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Volume 39 - December 2006

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MICHAEL HAU, The Cult of Health and Beauty in Germany: A Social History, 1890–1930. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2003. Pp. 272. ISBN 0–226–31976–8. £15.50, $22.00 (paperback).

SLAVA GEROVITCH, From Newspeak to Cyberspeak: A History of Soviet Cybernetics. Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 2002. pp. xiv+369. ISBN 0-262-07232-7. £25.95 (hardback).

ALISON BASHFORD, Imperial Hygiene: A Critical History of Colonialism, Nationalism and Public Health. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. Pp. ix+264. ISBN 1-4039-0488-X. £50.00 (hardback).

THEODORE M. PORTER, Karl Pearson: The Scientific Life in a Statistical Age. Princeton, NJ and London: Princeton University Press, 2004. Pp. viii+342. ISBN 0-691-11445-5. £22.95, $35.00 (hardback).

GRAEME J. N. GOODAY, The Morals of Measurement: Accuracy, Irony, and Trust in Late Victorian Electrical Practices. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xxvi+285. ISBN 0-521-43098-4. £55.00, $85.00 (hardback).

JOHN KRIGE and DOMINIQUE PESTRE (eds.), Companion to Science in the Twentieth Century. Routledge World Reference. London and New York: Routledge, 2003. Pp. xxxv+941. ISBN 0-415-286065-9. £26.99 (paperback).

LEO CORRY, David Hilbert and the Axiomatization of Physics (1898–1918). Archimedes New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology. Dordrecht, Boston and London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004. Pp. xvii+513. ISBN 1-4020-2777-X. $179.00 (hardback).

GARLAND E. ALLEN and ROY M. MACLEOD (eds.), Science, History and Social Activism: A Tribute to Everett Mendelsohn. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 228. Dordrecht, Boston and London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001. Pp. x+388. ISBN 1-4020-0495-8. £85.00, $124.00 (hardback).

ANITA BURDMAN FEFERMAN and SOLOMON FEFERMAN, Alfred Tarski: Life and Logic. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp vi+425. ISBN 0-521-8049-7. £23.00, $35.00 (hardback).

SPENCER R. WEART, The Discovery of Global Warming. New Histories of Science, Technology and Medicine. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2003. Pp. xi+228. ISBN 0-674-01157-0. £19.95 (hardback).

HELMUTH TRISCHLER and STEFAN ZEILINGER (eds.), Tackling Transport. Artefects Series: Studies in the History of Science and Technology. London: Science Museum, 2003. Pp. vi+186. ISBN 1-900747-53-7. £21.95 (paperback).

MARSHALL J. BASTABLE, Arms and the State: Sir William Armstrong and the Remaking of British Naval Power, 1854–1914. Modern Economic and Social History. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004. Pp. xii+300. ISBN 0-7546-3404-3. £49.99 (hardback).

B. JACK COPELAND (ed.), The Essential Turing: The Ideas that Gave Birth to the Computer Age. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2004. Pp. viii+613. ISBN 0-19-825079-7. £50.00 (hardback). ISBN 0-19-825080-0. £14.99 (paperback).

ALEX ROLAND with PHILIP SHIMAN, Strategic Computing: DARPA and the Quest for Machine Intelligence, 1983–1993. History of Computing. Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 2002. Pp. xxvi+427. ISBN 0-262-18226-2. £33.50 (hardback).

FINN BOWRING, Science, Seeds and Cyborgs: Biotechnology and the Appropriation of Life. London and New York: Verso, 2003. Pp. xiii+388. ISBN 1-85984-687-4. £19.00, $29.99, C$39.00 (hardback).

CHRIS FEUDTNER, Bitter Sweet: Diabetes, Insulin, and the Transformation of Illness. Studies in Social Medicine. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Caroline Press, 2003. Pp. xxiiii+290. ISBN 0-8087-2791-6. £22.95, $29.95 (hardback).

HENRY C. LEE and FRANK TIRNADY, Blood Evidence: How DNA is Revolutionizing the Way We Solve Crimes. Oxford: Perseus Publishing, 2003. Pp. xxx+418. ISBN 0-7382-0602-4. £19.99 (hardback).

HARRY COLLINS, Gravity's Shadow: The Search for Gravitational Waves. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2004. Pp. xxiii+870. ISBN 0-226-11378-7. $39.00 (paperback).

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SONU SHAMDASANI, Jung and the Making of Modern Psychology: The Dream of a Science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xvi+387. ISBN 0-521-53909-9. £18.95, $28.00 (paperback).

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