Isis Books Received, Quarterly Report to 22 November 1999

Abbott, Andrew. Department and Discipline: Chicago Sociology at One Hundred. xii + 249 pp., tables, apps., bibl., index. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. $ 45, £31.50 (cloth); $17, £12 (paper).

Ackland, Len. Making a Real Killing: Rocky Flats and the Nuclear West. xii + 308 pp., illus., app., index. Albuquerque, N.Mex.: University of New Mexico Press, 1999. $34.95.

Aleksandrov, A. D.; Kolmogorov, A. N.; Lavrent'ev, M. A. Mathematics: Its Contents, Methods, and Meaning. Three volumes bound as one. xvi + 356 + 374 + 372 pp., illus., tables, bibls., index. Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications, 1999. $29.95 (paper).

Atkins, Philip. Dropping the Fire: The Decline and Fall of the Steam Locomotive. vi + 106 pp., illus., figs., tables, apps. Bedfordshire, Eng.: Irwell Press, 1999. £14.95.

Bacon, Francis. Selected Philosophical Works. Edited and with an introduction, by Rose-Mary Sargent. xxxviii + 290 pp., tables, bibl., index. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 1999. $34.95 (cloth); $12.95 (paper).

Bazerman, Charles. The Languages of Edison's Light. xii + 416 pp., illus., bibl., index. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1999. $39.50.

Bell, Heather. Frontiers of Medicine in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, 1899-1940. (Oxford Historical Monographs.) xiv + 261 pp., illus., tables, bibl., index. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. $78.

Beller, Mara. Quantum Dialogue: The Making of a Revolution. (Science and its Conceptual Foundations.) xvi + 365 pp., illus., bibl., index. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1999. $35, £24.50.

Bennett, Deborah J. Randomness. 238 pp., illus., figs., tables, bibl., index. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1998. $14 (paper).

Bernard, Claude. Experimental Medicine. Translated by Henry Copley Greene. Introduction by Stewart Wolf. xxvi + 226 pp. Originally published in 1927. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 1999. $29.95 (paper).

Bernoulli, Jakob. Die Werke von Jakob Bernoulli: Differentialgeometrie. (Die Werke von Jakob Bernoulli, 5.) Edited by Andre Weil and Martin Mattmuller. xxvi + 445 pp., illus., tables, apps., bibl., indexes. Basel: Birkhauser, 1999. DM358.

Bliss, Michael. William Osler: A Life in Medicine. xiv + 581 pp., frontis., illus., apps., index. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. $35.

Boas, Franz. Franz Boas: Among the Inuit of Baffin Island, 1883-1884, Journals and Letters. Edited and introduced by Ludger Müller-Wille. Translated by William Barr. xvi + 298 pp., illus., apps., bibl., index. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998. $50, £ 37.50.

Bromberg, Joan Lisa. NASA and the Space Industry. (New Series in NASA History.) x + 247 pp., illus., bibl., index. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. $38.50.

Campbell, C. Lee; Peterson, Paul D.; Grifith, Clay S. (Editors). The Formative Years of Plant Pathology in the United States. xviii + 427 pp., illus., app., bibl., index. St. Paul, Minn.: American Phytopathological Society, 1999. $49.

Capria, Marco Mamone (Editor). La Costruzione Dell'immagine Scientifica del Mondo: Mutamenti nella concezione dell'uomo e del cosmo Dalla scoperta dell'America alla meccanica quantistica. (Il Pensiero e la Storia, 56.) 495 pp., illus., bibls., index. Naples: La Citta del Sole, 1999.

Cercignani, Carlo. Ludwig Boltzmann: The Man Who Trusted Atoms. xvi + 329 pp., frontis., illus., apps., bibls., index. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. $ 49.95.

The Chemists' Club: One Hundred Years in the Chemical Community. [i] + 24 pp., illus. [Philadelphia]: The Chemical Heritage Foundation, [1999].

Christianson, Gale E. Greenhouse: The 200-Year Story of Global Warming. xiv + 305 pp., illus., bibl., index. New York: Walker & Company, 1999. $ 25.

Cleal, Christopher J.; Thomas, Barry A. Plant Fossils: The History of Land Vegetation. (Fossils Illustrated, 3.) viii + 188 pp., illus., figs., apps., bibl., index. Woodbridge, Eng..: The Boydell Press, 1999. $110.

Creath, Richard; Maienschein, Jane (Editors). Biology and Epistemology. (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology.) xviii + 295 pp., illus., apps., bibls. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 2000. $59.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).

Curnen, Mary G. McCrea; Spiro, Howard; St. James, Deborah. (Editors). Doctors Afield. xvi + 233 pp., illus., app. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1999. $27.50.

Curtis, Charles W. Pioneers of Representation Theory: Frobenius, Burnside, Schur, and Brauer. (History of Mathematics, 15.) xvi + 287 pp., illus., bibl., index. Providence, R.I.: American Mathematical Society, 1999. $49.

Dahl, Per F. Heavy Water and the Wartime Race for Nuclear Energy. xvi + 399 pp., illus., bibl., indexes. Bristol, Eng./Philadelphia: Institute of Physics Publishing, 1999. $60, £35.

Daum, Andreas. Wissenschaftspopularisierung im 19. Jahrhundert: Burgerliche Kultur, naturwissenschaftliche Bildung und die deutsche Offentlichkeit, 1848-1914. xii + 617 pp., illus., apps., bibls., indexes. Munich: Oldenbourg, 1998. DM148.

Day, Dwayne A.; Logsdon, John M.; Latell, Brian (Editors). Eye in the Sky: The Story of the Corona Spy Satellites. (Smithsonian History of Aviation Series.) xiv + 303 pp., illus., apps., index. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1998. $17.95 (paper).

Daykin, Norma; Doyal, Lesley (Editors). Health and Work: Critical Perspectives. xii + 258 pp., illus., figs., tables, bibls., index. London: Macmillan Press, 1999. $55.

Did the Royal Society Matter in the Eighteenth Century? Edited by Richard Sorrenson. (Special issue of The British Journal for the History of Science, 32, 2, 113.) 124 pp., illus., app. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Dirichlet, P. G. L. Lectures on Number Theory. (History of Mathematics Sources, 16.) Translated by John Stillwell. Supplements by R. Dedekind. xx + 275 pp., illus., apps., index. Originally published in 1863. Providence, R.I.: American Mathematical Society, 1999. $ 49 (paper).

Dubois, Michel. Introduction à la sociologie des sciences et des connaissances scientifique. x + 321 pp., tables, apps., indexes. Paris: Presses Universitaire de France, 1999. Fr139 (paper).

Dunlap, Thomas R. Nature and the English Diaspora: Environment and History in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. (Studies in Environment and History.) xvi + 350 pp., illus., app., bibl., index. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. $59.95.

Edson, Evelyn. Mapping Time and Space: How Medieval Mapmakers Viewed Their World. (The British Library Studies in Map History, 1.) xii + 210 pp., illus., bibl., indexes. London: The British Library, 1999. £29.95 (paper).

Einstein and Religion: Physics and Theology. viii + 279 pp., illus., app., index. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1999. $22.95, £14.50.

English, Peter C. Rheumatic Fever in America and Britain: A Biological, Epidemiological, and Medical History. xx + 257 pp., illus., tables, app., index. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1999. $50.

Feduccia, Alan. The Origin and Evolution of Birds. x + 466 pp., illus., tables, bibl., index. Originally published in 1996. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1999. $29.95 (paper).

Ferguson, Kitty. Measuring the Universe: Our Historic Quest to Chart the Horizons of Space and Time. viii + 342 pp., illus., app., index. New York: Walker and Company, 1999. $ 27, Can$40.50.

Fraser, J. T. Time, Conflict, and Human Values. 306 pp., indexes. Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 1999. $34.95.

Gallagher, Nancy L. Breeding Better Vermonters: The Eugenics Project in the Green Mountain State. xiv + 237 pp., illus., bibl., index. Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 1999. $40 (cloth); $21 (paper).

Gelman, Sheldon. Medicating Schizophrenia: A History. x + 274 pp., index. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1999. $52 (cloth); $23 (paper).

Gordo-Lopez, Angel J.; Parker, Ian (Editors). Cyberpsychology. xii + 244 pp., bibls., index. New York: Routledge, 1999. $80, Can$120 (cloth); $22.99, Can$34.99 (paper).

Gordon, Deborah M. Ants at Work: How an Insect Society is Organized. Illustrated by Michelle Schwengel. x + 182 pp., illus., app., index. New York: The Free Press, 1999. $25.

Groetsch, C. W. Inverse Problems: Activities for Undergraduates. xii + 222 pp., illus., apps., bibl., index. Washington, D.C.: The Mathematical Association of America, 1999. $26 (paper).

Grosholz, Emily; Yakira, Elhanan. Leibniz's Science of the Rational. (Studia Leibnitiana, 26.) 107 pp. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1998. DM76 (paper).

Guicciardini, Niccolo. Reading the Principia: The Debate on Newton's Mathematical Methods for Natural Philosophy from 1687 to 1736. 285 pp., illus., app., bibl., index. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. $80.00.

Habib, S. Irfan; Raina, Dhruv (Editors). Situating the History of Science: Dialogues with Joseph Needham. x + 358 pp., bibls., index. New Delhi, India: Oxford University Press, 1999. $35.

Hadamard, Jacques. Non-Euclidean Geometry in the Theory of Automorphic Functions. (History of Mathematics, 17.) Translated by Abe Shenitzer. Edited by Jeremy J. Gray and Abe Shenitzer. xii + 95 pp., illus., bibls. Providence, R.I.: The American Mathematical Society, 1999. $19 (paper).

Hall, A. Rupert. Isaac Newton: Eighteenth-Century Perspectives. viii + 215 pp., apps., index. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. $110.

Hannaway, Caroline; La Berge, Ann (Editors). Constructing Paris Medicine. (Clio Medica, 50.) xiv + 406 pp., illus., bibl., index. Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi, 1998. $100, £54, Hfl180 (cloth); $36, £19.50, Hfl 65 (paper).

Hazen, Robert M. The Diamond Makers. xiv + 244 pp., illus., figs., app., index. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1999. $15.95 (paper).

Heilbron, J. L. The Sun in the Church: Cathedrals as Solar Observatories. x + 366 pp., illus., figs., tables, apps., bibl., index. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999. $35.

Hirabayashi, Lane Ryo. The Politics of Fieldwork: Research in an American Concentration Camp. xii + 219 pp., illus., app., bibl., index. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 1999. $35.

Hodges, Andrew. Turing. (The Great Philosophers.) 58 pp., bibl. New York: Routledge, 1999. $6 (paper).

Hopkins, Patrick D. (Editor). Sex / Machine: Readings in Culture, Gender, and Technology. (The Indiana Series in the Philosophy of Technology.) x + 510 pp., illus., tables, app., index. Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 1999. $49.95 (cloth); $27.95 (paper).

Horgan, John. The Undiscovered Mind: How the Human Brain Defies Replication, Medication, and Explanation. 325 pp., bibl., index. New York: The Free Press, 1999. $25.

Hoyle, Fred. Mathematics and Evolution. xviii + 142 pp., illus. Originally published 1987. Memphis: Acorn Enterprises, 1999. $36.

Hunt, R.W.; Watson, A.G.; Macray, W.D.. Bodleian Library Quarto Catalogues IX: Digby Manuscripts. Reproduction of the 1883 catalogue by W. D. Macray. Notes on Macray's descriptions of the manuscripts by R. W. Hunt and A. G. Watson. 196 pp., apps., indexes. Oxford, Eng.: Bodleian Library, 1999. £60.

Ichuanxue yu baijia chengming: 1956 Qingdao zotanhui yanjiu (Genetics and the 'Let a Hundred Schools Contend' [Policy]: A Study of the Consequences of the 1956 Qingdao Genetics Symposium). 313 pp. Beijing: [n.p.], 1996. (Paper.)

Jacobsen, Theodor S. Planetary Systems from the Ancient Greeks to Kepler. xvi + 256 pp., illus., tables, bibl. [Seattle]: University of Washington Press, 1999.

Jeffrey, Ian. Revisions: An Alternative History of Photography. Foreword by Amanda Nevill. 119 pp., frontis., illus. Bradford, Eng.: The National Museum of Science & Industry, 1999. £17.95 (paper).

Jen, Ting-ch'eng. Tsai k'o hsüeh yu she hui chih chien: tui 1915-1949 nien Chung-kuo ssu hsiang ch'ao liu ti i chung k'ao ch'a. (Chung-hua po shih wen k'u/Zhonghua boshi wenku.) iii + 154 pp. Wu-han shih: Wu-han ch'u pan she, 1997.

Johnsgard, Paul A. The Pheasants of the World: Biology and Natural History. xviii + 398 pp., illus., app., bibl., index. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1999. $50.

Johnson, William S. A Fifty-Year Love Affair with Organic Chemistry. (Profiles, Pathways, and Dreams.) xxiv + 229 pp., illus., figs., tables, app., bibl., index. Washington, D.C.: American Chemical Society, 1998. $36.

Jones, Alexander (Editor). Astronomical Papyri from Oxyrhynchus. xii + 495 pp., illus., tables, apps., indexes. 2 vols. Philadelphia.: American Philosophical Society, 1999. $50.

Jones, Kathleen W. Taming the Troublesome Child: American Families, Child Guidance, and the Limits of Psychiatric Authority. x + 310 pp., index. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999. $47.50.

Kallaher, Michael J. (Editor). Revolutions in Differential Equations: Exploring ODEs with Modern Technology. (MAA Notes, 50.) x + 89 pp., illus., tables., bibls. Washington, D.C.: The Mathematical Association of America, 1999. $18.75 (paper).

Kaplan, Robert. The Nothing That Is: A Natural History of Zero. xii + 225 pp., illus., index. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. $22.

Kennedy, E. S.; Kunitzsch, P.; Lorch, R. P. (Editors). The Melon-Shaped Astrolabe in Arabic Astronomy. (Buthius, 43.) Translated by E. S. Kennedy, P. Kunitzsch and R. P. Lorch. vi + 235 pp., illus., tables, apps., bibl. Stuttgart, Germany: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1999. (Paper.)

King, Helen. Hippocrates' Woman: Reading the Female Body in Ancient Greece. xvi + 322 pp., illus., bibl., index. New York: Routledge, 1998. $27.99 (paper).

King, Roger. The Making of the Dentiste, c. 1650-1760. (The History of Medicine in Context.) x + 231 pp., illus., tables, bibl., index. Brookfield, Vt.: Ashgate, 1998. $84.95.

Kozulin, Alex. Vygotsky's Psychology: A Biography of Ideas. viii + 286 pp., illus., app., index. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999. $19.95 (paper.)

Kragh, Helge. Quantum Generations: A History of Physics in the Twentieth Century. xiv + 494 pp., illus., tables, app., bibl., index. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1999. $29.95, £18.95.

Kronk, Gary W. Cometography: A Catalog of Comets, (Volume 1: Ancient-1799). xvi + 563 pp., apps., bibl., indexes. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1999. $90.

Kusch, Martin. Psychological Knowledge: A Social History and Philosophy. (Philosophical Issues in Science.) xiv + 413 pp., illus., bibl., index. London/New York: Routledge, 1999. $99.99, Can$149.99.

Labouvie, Eva. Andere Umstände: Eine Kulturgeschichte der Geburt. vi + 393 pp., illus., tables, bibl. Cologne: Böhlau, 1998. DM 68, sFR 62, öS 496 (paper).

Lahav, Noam. Biogenesis: Theories of Life's Origin. xii + 349 pp., illus., figs., tables, bibl., index. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. $65 (cloth); $29.95 (paper).

Laissus, Yves. L'Egypte, une Aventure Savante: Avec Bonaparte, Kleber, Menou (1798-1801). 614 pp., illus., apps., bibl., index. Paris: Fayard, 1998. Fr170 (paper).

Lakatos, Imre; Feyerabend, Paul. For and Against Method: Including Lakatos's Lectures on Scientific Method and the Lakatos-Feyerabend Correspondence. Edited and with an introduction by Matteo Motterlini. xii + 451 pp., illus., apps., bibl., index. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1999. $34, £24.

Luck, James Murray. Reminiscences. Foreword by Joshua Lederberg. x + 260 pp., illus., apps. Palo Alto, Calif.: The James Murray Luck Memorial Fund, 1999.

Ludmerer, Kenneth M. Time to Heal: American Medical Education from the Turn of the Century to the Managed Care Era. xxvi + 514 pp., illus., tables, index. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. $29.95.

MacKenzie, Donald; Wajcman, Judy (Editors). The Social Shaping of Technology. xviii + 462 pp., illus., bibl., index. Originally published in 1985. Buckingham, Eng./Philadelphia: Open University Press, 1999. $ 27.95 (paper.)

Magnus, Albertus. On Animals: A Medieval Summa Zoologica. Translated and annotated by Kenneth F. Kitchell Jr. and Irven Michael Resnick. Two volumes. xlii + xxii + 1827 pp., apps., bibl., index. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. $116.

Man, John. Gobi: Tracking the Desert. xii + 212 pp., illus., index. Originally published in 1977. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1999. $24.95.

Marcus, Alan I; Segal, Howard P. Technology in America: A Brief History. xvi + 400 pp., illus., app., bibls., index. Originally published in 1989. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 1999.

McCartney, Scott. ENIAC: The Triumphs and Tragedies of the World's First Computer. viii + 262 pp., illus., bibl., index. New York: Walker and Company, 1999. $23.

McCloskey, Deirdre. Crossing: A Memoir. xvi + 266 pp., illus. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. $25.

McCosker, John E. The History of Steinhart Aquarium: A Very Fishy Tale. Foreword by Gary Larson. 160 pp., illus., bibl., index. Virginia Beach, Va.: The Donning Company, 1999. $39.95.

McDonald, Nicholas G. The Connecticut Valley in the Age of Dinosaurs: A Guide to the Geologic Literature, 1681-1995. (State Geological and Natural History Survey of Connecticut, 116.) xii + 242 pp., frontis., illus., tables, bibls., indexes. Hartford, Conn.: State Geological and Natural History Survey of Connecticut, 1996. $40 (paper).

McFarland-Icke, Bronwyn Rebekah. Nurses in Nazi Germany: Moral Choice in History. xvi + 343 pp., bibl., index. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1999. $35, £21.95.

McMahon, Sean H. Social Control and Public Intellect: The Legacy of Edward A. Ross. xiv + 199 pp., frontis., app., bibls., index. New Jersey: Transaction Publishers, 1999. $34.95.

Merrill, Marlene Deahl. Yellowstone and the Great West: Journals, Letters, and Images from the 1871 Hayden Expedition. xxx +315 pp., illus., tables, apps., bibl., index. Lincoln, Nebr.: University of Nebraska Press, 1999. $29.95, £19.95.

Micrologus: View and Vision in the Middle Ages. Volumes V (I) and VI (II). 265 + 281 pp., illus., indexes. Florence: Sismel Edizioni Del Galluzzo, 1997/1998. (Paper.)

Mikkeli, Heikki. Hygiene in the Early Modern Medical Tradition. (Humaniora, 305.) 195 pp., illus., bibl., index. Helsinki, Finland: Academia Scientiarum Fennica, 1999.

Molnar, Michael R. The Star of Bethlehem: The Legacy of the Magi. xvi + 187 pp., illus., tables, apps., bibl., index. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1999. $25.

Monforte, Guillermo Lusa (Editor). Todos a Madrid! La Escuela General Preparatoria de Ingenieros y Arquitectos (1886-1892). (Documentos de la Escuela de Ingenieros Industriales de Barcelona, 9.) 155 pp., illus. Barcelona: Escola Tecnica Superior d'Enginyeria Industrial de Barcelona Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, 1999.

Montgomery, Scott L. The Moon and the Western Imagination. xiv + 265 pp., illus., bibl., index. Tucson, Ariz.: The University of Arizona Press, 1999. $35.

Mowery, David C.; Nelson, Richard R. (Editors). Sources of Industrial Leadership: Studies of Seven Industries. viii + 401 pp., illus., tables, bibls., index. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1999. $59.95 (cloth); $22.95 (paper).

Musacchio, Jacqueline Marie. The Art and Ritual of Childbirth in Renaissance Italy. xiv + 212 pp., frontis., illus., apps., bibl., index. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999. $50.

Newton, Isaac. The Principia: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy. Translated by I. Bernard Cohen and Anne Whitman. xviii + 974 pp., illus., tables, apps., index. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. $75 (cloth); $35 (paper).

Ogilvie, Marilyn Bailey; Choquette, Clifford J. A Dame Full of Vim and Vigor: A Biography of Alice Middleton Boring; Biologist in China. (Women in Science.) xviii + 217 pp., illus., bibl., index. Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1999. $38.

Oldenziel, Ruth. Making Technology Masculine: Men, Women and Modern Machines in America, 1870-1945. 271 pp., illus., bibl., index. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 1999. $24.95 (paper).

Pacey, Arnold. Meaning in Technology. viii + 264 pp., illus., index. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1999. $27.50.

Parkin, Jon. Science, Religion and Politics in Restoration England: Richard Cumberland's de Legibus Naturae. xii + 251 pp., frontis., bibl., index. Woodbridge, Eng.: Royal Historical Society and Boydell Press, 1999. $75.

Parkinson, Richard. Cracking Codes : The Rosetta Stone and Decipherment . With contributions by W. Diffie, M. Fischer, and R. S. Simpson. 208 pp., frontis., illus., figs., tables., apps., bibl., index. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. $50 (cloth); $27.50 (paper).

Pasachoff, Jay M. Stars and Planets. (The Peterson Field Guide Series.) With monthly star maps and atlas charts by Wil Tirion. x + 578 pp., illus., figs., tables, bibl., index. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000. $30 (cloth); $19 (paper).

Perlin, John. Space to Earth: The Story of Solar Electricity. xvi + 224 pp., illus., app., index. Ann Arbor, Mich.: AATEC Publications, 1999. $32.

Poag, C. Wylie. Chesapeake Invader: Discovering America's Giant Meteorite Crater. xii + 183 pp., illus., tables, apps., index. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1999. $24.95, £15.95.

Polkinghorne, John. Belief in God in an Age of Science. (The Terry Lectures.) xvi + 133 pp., index. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1998. $9.95 (paper).

Prakash, Gyan. Another Reason: Science and the Imagination of Modern India. xiv + 304 pp., illus., bibl., index. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1999. $49.50, £31.00 (cloth); $17.95, £11.50 (paper).

Pritchard, James A. Preserving Yellowstone's Natural Conditions: Science and the Perception of Nature. Lincoln, Nebr. University of Nebraska Press: 1999. $45.

Pyenson, Lewis (Editor). Value: Pondering Goodness. viii + 98 pp., app. Lafayette, La.: University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1999.

Quinton, Anthony. Hume. (The Great Philosophers.) 59 pp., app. New York: Routledge, 1999. $6.00 (paper).

Rabinow, Paul. French DNA: Trouble in Purgatory. viii + 201 pp., apps., bibl. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. $25.

Rai, Karamjit S. Four Decades of Vector Biology at the University of Notre Dame: A Scientific Perspective. xii + 118 pp., tables, apps., bibl. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1999. $25 (paper).

Raphael, Frederic. Popper. (The Great Philosophers.) 59 pp., bibl. New York: Routledge, 1999. $6.00 (paper).

Resnik, Susan. Blood Saga: Hemophilia, AIDS, and the Survival of a Community. xvi + 292 pp., illus., tables, apps., bibl., index. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1999. $29.95.

Reynolds, John E., III; Rommel, Sentiel A. Biology of Marine Mammals. viii + 578 pp., illus., tables, apps., bibl., index. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1999. $75.

Robson, Eleanor. Mesopotamian Mathematics, 2100-1600 B.C.: Technical Constants in Bureaucracy and Education . xvi + 334 pp., illus., figs., tables, apps., bibl., indexes. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. $105 (paper).

Rose, Lynn E. Sun, Moon, and Sothis: A Study of Calendars and Calendar Reforms in Ancient Egypt. (The Osiris Series.) xxxvi + 339 pp., illus., apps., bibl., index. Deerfield Beach, Fla.: Kronos Press, 1999. $38.

Rothman, Tony; Sudarshan, E. C. G. Doubt and Certainty: The Celebrated Academy. xvi + 320 pp., illus., index. Reading, Mass.: Perseus Books, 1998. $15 (paper).

Ruse, Michael. The Darwinian Revolution: Science Red in Tooth and Claw. xvi +346 pp., illus., bibls., index. Originally published in 1979. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. $45, £31.50 (cloth); $18, £13 (paper).

Sadowsky, Jonathan. Imperial Bedlam: Institutions of Madness in Colonial Southeast Nigeria. (Medicine and Society, 10.) xii + 169 pp., bibl., index. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. $45 (cloth); $16.95 (paper).

Sanders, Albert; Anderson, William D., Jr. Natural History Investigations in South Carolina: From Colonial Times to the Present. xxxx + 333 pp., frontis., illus., apps., bibl., index. Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press, 1999. $45.

Schmandt-Besserat, Denise. The History of Counting. Illustrated by Michael Hays. 45 pp., illus., app., index. New York: Morrow Junior Books, 1999. $17.

Scholthof, Karen-Beth; Shaw, John G.; Zaitlin, Milton (Editors). Tobacco Mosaic Virus: One Hundred Years of Contributions to Virology. viii + 256 pp., illus., figs., tables, apps., bibls. St. Paul, Minn.: The American Phytopathological Society, 1999. $49.

Sewell, Jane Eliot. Medicine in Maryland: The Practice and the Profession, 1799-1999. xviii + 238 pp., illus., app., index. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. $39.95.

Sharpe, Tom; McCartney, Paul J. (Editors). The Papers of H. T. De la Beche (1796-1855) in the National Museum of Wales. (Geological Series, 17.) 257 pp., illus., figs, index. Cardiff, Wales: National Museum of Wales, 1998.

Small, Hugh. Florence Nightingale: Avenging Angel. xii + 221 pp., illus., bibl., index. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998. $35.

Smith, A. Mark. Ptolemy and the Foundations of Ancient Mathematical Optics: A Source Based Guided Study. (Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, 89.) 172 pp., illus., index. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1999. $20 (paper).

Smith, Crosbie; Agar, Jon (Editors). Making Space for Science: Territorial Themes in the Shaping of Knowledge. (Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History.) xii + 374 pp., illus., figs., app., bibl., index. London: Macmillan Press, 1998. £20.

Smith, Mark J. (Editor). Thinking Through the Environment: A Reader. xii + 435 pp., illus., figs., bibls., index. London/New York: Routledge, 1999. $90, Can$135 (cloth); $29.99, Can$44.99 (paper).

Sober, Elliott; Wilson, David Sloan. Unto Others: The Evolution and Psychology of Unselfish Behavior. 394 pp., illus., bibl., index. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1998. $17.95 (paper).

Stern, Fritz. Einstein's German World. x + 335 pp., app., index. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1999. $24.95, £15.95.

Stigler, Stephen M. Statistics on the Table: The History of Statistical Concepts and Methods. x + 488 pp., illus., figs., tables, app., bibl., index. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999. $45.00, £27.95.

Stocker, Jack H. Chemistry and Science Fiction. xxii + 292 pp., illus., figs., bibl., index. Washington, D.C.: American Chemical Society, 1998. $29.95 (paper).

Stove, David. Against the Idols of the Age. Edited and with an introduction by Roger Kimball. xxxvi + 347 pp., index. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 1999. $39.95.

Strahler, Arthur N. Science and Earth History: The Evolution/Creation Controversy. xvi + 552 pp., illus., figs., tables, bibl., indexes. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1999. $55.95.

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Timmermans, Stefan. Sudden Death and the Myth of CPR. Foreword by Sern Shen. xviii + 256 pp., illus., app., bibl., index. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1999.

Treasures of the Science Museum. 131 pp., illus. London: The Yomiuri Shimbun, 1998. £10.

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Voelkel, James R. Johannes Kepler and the New Astronomy. 141 pp., frontis., illus., apps., bibl., index. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. $21.

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Wallace, Anthony F. C. Jefferson and the Indians: The Tragic Fate of the First Americans. xvi + 394 pp., frontis., figs., illus., apps., index. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999. $29.95, £18.50.

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