £ 36.99 (paperback)

Darwin, Charles, The Correspondence of Charles Darwin. Volume 26: 1878. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp.ix-768. ISBN 978-1-108-47540-2. £ 94.99 (cloth)

Deringer, William, Calculated Values: Finance, Politics, and the Quantitative Age. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2018. Pp. ix - 413. ISBN 978-0-674-97187-5. $45.00/£32.95/€40.50 (hardback)

Determann, Jorg Matthias, Space Science and the Arab World: Astronauts, Observatories and Nationalism in the Middle East. London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2018. Pp.ix- 258. ISBN 978-1-78831-014-7. £69.00/$95.00 (hardback)

Effros, Bonnie, Incidental Archaeologists: French Officers and the Rediscovery of Roman North Africa. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2018. Pp.ix - 371. ISBN 978-1-5017-0210-5. $49.95 (hardback)

Ekerholm, Helena, Grandin, Karl, Nordlund, Christer and Schell, Patience Alexandra (eds.), Understanding Filed Science Institutions. Sagamore Beach, MA: Science History Publications, 2017. Pp. ix – 358. ISBN 978-0-88135-483-6. Price not listed (paperback)

Engelmann, Lukas, Mapping AIDS: Visual Histories of an Enduring Epidemic. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. ix – 254. ISBN 978-1-108-42577-3. £ 75.00 (cloth) 

Feke, Jacqueline, Ptolemy’s Philosophy: Mathematics as a Way of Life. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018. Pp. ix – 234. ISBN 978-0-691-17958-2. $39.50/ £30.00 (cloth)

Foege, William H., The Task Force for Child Survival: Secrets of Successful Coalitions. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 2018. Pp. ix – 141. ISBN 978-1-4214-2560-3. £20.00 (paperback)

Gainor, Chris, The Bomb and America's Missile Age. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 2018. Pp. ix – 228. ISBN 978-1-4214-2603-7. $49.95 (hardback)

Geroulanos, Stefanos and Meyers, Todd, The Human Body in the Age of Catastrophe: Brittleness, Integration, Science, and the Great War. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018. Pp. ix-419.  ISBN 978-0-226-55659-8. $35.00 (paperback)

Gibson, Susannah, The Spirit of Inquiry: How One Extraordinary Society Shaped Modern Science. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. ix- 363. ISBN 9780198833376. Price not given for paperback £ 25.00 for hardback (paperback)

Grmek, Mirko D., Pathological Realities: Essay’s on Disease, Experiments, and History. New York: Fordham University Press, 2018. Pp. ix – 261. ISBN 978-0-8232-8035-3. $28.00 (paperback)

Gross, Benjamin, The TV’s of Tomorrow: How RCA’s Flat-Screen Dreams led to the First LCDs. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018. Pp. 307. ISBN 978-0-226-51997-5. $40.00 (cloth)

Gruen, Lori (ed.), Critical Terms for Animal Studies. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018. Pp. 472. ISBN 978-0-226-35542-9.  $32.50 (paperback)

Habinek, Lianne, The Subtle Knot: Early Modern English Literature and the Birth of Neuroscience. Montreal, Quebec: McGill-Queen University Press, 2018. Pp. ix + 283. ISBN 978-0-7735-5318-7. $49.95 (cloth)

Hardin, Jeff, Numbers, Ronald L. and . Binzley, Ronald A. (eds), The Warfare Between Science and Religion: The Idea That Wouldn't Die. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 2018. Pp. 355. ISBN 978-1-4214-2618-1. $39.95 (paperback)

Hoddeson, Lilian and Garrett, Peter, The Man Who Saw Tomorrow: The Life and Inventions of Stanford R. Ovshinsky. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2018. Pp. ix – 377. ISBN 978-0-262-03753-2. $29.95 / £24.00 (cloth)

Horwitz, Allan V., PTSD: A Short History. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 2018. Pp. ix – 238. ISBN 978-1-4214-2639-6. $28.95 (paperback)

Johnson, Eric, Anxiety and the Equation: Understanding Boltzmann's Entropy. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2018. Pp. ix – 179. ISBN 978-0-262-03861-4. $22.95/ £17.99 (cloth)

Keyser, Paul T. and Scarborough, John (eds), Oxford Handbook of Science and Medicine in the Classical World. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. 1045. ISBN 978-0-19-973414-6. £115.00 (hardback)

Kragh, Helge, Ludvig Lorenz. A Nineteenth-Century Theoretical Physicist. Copenhagen: Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab, 2018. Pp. 280. ISBN 978-87-7304-417-9. 240,00 DKK (paperback)

Lannoo, Michael J., This Land Is Your Land: The Story of Field Biology in America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018. Pp. ix – 305. ISBN 978-0-226-58089-0 $30.00 (paperback)

Lanzoni, Susan, Empathy: A History. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2018. Pp. ix - 392. ISBN 978-0-300-22268-5. $30.00 (hardcover)

Maner, Brent, Germany's Ancient Pasts: Archaeology and Historical Interpretation since 1700. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2018. Pp. 354. ISBN 978-0-226-59307-4. $40.00 (paperback)

Manning, Patrick and Owen, Abigail, Knowledge in Translation: Global Patterns of Scientific Exchange, 1000-1800 CE. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018. Pp.ix-437. ISBN 978-0-8229-4537-6. $55.00 (cloth)

Marcacci, Flavia, Cieli in contraddizione: Giovanni Battista Riccioli e il terzo sistema del mondo. Perugia: Aguaplano, 2018. Pp. 257. ISBN 978-88-85803-11-4 € 20.00 (paperback)

Martin, Joseph D., Solid State Insurrection: How the Science of Substance Made American Physics Matter. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018. Pp. ix – 280. ISBN 978-0-8229-4538-3. $49.95 (cloth)

Martynoga, Ben, Molecular Tinkering: The Edinburgh Scientists who Changed the Face of Modern Biology. Kibworth: Matador, 2018. Pp. ix – 225. ISBN  978-1-78901-427-3. £15.00 (cloth)

Moreira, Tiago, Science, Technology and the Ageing Society. London and New York: Routledge, 2018. Pp.ix-227. ISBN 978-1-138-34466-2. £30.99 (paperback)

Nassim, Charlotte, Lessons from the Lobster: Eve Marder's Work in Neuroscience. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2018. Pp. ix – 243. ISBN 978-0-262-03778-5. $27.95 / £22.00 (paperback)

Nelson, Nicole C., Model Behavior: Animal Experiments, Complexity, and the Genetics of Psychiatric Disorders. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2018. Pp. 255. ISBN 978-0-226-54608-7. $30.00 (paperback)

Osbeck, Lisa M., Values in Psychological Science: Re-Imagining Epistemic Priorities at a New Frontier. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. Ix – 145. ISBN 978-1-107-13490-4. £ 80.00 (hardback) 

Palmieri, Paolo, A Translation of Luigi Paolucci's «On Birdsong». Phenomenology, Animal Psychology and Biology. New York: Peter Lang, 2018. Pp. Ix –211. ISBN 978-1-4331-4106-5. $99.95/£ 67.00 (hardback)

Plotnick, Rachel, Power Button: A History of Pleasure, Panic, and the Politics of Pushing. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2018. Pp. ix – 394. ISBN 978-0-262-03823-2. $40.00 /£30.00 (cloth)

Rosenberg, Mark, Howard Hiatt: How This Extraordinary Mentor Transformed Health with Science and Compassion. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2018. Pp. ix – 211. ISBN 978-0-262-03880-5 $30.00/£24.00 (cloth)

Rozwadowski, Helen M., Vast Expanses: A History of the Oceans. London: Reaktion Books, 2018. Pp. 268.  ISBN 978-1-78023-997-2. £ 16.00 (hardback)

Schatzberg, Eric, Technology: Critical History of a Concept. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018. Pp. 334. ISBN 978-0-226-58397-6. $35.00 (paperback) 

Singer, Julie, Representing Mental Illness in Late Medieval France.Machines, Madness, Metaphor. Suffolk: D.S. Brewer, 2018. Pp. ix – 360. ISBN 978-1-84384-512-6. £60.00 (hardcover)

Smith, Tanya M., The Tales Teeth Tell: Development, Evolution, Behavior. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2018. Pp. ix – 277. ISBN 978-0-262-03871-3. $29.95 / £24.00 (cloth)

Stegenga, Jacob, Care and Cure: An Introduction to Philosophy of Medicine. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2018. Pp. Ix – 248. ISBN 978-0-226-59503-0. $25.00 (paperback)

Tarter, C. Bruce, The American Lab: An Insider’s History of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 2018. Pp. ix – 453. ISBN 978-1-4214-2531-3. $79.95 (hardback)

Thurtle, Philip, Biology in the Grid: Graphic Design and the Envisioning of Life. Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, 2018. Pp. 262. ISBN 978-1-5179-0277-3. $28.00 (paperback)

Wall, John, Streamliner: Raymond Loewy and Image-making in the Age of American Industrial Design. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 2018. Pp. Ix + 330.  ISBN 978-1-4214-2574-0. $39.95 (hardback)

Wilson, Rober A, The Eugenic Mind Project. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2018. Pp. ix – 333. ISBN 978-0-262-03720-4. $45.00/£35.00 (cloth)

Zanetti, Cristiano, Janello Torriani and the Spanish Empire: A Vitruvian Artisan at the Dawn of the Scientific Revolution. Leiden, Boston, Paderborn and Singapore: Brill, 2018. Pp. Ix – 450. ISBN 978-90-04-32091-8. €95.00/ $110.00 (hardcover)

 

September 2018: Books Received

Altschuler, Sari, The Medical Imagination: Literature and Health in the Early United States. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. Pp. 299. ISBN 978-0-8122-4986-6. $55.00 (cloth cover).

Anable, Aubrey, Playing with Feelings: Video Games and Affect. Minneapolis, MN; London, UK: University of Minnesota Press, 2018. Pp. xxi + 152. ISBN 978-1-5179-0025-0. $28.75 (paperback).

Anctil, Michel, Luminous Creatures: The History and Science of Light Production in Living Organisms. Montreal and Kingston, Canada; London, UK; Chicago, IL: McGill Queen’s University Press, 2018. Pp. xvii + 463. ISBN 978-0-7735-5312-5. $49.95 (hardcover).

Beck, Naomi, Hayek and the Evolution of Capitalism. Chicago, IL; London, UK: University of Chicago Press, 2018. Pp. 184. ISBN 978-0-226-55600-0. $40.00 (cloth cover).

Becker, Adam, What is Real? The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics. New York, NY: Basic Books, 2018. Pp. 370. ISBN 978-0-465-09605-3. $32.00 (hardcover).

Bollyky, Thomas J., Plagues and the Paradox of Progress: Why the World is Getting Healthier in Worrisome Ways. Cambridge, MA; London, UK: The MIT Press, 2018. Pp. xvi + 241. ISBN 978-0-262-03845-4. £22.00 (paperback).

Bonah, Christopher, Cantor, David, and Laukötter, Anja (eds.), Health and Education Films in the Twentieth Century. Rochester, NY; Woodbridge, UK: University of Rochester Press, 2018. Pp. 370. ISBN 978-1-58046-916-6. £80.00 (hardcover).

Broughton, Peter R., Northern Star: J.S. Plaskett. Toronto, ON; London, UK: University of Toronto Press, 2018. Pp. xx + 539. ISBN 978-1-4426-3017-8. $90.00 (cloth cover).

Callen, Anthea, Looking at Men: Art, Anatomy and the Modern Male Body. New Haven, CT; London, UK: Yale University Press, 2018. Pp. 272. ISBN 978-0-300-112948. $60.00 (hardcover).

Cantor Geoffrey, and Dawson, Gowan (eds.), The Correspondence of John Tyndall Volume 1. The Correspondence, May 1840—August 1843. Pittsburgh, MD: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016. Pp. lxix + 467. ISBN 978-0-8229-4470-6. $125.00 (hardcover).

Cantor Geoffrey, and Dawson, Gowan (eds.), The Correspondence of John Tyndall Volume 2. The Correspondence, September 1843—December 1849. Pittsburgh, MD: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016. Pp. xlii + 396. ISBN 978-0-8229-4471-3. $125.00 (hardcover).

Cantor Geoffrey, and Dawson, Gowan (eds.), The Correspondence of John Tyndall Volume 3. The Correspondence, January 1850—December 1852. Pittsburgh, MD: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017. Pp. liv + 574. ISBN 978-0-8229-4509-3. $125.00 (hardcover).

Chico, Tita, The Experimental Imagination: Literary Knowledge and Science in the British Enlightenment. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2018. Pp. 242. ISBN 978-1-5036-0544-2. $60.00 (hardcover).

Clements, Philip W., Science in an Extreme Environment: The 1963 American Mount Everest Expedition. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018. Pp. xvii + 269. ISBN 978-0-8229-4511-6. $39.95 (cloth cover).

Coen, Deborah R., Climate in Motion: Science, Empire, and the Problem of Scale. Chicago, IL; London, UK: University of Chicago Press, 2018. Pp. 425. ISBN 978-0-226-39882-2. $40.00 (cloth cover).

Collins, Martin, A Telephone for the World: Iridium, Motorola, and the Making of a Global Age. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018. Pp. viii + 265. ISBN 978-1-4214-2483-5. $44.95 (hardcover).

Cook, Harold J. The Young Descartes: Nobility, Rumor, and War. Chicago, IL; London, UK: The University of Chicago Press, 2018. Pp. xvi + 276. ISBN 978-0-226-46296-7. $35.00 (cloth cover).

Csiszar, Alex, The Scientific Journal: Authorship and the Politics of Knowledge in the Nineteenth Century. Chicago, IL; London, UK: University of Chicago Press, 2018. Pp. xi + 376. ISBN 978-0-226-55323-8. $45.00 (cloth cover).

Demidov, Sergei S., Lëvshin, Boris V. (eds.), The Case of Academician Nikolai Nikolaevich Luzin. Translated by Cooke, Roger. Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society, 2016. Pp. xxxi + 375. ISBN 978-1-4704-2608-8. $59.00 (hardcover).

Deringer, William, Calculated Values: Finance, Politics, and the Quantitative Age. Cambridge, MA; London, UK: Harvard University Press, 2018. Pp. xxii + 413. ISBN 978-0-674-97187-5. £32.95 (hardcover).

Determann, Jörg Matthias, Space Science and the Arab World: Astronauts, Observatories and Nationalism in the Middle East. London, UK; New York, NY: I.B. Taruis & Co. Ltd, 2018. Pp. xiv + 258. ISBN 978-1-78831-014-7. £69.00 (hardcover).

Dippel, John V.H., To the Ends of the Earth: The Truth and Glory of Polar Exploration. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2018. Pp. 343. ISBN 978-1-63388-411-3. $28.00 (hardcover). 

Ephraim, Laura, Who Speaks for Nature?: On the Politics of Science. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. Pp. 189. ISBN 978-0-8122-4981-1. $55.00 (cloth cover).

Flannery, Michael A., Nature’s Prophet: Alfred Russel Wallace and His Evolution from Natural Selection to Natural Theology. Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 2018. Pp. xiv + 260. ISBN 978-0-8173-1985-4. $44.95 (cloth cover).

Geppert, Alexander C.T. (ed.), Limiting Outer Space: Astroculture After Apollo. London, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. Pp. xxiv + 367. ISBN 978-1-137-36915-4. $109.00 (hardcover).

Gielen, Erika, and Goyens, Michéle (eds.), Towards the Authority of Vesalius: Studies on Medicine and the Human Body from Antiquity to the Renaissance and beyond. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers n.v., 2018. Pp. 475. ISBN 978-2-503-57914-6. €110.00 (hardcover).

Graney, Christopher M., Mathematical Disquisitions: The Booklet of Theses Immortalized by Galileo. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2017. Pp. xxix + 145. ISBN 978-0-268-10242-5. $25.00 (paperback).

Gross, Benjamin, The TVs of Tomorrow: How RCA’s Flat-Screen Dreams Led to the First LCDs. Chicago, IL; London, UK: The University of Chicago Press, 2018. Pp. 307. ISBN 978-0-226-51997-5. $40.0 (cloth cover).

Habinek, Lianne, The Subtle Knot: Early Modern English Literature and the Birth of Neuroscience. Montreal and Kingston, Canada; London, UK; Chicago, IL: McGill Queen’s University Press, 2018. Pp. xv + 283. ISBN 978-0-7735-5318-7. $44.95 (hardcover).

Hadass, Ofer, Medicine, Religion, and Magic in Early Stuart England: Richard Napier’s Medical Practice. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. Pp. xiv + 213. ISBN 978-0-271-08108-5. $89.95 (hardcover).

Harman, Oren, and Dietrich, Michael R. (eds.), Dreamers, Visionaries, and Revolutionaries in the Life Sciences. Chicago, IL; London, UK: University of Chicago Press, 2018. Pp. 324. ISBN 978-0-226-56990-1. $40.00 (paperback).

Hogan, Thor, Hydrocarbon Nation: How Energy Security Made Our Nation Great and Climate Security Will Save Us. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018. Pp. 423. ISBN 978-1-4214-2506-1. £59.95 (hardcover). 

Holmes, John, The Pre-Raphaelites and Science. New Haven, CT; London, UK: Yale University Press, 2018. Pp. xi + 295. ISBN 978-0-300-23206-6. £35.00 (hardcover).

Home, Roderick W., Malaquias, Isabel M., and Thomaz, Manuel F. (eds.), For the Love of Science: The Correspondence of J. H. de Magellan (1722-1790) Volume 1. Bern, Switzerland: Peter Lang, 2017. Pp. 1000. ISBN 978-3-0343-1294-3. £161.95 (hardcover).

Home, Roderick W., Malaquias, Isabel M., and Thomaz, Manuel F. (eds.), For the Love of Science: The Correspondence of J. H. de Magellan (1722-1790) Volume 2. Bern, Switzerland: Peter Lang, 2017. Pp. 2002. ISBN 978-3-0343-1294-3. £161.95 (hardcover).

Jackson, Roland, The Ascent of John Tyndall. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. xx + 556. ISBN 978-0-19-878895-9. £25.00 (hardcover).

Kaplan, Caren, Aerial Aftermaths: Wartime from Above. Durham, NC; London, UK: Duke University Press, 2018. Pp. xiv + 298. ISBN 978-0-8223-7017-8. $27.95 (paperback).

Littlefield, Melissa M., Instrumental Intimacy: EEG Wearables and Neuroscientific Control. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018. Pp. xiv + 158. ISBN 978-1-4214-2465-1. $44.95 (hardcover).

Luck, Martin, Biology in Transition: The Life and Lectures of Arthur Milnes Marshall. Exeter, UK: Pelagic Publishing, 2018. Pp. xiii + 384. ISBN 978-1-78427-166-4. £54.99 (hardcover).

Luzzini, Francesco, Theory, Practice, and Nature In-between: Antonio Vallisneri’s Primi Itineris Sepcimen. Berlin, Germany: Edition Open Sources, 2018. Pp. 369. ISBN 978-3-945561-32-4. €61.80 (hardcover).

MacLeod, Roy, Egdell, Russell G., and Bruton, Elizabeth (eds.), For Science, King & Country: The Life and Legacy of Henry Moseley. London, UK: Unicorn Publishing, 2018. Pp. ix + 316. ISBN 978-1-910500-71-2. £25.00 (paperback).

Mangham, Andrew, and Lea, Daniel (eds.), The Male Body in Medicine and Literature. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2018. Pp. xii + 247. ISBN 978-1-78694-052-0. £85.00 (hardcover).

Minkov, Svetozar Y., and Trout, Bernhardt L. (eds.), Mastery of Nature: Promises and Prospects. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. Pp. ix + 268. ISBN 978-0-8122-4993-4. $65.00 (cloth cover).

Mishra, Rupali, A Business of State: Commerce, Politics, and the Birth of the East India Company. Cambridge, MA; London, UK: Harvard University Press, 2018. Pp. vii + 412. ISBN 978-0-674-98456-1. £25.95 (hardcover).

Nelson, Nicole C., Model Behaviour: Animal Experiments, Complexity, and the Genetics of Psychiatric Disorders. Chicago, IL; London, UK: The University of Chicago Press, 2018. Pp. 255. ISBN 978-0-226-54608-7. $30.00 (paperback).

Nolte, David D., Galileo Unbound: A Path Across Life, the Universe and Everything. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. xi + 333. ISBN 978-0-19-880584-7. £25.00 (hardcover).

Porter, Theodore M., Genetics in the Madhouse: The Unknown History of Human Heredity. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2018. Pp. xii + 447. ISBN 978-0-691-16454-0. £27.00 (hardcover).

Rees, Jonathan, Before the Refrigerator: How We Used to Get Ice. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018. Pp. x + 121. ISBN 978-1-4214-2459-0. $19.95 (paperback).

Sera-Shriar, Efram (ed.), Historicizing Humans: Deep Time, Evolution, and Race in Nineteenth-Century British Sciences. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018. Pp. 326. ISBN 978-0-8229-4529-1. $45.00 (hardcover).

Shank, J.B., Before Voltaire: The French Origins of ‘Newtonian’ Mechanics, 1680-1715. Chicago, IL; London, UK: University of Chicago Press, 2018. Pp. ix + 444. ISBN 978-0-226-50929-7. $55.00 (cloth cover).

Skinner, Patricia, and Cock, Emily (eds.), Approaching Facial Difference: Past and Present. London, UK: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. Pp. x + 250. ISBN 978-1-350-02829-6. £85.00 (hardcover).

Sponsel, Alistair, Darwin’s Evolving Identity: Adventure, Ambition, and the Sin of Speculation. Chicago, IL; London, UK: The University of Chicago Press, 2018. Pp. x + 358. ISBN 978-0-226-52311-8. $50.00 (cloth cover).

Stuewer, Roger H., The Age of Innocence: Nuclear Physics Between the First and Second World Wars. Oxford, UK: University of Oxford Press, 2018. Pp. xv + 484. ISBN 978-0-19-882787-0. £39.99 (hardcover).

Tomlinson, Gary, Culture and the Course of Human Evolution. Chicago, IL; London, UK: The University of Chicago Press, 2018. Pp. x + 202. ISBN 978-0-226-54852-4. $25.00 (paperback).

Wall, L. Lewis, Tears for My Sisters: The Tragedy of Obstetric Fistula. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018. Pp. xi + 355. ISBN 978-1-4214-2417-0. $35.95 (hardcover).

Wilson, Robert A., The Eugenic Mind Project. Cambridge, MA; London, UK: The MIT Press, 2018. Pp. xiv + 333. ISBN 978-0-262-03720-4. £35.00 (hardcover).

Wise, M. Norton, Aesthetics, Industry & Science: Hermann von Helmholtz and the Berlin Physical Society. Chicago, IL; London, UK: University of Chicago Press, 2018. Pp. xxi + 405. ISBN 978-0-226-53135-9. $45.00 (cloth cover).

Wolf, Jacqueline H., Caesarean Section: An American History of Risk, Technology, and Consequence. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018. Pp. 320. ISBN 978-1-4214-2552-8. $49.95 (hardcover).

Zanetti, Cristiano, Janello Torriani and the Spanish Empire: A Vitruvian Artisan at the Dawn of the Scientific Revolution. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2017. Pp. xi + 450. ISBN 978-90-04-32089-5. €95.00 (hardcover).

Zalasiewicz, Jan, Milon, Anne-Sophie, and Zalasiewicz, Mateusz (eds.), The Epochs of Nature: Georges-Louis Leclerc, le comte de Buffon. Translated by Zalasiewicz, Jan, Milon, Anne-Sophie, and Zalasiewicz, Mateusz. Chicago, IL; London, UK: The University of Chicago Press, 2018. Pp. xxxiv + 190. ISBN 978-0-226-39543-2. $45.00 (cloth cover).

Zalasiewicz, Jan, and Williams, Mark, Skeletons: The Frame of Life. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. xiii + 294. ISBN 978-0-19-880210-5. £18.99 (hardcover). 

March 2018: Books Received

Adamson, Peter, and Pormann, Peter E., Philosophy and Medicine in the Formative Period of Islam. London: The Warburg Institute, 2017. Pp. 308. ISBN 978-1-908590-54-1. £45.00 (paperback).

Alff, David, The Wreckage of Intentions: Projects in British Culture, 1660-1730. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. Pp. 239. ISBN 978-0-8122-4959-0. £54.00 (cloth cover).

Aronowitz, Robert, Risky Medicine: Our Quest to Cure Fear and Uncertainty. Chicago, IL; London, UK: University of Chicago Press, 2015. Pp. 278. ISBN 978-0-226-04971-7. $26.00 (cloth cover).

Bertolini Meli, Domenico, Visualizing Disease: The Art and History of Pathological Illustrations. Chicago, IL; London, UK: University of Chicago Press, 2017. Pp. xvi + 294. ISBN 978-0-226-11029-5. $55.00 (cloth cover).

Boulter, Michael, Bloomsbury Scientists: Science and Art in the Wake of Darwin. London: UCL Press, 2017. Pp. xxii + 175. ISBN 978-1-78735-005-2. £35.00 (paperback).

Browne, Janet (ed.), The Quotable Darwin. New Jersey, NJ; Oxford, UK: Princeton University Press, 2018. Pp. xxix + 348. ISBN 978-0-691-16935-4. $24.95 (hardcover).

Burney, Ian, and Pemberton, Neil, Murder and the Making of English CSI. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016. Pp. 235. ISBN 978-1-4214-2040-0. $24.95 (hardcover).

Copan, Paul (ed.), with Craig, William Lane, The Kalām Cosmological Argument Volume One: Philosophical Arguments for the Finitude of the Past. New York, NY; London, UK: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. Pp. 326. ISBN 978-1-5013-3079-7. £82.99 (hardcover).

Copan, Paul (ed.), with Craig, William Lane, The Kalām Cosmological Argument Volume Two: Scientific Evidence for the Beginning of the Universe. New York, NY; London, UK: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. Pp. 365. ISBN 978-1-5013-3587-7. £82.99 (hardcover).

Cram, David, and Maat, Jaap, Teaching Language to a Boy Born Deaf: The Popham Notebook and Associated Texts. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. Pp. xvi + 327. ISBN 978-0-19-967708-5. £75.00 (hard cover).

Darrigol, Olivier, Atoms, Mechanics, and Probability: Ludwig Boltzmann’s Statistico-Mechanical Writings – An Exegesis. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. xxvi + 612. ISBN 978-0-19-881617-1. £45.00 (hard cover).

Dicken, Paul, Getting Science Wrong: Why the Philosophy of Science Matters. New York, NY; London, UK: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. Pp. xvi + 202. ISBN 978-1-350-00728-4. £16.99 (paperback). 

Feingold, Mordechai (ed.), Labourers in the Vineyard of the Lord: Scholarship and the Making of the King James Version of the Bible.Leiden, Netherlands, Boston, MA: Brill, 2018. Pp. ix + 405. ISBN 978-90-04-35905-5. $156.00 (hardcover).

Fino, Steven A., Tiger Check: Automating the US Air Force Fighter Pilot in Air-to-Air Combat, 1950-1980. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017. Pp. x + 435. ISBN 978-1-4214-2327-2. $79.95 (hardcover).

Fisch, Menachem, Creatively Undecided: Toward a History and Philosophy of Scientific Agency. Chicago, IL; London, UK: University of Chicago Press, 2017. Pp. 295. ISBN 978-0-226-51451-2. $37.50 (paperback).

Frappier, Mélanie, and Stump, David J. (eds.), Science and Hypothesis: The Complete Text: Henri Poincaré. Translated by Frappier, Mélanie, Smith, Andrea, and Stump, David J.. London, UK; New York NY: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. Pp. xxxi + 171. ISBN 978-1-350-02677-3. £90.00 (hardcover).

Fuechtner, Veronika, Haynes, Douglas E., and Jones, Ryan M. (eds.), A Global History of Sexual Science 1880-1960. Oakland, CA: The University of California Press, 2018. Pp. 477. ISBN 978-0-520-29339-7. $34.95 (paperback).

Gambarotto, Andrea, Vital Forces, Teleology and Oraganization: Philosophy of Nature and the Rise of Biology in Germany. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2018. Pp. xxii + 137. ISBN 978-3-319-65414-0. $99.99 (hardcover).

Gere, Cathy, Pain, Pleasure, and the Greater Good: From the Panopticon to the Skinner Box and Beyond. Chicago, IL; London, UK: University of Chicago Press, 2017. Pp. 282. ISBN 978-0-226-50185-7. $30.00 (cloth cover).

Gooday, Graeme, and Sayer, Karen, Managing the Experience of Hearing Loss in Britain, 1830-1930. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. Pp. xx + 126. ISBN 978-1-137-40687-3. £44.99 (hardcover).

Guicciardini, Niccolò, Isaac Newton and Natural Philosophy. London: Reaktion Books, 2018. Pp. 268. ISBN 978-1-780-23906-4. £14.95 (hardcover).

Haynes, Douglas M., Fit to Practice: Empire, Race, Gender, and the Making of British Medicine, 1850-1980. Rochester, NY; Woodbridge, UK: University of Rochester Press, 2017. Pp. 246. ISBN 978-1-58046-581-6. $99.00 (hardcover).

Heilbron, J.L., The History of Physics: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. 175. ISBN 978-0-19-968412-0. £7.99 (paperback).

Hesketh, Ian, Victorian Jesus: J.R. Seeley, Religion, and the Cultural Significance of Anonymity. Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press, 2017. Pp. 272. ISBN 978-1-4426-4577-6. $55.00 (cloth cover).

Jungnickel, Kat, Bikes and Bloomers: Victorian Women Inventors and Their Extraordinary Cycle War. London: Goldsmiths Press, 2018. Pp. 323. ISBN 978-1-906897-75-8. £24.95 (hardcover).

Kirch, Lisa, The Changing Face of Science and Technnology in the Ehrensaal of the Deutsches Museum, 1903-1955, issue 13. Dortmund, Germany: readbox publishing, 2017. Pp. 66. ISBN 978-3-940396-66-2. €26.70 (paperback).

Löwy, Ilana, Imperfect Pregnancies: A History of Birth Defects & Prenatal Diagnosis. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018. Pp. xv + 277. ISBN 978-1-421-42363-0. $44.95 (hardcover).

Mancall, Peter C., Nature and Culture in the Early Modern Atlantic. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. Pp. xiv + 197. ISBN 978-0-8122-4966-8. £24.99 (cloth cover).

McGhie, Henry A., Henry Dresser and Victorian Ornithology: Birds, Books and Business. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2017. Pp. xxiv + 341. ISBN 978-1-7849-9413-6. £25.00 (hardcover).

McKaughan, Daniel J., and VandeWall Holly (eds.), The History and Philosophy of Science: A Reader. New York, NY; London, UK: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. Pp. xxiii + 1073. ISBN 978-1-4742-3272-2. £29.99 (paperback).

McKellar, Shelley, Artificial Hearts: The Allure and Ambivalence of a Controversial Medical Technology. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018. Pp. xii + 350. ISBN 978-1-4214-2355-5. $54.95 (hardcover).

Minteer, Ben A., Maienschein, Jane, and Collins, James P. (eds.), The Ark and Beyond: The Evolution of Zoo and Aquarium Conservation. Chicago, IL; London, UK: University of Chicago Press, 2018. Pp. xiv + 454. ISBN 978-0-226-538446-4. $35.00 (paperback).

Rheinberger, Hans-Jörg, and Müller-Wille, Staffan, The Gene: From Genetics to Postgenomics. Translated by Bostanci, Adam. Chicago, IL; London, UK: University of Chicago Press, 2017. Pp. 147. ISBN 978-0-226-51000-2. $25.00 (paperback).

Rothman, Aviva, The Pursuit of Harmony: Kepler on Cosmos, Confession, and Community. Chicago, IL; London, UK: University of Chicago Press, 2017. Pp. viii + 355. ISBN 978-0-226-49697-9. $55.00 (cloth cover).

Sigmund, Karl, Exact Thinking in Demented Times: The Vienna Circle and the Epic Quest for the Foundations of Science. New York, NY: Basic Books, 2017. Pp. xviii + 449. ISBN 978-0-465-09695-4. $32.00 (hardcover).

Smith, A. Mark, From Sight to Light: The Passage from Ancient to Modern Optics. Chicago, IL; London, UK: University of Chicago Press, 2015. Pp. xi + 457. ISBN 978-0-226-52857-1. $36.00 (paperback).

Smith, Hilary A., Forgotten Disease: Illnesses Transformed in Chinese Medicine. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2017. Pp. 232. ISBN 978-1-5036-0344-8. $24.95 (paperback).

Stanback, Emily B., The Wordsworth-Coleridge Circle and the Aesthetics of Disability. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. Pp. xv + 337. ISBN 978-1-137-51139-3. $90.00 (hardcover).

Van Delft, Dirk and Van Helvoort, Ton, Beelden Zonder Weerga: De Elektronenmicroscoop van Ernst Ruska tot Ben Feringa. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Prometheus, 2018. Pp. 344. ISBN 978-0-446-3359-7. €24.99 (paperback).

Walker, Matthew, Architects & Intellectual Culture in Post-Restoration England. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. Pp. 227. ISBN 978-0-19-874635-5. £65.00 (hardcover).

Woods, Abigail, Bresalier, Michael, Cassidy, Angela, and Dentinger, Rachel Mason, Animals and the Shaping of Modern Medicine: One Health and its Histories. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. Pp. xvii + 280. ISBN 978-3-319-64336-6. £20.00 (hardcover).

Zakariya, Nasser, A Final Story: Science, Myth & Beginnings. Chicago, IL; London, UK: University of Chicago Press, 2017. Pp. 554. ISBN 978-0-226-47612-4. $45.00 (cloth cover).

Zammito, John H., The Gestation of German Biology: Philosophy and Physiology from Stahl to Schelling. Chicago, IL; London, UK: University of Chicago Press, 2018. Pp. 523. ISBN 978-0-226-52079-7. $45.00 (cloth cover). 

December 2017: Books Received

Abraham, Tara H., Rebel Genius: Warren S. McCulloch’s Transdisciplinary Life in Science. Cambridge, MA; London, UK: The MIT Press, 2016. Pp. 305. ISBN 978-0-262-03509-5. $40.00 (hardcover).

Archibald, J. David, Origins of Darwin’s Evolution: Solving the Species Puzzle Through Time and Place. New York, NY; Chichester, UK: Colombia University Press, 2017. Pp. xii + 192. ISBN 978-0-231-17684-2. £54.95 (hardcover).

Atwater, Edward C., Women Medical Doctors in the United States before the Civil War. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2016. Pp. xi + 387. ISBN 978-1-58046-571-7. £25.00 (hardcover).

Baggott, Jim, Origins: The Scientific Story of Creation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp. 403. ISBN 978-0-19-870765-3. £16.99 (paperback).

Beretta, Marco, Storia Materiale della Scienza. Rome, Italy: Carocci editore S.p.A, 2017. Second Edition. Pp. 346. ISBN 978-88-430-8951-2. €29.00 (paperback).

Bouley, Bradford A., Pious Postmortems: Anatomy, Sanctity, and the Catholic Church in Early Modern Europe. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. Pp. 214. ISBN 978-0-8122-4957-6. $55.00 (hardcover).

Buss, Jared S., Willy Ley: Prophet of the Space Age. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2017. Pp. xiii + 321. ISBN 978-0-8130-5443-8. $34.95 (hardcover).

Chaney, Anthony, Runaway: Gregory Bateson, the Double Bind, and the Rise of Ecological Consciousness. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2017. Pp. 304. ISBN 978-1-4696-3173-8. $32.95 (cloth cover).

Crook, Tom, Governing Systems: Modernity and the Making of Public Health in England, 1830-1910. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2016. Pp. xiv + 387. ISBN 978-0-520-29035-8. £27.95 (paperback).

Day, Carolyn A., Consumptive Chic: A History of Beauty, Fashion, and Disease. London, UK; New York, NY: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. Pp. x + 189. ISBN 978-1-350-00937-0. $24.99 (paperback).

Fara, Patricia, A Lab of One’s Own: Science and Suffrage in the First World War. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. xiii + 319. ISBN 978-0-19-879-498-1. £18.99 (hardcover).

Fox, Robert, Science without Frontiers: Cosmopolitanism and National Interests in the World of Learning, 1870-1940. Corvallis, OR: Oregon State University Press, 2016. Pp. xvi + 160. ISBN 978-0-87071-867-0. $22.95 (paperback).

Göbel, Roman, Müller, Gerhard, and Taszus Claudia (eds.). Ernest Haeckel Ausgewählte Briefwechsel: Band 1: Familienkorrespondenz. Februar 1839 – April 1854. Stuttgart, Germany: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2017. Pp. lvi + 648. ISBN 978-3-515-11290-1. €139.00 (hardcover).

Godin, Benoît, Models of Innovation: The History of an Idea. Cambridge, MA; London, UK: The MIT Press, 2017. Pp. 324. ISBN 978-0-262-03589-7. $37.00 (hardcover).

Gooding, Mel, Mabberley, David, and Studholme, Joe, Joseph Banks’ Florilegium: Botanical Treasures from Cook’s First Voyage.London: Thames & Hudson, 2017. Pp. 320. ISBN 978-0-500-51936-3. £65.00 (hardcover).

Hogarth, Rana A., Medicalizing Blackness: Making Racial Difference in the Atlantic World, 1780-1840. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2017. Pp. xx + 268. ISBN 978-1-4696-3287-2. $27.95 (paperback).

Jackson, Myles W., The Genealogy of a Gene: Patents, HIV/AIDS, and Race. Cambridge, MA; London, UK: The MIT Press, 2015. Pp. 336. ISBN 978-0-262-02866-0. $37.00 (hardcover).

Jelley, Jane, Traces of Vermeer. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. Pp. xxiii + 339. ISBN 978-0-19-878972-7. £25.00 (hardcover).

Jones-Imhotep, Edward, The Unreliable Nation: Hostile Nature and Technological Failure in the Cold War. Cambridge, MA; London, UK: The MIT Press, 2017. Pp. 287. ISBN 978-0-262-03651-1. $35.00 (hardcover).

Kelly, Laura, Irish Medical Education and Student Culture, c.1850-1950. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2017. Pp. xii + 276. ISBN 978-1-78694-059-9. £75.00 (hardcover).

Killen, Andreas, Homo Cinematicus: Science, Motion Pictures, and the Making of Modern Germany. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. Pp. 268. ISBN 978-0-8122-4927-9. $69.95 (cloth).

Lambert, Jeremiah D., The Power Brokers: The Struggle to Shape and Control the Electric Power Industry. Cambridge, MA; London, UK: The MIT Press, 2015. Pp. xiv + 379. ISBN 978-0-262-52978-5. $21.95 (paperback).

Macsotay, Tomas, Van Der Haven, Cornelis, and Vanhaesebrouck, Karel (eds.), The Hurt(ful) Body: Performing and beholding pain, 1600-1800. Manchester: University of Manchester Press, 2017. Pp. xv + 311. ISBN 978-1-7849-9516-4. £80.00 (hardcover).

Mahon, Basil, The Forgotten Genius of Oliver Heaviside: A Maverick of Electrical Science. New York, NY: Prometheus Books, 2017. Pp. 288. ISBN 978-1-63388-331-4. $26.00 (hardcover).

Martin, Luther H., and Wiebe, Donald (eds.), Religion Explained? The Cognitive Science of Religion after Twenty-Five Years. London, UK; New York, NY: Bloomsbury, 2017. Pp. xi + 260. ISBN 978-1-350-03246-0. $114.00 (hardcover).

McCauley, Robert N. (with Lawson, E. Thomas), Philosophical Foundations of the Cognitive Science of Religion: A Head Start. London, UK; New York, NY: Bloomsbury, 2017. Pp. xii + 179. ISBN 978-1-350-03031-2. £84.99 (hardcover).

Messer, Neil, Theological Neuroethics: Christian Ethics Meets the Science of the Human Brain. London, UK; New York, NY: Bloomsbury T&T, 2017. Pp. x + 215. ISBN 978-0-567-67139-4. £84.99 (hardcover).

Meyer, Manuella, Reasoning Against Madness: Psychiatry and the State in Rio de Janeiro, 1830-1944. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2017. Pp. 248. ISBN 978-1-58046-578-6. £95.00 (hardcover).

Mladenović, Bojana, Kuhn’s Legacy: Epistemology, Metaphilosophy, and Pragmatism. New York, NY; Chichester, UK: Colombia University Press, 2017. Pp. xiv + 236. ISBN 978-0-231-14668-5. £49.95 (hardcover).

Mody, Cyrus C.M., The Long Arm of Moore’s Law: Microelectronics and American Science. Cambridge, MA; London, UK: The MIT Press, 2017. Pp. x + 284. ISBN 978-0-262-03549-1. $45.00 (hardcover).

Mullaney, Thomas S., The Chinese Typewriter: A History. Cambridge, MA; London, UK: The MIT Press, 2017. Pp. 481. ISBN 978-0-262-03636-8. $34.95 (hardcover).

Plato, Jan Von, The Great Formal Machinery Works: Theories of Deduction and Computation at the Origins of the Digital Age. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2017. Pp. 377. ISBN 978-0-691-17417-4. £27.95 (hardcover).

Raby, Megan, American Tropics: The Caribbean Roots of Biodiversity Science. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2017. Pp. 319. ISBN 978-1-4696-3560-6. $29.95 (paperback).

Roy, Rohan Deb, Malarial Subjects: Empire, Medicine and Nonhumans in British India, 1820-1909. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Pp. 332. ISBN 978-1-107-17236-4. $80.00 (hardcover).

Rublack, Ulinka, The Astronomer and the Witch: Johannes Kepler’s Fight for his Mother. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017 (first published 2015). Pp. xxxii + 359. ISBN 978-0-19-873678-3. £10.99 (paperback).

Rusert, Britt, Fugitive Science: Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American Culture. New York: New York University Press, 2017. Pp. 292. ISBN 978-1-4798-4766-2. £25.99 (paperback).

Saraiva, Tiago, Fascist-Pigs: Technoscientific Organisms and the History of Fascism. Cambridge, MA; London, UK: The MIT Press, 2016. Pp. 326. ISBN 978-0-262-03503-3. $40.00 (hardcover). 4

Schenk, Gerrit Jasper (ed.), Historical Disaster Experiences: Towards a Comparative and Transcultural History of Disasters Across Asia and Europe. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2017. Pp. ix + 436. ISBN 978-3-319-49162-2. $139.00 (paperback).

Schlich, Thomas, and Crenner, Christopher (eds.), Technological Change in Modern Surgery: Historical Perspectives on Innovation. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2017. Pp. 236. ISBN 978-1-58046-594-6. $90.00 (hardcover).

Smith, Andrew, and Barton, Anna (eds.), Interventions: Rethinking the Nineteenth Century. Manchester: University of Manchester Press, 2017. Pp. xii + 230. ISBN 978-1-7849-9510-2. £70.00 (hardcover).

Stow, Dorrik, Oceans: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. Pp. xxv + 184. ISBN 978-0-19-965507-6. £7.99 (paperback).

Warner, Daniel, Live Wires: A History of Electronic Music. London: Reaktion Books, 2017. Pp. 208. ISBN 978-1-78023-824-1. £16 (cloth cover).

Westman, Robert S., Copernicus and the Astrologers: Dibner Library Lecture December 12, 2013. Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Libraries, 2016. Pp. v + 87. ISBN 978-0-9819500-8-2. Free (ebook) https://library.si.edu/sites/default/files/pdf/generalpages/2013-dibnerlecture-robertswestman.pdf.

Woloshyn, Tania Anne, Soaking Up the Rays: Light therapy and visual culture in Britain, c.1890-1940. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2017. Pp. viii + 273. ISBN 978-1-7849-9512-6. £45.00 (hardcover). 

September 2017: Books Received

Adey, Peter, Levitation: The Science, Myth and Magic of Suspension. London: Reaktion Books, 2017. Pp. 293. ISBN 978-1-78023-737-4. £20.00 (hardcover).

Azevedo, Mario J., Historical Perspectives on the State of Health and Health Systems in Africa, Volume I: The Pre-Colonial and Colonial Eras. London, UK; New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. Pp. xxiii + 382. ISBN 978-3-319-32460-9. $129.00 (hardcover).

Azevedo, Mario J., Historical Perspectives on the State of Health and Health Systems in Africa, Volume II: The Modern Era. London, UK; New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. Pp. xx + 288. ISBN 978-3-319-32563-7. $109.00 (hardcover).

Baggott, Jim, Mass: The quest to understand matter from Greek atoms to quantum fields. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. Pp. xvi + 346. ISBN 978-0-19-875971-3. £20.00 (hardcover).

Barron, Hester, and Siebrecht, Claudia (eds.), Parenting and the State in Britain and Europe c.1870-1950. London, UK; New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. Pp. xv + 287, ISBN 978-3-319-34083-8. $109.00 (hardcover).

Berkowitz, Carin, and Lightman, Bernard (eds.), Science Museums in Transition: Cultures of Display in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017. Pp. xi + 375. ISBN 978-0-8229-4475-1. $45.00 (hardcover).

Blume, Stuart, Immunization: How Vaccines Became Controversial. London: Reaktion Books, 2017. Pp. 271. ISBN 978-1-78023-837-1. £25.00 (hardcover).

Casper, Stephen T., and Gavrus, Delia, The History of the Brain and Mind Sciences. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2017. Pp. 310. ISBN 978-1-58046-595-3. £95.00 (hardcover).

Chalmers, Alan F., One Hundred Years of Pressure: Hydrostatics from Stevin to Newton. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing, 2017. Pp. 197. ISBN 978-3-319-56528-6. €93.95 (hardcover).

Channell, David F., A History of Technoscience: Erasing the Boundaries between Science and Technology. Abingdon, UK; New York, NY: Routledge, 2017. Pp. 286. ISBN 978-1-138-28554-5. £110.00 (hardcover).

Cooper, Dana, and Phelan, Claire (eds.), Motherhood in Antiquity. London, UK; New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. Pp. xiv + 267. ISBN 978-3-319-48901-8. $99.99 (hardcover).

Croft, L. R., Lady Hope: The Life and Work of Lady Hope of Carriden. Preston: Elmwood Books, 2017. Pp. 259. ISBN 978-0-9568089-5-0. £14.99 (hardcover).

Crouthamel, Jason, and Leese, Peter (eds.), Psychological Trauma and the Legacies of the First World War. London, UK; New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. Pp. xvi + 335. ISBN 978-3-319-333475-2. $109.00 (hardcover).

Dacome, Lucia, Malleable Anatomies: Models, Makers, and Material Culture in Eighteenth-Century Italy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. Pp. 306. ISBN 978-0-19-873618-9. £65.00 (hardcover).

Davies, James Q., and Lockhart, Ellen (eds.), Sound Knowledge: Music and Science in London, 1789-1851. Chicago, IL; London, UK: University of Chicago Press, 2016. Pp. 257. ISBN 978-0-226-40207-9. $55.00 (cloth).

Dejong-Lambert, William, and Krementsov, Nikolai (eds.), The Lysenko Controversy as a Global Phenomenon, Volume 1: Genetics and Agriculture in the Soviet Union and Beyond. London, UK; New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. Pp. xiv + 191. ISBN 978-3-319-39175-5. $99.99 (hardcover). 

Dejong-Lambert, William, and Krementsov, Nikolai (eds.), The Lysenko Controversy as a Global Phenomenon, Volume 2: Genetics and Agriculture in the Soviet Union and Beyond. London, UK; New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. Pp. xi + 243. ISBN 978-3-319-39178-6. $99.99 (hardcover). 

Dufresne, Tood, The Late Sigmund Freud: Or, The Last Word on Psychoanalysis, Society, and All the Riddles of Life. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Pp. xxii + 274. ISBN 978-1-316-63102-7. £24.99 (paperback).

Ellis, Heather, Masculinity and Science in Britain, 1831-1918. London, UK; New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. Pp. 240. ISBN 978-1-137-31173-3. £66.99 (hardcover).

Evans, Jennifer, and Meehan, Ciara (eds.), Perceptions of Pregnancy from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century. London, UK; New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. Pp. xv + 251. ISBN 978-3-319-44167-2. £66.99 (hardcover).

Feldhay, Rivka, and Ragep, F. Jamil (eds.), Before Copernicus: The Cultures and Contexts of Scientific Learning in the Fifteenth Century. Montreal & Kingston, QC; Chicago, IL; London, UK: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2017. Pp. xx + 344. ISBN 978-0-7735-5010-0. $39.95 (paperback).

Gingras, Yves, Science and Religion: An Impossible Dialogue. Cambridge, UK; Malden, MA: Polity Books, 2017. Pp. 249. ISBN 978-1-5095-1892-0. £17.99 (paperback).

Gosling, George Campbell, Payment and Philanthropy in British Healthcare, 1918-48. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2017. Pp. 221. ISBN 978-1-5261-1432-7. £25.00 (hardcover).

Grant, Susan (ed.), Russian and Soviet Health Care From and International Perspective: Comparing Professions, Practice and Gender, 1880-1960. London, UK; New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. Pp. viii + 281. ISBN 978-3-319-44170-2. $99.99 (hardcover).

Green, Alix R., History, Policy and Public Purpose: Historians and Historical Thinking in Government. London, UK; New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. Pp. 146. ISBN 978-1-137-52085-2. £37.99 (hardcover).

Green, William, Contraceptive Risk: The FDA, Depo-Provera, and the Politics of Experimental Medicine. New York, New York University Press, 2017. Pp. xi + 321. ISBN 978-1-4798-3698-7. $30.00 (paperback).

Greene, Gayle, The Woman Who Knew Too Much: Alice Stewart and the Secrets of Radiation. Michigan: University of Michigan Press, 2017. Second Edition. Pp. xxvi + 321. ISBN 978-0-472-05356-8. $21.95 (paperback).

Harper, Kristine C., Make it Rain: State Control of the Atmosphere in Twentieth-Century America. Chicago, IL; London, UK: University of Chicago Press, 2017. Pp. 317. ISBN 978-0-226-43723-1. $40.00 (cloth).

Hilgartner, Stephen, Reordering Life: Knowledge and Control in the Genomics Revolution. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2017. Pp. 343. ISBN 978-0-262-03586-6. $35.00 (hardcover).

Killen, Andreas, Homo Cinematicus: Science, Motion Pictures, and the Making of Modern Germany. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. Pp. 268. ISBN 978-0-8122-4927-9. £60.00 (cloth).

Laurent, Brice, Democratic Experiments: Problematizing Nanotechnology and Democracy in Europe and the United States. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2017. Pp. xviii + 261. ISBN 978-0-262-03576-7. $40.00 (hardcover).

Lidgard, Scott, and Nyhart, Lynn K. (eds.), Biological Individuality: Integrating Scientific, Philosophical, and Historical Perspectives. Chicago, IL; London, UK: University of Chicago Press, 2017. Pp. 361. ISBN 978-0-226-44645-5. $25.00 (paperback).

Matus, Zachary A., Franciscans and the Elixir of Life: Religion and Science in the Later Middle Ages. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. Pp. 203. ISBN 978-0-8122-4921-7. £52.00 (cloth).

Morris- Reich, Amos, and Rupnow, Dirk (eds.), Ideas of ‘Race’ in the History of the Humanities. London, UK; New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. Pp. xiii + 337. ISBN 978-3-319-49952-9. £74.50 (hardcover).

Morus, Iwan Rhys (ed.), The Oxford Illustrated History of Science, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. Pp. 436. ISBN 978-0-19-966327-9. £25.00 (hardcover).

Moscucci, Ornella, Gender and Cancer in England, 1860-1948. London, UK; New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. Pp. 342. ISBN 978-0-230-55423-8. £66.99 (hardcover).

Nadler, Steven, and Nadler, Ben, Heretics! The Wondrous (and Dangerous) Beginnings of Modern Philosophy. Princeton, NJ; Woodstock, UK: Princeton University Press, 2017. Pp. 184. ISBN 978-0-691-16869-2. $22.95 (paperback).

Neelakantan, Vivek, Science, Public Health and Nation-Building in Soekarno-Era Indonesia. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017. Pp. 237. ISBN 978-1-4438-8654-3. £61.99 (hardcover).

Nothaft, C. Philipp E., Walcher of Malvern: De Lunationibus and De Dracone. Study, Edition, Translation, and Commentary. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2017. Pp. xix + 346. ISBN 978-2-503-56876-8. €90.00 (hardcover).

Park, Hyung Wook, Old Age New Science: Gerontologists and Their Biosocial Visions, 1900-1960. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016. Pp. 342. ISBN 978-0-8229-4449-2. $49.95 (hardcover).

Parthasarathy, Shobita, Patent Politics: Life Forms, Markets & the Public Interest in the United States & Europe. Chicago, IL; London, UK: University of Chicago Press, 2017. Pp. 290. ISBN 978-0-226-43785-9. $25.00 (cloth).

Payne, Lynda, The Best Surgeon in England: Percivall Pott, 1713-88. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2017. Pp. 236. ISBN 978-1-4331-2319-1. £64.00 (hardcover).

Perović, Jeronim (ed.), Cold War Energy: A Transnational History of Soviet Oil and Gas. London, UK; New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. Pp. xxix + 425. ISBN 978-3-319-49531-6. $109.00 (hardcover).

Sanger, Carol, About Abortion: Terminating Pregnancy in Twenty-First-Century America. Cambridge, MA; London, UK: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2017. Pp. xv + 304. ISBN 978-0-674-73772-3. £23.95 (hardcover).

Schickore, Jutta, About Method: Experimenters, Snake Venom, and the History of Writing Scientifically. Chicago, IL; London, UK: University of Chicago Press, 2017. Pp. 316. ISBN 978-0-226-44998-2. £37.50 (cloth).

Schilling, Govert, Ripples in Spacetime: Einstein, Gravitational Waves, and the Future of Astronomy. Harvard: Harvard University Press, 2017. Pp. xi + 323. ISBN 978-0-674-97166-6. £23.95 (hardcover).

Shyovitz, David I., A Remembrance of His Wonders: Nature and the Supernatural in Medieval Ashkenaz. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. Pp. 336. ISBN 978-0-8122-4911-8. £52.00 (cloth).

Taylor, Steven J., Child Insanity in England, 1845-1907. London, UK; New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. Pp. 188. ISBN 978-1-137-60026-4. £66.99 (hardcover).

Velminski, Wladimir, Homo Sovieticus: Brain Waves, Mind Control, and Telepathic Destiny. Translated by Erik Bulter. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2017. Pp. 116. ISBN 978-0-262-03569-9. $19.95 (paperback).

Vox, Lisa, Existential Threats: American Apocalyptic Beliefs in the Technological Era. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. Pp. xvi + 266. ISBN 978-0-8122-4919-4. $55.00 (cloth).

Vujošević, Tijana, Modernism and the Making of the Soviet New Man. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2017. Pp. 193. ISBN 978-1-5261-1486-0. £78.00 (hardcover).

Wellmann, Janina, The Form of Becoming: Embryology and the Epistemology of Rhythm, 1760-1830. Translated by Kate Sturge. Brooklyn, NY: Zone Books, 2017. Pp. 423. ISBN 978-1-9354-0876-5. $34.95 (hardcover).

Withers, Charles W.J., Zero Degrees: Geographies of the Prime Meridian. Cambridge, MA; London, UK: Harvard University Press, 2017. Pp. 321. ISBN 978-0-674-08881-8. $29.95 (hardcover). 

June 2017: Books Received

Alexander-Skipnes, Ingrid (ed.), Visual Culture and Mathematics in the Early Modern Period. Abingdon, UK; New York, NY: Routledge, 2017. Pp. ix + 204. ISBN 978-1-138-67938-2. £110.00 (hardcover).  

Blay, Michel, Critique de l’histoire des sciences. Paris: CNRS Editions, 2017. Pp. 302. ISBN 978-2-271-09184-0. €22 (paperback).

Botting, Fred, and Spooner, Catherine (eds.), Monstrous Media/Spectral Subjects: Imaging gothic from the nineteenth century to the present. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2015. Pp. xi + 175. ISBN 978-0-7190-8977-0. £70.00 (hardcover).

Brassley, Paul, Burchardt, Jeremy, and Sayer, Karen (eds.), Transforming the Countryside: The Electrification of Rural Britain. Abingdon, UK; New York, NY: Routledge, 2017. Pp. ix + 251. ISBN 978-1-4724-4127-0. £110.00 (hardcover).

Cairns, Graham (ed.), Visioning Technologies: The Architectures of Sight. Abingdon, UK; New York, NY: Routledge, 2017. Pp. xiii + 233. ISBN 978-1-4724-5496-6. £110.00 (hardcover).

Casalini, Cristiano, Aristotle in Coimbra: The Cursus Conimbricensis and the education at the College of Arts. Translated by Luana Salvarani. Abingdon, UK; New York, NY: Routledge, 2017. Pp. viii + 195. ISBN 978-1-472-46410-1. £110.00 (hardcover).

Cullen, Christopher, The Foundations of Celestial Reckoning: Three Ancient Chinese Astronomical Systems. Abingdon, UK; New York, NY: Routledge, 2017. Pp. xi + 434. ISBN 978-1-138-10117-3. £115.00 (hardcover).

Diaz, Elvire, and Duris, Pascal, La fabrique de l’entomologie: Leon Dufour (1780-1865). Pessac: Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux, 2016. Pp. 333. ISBN 979-10-300-0101-3. €25.00 (paperback).

Diogo, Maria Paula, and van Laak, Dirk, Europeans Globalizing: Mapping, Exploiting, Exchanging. London, UK; New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. Pp. xviii + 352. ISBN 978-0-230-27963-6. £60.00 (hardcover).

Evans, Bonnie, The Metamorphosis of Autism: A history of child development in Britain. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2017. Pp. 500. ISBN 978-0-7190-9592-4. £25.00 (hardcover).

Fox, Robert, Science without Frontiers: Cosmopolitanism and National Interests in the World of Learning, 1870-1940. Corvallis, OR: Oregon State University Press, 2016. Pp. 168. ISBN 978-0-87071-867-0. $22.95 (paperback).

Giffard, Hermione, Making Jet Engines in World War II: Britain, Germany, and the United States. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2016. Pp. 349. ISBN 978-0-226-38859-5. $45.00 (cloth). 

Golding, Edward L., A History of Technology and Environment: From stone tools to ecological crisis. Abingdon, UK; New York, NY: Routledge, 2017. Pp. ix + 271. ISBN 978-1-138-68586-4. £34.99 (paperback).

Gómez, Pablo F., The Experimental Caribbean: Creating Knowledge and Healing in the Early Modern Atlantic. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2017. Pp. xix + 291. ISBN 978-1-4696-3087-8. $29.95 (paperback).

Grell, Ole Peter, and Cunningham, Andrew (eds.), Medicine, Natural Philosophy and Religion in Post-Reformation Scandinavia. Abingdon, UK; New York, NY: Routledge, 2017. Pp. 220. ISBN 978-1-4724-3958-1. £110.00 (hardcover).

Hanley, Anne R., Medicine, Knowledge and Venereal Diseases in England, 1886-1916. London, UK; New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. Pp. 318. ISBN 978-3-319-32454-8. £66.99 (hardcover).

Hicks, Andrew, Composing the World: Harmony in the Medieval Platonic Cosmos. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. Pp. xviii + 321. ISBN 978-0-19-065820-5. £29.99 (hardcover).

Hicks, Marie, Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2017. Pp. 342. ISBN 978-0-262-03554-5. $40.00/£32.95 (hardcover).

Hochadel, Oliver, and Nieto-Galan, Agustí (eds.), Barcelona: An Urban History of Science and Modernity, 1888-1929. Abingdon, UK; New York, NY: Routledge, 2016. Pp. xx + 258. ISBN 978-1-4724-3419-7. £110.00 (hardcover).

Holmberg, Christine, Blume, Stuart, and Greenough, Paul (eds.), The Politics of Vaccination: A global history. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2017. Pp. xiii + 343. ISBN 978-1-5261-1088-6. £75.00 (hardcover).

Hunter, Michael, The Image of Restoration Science: The Frontispiece to Thomas Sprat’s History of the Royal Society (1667). Abingdon, UK; New York, NY: Routledge, 2017. Pp. xvi + 150. ISBN 978-1-4724-7872-6. £115.00 (hardcover).

Hurlbut, J. Benjamin, Experiments in Democracy: Human Embryo Research and the Politics of Bioethics. New York: Columbia University Press, 2017. Pp. 359. ISBN 978-0-231-17954-6. $65 / £54.00 (cloth).

Ingraham, John L., Kin: How We Came to Know Our Microbe Relatives. Cambridge, MA; London, UK: Harvard University Press, 2017. Pp. x + 263. ISBN 978-0-674-66040-3. $29.95 (hardcover).

Jackson, Mark (ed.), The Routledge History of Disease. Abingdon, UK; New York, NY: Routledge, 2017. Pp. xviii + 618. ISBN 978-0-415-72001-4. £170.00 (hardcover).

Jain, Pankaj, Science and Socio-Religious Revolution in India: Moving the Mountains. Abingdon, UK; New York, NY: Routledge, 2017.Pp. xxii + 98. ISBN 978-1-138-02359-8. £48.99 (hardcover).

Kim, Mi Gyung, The Imagined Empire: Balloon Enlightenments in Revolutionary Europe. Pittsbrugh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016. Pp. xxvi + 427. ISBN 978-0-8229-44658-2. $54.95 (cloth).

Kinney, Jeremy R., Reinventing the Propeller: Aeronautical Specialty and the Triumph of the Modern Airplane. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Pp. xxii + 368. ISBN 978-1-107-14286-2. £90.00 (hardcover).

Kyle, Sarah R., Medicine and Humanism in Late Medieval Italy: The Carrara Herbal in Padua. Abingdon, UK; New York, NY: Routledge, 2017. Pp. xiii + 243. ISBN 978-1-4724-4652-7. £110.00 (hardcover).

Levere, Trevor, Stewart, Larry, and Torrens, Hugh, with Wachelder, Joseph, The Enlightenment of Thomas Beddoes: Science, medicine, and reform. Abingdon, UK; New York, NY: Routledge, 2017. Pp. 263. ISBN 978-1-4724-8829-9. £110.00 (hardcover).

Luczak, Ewa Barbara, Breeding and Eugenics in the American Literary Imagination: Heredity Rules in the Twentieth Century. London, UK; New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. Pp. 275. ISBN 978-1-137-54578-7. £58.00 (hardcover).

Marklund, Andreas, and Rudiger, Mogens (eds.), Historicizing Infrastructure. Aalborg: Aalborg University Press, 2017. Pp. 235. ISBN 978-87-7112-594-8. 298.00kr (hardcover).

Mazzeno, Laurence W., and Morrison, Ronald, D. (eds.), Victorian Writers and the Environment: Ecocritical Perspectives. Abingdon, UK; New York, NY: Routledge, 2017. Pp. 260. ISBN 978-1-4724-5470-6. £110.00 (hardcover).

McBurney, Henrietta, Rolfe, Ian, Napoleone, Caterina, and Findlen, Paula, Birds, Other Animals and Natural Curiosities (volumes One and Two). London: Royal Collection Trust (in association with Harvey Miller Publishers), 2017. Pp. 927. ISBN 978-1-909400-60-3. €170.00 (hardcover). 

Mieves, Christian, and Brown, Irene (eds.), Wonder in Contemporary Artistic Practice. Abingdon, UK; New York, NY: Routledge, 2017. Pp. xiii + 308. ISBN 978-1-138-85581-6. £110.00 (hardcover).

Morgan, Benjamin, The Outward Mind: Materialist Aesthetics in Victorian Science and Literature. Chicago, IL; London, UK: University of Chicago Press, 2017. Pp. 373. ISBN 978-0-226-46220-2. $35.00 (paperback).

Neswald, Elizabeth, Smith, David F., and Thoms, Ulrike (eds.), Setting Nutritional Standards: Theory, Policies, Practices. Rochester, NY; Woodbridge, UK: University of Rochester Press, 2017. Pp. 230. ISBN 978-1-58046-576-2. £70.00 (hardcover).

Nguyen, Thuy Linh, Childbirth, Maternity, and Medical Pluralism in French Colonial Vietnam, 1880-1945. Rochester, NY; Woodbridge, UK: University of Rochester Press, 2016. Pp. 244. ISBN 978-1-58046-568-7. £80.00 (hardcover).

Onion, Rebecca, Innocent Experiments: Childhood and the Culture of Popular Science in the United States. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2016. Pp. 226. ISBN 978-1-4696-2947-6. $29.95 (paperback).

Priest, Hannah (ed.), She-Wolf: A Cultural History of Female Werewolves. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2017. Pp. ix + 226. ISBN 978-0-7190-8934-3. £70.00 (hardcover).

Radin, Joanna, Life on Ice: A History of New Uses for Cold Blood. Chicago, IL; London, UK: University of Chicago Press, 2017. Pp. xii + 305. ISBN 978-0-226-41731-8. $40.00 (hardcover).

Raphael, Renee, Reading Galileo: Scribal Technologies and the Two New Sciences. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017. Pp. 365. ISBN 978-1-4214-2177-3. $54.95 (hardcover).

Ray, Meredith K., Margherita Sarrocchi’s Letters to Galileo: Astronomy, Astrology, and Poetics in Seventeenth-Century Italy. London, UK; New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. Pp. 98. ISBN 978-1-137-59769-4. £45.00 (hardcover).

Remmert, Volker R., Schneider, Martina R., Sorensen, Henrik Kragh (eds.), Historiography of Mathematics in the 19th and 20th Centuries. Cham: Switzerland, Birkhauser, and Springer, 2016. Pp. 267. ISBN 978-3-319-39647-7. £89.50 (hardcover).

Richards, Evelleen, Darwin and the Making of Sexual Selection. Chicago, IL; London, UK: University of Chicago Press, 2017. Pp. xxxiii + 669. ISBN 978-0-226-43690-6. £47.50 (cloth).

Richardson, Ken, Genes, Brains and Human Potential: The Science and Ideology of Intelligence. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2017. Pp. 387. ISBN 978-0-231-17842-6. $35.00 / £30.00 (cloth).

Sadowsky, Jonathan, Electroconvulsive Therapy in America: The Anatomy of a Medical Controversy. Abingdon, UK; New York, NY: Routledge, 2017. Pp. 172. ISBN 978-1-138-69696-9. £110.00 (hardcover).

Shears, Jonathon (ed.), The Great Exhibition, 1851: A sourcebook. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2017. Pp. 238. ISBN 978-0-7190-9913-7. £75.00 (paperback).

Sleigh, Charlotte, The Paper Zoo: 500 Years of Animals in Art. London: The British Library, 2016. Pp. 256. ISBN 978-0-7123-5743-2. £25.00 (hardcover).

Snelders, Stephen, Leprosy and Colonialism: Suriname under Dutch rule 1750-1950. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2017. Pp. 276. ISBN 978-1-5261-1299-6. £75.00 (hardcover).

Steinle, Friedrich, Exploratory Experiments: Ampere, Faraday and the Origins of Electrodynamics. Pittsburhg, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016. Pp. 494. ISBN 978-0-8229-4450-8. $65.00 (hardcover).

Tarbuck, Derya Gurses, Enlightenment Reformation: Hutchinsonianism and religion in eighteenth-century Britain. Abingdon, UK; New York, NY: Routledge, 2017. Pp. ix + 159. ISBN 978-0-7546-6719-3. £110.00 (hardcover).

Thompson, Helen, Fictional Matter: Empiricism, Corpuscles, and the Novel. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. Pp. 359. ISBN 978-0-8122-4872-2. $59.95 / £39.00 (hardcover).

Thorley, David, Writing Illness and Identity in Seventeenth-Century Britain. London, UK; New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. Pp. 231. ISBN 978-1-137-59311-5. £58.00 (hardcover).

Tindley, Annie, and Wodehouse, Andrew, Design, Technology and Communication in the British Empire, 1830-1914. London, UK; New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. Pp. 131. ISBN 978-1-137-59797-7. £37.99 (hardcover).

Wade, Peter, Degrees of Mixture, Degrees of Freedom: Genomics, Multiculturalism, and Race in Latin America. Durham, NC; London, UK: Duke University Press, 2017. Pp. ix + 331. ISBN 978-0-8223-6373-6. $27.95 (paperback).

Willis, Martin (ed.), Staging Science: Scientific Performance on Street, Stage and Screen. London, UK; New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. Pp. ISBN 140. 978-1-137-49993-6. £37.99 (hardcover).

Zimring, Carl A., Aluminium Upcycled: Sustainable Design in Historical Perspective. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017. Pp. 199. ISBN 978-1-4214-2186-5. $39.95 (hardcover).

March 2017: Books Received

Ashworth, William J., The Industrial Revolution: The State, Knowledge and Global Trade. London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2017. Pp. 333. ISBN 978-1-4742-8646-6. £21.99 (paperback).

Aubry, Timothy, and Travis, Trysh (eds.), Rethinking Therapeutic Culture. Chicago; London: The University of Chicago Press, 2015. Pp. 267. ISBN 978-0-226-25013-7. $30.00 (paper).

Baker, Tawrin, Dupre, Sven, and Kusukawa, Sachiko (eds.), Early Modern Color Worlds. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2015. Pp. 307. ISBN978-90-04-31658-4. €126.00/$163.00 (hardback).

Boddice, Rob, The Science of Sympathy: Morality, Evolution, and Victorian Civilization. Urbana, Chicago, and Springfield: The University of Illinois Press, 2016. Pp. 179. 978-0-252-08205-4. $28.00 (paperback).

Cevolini, Alberto, Forgetting Machines: Knowledge Management Evolution in Early Modern Europe. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2016. Pp. 389. ISBN 978-90-04-27846-2. €154.00/$185.00 (hardback).

Chaney, Sarah, Psyche on the Skin: A History of Self-Harm. London: Reaktion Books, 2017. Pp. 315. ISBN 978-1-78023-750-3. £20.00 (hardback).

Choy, Howard Y. F. (ed.), Discourses of Disease: Writing Illness, the Mind and the Body in Modern China. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2016. Pp. xiii + 277. ISBN 978-90-04-31920-2. €115.00/$138.00 (hardback).

Coppola, Al, The Theater of Experiment: Staging Natural Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Britain. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. 265. ISBN 978-0-19-026971-5. £47.99 (hardback).

Davies, James Q., and Lockhart, Ellen (eds.), Sound Knowledge: Music and Science in London, 1789-1851. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2016. Pp. 257. ISBN 978-0-226-40207-9. $55.00/£38.50 (cloth).

Egmond, Florike, Eye for Detail: Images of Plants and Animals in Art and Science. London: Reaktion Books, 2017. Pp. 280. ISBN 978-1-78023-640-7. £35.00 (hardback).

Endersby, Jim, Orchid: A Cultural History. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press; Kew: Royal Botanic Gardens, 2016. Pp. 292. ISBN 978-0-226-37632-5. $30.00 (cloth). 

Giffard, Hermione, Making Jet Engines in World War II: Britain, Germany, and the United States. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2016. Pp. 349. ISBN 978-0-226-38859-5. $45.00 (cloth).  

Greene, Jeremy A., Condrau, Flurin, and Watkins, Elizabeth Siegel (eds.), Therapeutic Revolutions: Pharmaceuticals and Social Change in the Twentieth Century. Chicago; London: The University of Chicago Press, 2016. Pp. 321. ISBN 978-0-226-39087-1. $40.00 (paper).

Harris, William V. (ed.), Popular Medicine in Graeco-Roman Antiquity: Explorations. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2016. Pp. XV + 319. ISBN 978-90-04-32558-6. €126.00/$138.00 (hardback).

Hobbins, Peter, Venomous Encounters: Snakes, vivisection and scientific medicine in colonial Australia. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2017. Pp. xiii + 202. ISBN 978-1-5261-0144-0. £70.00 (hardback).

Jansen, Eva, Naturopathy in South India: Clinics between Professionalization and Empowerment. Leiden and Boston, Brill, 2016. Pp. XI + 193. ISBN 978-90-04-32484-8. €98.00/$117.00 (hardback).

Klemun, Marianne, and Spring, Ulrike (eds.), Expeditions as Experiments: Practising Observation and Documentation. Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. Pp. 294. ISBN 978-1-137-58105-1. £74.50 (hardback).

Lamb, Jonathan, Scurvy: The Disease of Discovery. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2017. Pp. 305. ISBN 978-0-691-14782-6. $35.00/$27.95 (cloth).

Maehle, Andreas-Holger, Contesting Medical Confidentiality: Origins of the Debate in the United States, Britain, and Germany. Chicago; London: The University of Chicago Press, 2016. Pp. 165. ISBN 978-0-226-40482-0. $40.00 (cloth).

Maslin, Mark, The Cradles of Humanity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. Pp. 228. ISBN 978-0-19-870452-2. £20.00/$34.95 (hardback).

Mitman, Gregg, and Wilder, Kelley (eds.), Documenting the World: Film, Photography, and the Scientific Record. Chicago; London: The University of Chicago Press, 2016. Pp. 285. ISBN 978-0-226-12911-2. $35.00 (cloth).

Morus, Iwan Rhys, William Robert Grove: Victorian Gentleman of Science. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2017. Pp. 172. ISBN 978-1-78683-004-3. £16.99 (paperback).

Mukharji, Projit Bihari, Doctoring Traditions: Ayurveda, Small Technologies, and Braided Sciences. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2016. Pp. xi + 374. ISBN 978-0-226-38313-2. $45.00 (paperback).

Nigg, Joseph, The Phoenix: An Unnatural Biography of a Mythical Beast. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2016. Pp. xxv + 487. ISBN 978-0-226-19549-0. $35.00 (cloth).

Peterson, Erik. L., The Life Organic: The Theoretical Biology Club and the Roots of Epigenetics. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016. Pp. 334. ISBN 978-0-8229-4466-9. $45.00 (hardback).

Ramsey, Grant, and Pence, Charles H. (eds.), Chance in Evolution. Chicago; London: The University of Chicago Press, 2016. Pp. 359. ISBN 978-0-226-40188-1. $45.00 (paperback).

Rochberg, Francesca, Before Nature: Cuneiform Knowledge and the History of Science. Chicago; London: The University of Chicago Press, 2016. Pp. 369. ISBN 978-0-226-40613-8. $55.00 (cloth).

Sternberg, Robert J., Fiske, Susan T., and Foss, Donald J. (eds.), Scientists Making a Difference: One Hundred Eminent Behavioral and Brain Scientists Talk about Their Most Important Contributions. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Pp. xxvii + 512. ISBN 978-1-107-56637-8. £19.99 (paperback).

Thurmond, David L., From Vines to Wines in Classical Rome: A Handbook of Viticulture and Oenology in Rome and the Roman West. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2017. Pp. 274. ISBN 978-90-04-33458-8. €120.00/$132.00 (hardback).

Tramelli, Barbara, Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo’s Trattato dell’Arte della Pittura: Color, Perspective and Anatomy. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2017. Pp. 253. ISBN 978-90-04-33025-2. €121.00/$145.00 (hardback).

McVeigh, Brian J., The History of Japanese Psychology: Global Perspectives, 1875-1950. London; New York, NY: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. Pp. 319. ISBN 978-1-4742-8308-3. £76.50 (hardback).

Wagner, Roi, Making and Breaking Mathematical Sense: Histories and Philosophies of Mathematical Practice. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2017. Pp. 236. ISBN 978-0-691-17171-5. $45.00/£37.95 (hardback). 

Wittje, Roland, The Age of Electroacoustics: Transforming Science and Sound. Cambridge, MA; London, England: The MIT Press, 2016. Pp. 297. ISBN 978-0-262-03526-2. $40.00/£32.95 (hardback

December 2016: Books Received

Asen, Daniel, Death in Beijing: Murder and Forensic Science in Republican China. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Pp. 258. ISBN 978-1-107-12606-0. £34.99 hardback).

Broomhall, Susan (ed.), Gender and Emotions in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Destroying Order, Structuring Disorder. Farnham, UK; Burlington, VT, USA: Ashgate, 2015. Pp. 267. ISBN 978-1-4724-5327-3. £70.00 (hardback).

Broomhall, Susan (ed.), Spaces for Feeling: Emotions and Sociabilities in Britain, 1650-1850. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2015. Pp. 241. ISBN 978-1-138-82817-9. £31.99 (paperback).

Broomhall, Susan, and Finn, Sarah (eds.), Violence and Emotions in Early Modern Europe. Abingdon, Oxon, UK; New York, NY, USA: Routledge, 2016. Pp. 213. ISBN 978-1-138-85402-4. £95.00 (hardback).

Buridan, John (edited by Michiel Streijger and Paul J. J. M. Bakker), Quaestiones super octo libros Physicorum Aristotelis (secundum ultimam lecturam): Libri I-II. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2016. Pp. CLXXXVI + 264. ISBN 978-90-04-13165-1. €172.00 / $223.00 (paperback).

Buridan, John (edited by Michiel Streijger and Paul J. J. M. Bakker), Quaestiones super octo libros Physicorum Aristotelis (secundum ultimam lecturam): III-IV. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2016. Pp. CCXVII + 360. ISBN 978-90-04-13187-3. €138.00 / $166.00 (paperback).

Calinger, Ronald S., Leonhard Euler: Mathematical Genius in the Enlightenment. Princeton; Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2016. Pp. 669. ISBN 978-0-691-11927-4. $55.00 / £40.95 (cloth).

Caruso, Martina, Italian Humanist Photography from Fascism to the Cold War. London; New York: Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc., 2016. Pp. 213. ISBN 978-1-4742-4693-4. £85.00 (hardback).

Ciardi, Marco, Di Matteo, Mariachiara (eds.), Amedeo Avogadro: Lettere. Roma: Accademia Nazionale Delle Scienze, 2016. Pp. 112. ISBN 978-88-98075-17-1 (paperback).

Crawford, Dorothy, H., EBOLA: Profile of a Killer Virus. Oxford: Oxford University Press,

2016. Pp. 204. ISBN 978-0-19-875999-7. £16.99 / $27.95 (hardback).

Crockatt, Richard, Einstein & Twentieth-Century Politics: ‘A Salutary Moral Influence’. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. 236. ISBN 978-0-19-878549-1. £25.00 (hardback).

Curry, Helen Anne, Evolution Made to Order: Plant Breeding and Technological Innovation in Twentieth-Century America. Chicago; London: The University of Chicago Press, 2016. Pp. 285. ISBN 978-0-226-39008-6. $45.00 (cloth).

Demeter, Tamas, David Hume and the Culture of Scottish Newtonianism: Methodology and Ideology in Enlightenment Inquiry. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2016. Pp. 221. ISBN 978-90-04-32731-3. €115.00 / $138.00 (paperback).

Doyle, Dennis A., Psychiatry and Racial Liberalism in Harlem, 1936-1968. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2016. Pp. 260. ISBN 978-1-58046-492-5. £65.00 (hardback).

Ebenstein, Joanna, The Anatomical Venus. London, UK: Thames & Hudson, 2016. Pp. 224. ISBN 978-0-500-25218-5. £19.95 (quarter bound/PLC).

Greenstein, Shane, How the Internet Became Commercial: Innovation, Privatization, and the Birth of a New Network. Princeton; Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2015. Pp. 474. ISBN 978-0-691-16736-7. $35.00 / £24.95 (hardback).

Hanley, James G., Healthy Boundaries: Property, Law, and Public Health in England and Wales, 1815-1872. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2016. Pp. 257. ISBN 978-1-58046-556-4. £80.00 (hardback).

Hedesan, Georgiana D., An Alchemical Quest for Universal Knowledge: The ‘Christian Philosophy’ of Jan Baptist Van Helmont (1579-1644). London; New York: Routledge, 2016. Pp. xix + 244. ISBN 978-1-4724-6916-8. £95.00 (hardback).

Jarzebowski, Claudia, and Safley, Thomas Max (eds.), Childhood and Emotion: Across cultures 1450-1800. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2014. Pp. 200. ISBN 978-0-415-83196-3. £29.99 (paperback).

Katz, Victor J., Folkerts, Menso, Hughes, Barnabas, Wagner, Roi, and Berggren, J. Lennart (eds.), Sourcebook in the Mathematics of Medieval Europe and North Africa. Princeton; Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2016. Pp. 574. ISBN 978-0-691-15685-9. $95.00 / £70.95 (cloth).

Langdon, John H., The Science of Human Evolution: Getting it Right. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing AG, 2016. Pp. 220. ISBN 978-3-319-41584-0. £48.99 (hardback).

Leslie, Esther, Liquid Crystals: The Science and Art of a Fluid Form. London: Reaktion Books, 2016. Pp. 296. ISBN 978-1-78023-645-2. £25 (hardback).

Jones, L. Matthew, Reckoning with Matter: Calculating Machines, Innovation, and Thinking about Thinking from Pascal to Babbage. Chicago ; London: The University of Chicago Press, 2016. Pp. 331. ISBN 978-0-226-41146-0. $35.00 (cloth).

Manterfield, B. John (ed.), Borough Government in Newton’s Grantham: The Hall Book of Grantham, 1649-1662. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Lincoln Record Society and Boydell Press, 2016. Pp. xlvii + 385. ISBN 978-1-910653-02-9. £40.00 (hardback).

Mellor, Felicity, and Webster, Stephen (eds.), The Silences of Science: Gaps and Pauses in the Communication of Science. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2017. Pp. 305. ISBN 978-1-472-45997-8. £95.00 (hardback).

Merchant, Carolyn, Autonomous Nature: Problems of Prediction and Control from Ancient Times to the Scientific Revolution. New York, NY: Routledge, 2016. Pp. 196. ISBN 978-1-138-93100-8. £29.99 (paperback).

Mokyr, Joel, A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern Economy. Princeton ; Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2017. Pp. 403. ISBN 978-0-691-16888-3. $35.00 (hardback).

Morrison-Low, Alison D., Sechner, Sara J., and Brenni, Paolo (eds.), How Scientific Instruments Have Changed Hands. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2016. Pp. 239. ISBN 978-90-04-32492-3. €125.00 / $150.00 (paperback).

Muratori, Cecilia, and Paganini, Gianni (eds.), Early Modern Philosophers and the Renaissance Legacy. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing AG, 2016. Pp. 298. ISBN 978-3-319-32602-3. £66.99 (hardback). 

Packard, Randall M., A History of Global Health: Interventions into the Lives of Other Peoples. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016. Pp. 414. ISBN 978-1-4214-2033-2. $35.00 (paperback).

Pimentel, Juan, The Rhinoceros and the Megatherium: An Essay in Natural History. Cambridge; London: Harvard University Press, 2017. Pp. 356. ISBN 978-0-674-73712-9. $29.95 / £22.95 / €27.00 (hardback).

Poulsen, Bo, Global Marine Science and Carlsberg: The Golden Connections of Johannes Schmidt (1877-1933). Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2016. Pp. 524. ISBN 978-90-04-31636-2. €45.00 (hardback).

Roberts, Meghan K., Sentimental Savants: Philosophical Families in Enlightenment France. Chicago; London: The University of Chicago Press, 2016. Pp. 214. ISBN 978-0-226-38411-5. $45.00 (cloth).

Sakamoto, Kuni, Julius Caesar Scaliger, Renaissance Reformer of Aristotelianism: A Study of His Exotericae Exercitationes. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2016. Pp. 213. ISBN 978-90-04-31009-4. €104.00 / $135.00 (paperback).

Stern, Fritz, Einstein’s German World. Princeton; Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2016. Pp. 335. ISBN 978-0-691-17130-2. $24.95 / £18.95 (paperback).

Stevens, Hallam, Biotechnology and Society: An Introduction. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2016. Pp. 397. ISBN 978-0-226-04601-3. £21.00 / $30.00 (paperback).

Stillwell, John, Elements of Mathematics: From Euclid to Godel. Princeton; Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2016. Pp. 422. ISBN 978-0-691-17168-5. $39.95 / £29.95 (cloth).

Straley, Jessica, Evolution and Imagination in Victorian Children’s Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Pp. 252. ISBN 978-1-107-12752-4. £64.99 (hardback).

Tietjen, Jill S., Engineering Women: Re-visioning Women’s Scientific Achievements and Impacts. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing AG, 2017. Pp. 85. ISBN 978-3-319-40798-2. £64.99 (hardback).

Vetter, Jeremy, Field Life: Science in the American West during the Railroad Era. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016. Pp. 504. ISBN 978-0-8229-4453-9. $49.95 (hardback).

Vogel, Steven, Why the Wheel Is Round: Muscles, Technology, and How We Make Things Move. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2016. Pp. 327. ISBN 978-0-226-38103-9. $35.00 (hardback).

Zee, A, Fearful Symmetry: The Search for Beauty in Modern Physics. Princeton; Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2016. Pp. xx + 356. ISBN 978-0-691-17326-9. $22.95 / £17.95 (paperback).