Perspectives on Science

Perspectives on Science 8.1 (2000) 84-87

Books Received

Aleksandrov, A. D., A. N. Kolmogorov, and M. A. Lavrent'ev. Mathematics: Its Content, Methods and Meaning. 3 vols. in one. Mineola: Dover Publications, 1999. (First published in 1963). Pp xv+1120. $29.95 (paper).

Beller, Mara. Quantum Dialogue: The Making of a Revolution. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1999. Pp. xv+365. $35 (cloth).

Butterfield, Jeremy and Constantine Pagonis. From Physics to Philosophy. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xv+235. $59.95 (cloth).

Carlino, Andrea. Books of the Body: Anatomical Ritual and Renaissance Learning. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2000. Pp. xiv+266. $29 (cloth).

Carpenter, Kenneth J. Beriberi, White Rice, and Vitamin B: A Disease, a Cause, and a Cure. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2000. Pp.xiv+296. $40 (cloth).

Cartwright, Nancy. The Dappled World: A Study of the Boundaries of Science. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. ix+247. $54.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).

Cavalli-Sforza, L. L. and W. F. Bodmer. The Genetics of Human Populations. Mineola: Dover Publications, 1999. (First published in 1971). Pp. xvii+965. $29.95 (paper).

Clark William, Jan Golinski, and Simon Schaffer, eds. The Sciences in Enlightenment Europe. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1999. Pp. 566. $85 (cloth); $27.50 (paper).

Coles, Peter, ed. The Routledge Critical Dictionary of The New Cosmology. New York: Routledge, 1999. Pp. xiv+392. $22.99 (paper).

Conway, Jill Ker, Kenneth Keniston, and Leo Marx. Earth, Air, Fire, Water: Humanistic Studies of the Environment. Amherst: The University of Massachusetts Press, 2000. Pp. ix+349. $50 (cloth); $17.95 (paper).

Crabbe, James C, ed. From Soul to Self. London and New York: Routledge, 1999. Pp. xi+158. $65 (cloth); $21.99 (paper).

Cracraft, Joel and Francesca T. Grifo. The Living Planet in Crisis: Biodiversity Science and Policy. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. Pp. xxiv+311. $60 (cloth); $24.50 (paper).

Feyerabend, Paul. Conquest of Abundance: A Tale of Abstraction Versus the Richness of Being, ed. Bert Terpstra. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2000. Pp. xviii+285. $27 (cloth).

Foster, John Bellamy. Marx's Ecology: Materialism and Nature. New York: Monthly Review Press, 2000. Pp. x+310. $48 (cloth); $18 (paper).

Freeze, R. Allan. The Environmental Pendulum: A Quest for the Truth About Toxic Chemicals, Human Health, and Environmental Protection. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. Pp.xiv+323. $50 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).

Gallagher, Nancy L. Breeding Better Vermonters: The Eugenics Project in the Green Mountain State. Hanover and London: The University Press of New England, 1999. Pp. xiv+237. $40 (cloth); $21 (paper).

Godlewska, Anne Marie Claire. Geography Unbound: French Geographic Science from Cassini to Humboldt. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2000. Pp. xii+444. $65 (cloth); $27.50 (paper).

Gordo-Lopez, Angel J. and Ian Parker, eds. Cyberpsychology. New York: Routledge, 1999. Pp. xii+244. $80 (cloth); $22.99 (paper).

Grafton, Anthony and Nancy Siraisi, eds. Natural Particulars: Nature and the Disciplines in Renaissance Europe. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999. Pp. xi+426. $50 (cloth).

Graham, Tony. Unicode: A Primer. Foster City, CA: M&T Books. Pp. xvi+475. $24.99 (cloth).

Guston, David H. Between Politics and Science: Assuring the Integrity and Productivity of Research. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xvii+213. $54.95 (cloth).

Hacking, Ian. The Social Construction of What? Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999. Pp. x+261. $29.95 (cloth).

Hardwig, John et. al. Is There A Duty to Die? and Other Essays in Medical Ethics. New York and London: Routledge, 2000. Pp. ix+212.

Heilbron, J. L. Electricity in the 17^{th and 18th Centuries.} Mineola: Dover Publications, 1999. (First published in 1979. With a new preface.) pp. xxx+606. $22.95 (paper).

Hempel, Carl G. Selected Philosophical Essays. ed. Richard Jeffrey. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xii+317. $54.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).

Jesseph, Douglas M. Squaring the Circle: The War between Hobbes and Wallis. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago...