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Books received for June 2016

Ackerknecht, Erwin H., A Short History of Medicine, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016. Pp. xxiii + 247. ISBN 978-1-4214-1954-1. $29.95 (paperback).

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

Amadae, S. M., Prisoners of Reason: Game Theory and Neoliberal Political Economy. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Pp. xxix + 333. ISBN 978-1-107-67119-5. £64.99 (paperback).

Arnold, David, Toxic Histories: Poison and Pollution in Modern India. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Pp. viii + 241. ISBN 978-1-107-12697-8. £34.99 (hardback). 

Aubin, David, and Goldstein, Catherine (eds.), The War of Guns and Mathematics: Mathematical Practice and Communities in France and Its Western Allies around World War I. Providence, Rhode Island: American Mathematical Society, 2014. Pp. xviii + 391. ISBN 978-1-4704-1469-6. $126.00 (hardback).

Bellorini, Cristina, The World of Plants in Renaissance Tuscany: Medicine and Botany. Farnham: Ashgate, 2016. Pp. xiii + 261. ISBN 978-1-4724-6622-8. £95.00 (hardback).

Beretta, Marco, Lucrezio: De Rerum Natura. Editio Princeps (1472-73). Bologna: Bononia University Press, 2016. Pp. ISBN 978-88-6923-066-0. €150.00 (paperback).

Beretta, Marco, La rivoluzione culturaledi Lucrezio: Filosofia e scienza nell'antica Roma. Roma: Carocci editore, 2015. Pp. 312. ISBN 978-88-430-7945-2. €32.00 (paperback).

Berger, Albert I., Life and Times of Atomic Bomb. Abingdon: Routledge, 2016. Pp. ix + 225. ISBN 978-0-765-61986-0. £28.99 (paperback).

Biggs, Norman, Quite Right: The Story of Mathematics, Measurement, and Money. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. viii + 176. ISBN 978-0-19-875335-3. £19.99 (hardback).

Brock, William H., The History of Chemistry: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. xvi + 151. ISBN 978-0-19-871648-8. £7.99 (paperback).

Campenot, Robert B., Animal Electricity: How We Learned That the Body and Brain Are Electric Machines. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016. Pp. 340. ISBN 978-0-674-73681-8. $39.95 (cloth).

Cayleef, Susan E., Nature’s Path: A History of Naturopathic Healing in America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016. Pp. x + 397. ISBN 978-1-4214-1903-9. $39.95 (hardback).

Chen-Morris, Raz, Measuring Shadows: Kepler’s Optics of Invisibility. Pennsylvania: Penn State University Press, 2016. Pp. 264. ISBN 978-0-271-07098-8. $79.95 (hardback).

Clavelin, Maurice, Galilée, cosmologie et science du mouvement: suivi de Regards sur l'empirisme au xxe siècle. Paris: CNRS Éditions, 2016. Pp. 392. ISBN 978-2-271-09023-2. €25.00 (paperback).

Crawford, Matthew J., The Andean Wonder Drug: Cinchona Bark and Imperial Science in the Spanish Atlantic, 1630-1800. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016. Pp. xi + 284. ISBN 978-0-8229-4452-2. $45.00 (hardback).

Crook, Tom, and Esbester, Mike (eds.), Governing Risks in Modern Britain: Danger, Safety and Accidents, c. 1800-2000. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. Pp. xiv + 315. ISBN 978-1-137-46744-7. £63.00 (hardback).

Dawson, Gowan, Show Me the Bone: Reconstructing Prehistoric Monsters in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. Pp. 476. ISBN 978-0-226-33273-4. $50.00 (cloth).  

Dixon, John M., The Enlightenment of Cadwallader Colden: Empire, Science, and Intellectual Culture in British New York. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2016. Pp. xi + 243. ISBN 978-0-8014-4803-4. $35.00 (hardback).

Epstein, Marc E., Moths, Myths, and Mosquitoes: The Eccentric Life of Harrison G. Dyar, Jr. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. 360.  ISBN 978-0-19-021525-5. £25.99 (hardback).

Ferngren, Gary B., Medicine & Health Care in Early Christianity. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016. Pp. 246. ISBN 978-1-4214-2006-6. $29.95 (paperback).

Fleming, James R., Inventing Atmospheric Science: Bjerknes, Rossby, Wexler, and the Foundations of Modern Meteorology. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2016. Pp. x + 296. ISBN 978-0-262-03394-7. £22.95 (cloth).

Franklin, Allan, What Makes a Good Experiment? Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016. Pp. viii + 372. ISBN 978-0-8229-4441-6. $55.00 (hardback). 

Gillespie, Sarah K., The Early American Daguerreotype: Cross-Currents in Art and Technology. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2016. Pp. x + 213. £23.95 (cloth).

Golinski, Jan, The Experimental Self: Humphry Davy and the Making of a Man of Science. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. Pp. 259. ISBN 978-0-226-35136-0. $30.00 (cloth). 

Graham, Loren, Lysenko’s Ghost: Epigenetics and Russia. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016. Pp. 200. ISBN 978-0-674-08905-1. £18.95 (hardback).

Haigh, Thomas, Priestley, Mark, and Rope, Crispin, ENIAC in Action: Making and Remaking the Modern Computer. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2016. Pp. xvii + 341. ISBN 978-0-262-03398-5. £28.95 (cloth).

Hardy, Anne, Salmonella Infections, Networks of Knowledge, and Public Health in Britain 1880-1975. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp. x + 249. ISBN 978-0-19-870497-3. £60.00 (hardback). 

Hayton, Darin, The Crown and the Cosmos: Astrology and the Politics of Maximilian I. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015. Pp. xii + 312. ISBN 978-0-8229-4443-0. $45.00 (cloth).

Huth, John Edward, The Lost Art of Finding Our Way. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015. Pp. 528. ISBN 978-0-674-08807-8. $20.95 (paperback). 

Jaroszkiewicz, George, Images of Time: Mind, Science, Reality. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. xvi + 305. ISBN 978-0-19-871806-2. £25.00 (hardback).

Jin, Dengjian, The Great Knowledge Transcendence: The Rise of Western Science and Technology Reframed. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. Pp. xii + 312. ISBN 978-1-137-52793-6. £63.00 (hardback).

Johnstone, Emm Barnes, with Baines, Joanna, The Changing Faces of Childhood Cancer: Clinical and Cultural Visions Since 1940. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. Pp. xiii + 236. ISBN 978-1-4039-8801-0. £63.00 (hardback).

Jorgensen, Timothy J., Strange Glow: The Story of Radiation. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016. Pp. 512. ISBN 978-0-691-16503-5. £24.95 (hardback).

Josephson, Paul R., Fish Sticks, Sports Bras, & Aluminium Cans: The Politics of Everyday Technologies. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015. Pp. ix + 212. ISBN 978-1-4214-1783-7. $29.95 (paperback).

van Leeuwen, Joyce, The Aristotelian Mechanics: Text and Diagrams. Heidelberg: Springer, 2016. Pp. ix + 253. ISBN 978-3-319-25923-9. £86.00 (hardback).

Linstrum, Erik, Ruling Minds: Psychology in the British Empire. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016. Pp. 309. ISBN 978-0-674-08866-5. $39.95 (hardback).

Lopez-Cajun, Carlos, and Ceccarelli, Marco (eds.), Explorations in the History of Machines and Mechanisms: Proceedings of the Fifth IFToMM Symposium on the History of Machines and Mechanisms. Switzerland: Springer, 2016. Pp. vi + 259. ISBN 978-3-319-31182-1. £86.00 (hardback).

Keller, Vera, Knowledge and the Public Interest, 1575-1725. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Pp. x + 350. ISBN 978-1-107-11013-7. £64.99 (hardback). 
 
Lightman, Bernhard (ed.), A Companion to the History of Science. Oxford: Wiley Blackwell, 2016. Pp. xvi + 601. ISBN 978-1-118-62077-9. £120.00 (hardback).

McCarthy, John A., Hilger, Stephanie M., Sullivan, Heather I., and Saul, Nicholas (eds.), The Early History of Embodied Cognition 1740-1920: The Lebenskraft-Debate and Radical Reality in German Science, Music, and Literature. Leiden: Brill, 2016. Pp. 357. ISBN 978-90-04-30902-9. $128.00 (paperback).

MacLeod, Miles, Sumillera, Rocio G., Surman, Jan, and Smirnova, Ekaterina, Language as a Scientific Tool: Shaping Scientific Language Across Time and National Tradition. New York, NY: Routledge, 2016. Pp. vii + 229. ISBN 978-1-138-10105-0. £90.00 (hardback).

Misa, Thomas J., and Yost, Jeffrey R., FastLane: Managing Science in the Internet World. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016. Pp. ix + 206. ISBN 978-1-4214-1868-1. $34.95 (hardback).

Meloni, Maurizio, Political Biology: Science and Social Values in Human Heredity from Eugenics to Epigenetics. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. Pp. xi + 284. ISBN 978-1-137-37771-5. £68.00 (hardback). 

Montgomery, Georgina M., and Largent, Mark A., A Companion to the History of American Science. Chichester: Wiley Blackwell, 2016. Pp. xvii + 692. ISBN 978-1-4051-5625-7. £120.00 (hardback). 

Munz, Tania, The Dancing Bees: Karl von Frisch and the Discovery of the Honeybee Language. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. Pp. 278. ISBN 978-0-226-02086-0. $30.00 (cloth).

Numbers, Ronald L., and Kampourakis, Kostas (eds.), Newton’s Apple and Other Myths about Science. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015. Pp. 287. ISBN 978-0-674-96798-4. $27.95 (cloth). 

Oldfield, Jonathan D., and Shaw, Denis J. B., The Development of Russian Environmental Thought: Scientific and Geographical Perspectives on the Natural Environment. Abingdon: Routledge, 2016. Pp. 196. ISBN 978-0-415-58059-5. £95.00 (hardback).

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

Priestley, Rebecca (ed.), Dispatches from Continent Seven: An Anthology of Antarctic Science. Wellington: AWA Press, 2016. Pp. xxxi + 422. ISBN 978-1-927249-05-5. NZ$ 55.00 (paperback). 

Redman, Samuel J., Bone Rooms: From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museums. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016. Pp. 373. ISBN 978-0-674-66041-0. $29.95 (alk. paper).

Richards, Robert J., and Daston, Lorraine (eds.), Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions at Fifty: Reflections on a Science Classic. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. Pp. 208. ISBN 978-0-226-31720-5. £17.50 (paperback).

Riskin, Jessica, The Restless Clock: A History of the Centuries-Long Argument over What Makes Living Things Tick. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. Pp. 544. ISBN 978-0-226-30292-8. $40.00 (hardback).  

Skuse, Alanna, Constructions of Cancer in Early Modern England: Ravenous Natures. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. Pp. viii + 219. ISBN 978-1-137-48752-0. £20.00 (hardback).

Sussman, Robert Wald, The Myth of Race: The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016. Pp. ix + 374. ISBN 978-0-674-66003-8. $19.95 (paperback). 

Taylor, Simon, The Fall and Rise of Nuclear Power in Britain: A History. Cambridge: UIT Cambridge, 2016. Pp. 256. ISBN 978-1-906-86031-8. £19.99 (paperback).

Wiggins, Arthur W., and Wynn Sr., Charles M., cartoon commentary by Sidney Harris, The Human Side of Science: Edison and Tesla, Watson and Crick, and Other Personal Stories Behind Science's Big Ideas. New York: Prometheus Books, 2016. Pp. 364. ISBN 978-1-63388-156-3 $25.00 (hardback).