Perspectives on Science

Perspectives on Science 8.3 (2000) 316-321

Books Received

Abir-Am, Pnina and Clark A. Elliott, eds. 2001. Commemorative Practices in Science: Historical Perspectives on the Politics of Collective Memory. Osiris, vol. 14. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. Pp. xii1383. $39 (cloth), $25 (paper).

Appel, Toby A. 2000. Shaping Biology: The National Science Foundation and American Biological Research, 1945-1975. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. Pp. xii1393. $42.50 (cloth).

Aureli, Filippo and Brans B.M. de Wall. 2000. Natural Conflict Resolution. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. Pp. 409. $65.00 (cloth), $24.95 (paper).

Bardini, Thierry. 2001. Boostrapping: Douglas Engelbard, Coevolution, and the Origins of Personal Computing. Stanford: Stanford University Press. Pp. 284. $19.95 (paper), $55.00 (cloth).

Bensaude-Vincent, Bernadette. L'Opinion publique et la science: À chacun so ignorance. Paris: Institut d'édition Sanofi-Synthelabo. Pp. 239. 94 FF (paper).

Benson, Charles D. and William B. Faherty. 2001. Gateway to the Moon: Building the Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida. Pp. 416. $24.95 (paper).

Benson, Charles D. and William B. Faherty. 2001. Moon Launch! Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida. Pp. 336. $24.95 (paper).

Beurton, Peter, Raphael Falk, and Hans-Jörg Rheinberger. 2000. The Concept of the Gene in Development and Evolution: Historical and Epistemological Perspectives. Pp. xvi1384. $59.95 (cloth).

Bowker, Geoffrey C. and Susan Leigh Star. 1999. Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Pp. 377. $17.95 (paper).

Bryant, Rebecca. 2000. Discovery and Decision: Exploring the Metaphysics and Epistemology of Scientific Classification. Madison and Teaneck: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. Pp. 131. $30.00 (cloth).

Buchwald, Jed Z. and I. Bernard Cohen. 2000. Isaac Newton's Natural Philosophy. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Pp. 354. $45.00 (cloth).

Burnett, D. Graham. 2000. Masters of all They Surveyed: Exploration, Geography, and a British El Dorado. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. Pp. xv1298. $45.00 (cloth).

Canaday, John. 2000. The Nuclear Muse: Literature, Physics and the First Atomic Bombs. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press. Pp. xviii1310. $60.00 (cloth), $22.95 (paper).

Cassirer, Ernst. 2000. The Logic of the Cultural Sciences: Five Studies. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. Pp. 134. $30.00 (cloth), $15.00 (paper).

Cohen, Jon. 2001. Shots in the Dark: The Wayward Search for an AIDS Vaccine. New York: W.W. Norton & Co. Pp. 440. $27.95 (cloth).

Crotty, Shane. 2001. Ahead of the Curve: David Baltimore's Life in Science. Berkeley: University of California Press. Pp. 300. $29.95 (cloth).

Cutcliffe, Stephen H. 2000. Ideas, Machines, and Values: An Introduction to Science, Technology, and Science Studies. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield. Pp. xii1179. $62.00 (cloth), $22.95 (paper).

Daston, Lorraine, ed. 2000. Biographies of Scientific Subjects. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press. Pp. 307. $55.00 (cloth), $19.00 (paper).

Diamantides, Marinos. 2000. The Ethics of Suffering: Modern Law, philosophy and medicine. Burlington, VT: Ashgate. Pp. 196. $69.95 (cloth).

Dover, Gabriel. 2000. Dear Mr. Darwin: Letters on the Evolution of Life and Human Nature. Berkeley: University of California Press. Pp. 262. $27.50 (cloth).

Dowe, Phil. 2000. Physical Causation. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 224. $54.95 (cloth).

Dunwar, Andrew J. and Stephen P. Waring. 2000. Power to Explore: A History of Marshall Space Flight Center, 1960-1990. Washington, DC: NASA. Pp. 713. $49.00 (cloth).

Durie, Robin, ed. 2000. Time & the Instant: Essays in the physics and philosophy of time. Manchester: Clinamen Press. Pp. 249. $29.95 (paper).

Ellis, John and Daniele Amati. 2000. Quantum Reflections. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. Pp. xiv1202. $49.95 (cloth).

Ford, Brian J. 2000. Institute of Biology: The First Fifty Years. London: Institute of Biology. Pp. iv1135. £10 (cloth).

Ford, E. David. 2000. The Scientific Method for Ecological Research. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. Pp. xix1564. $110.00 (cloth), $49.95 (paper).

Frasca-Spada, Marina and Nick Jardine, eds. 2000. Books and the Sciences in History. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. Pp. xiv1438. $85.00 (cloth), $29.95 (paper).

Fuller, Steve. 2000. Thomas Kuhn: A...