Volume 42 - Issue 1 - March 2009
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Book Review
Charles W. J. Withers, Placing the Enlightenment: Thinking Geographically about the Age of Reason. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. xiii+330. ISBN 978-0-226-90405-4. $45.00, £28.50 (hardback).
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Jan Golinski, British Weather and the Climate of Enlightenment.Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. 272. ISBN 978-0-226-30205-8. $35.00 (hardback). - James Rodger Fleming, Vladimir Jankovic and Deborah R. Coen (eds.), Intimate Universality: Local and Global Themes in the History of Weather and Climate. Sagamore Beach: Science History Publications/USA, 2006. Pp. xx+264. ISBN 0-88135-367-1. $39.95 (hardback).
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Florian Charvolin, André Micoud and Lynn K. Nyhart (eds.), Des Sciences citoyennes? La Question de l'amateur dans les sciences naturalistes. La Tour d'Aigues: Editions de l'Aube, 2007. Pp. 254. ISBN 9-782752-602305. €20.00.
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D. Graham Burnett, Trying Leviathan: The Nineteenth-Century New York Court Case that Put the Whale on Trial and Challenged the Order of Nature. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. Pp. xiv+266. ISBN 978-0-691-12950-1. £17.95 (hardback).
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Jamie Elwick, Styles of Reasoning in the British Life Sciences: Shared Assumptions, 1820–1858. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2007. Pp. x+233. ISBN 978-1-85196-920-3. £60.00, $99.00 (hardback).
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Steven French and Décio Krause, Identity in Physics: A Historical, Philosophical, and Formal Analysis. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. xv+422. ISBN 0-19-927824-5. £55.00 (hardback).
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Klaus Hentschel, The Mental Aftermath: The Mentality of German Physicists, 1945–1949. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. vi+205. ISBN 978-0-19-920566-0. £25.00 (hardback).
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Timothy Boon, Films of Fact: A History of Science in Documentary Films and Television. London: Wallflower Press, 2008. Pp. x+312. ISBN 978-1-905674-37-4. £16.99 (paperback).
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Jacob Darwin Hamblin, Poison in the Well: Radioactive Waste in the Oceans at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age. New Brunswick, NJ and London: Rutgers University Press, 2008. Pp. x+311. ISBN 978-0-8135-4220-1. $49.95 (hardback).
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Jene M. Porter and Peter W. B. Phillips (eds.), Public Science in Liberal Democracy.Toronto, Buffalo and London: University of Toronto Press, 2007. Pp. xii+343. ISBN 978-0-8020-9359-2. £45.00 (hardback).
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Saul Dubow, A Commonwealth of Knowledge: Science, Sensibility and White South Africa 1820–2000. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. 296. ISBN 978-0-199-29663-7. £60.00 (hardback).
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Ann Gibbons, The First Human: The Race to Discover Our Earliest Ancestors. New York: Knopf, 2007. Pp. ix+303. ISBN 1-4000-7696-X. $14.95 (paperback).
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Books Received
Books received
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Front Cover (OFC, IFC) and matter
BJH volume 42 issue 1 Cover and Front matter
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Back Cover (IBC, OBC) and matter
BJH volume 42 issue 1 Cover and Back matter
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