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Books received for March 2016

Adam, Alison, A History of Forensic Science: British Beginnings in the Twentieth Century. Abingdon: Routledge, 2016. Pp. 236. ISBN 978-0-415-85642-3. £90.00 (hardback).

Alexander, Amir, Infinitesimal: How a Dangerous Mathematical Theory Shaped the Modern World. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015. Pp. 352. ISBN 978-0-374-53499-8. $16.00 (paperback). 

Anderson, Christy, Dunlop, Anne, and Smith, Pamela H. (eds.), The Matter of Art. Materials, Practices, Cultural Logics, C.1250-1750. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016. Pp. 360. ISBN 978-1-7849-9282-8. £19.99 (paperback).

Anduaga, Aitor, Geophysics, Realism, and Industry: How Commercial Interests Shaped Geophysical Conceptions, 1900-1960. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. 368. ISBN 978-0-19-875515-9. £45 (hardback).

Barnes, Robin B., Astrology and Reformation. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. 408. ISBN 978-0-19-973605-8. £47.99 (hardback).

Bloore, Peter, and Martin, Edward (eds.), Wingfield College and Its Patrons: Piety and Prestige in Medieval Suffolk. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2015. Pp. 289. ISBN 978-1-84383-832-6. £50 (hardback).

Bonneuil, Christophe, and Fressoz, Jean-Baptiste, The Shock of the Anthropocene: The Earth, History and Us. Translated by David Fernbach.  London: Verso Books, 2016. Pp. xiv + 320. ISBN 978-1-7847-8079-1. £16.99 (hardback).

Brandsma, Frank, Larrington, Carolyne, and Saunders, Corinne (eds.), Emotions in Medieval Arthurian Literature: Body, Mind, Voice. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2015. Pp. 221. ISBN 978-1-84384-421-1. £60 (hardback).

Burkhardt, Frederick, Secord, James A., and the Editors of the Darwin Correspondence Project (eds.), The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Volume 23: 1875. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Pp. xliv + 799. ISBN 978-1-107-13436-2. £94.99 (hardback)

Casper, Stephen T., The Neurologists: A History of A Medical Speciality in Modern Britain, c. 1789-2000. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016. Pp. 256. ISBN 978-0-7190-9981-6. £16.99 (paperback).

Collier, James H. (ed.), The Future of Social Epistemology: A Collective Vision. London and New York: Rowman and Littlefield International, 2016. Pp. 300. ISBN 978-1-78348-266-5. £24.95 (paperback).

Copenhaver, Brian P., Magic in Western Culture: From Antiquity to the Enlightenment. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Pp. xiv + 612. ISBN 978-1-107-07052-3. £80.00 (hardback).

Curtis, Scott, The Shape of Spectatorship: Art, Science, and Early Cinema in Germany. New York: Columbia University Press, 2015. Pp. 400. ISBN 978-0-231-13403-3. £24 (paperback).

van Dongen, Jeroen (ed.), Cold War Science and the Transatlantic Circulation of Knowledge. Leiden: Brill, 2016. Pp. x + 293. ISBN 978-9-004-26421-2. €115 (paperback).

Dunn, Richard and Higgitt, Rebekah (eds.), Navigational Enterprises in Europe and Its Empires, 1730-1850. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. Pp. 272. ISBN 978-1-137-52063-0. £63 (hardback).

Duris, Pascal, Quelle Révolution Scientifique? Les sciences de la vie dans la querelle des Anciens et des Modernes (XVIe -XVIIIe siècles). Paris: Éditions Hermann, 2016. Pp. 412. ISBN 978-2-7056-9179-0. €40.00 (paperback).

Elmer, Peter, Witchcraft, Witch-Hunting, and Politics in Early Modern England. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. x + 384. ISBN 978-0-19-871772-0. £65.00 (hardback).

Erickson, Paul, The World The Game Theorists Made. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. Pp. 384. ISBN 978-0-226-09717-6. $35.00 (paperback). 

Galati, Gaspare, 100 Years of Radar.  Heidelberg: Springer, 2016. Pp. XVIII + 399. ISBN 978-3-319-00583-6. £117 (hardback).

Gale, Barry G., Love in Vienna: The Sigmund Freud-Minna Bernays Affair. Santa Barbara, California: Praeger, 2016. Pp. 250. ISBN 978-1-4408-4220-7. £30 (hardback).

Galilei, Galileo, Sidereus Nuncius, or the Sidereal Messenger. Translated and with Commentary by Albert Van Helden. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. Pp. 152. ISBN 978-0-226-32009-0. £12.00 (paperback).

Gamwell, Lynn, Mathematics and Art: A Cultural History. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016. Pp. 576. ISBN 978-0-691-16528-8. £34.95 (hardback).

Gaukroger, Stephen, The Natural and the Human: Science and the Shaping of Modernity 1739-1841. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. 416. ISBN 978-0-19-875763-4. £30 (hardback).

Grigson, Caroline, Menagerie: The History of Exotic Animals in England, 1100-1837. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. 368. ISBN 978-0-19-871470-5. £25.00 (hardback).

Hogg, Jonathan, British Nuclear Culture: Official and Unofficial Narratives in the Long Twentieth Century. London: Bloomsbury, 2016. Pp. 248. ISBN 978-1-4411-6976-1. £19.99 (paperback).

Hollings, Christopher D., Scientific Communication Across the Iron Curtain. Heidelberg: Springer, 2016. Pp. xii + 109. ISBN 978-3-319-25344-2. £44.99 (paperback).

Jasanoff, Sheila, and Kim, Sang-Hyun (eds.), Dreamscapes of Modernity: Sociotechnical Imaginaries and the Fabrication of Power. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. Pp. 360. ISBN 978-0-226-27652-6. $35.00 (paperback).

Jin, Dengjian, The Great Knowledge Transcendence: The Rise of Western Science and Technology Reframed. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. Pp. 320. ISBN 978-1-137-52793-6. £63 (hardback).

Johnston, Sean F., Holograms: A Cultural History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. 272. ISBN 978-0-19-871276-3. £39.99 (hardback).

Kritsky, Gene, The Tears of RE: Beekeeping in Ancient Egypt. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp. 160. ISBN 978-0-19-936138-0. £19.99 (hardback).

Lang, Philippa, Science: Antiqvity and Its Legacy. London: I.B. Tauris, 2016. Pp. 192. ISBN 978-1-780-76171-8. £56 (hardback).

Lightman, Bernard, Global Spencerism: The Communication and Appropriation of a British Evolutionist. Leiden: Brill, 2016. Pp. xiv + 310. ISBN 978-9-004-26399-4. €115 (paperback).

Leeson, Robert (ed.), Hayek: A Collaborative Biography. Part III, Fraud, Fascism and Free Market Religion. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. Pp. 320. ISBN978-1-137-45241-2. £79.00 (hardback).

McKinnell, Robert Gilmore, The Understanding, Prevention and Control of Human Cancer: The Historic Work and Lives of Elizabeth Cavert Miller and James A. Miller. Leiden: Brill, 2016. Pp. xvi + 196. ISBN 978-9-004-28679-5. €45 (paperback).

Mooney, Graham, Intrusive Interventions: Public Health, Domestic Space, and Infectious Disease Surveillance in England, 1840-1914. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2015. Pp. 292. ISBN 978-1-58046-527-4. £80 (hardback).

Morris-Reich, Amos, Race and Photography: Racial Photography As Scientific Evidence, 1876-1980. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. Pp. 320. ISBN 978-0-226-32088-5. £23.00 (paperback).

Olson, Richard G., Scientism and Technocracy in the Twentieth Century: The Legacy of Scientific Management. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2016. Pp. 230. ISBN 978-1-4985-2570-1. £54.95 (hardback).

Opitz, Donald L., Bergwik, Staffan, and Van Tiggelen, Brigitte (eds.), Domesticity in the Making of Modern Science. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. Pp. 320. ISBN 978-1-137-49272-2. £63 (hardback).

Niaz, Mansoor, Chemistry Education and Contributions from History and Philosophy of Science. Heidelberg: Springer International Publishing, 2016. Pp. xx + 250. ISBN 978-3-319-26246-8. £74.50 (hardback).

Preston, Claire, The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp. 320. ISBN 978-0-19-870480-5. £60 (hardback).

Schmalzer, Sigrid, Red Revolution, Green Revolution: Scientific Farming in Socialist China. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. Pp. x + 320. ISBN 978-0-226-33015-0. £31.50 (hardback).

Swanson, Eric S., Science and Society: Understanding Scientific Methodology, Energy, Climate, and Sustainability. Heidelberg: Springer, 2016. Pp. XXIX + 276. ISBN 978-3-319-21986-8. £44.99 (hardback).

Taylor, Fred, Exploring The Planets: A Memoir. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. 384. ISBN 978-0-19-967159-5. £25.00 (hardback).

Wagner, Roger, and Briggs, Andrew, The Penultimate Curiosity: How the Science Swims in the Slipstream of Ultimate Questions. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. xxiii + 496. ISBN 978-0-19-874795-6. £25.00 (hardback). 

Walker, Paul E., Poonawala, Ismail K., Simonowitz, David, and de Callataÿ, Godefroid (eds. and trans. by), Sciences of the Soul and Intellect, Part I: An Arabic Critical Edition and English Translation of EPISTLES 32-36. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp. xxiii + 496. ISBN 978-0-19-875828-0. £60.00 (hardback).

Walloch, Karen L., The Antivaccine Heresy: Jacobson v. Massachusetts and the Troubled History of Compulsory Vaccination in the United States. Rochester, NY: Univeristy of Rochester Press, 2015. Pp. 352. ISBN 978-1-58046-537-3. £80 (hardback).

Winterbottom, Anna, Hybrid Knowledge in the Early East India Company World. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. Pp. xii + 324. ISBN 978-1-137-38019-7. £63.00 (hardback).

Winterbottom, Anna, and Tesfaye, Facil (eds.), Histories of Medicine and Healing in the Indian Ocean World, Volume One: The Medieval and Early Modern Period. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, 2016. Pp. 220. ISBN 978-1-137-56760-4. £63 (hardback).

Winterbottom, Anna, and Tesfaye, Facil (eds.), Histories of Medicine and Healing in the Indian Ocean World, Volume Two: The Modern Period. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. Pp. 296. ISBN 978-1-137-56761-1. £63 (hardback).

Withey, Alun, Transforming the Body: Technology, Self-Fashioning and Politeness in Eighteenth-Century Britain: Refinded Bodies. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. Pp. x + 140. ISBN 978-1-137-46747-8. £45.00 (hardback).

Yale, Elizabeth, Sociable Knowledge: Natural History and the Nation in Early Modern Britain. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. Pp. xi + 360. ISBN 978-0-8122-4781-7. £45.50 (hardback).