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• Amazon.com External Amazon.com offers book reviews of many of the book titles it sells. Some reviews are by professionals; many are by readers. Find a book and scroll down its entry to read the reviews, where present. For balance, try a variety of positive and negative reviews.
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Book reviews in academic journals: patterns and dynamics

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• Weishu Liu   ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0001-8780-6709 1 ,
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• Mengdi Gu 2  

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Book reviews play important roles in scholarly communication especially in arts and humanities disciplines. By using Web of Science’s Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index, this study probed the patterns and dynamics of book reviews within these three indexes empirically during the past decade (2006–2015). We found that the absolute numbers of book reviews among all the three indexes were relatively stable but the relative shares were decreasing. Book reviews were very common in arts and humanities, common in social sciences, but rare in natural sciences. Book reviews are mainly contributed by authors from developed economies such as the USA and the UK. Oppositely, scholars from China and Japan are unlikely to contribute to book reviews.

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The number of general articles began to surpass book reviews from 2013 in A&HCI index.

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This research is supported by National Social Science Foundation of China (#16ZD08, #13AZD072, and #12AZD046). All the views expressed herein are those of the authors who also take full responsibility for any errors. The authors would also like to thank the anonymous reviewer for his (her) constructive comments and kindly help in editing the language of the manuscript.

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This guide is intended to help Harvard students and faculty find book reviews. Book reviews are published in general/popular magazines (e.g., Newsweek ), scholarly journals (e.g., British Journal for the History of Science ), and in book review periodicals ( New York Review of Books ). The reviews may be brief summaries or long scholarly evaluations.

Find them by consulting periodical indexes and book review indexes. This guide lists some of the major general indexes which include book reviews. Many periodical indexes index book reviews; others do not. See Finding Articles in General and Popular Periodicals (North America and Western Europe) for general periodical indexes which may index book reviews. Research guides to specialized periodical indexes are listed in the Introduction to Finding Articles in General and Popular Periodicals (North America and Western Europe) .

Online resources are available through Harvard Library (Harvard ID and PIN required) unless otherwise indicated.

If you want scholarly evaluative book reviews, you may wish to omit reviews in: American Libraries , Booklist , Choice , Library Journal , Publishers Weekly . These reviews do provide good short statements of the subjects of books.

HOLLIS In the Catalog+Articles search, enter the title of your book in quotes ("").  If the title is short and insufficient to specify the book, add the author's name. If there are too many other kinds of articles, choose Reviews under Resource Type on the left side of the screen. Example: Emigrants Sebald.

Academic Search Premier (EBSCOHost) coverage is, largely, from the 1980s to the present. For book reviews enter author and title words. Thus, "Buell and imagination" for reviews of Lawrence Buell's The Environmental Imagination . Results can be limited to book reviews by using the Document Type limitation, but this may exclude some articles of interest, e.g., interviews with the author, which are not strictly speaking book reviews.

Citation Indexes (Web of Science) . Choose General Search. You may enter the authors last name and a word or words from the title. Thus for W. G. Sebald's Vertigo , search Sebald and Vertigo. You may limit to Book Reviews using "Restrict search by languages and document types:". A guide is available: Searching the Citation Indexes (Web of Science) . The Web of Science comprises three indexes: Science Citation Index, (1900- ), Social Sciences Citation Index (1956- ) and Arts and Humanities Citation Index (1975- ). The indexed journals are listed by subject categories in the Thomson Master Journal List .

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The journal publishes two types of review: single or double book reviews and essay reviews. The former take a focused approach to assessing the merits of recent publications for specialist and general readers in the history of science. They range in length from 600-1000 words for single book reviews to 1000-1400 words for double reviews. The latter take two or more recent publications in tandem and utilise a longer essay style format (word length agreed ad hoc ). Essay reviews provide the opportunity to explore a developing historiography or set of historical problems. They provide readers with an invaluable guide to the questions and concerns that shape areas of research within the history of science, technology and medicine.

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 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)

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 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., I nside 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, I nvestigating 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., V alues 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  Extra ordinary 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). 

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).

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Peer review is essential for science. unfortunately, it’s broken., there's no incentive to fix the system, which was never designed to catch fraud anyway..

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Rescuing Science: Restoring Trust in an Age of Doubt was the most difficult book I've ever written. I'm a cosmologist—I study the origins, structure, and evolution of the Universe. I love science. I live and breathe science. If science were a breakfast cereal, I'd eat it every morning. And at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, I watched in alarm as public trust in science disintegrated.

But I don't know how to change people's minds. I don't know how to convince someone to trust science again. So as I started writing my book, I flipped the question around: is there anything we can do to make the institution of science more worthy of trust?

The short answer is yes. The long answer takes an entire book. In the book, I explore several different sources of mistrust—the disincentives scientists face when they try to communicate with the public, the lack of long-term careers, the complicitness of scientists when their work is politicized, and much more—and offer proactive steps we can take to address these issues to rebuild trust.

The section below is taken from a chapter discussing the relentless pressure to publish that scientists face, and the corresponding explosion in fraud that this pressure creates. Fraud can take many forms, from the "hard fraud" of outright fabrication of data, to many kinds of "soft fraud" that include plagiarism, manipulation of data, and careful selection of methods to achieve a desired result. The more that fraud thrives, the more that the public loses trust in science. Addressing this requires a fundamental shift in the incentive and reward structures that scientists work in. A difficult task to be sure, but not an impossible one—and one that I firmly believe will be worth the effort.

Modern science is hard, complex, and built from many layers and many years of hard work. And modern science, almost everywhere, is based on computation. Save for a few (and I mean very few) die-hard theorists who insist on writing things down with pen and paper, there is almost an absolute guarantee that with any paper in any field of science that you could possibly read, a computer was involved in some step of the process.

Whether it’s studying bird droppings or the collisions of galaxies, modern-day science owes its very existence—and continued persistence—to the computer. From the laptop sitting on an unkempt desk to a giant machine that fills up a room, “S. Transistor” should be the coauthor on basically all three million journal articles published every year.

The sheer complexity of modern science, and its reliance on customized software, renders one of the frontline defenses against soft and hard fraud useless. That defense is peer review.

The practice of peer review was developed in a different era, when the arguments and analysis that led to a paper’s conclusion could be succinctly summarized within the paper itself. Want to know how the author arrived at that conclusion? The derivation would be right there. It was relatively easy to judge the “wrongness” of an article because you could follow the document from beginning to end, from start to finish, and have all the information you needed to evaluate it right there at your fingerprints. That’s now largely impossible with the modern scientific enterprise so reliant on computers.

To makes matters worse, many of the software codes used in science are not publicly available. I’ll say this again because it’s kind of wild to even contemplate: there are millions of papers published every year that rely on computer software to make the results happen, and that software is not available for other scientists to scrutinize to see if it’s legit or not. We simply have to trust it, but the word “trust” is very near the bottom of the scientist’s priority list.

Why don’t scientists make their code available? It boils down to the same reason that scientists don’t do many things that would improve the process of science: there’s no incentive. In this case, you don’t get any h-index points for releasing your code on a website. You only get them for publishing papers.

This infinitely agitates me when I peer-review papers. How am I supposed to judge the correctness of an article if I can’t see the entire process? What’s the point of searching for fraud when the computer code that’s sitting behind the published result can be shaped and molded to give any result you want, and nobody will be the wiser?

I’m not even talking about intentional computer-based fraud here; this is even a problem for detecting basic mistakes. If you make a mistake in a paper, a referee or an editor can spot it. And science is better off for it. If you make a mistake in your code... who checks it? As long as the results look correct, you’ll go ahead and publish it and the peer reviewer will go ahead and accept it. And science is worse off for it.

Science is getting more complex over time and is becoming increasingly reliant on software code to keep the engine going. This makes fraud of both the hard and soft varieties easier to accomplish. From mistakes that you pass over because you’re going too fast, to using sophisticated tools that you barely understand but use to get the result that you wanted, to just totally faking it, science is becoming increasingly wrong.

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FILE - Llano resident Emily Decker protests outside a Llano County Commissioner’s Court meeting at the Llano County Law Enforcement Center, April 13, 2023, in Llano, Texas. A federal appeals court in New Orleans is taking another look at its own order requiring Llano County, Texas, to keep eight books on public library shelves that deal with subjects including sex, gender identity and racism. County officials had removed over a dozen books from its shelves amid complaints about the subject matter. (Aaron E. Martinez/Austin American-Statesman via AP, File)

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Llano County officials had removed 17 books from its shelves amid complaints about the subject matter. Seven library patrons claimed the books were illegally removed in a lawsuit against county officials. U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman ruled last year that the books must be returned. Attorneys for Llano County say the books were returned while they appeal Pittman’s order.

While the library patrons say removing the books constitutes an illegal government squelching of viewpoints, county officials have argued that they have broad authority to decide which books belong on library shelves and that those decisions are a form of constitutionally protected government speech.

On June 6, a panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals split three ways on the case, resulting in an order that eight of the books had to be kept on the shelves, while nine others could be kept off.

That order was vacated Wednesday evening after a majority of the 17-member court granted Llano County officials a new hearing before the full court. The order did not state reasons and the hearing hasn’t yet been scheduled.

In his 2023 ruling, Pitman, nominated to the federal bench by former President Barack Obama, ruled that the library plaintiffs had shown Llano officials were “driven by their antipathy to the ideas in the banned books.” The works ranged from children’s books to award-winning nonfiction, including “They Called Themselves the K.K.K: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group,” by Susan Campbell Bartoletti; and “It’s Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex and Sexual Health,” by Robie Harris.

Pitman was largely upheld by the 5th Circuit panel that ruled June 6. The main opinion was by Judge Jacques Wiener, nominated to the court by former President George H. W. Bush. Wiener said the books were clearly removed at the behest of county officials who disagreed with the books’ messages.

Judge Leslie Southwick, a nominee of former President George W. Bush, largely agreed but said some of the removals might stand a court test as the case progresses, noting that some of the books dealt more with “juvenile, flatulent humor” than weightier subjects.

Judge Stuart Kyle Duncan, a nominee of former President Donald Trump, dissented fully, saying his colleagues “have appointed themselves co-chairs of every public library board across the Fifth Circuit.”

The circuit covers federal courts in Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas.

The decision to rehear the case was a victory for Llano County, whose lawyers argued that there were numerous errors in the June 6 opinion, including the incorrect claim that the books had not been returned the shelves pending appeals.

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Monash Sensory Science exhibition and books gain international recognition

15 July 2024

A creative and inclusive Monash University program to employ laboratory staff with disabilities and bring science to life for those with low vision has been highlighted in the journal Cell .

It is hoped that this publication will catalyse other researchers and institutions to be more inclusive in the workplace and in public engagement.

Monash Sensory Science began as a Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute (BDI) internship program for people with disabilities and a one-off exhibition for blind and low-vision communities.

Supported by the ARC and Monash University, it has evolved into a national and international multisensory, accessible science initiative involving accessible employment, exhibitions and books championing inclusion in science communication.

The founder of this initiative and BDI researcher Professor Jamie Rossjohn reflected on the opportunities he’d received during his career and whether he would have had them if he had a disability.

“The answer to this question is likely no, because all too often, science is taught and communicated through the lens of able-bodied people to the exclusion of people with disabilities,” Professor Rossjohn said in the article .

“There was also the realisation that in the two decades of running a lab, we hadn’t included employees with diverse physical needs. People with disabilities face huge challenges in securing employment, and I realised that we are part of the problem.”

After contacting disability-focused employment agencies, Professor Rossjohn found some job seekers were prepared to work voluntarily as it was so rare to gain lab experience.

He designed an internship program around inclusion and equality, working with service providers to understand interns’ goals, and the university’s human resources requirements.

The program began in 2017 with three-month paid positions in administrative and technical lab roles. Wise Employment helped with adjustments such as assistive technologies, sign language interpreters and staff disability awareness training.

“One researcher is now undertaking a master’s of biomedical and health science at Monash, while another intern, concerned they couldn’t perform particular types of lab work, pivoted instead to computational biology and is now completing a PhD in genetics at our university,” Professor Rossjohn said.

A notable success story is Dr Erica Tandori, a legally blind artist who joined the team in 2018 via Vision Australia after completing a PhD.

Dr Tandori became legally blind at 23, due to a genetic condition called juvenile macular degeneration, and returned to university after raising her children to conduct art-based research. Among other things, she used oil paint and drawing to show what her condition looked like from a patient’s perspective.

At the BDI, Dr Tandori developed a tactile exhibition to bring the microscopic world of cells and microbes alive for the blind and vision impaired. She worked with lab scientists and others across the BDI to create large tactile posters with braille labels and large text, 3D models of immune cells, viruses, and proteins, and braille-inspired amino acid sculptures and handcrafted models.

The first Monash Sensory Science exhibition was held in 2018, and it has since incorporated an internship program for people with disabilities. “Most of all, I realised art has enormous potential in research and in communicating science and medicine,” Dr Tandori told Cell .

“I began using food, paper clay, and found objects to make sculptures of proteins, cells, viruses, and bacteria, articulating their surfaces with couscous, pasta, rice, seeds, leaves, clay, paper and other items. Trying to invoke connections and memories of familiar things when touched, I was instinctively beginning to develop a multisensory language that could assist blind and low-vision people to grasp more complex concepts in non-visual ways.”

More exhibitions followed, and multisensory, interactive science ‘exhibitions in a book’ for blind, low-vision and diverse-needs readers were developed with the help of Dr Stuart Favilla and Dr James Marshall from Swinburne University of Technology.

“We have also staged virtual exhibitions internationally and brought numerous small-scale outreach exhibitions to blind and low-vision people in community settings,” Dr Tandori said. “This has been a shared vision with my supervisor Jamie, a recognition we both have that science and immunology affect everyone and should be accessible to all.”

Adds Professor Rossjohn: “Witnessing the positive experiences of our interns has been heartwarming and immensely rewarding, and there is a recognition that the key to success lies in opportunities afforded to us in life.

“We hope our experiences can motivate other research labs and institutions to develop more inclusive workplaces, opportunities and educational programs for people with disability. This is where philanthropy could play a role in supporting such initiatives. The benefits are not a one-way street – diversity brings a richer, more tolerant and rewarding research environment and culture to all.” Read the full paper in Cell , Advancing accessible science for low-vision and diverse-needs communities .

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To complement our Collection “Physics as a human endeavour”, we share some reading on the history and sociology of physics.

Quantum Legacies: Dispatches from an Uncertain World by David Kaiser (University of Chicago Press, 2020) . “The particularities of time and space can shape scientific research”, writes physicist and historian of science, David Kaiser, in the introduction to this collection of essays. Kaiser brings together his own writings from over the years that put scientists and scientific discoveries into their social and political contexts. Read about Dirac’s relationship with his father, how textbooks shape each generation of physicists and the impact of the Cold War on American physics. Part popular science, part popular history and part personal reflections, the book provides colour and context to the physics of the 20th century and opens up questions for the physics of the 21st.

The Alchemy of Us: How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another by Ainissa Ramirez (MIT Press, 2021) . Many people think of ‘culture’ as synonymous with the arts: painting, theatre and so on. But our day-to-day lives are shaped just as much by technology: think of how our relationship with our own faces has changed in the past 100 years, from when photographs were rare, expensive and carefully posed, to today’s era of the ubiquitous selfie. Technology, in turn, is shaped by materials science, which is constantly making new functions possible. In each chapter of The Alchemy of Us , Ramirez discusses the history of a technology, how it was enabled by developments in materials science, and how it has changed our lives. Ramirez also portrays the people — both famous and lesser-known — behind the technologies, resulting in a book that is both fascinating and very human.

When Science Meets Power by Geoff Mulgan (Polity, 2023) . There is no escaping politics in science. How the research landscape develops is shaped by political priorities. Yet politicians need science solutions. Geoff Mulgan explores this interdependence in When Science Meets Power . With some scientific and technological advances now threatening the survival of our species, he points out that political engagement to mitigate these threats depends on how we feel about what matters most. Mulgan proposes how to politicize science and scientize politics. He argues against scientific “objective detachment” and for the synthesis of science, politics and ethics. Then society as a whole can choose how to govern new technologies.

In a Flight of Starlings: The Wonder of Complex Systems by Giorgio Parisi (translated by Simon Carnell) (Penguin Press, 2023) . Parisi’s goal in writing this book is to help non-scientists trust science, by not simply saying “trust us” but showing concretely how scientific consensus is achieved. Part explanation of complex systems science, part personal account of what it’s like to do physics research, In a Flight of Starlings feels a bit like sitting at a conference dinner table where an Italian physics professor is holding forth. Although some of the physics explanations may require some background knowledge to understand them, the more autobiographical passages are accessible to all, and make for an entertaining read.

The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein (Bold Type Books, 2021) . There is no shortage of popular science books that explain how the universe works. But rather than an abstract tale of quarks and gluons, Prescod-Weinstein grounds the explanations of the Big Bang and the standard model within her own story of being a Black woman physicist. This book is as much about people as it is about physics. Through the structure of the universe, the structure of society is revealed, complete with racism, sexism, classism and ableism. In doing so, Prescod-Weinstein challenges the scientific community that prides itself on empiricism to value the experiences and intellect of Black women physicists.

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