Volume 37 - Issue 2 - June 2004
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Book Review
DOUGLAS R. WEINER, Models of Nature: Ecology, Conservation and Cultural Revolution in Soviet Russia. With a New Afterword. Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2000. Pp. xii+324. ISBN 0-8229-5733-7. $17.95 (paperback).
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HELGE KRAGH, Quantum Generations: A History of Physics in the Twentieth Century. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002. Pp. xiv+494. ISBN 0-691-09552-3. £13.95 (paperback).
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ANTONY KAMM and MALCOLM BAIRD, John Logie Baird: A Life. Edinburgh: National Museums of Scotland Publishing, 2002. Pp. xii+465. ISBN 1-901663-76-0. £25.00 (hardback).
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ROBIN L. CHAZDON and T. C. WHITMORE (eds.), Foundations of Tropical Forest Biology: Classic Papers with Commentaries. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2002. Pp. xvii+862. ISBN 0-226-10225-4. £24.50, $35.00 (paperback).
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STEPHEN JAY GOULD, I Have Landed: Splashes and Reflections in Natural History. London: Vintage, 2002. Pp. 418. ISBN 0-09-974971-8. £7.99 (paperback).
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HENRY HARRIS, Things Come to Life: Spontaneous Generation Revisited. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. ix+168. ISBN 0-19-851538-3. £20.00 (hardback).
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HÉLèNE GISPERT (ed.), ‘Par la Science, pour la patrie’: L'Association française pour l'avancement des sciences (1872–1914), un projet politique pour une société savante. Collection Carnot. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2002. Pp. 372. ISBN 2-86847-681-3. €23.00 (paperback).
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HENRY LE CHATELIER, Science et industrie: Les Débuts du taylorisme en France. With a preface by Michel Letté. Format, 46. Paris: Editions du CTHS, 2001. Pp. xxxi+283. ISBN 2-7355-0487-5. €14.00 (paperback).
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MARGIT SZÖLLÖSI-JANZE (ed.), Science in the Third Reich. German Historical Perspectives, 12. Oxford and New York: Berg, 2001. Pp. vii+289. ISBN 1-85973-421-9. £14.99 (paperback).
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VADIM J. BIRSTEIN, The Perversion of Knowledge: The True Story of Soviet Science. Boulder: Westview Press, 2001. Pp. xx+492. ISBN 0-8133-3907-3. $32.50 (hardback).
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GUY HARTCUP, The Effect of Science on the Second World War. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. Pp. xvii+214. ISBN 1-4039-0643-2. £17.99 (paperback).
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LILLIAN HODDESON and VICKI DAITCH, True Genius: The Life and Science of John Bardeen, the Only Winner of Two Nobel Prizes in Physics. Washington, DC: Joseph Henry Press, 2002. Pp. xi+467. ISBN 0-309-08408-3. £20.95, $27.95 (hardback).
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HELEN ROSS and CORNELIS PLUG, The Mystery of the Moon Illusion: Exploring Size Perception. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. ix+277. ISBN 0-19-850862-X. £29.95 (hardback).
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STEPHEN B. JOHNSON, The Secret of Apollo: Systems Management in American and European Space Programs. New Series in NASA History. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. Pp. xvii+290. ISBN 0-8018-6898-X. £30.50 (hardback). JOHN M. LOGSDON (ed.), Exploring the Unknown: Selected Documents in the History of the U.S. Civil Space Program. Volume V: Exploring the Cosmos. NASA History Series. Washington: NASA, 2001. Pp. xxviii+796. ISBN 0-16-061774-X. No price given (hardback). DOUGLAS J. MUDGWAY, Uplink-Downlink: A History of the Deep Space Network 1957–1997. NASA History Series. Washington, DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration Office of External Relations, 2001. Pp. xlviii+674. ISBN 0-16-066599-X. $82.00 (US domestic postpaid), $102.50 (internationally) (hardback).
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MATTHEW R. EDWARDS (ed.), Pushing Gravity: New Perspectives on Le Sage's Theory of Gravitation. Montreal: Apeiron, 2002. Pp. iv+316. ISBN 0-9683689-7-2. $25.00 (paperback).
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ERNEST B. HOOK (ed.), Prematurity in Scientific Discovery: On Resistance and Neglect. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 2002. Pp. xx+378. ISBN 0-520-23106-6. £55.00, $80.00 (hardback).
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JOHN WALLER, Fabulous Science: Fact and Fiction in the History of Scientific Discovery. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. xi+308. ISBN 0-19-280404-9. £18.99 (hardback).
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ROSALIND WILLIAMS, Retooling: A Historian Confronts Technological Change. Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 2002. Pp. xv+252. ISBN 0-262-23223-5. £18.50 (hardback).
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COLIN DIVALL and ANDREW SCOTT, Making Histories in Transport Museums. Making Histories in Museums. London and New York: Leicester University Press, 2001. Pp. x+221. ISBN 0-7185-0106-3. £60.00 (hardback).
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Books Received
Books received
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