Perspectives on Science

Perspectives on Science 9.1 (2001) 116-118

Books Received

Allen, Michael Thad and Gabrielle Hecht. 2001. Technologies of Power: Essays in Honor of Thomas Parke Hughes and Agatha Chipley Hughes. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Pp.339. $24.95 (paper).

Bentley, Peter and David Corne. 2001. Creative Evolutionary Systems. San Francisco: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers. Pp.460. $69.95 (cloth).

Buchwald, Jed Z. and Andrew Warwick. 2001. Histories of the Electron: The Birth of Microphysics. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Pp.514. $55.00 (cloth).

Carlson, Elof Axel. 2001. The Unfit: A History of a Bad Idea. Cold Spring Harbor, NY: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press. Pp.451. $39.00 (cloth).

Cohen, Jon. 2001. Shots in the Dark: The Wayward Search for an AIDS Vaccine. New York and London: W.W. Norton and Co. Pp.440. $15.95 (paper).

Davies, Paul Sheldon. 2001. Norms of Nature: Naturalism and the Nature of Functions. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Pp.234. $35.00 (cloth).

Davis, Nancy Yaw. 2001. The Zuni Enigma. New York and London: W.W. Norton and Co. Pp.352. $16.95 (paper).

Decoo, Wilfried. 2002. Crisis on Campus: Confronting Academic Misconduct. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Pp.280. $32.95 (cloth).

Dyens, Ollivier. 2001. Metal and Flesh, The Evolution of Man: Technology Takes Over. Bibbee, E. J. and O. Dyens, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Pp.134. $24.95 (cloth).

Echols, Harrison. 2001. Operator and Promotors: The Story of Molecular Biology and Its Creators. Berkeley: University of California Press. Pp.466. $65.00 (cloth).

Forsythe, Diana E. 2001. Studying Those Who Study Us: An Anthropologist in the World of Artificial Intelligence. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. Pp.240. $60.00 (cloth), $22.95 (paper).

Franklin, Sarah and Susan McKinnon. 2002. Relative Values: Reconfiguring Kinship Studies. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Pp.519. $64.95 (cloth), $21.95 (paper).

Gadamer, Hans-Georg. 2002. Gadamer in Conversation: Reflections and Commentary. Richard E. Palmer, trans., New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. Pp.176. $22.50 (cloth).

Gardner, Martin. 2001. Did Adam and Eve Have Navels? Debunking Pseudoscience. New York: W.W. Norton. Pp.352. $14.95 (paper).

Hamilton, James. 2001. Fields of Influence: Conjunctions of Artists and Scientists 1815-1860. Birmingham: University of Birmingham Press. Pp. xiii 1 174. $35.00 (cloth).

Harries, Karsten. 2001. Infinity and Perspective. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Pp.368. $37.95 (cloth).

Henry, John. 2002. The Scientific Revolution and the Origins of Modern Science, 2nd Edition. New York: Palgrave. Pp.160. $13.95 (paper).

Hong, Sungook. 2001. Wireless: From Marconi's Black-Box to the Audion. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Pp.248. $34.95 (cloth).

Kitcher, Philip.2001. Science, Truth, and Democracy. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp.219. $27.50 (cloth).

Lawrence, David M. 2002. Upheaval from the Abyss: Ocean Floor Mapping and the Earth Science Revolution. Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers University Press. Pp.256. $28.00 (cloth).

Logsdon, John M. 2001. Exploring the Unknown: Selected Documents in the History of the U.S. Civil Space Program Pp.796. $75.00 (cloth).

Longino, Helen E. 2002. The Fate of Knowledge. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Pp.288. $49.50 (cloth), $16.95 (paper).

MacKenzie, Donald. 2001. Mechanizing Proof: Computing, Risk, and Trust. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Pp.427. $45.00 (cloth).

Manning, John T. 2002. Digit Ratio: A Pointer to Fertility, Behavior, and Health. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. Pp.208. $65.00 (cloth), $27.00 (paper).

Mort, Maggie. 2001. Building the Trident Network: A Study of the Enrollment of People, Knowledge, and Machines. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Pp.217. $32.95 (cloth).

Newman, William R. and Anthony Grafton. 2001. Secrets of Nature: Astrology and Alchemy in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Pp.443. $50.00 (cloth).

Parsons, Keith M. 2002. Drawing Out Leviathan: Dinosaurs and the Science Wars. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press. Pp.210. $29.95 (cloth).

Paul, Ellen Frankel and Jeffrey Paul. 2001. Why Experimentation Matters: The Use of Animals in Medical Research. New Brunswick and London: Transaction Publishers. Pp.224. $24.95 (paper).

Pennock, Robert T. 2002. Intelligent Design Creationism and Its Critics: Philosophical, Theological, and Scientific Perspectives. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Pp.805...