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Volume 37 - September 2004

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ALLEN B. WEISSE, Heart to Heart: The Twentieth-Century Battle Against Cardiac Disease. New Brunswick and London: Rutgers University Press, 2002. Pp. xvii+415. ISBN 0-8135-3157-8. $35.00 (hardback).
CARSTEN TIMMERMANN
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01 September 2004, pp. 363-364
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HELGE KRAGH, Quantum Generations: A History of Physics in the Twentieth Century. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002. Pp. xiv+494. ISBN 0-691-09552-3. £13.95 (paperback).
STEVEN FRENCH
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24 May 2004, pp. 220-221
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MAGGIE MORT, Building the Trident Network: A Study of the Enrollment of People, Knowledge, and Machines. Inside Technology. Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 2002. Pp. x+217. ISBN 0-262-13397-0. £22.50 (hardback).
SEAN JOHNSTON
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09 December 2004, pp. 485-486
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MICHAEL BRAVO and SVERKER SÖRLIN (eds.), Narrating the Arctic: A Cultural History of Nordic Scientific Practices. Canton, MA: Science History Publications/USA, 2002. Pp. ix+373. ISBN 0-88135-385-X. $39.95 (hardback).
SIGURJON BALDUR HAFSTEINSSON
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01 September 2004, pp. 364-365
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A. M. MOULIN and A. CAMBROSIO (eds.), Singular Selves: Historical Issues and Contemporary Debates in Immunology/Dialogues entre soi: Questions historiques et débats contemporains en immunologie. Amsterdam: Elsevier/ Musée Claude Bernard, 2001. Pp. 303. ISBN 2-84-299-210-5. €59.00 (paperback).
PAULINE M. H. MAZUMDAR
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09 December 2004, pp. 486-487
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ANTONY KAMM and MALCOLM BAIRD, John Logie Baird: A Life. Edinburgh: National Museums of Scotland Publishing, 2002. Pp. xii+465. ISBN 1-901663-76-0. £25.00 (hardback).
SEAN JOHNSTON
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24 May 2004, pp. 221-222
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ROBIN L. CHAZDON and T. C. WHITMORE (eds.), Foundations of Tropical Forest Biology: Classic Papers with Commentaries. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2002. Pp. xvii+862. ISBN 0-226-10225-4. £24.50, $35.00 (paperback).
JOEL B. HAGEN
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24 May 2004, p. 223
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GREGORY N. DERRY, What Science Is and How It Works. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2002. Pp. xi+311. ISBN 0-691-09550-7. £13.95 (paperback).
ALEX DOLBY
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01 September 2004, pp. 365-366
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IOAN JAMES, Remarkable Mathematicians: From Euler to von Neumann. Spectrum Series of the Mathematical Association of America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xiv+433. ISBN 0-521-52094-0. £19.95, $25.00 (paperback).
CLAIRE JONES
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09 December 2004, pp. 487-488
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JOSEPH W. DAUBEN and CHRISTOPH J. SCRIBA (eds.), Writing the History of Mathematics: Its Historical Development. Historical Studies: Science Networks, 27. Basel, Boston and Berlin: Birkhäuser, 2002. Pp. xxvii+689. ISBN 3-7643-6167-0. €73.83, SFr 186.00 (paperback).
ADRIAN RICE
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09 December 2004, pp. 488-489
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CRISTINA CHIMISSO, Gaston Bachelard: Critic of Science and the Imagination. Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Philosophy, 9. London and New York: Routledge, 2001. Pp. xi+285. ISBN 0-415-26905-9. £71.99 (hardback).
MARY TILES
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01 September 2004, pp. 366-367
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STEPHEN JAY GOULD, I Have Landed: Splashes and Reflections in Natural History. London: Vintage, 2002. Pp. 418. ISBN 0-09-974971-8. £7.99 (paperback).
PETER J. BOWLER
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24 May 2004, pp. 223-224
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01 September 2004, pp. 369-371
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JILL KER CONWAY, KENNETH KENISTON and LEO MARX (eds.), Earth, Air, Fire, Water: Humanistic Studies of the Environment. Amherst: University of Massachusetts, 1999. Pp. ix+349. ISBN 1-55849-221-6. £17.00 (paperback).
LEIGH CLAYTON
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09 December 2004, pp. 490-491
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HENRY HARRIS, Things Come to Life: Spontaneous Generation Revisited. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. ix+168. ISBN 0-19-851538-3. £20.00 (hardback).
RAINER BRÖMER
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24 May 2004, pp. 224-225
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HÉLèNE GISPERT (ed.), ‘Par la Science, pour la patrie’: L'Association française pour l'avancement des sciences (1872–1914), un projet politique pour une société savante. Collection Carnot. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2002. Pp. 372. ISBN 2-86847-681-3. €23.00 (paperback).
CRISTINA CHIMISSO
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24 May 2004, pp. 225-227
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STEVEN WEINBERG, Facing Up: Science and Its Cultural Adversaries. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2001. Pp. xi+283. ISBN 0-674-00647-X. £17.95, $26.00 (hardback).
STEVEN FRENCH
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09 December 2004, pp. 491-492
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HENRY LE CHATELIER, Science et industrie: Les Débuts du taylorisme en France. With a preface by Michel Letté. Format, 46. Paris: Editions du CTHS, 2001. Pp. xxxi+283. ISBN 2-7355-0487-5. €14.00 (paperback).
ROBERT FOX
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24 May 2004, p. 227
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09 December 2004, pp. 493-494
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