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The British Journal for the History of Science , Volume 45 , Issue 2: Special Issue: States of Secrecy , June 2012 , pp. 315 - 317
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Alexander, Daniel S., Iaverno, Felice and Rosa, Alessandro, Early Days in Complex Dynamics: A History of Complex Dynamics in One Variable during 1906–1942. Providence: American Mathematical Society, 2012. Pp. xvii+454. ISBN 978-0-8218-4464-9. $99.00 (hardback).

Anderson, Nancy and Dietrich, Michael R. (eds.), The Educated Eye: Visual Culture and Pedagogy in the Life Sciences. Hanover: Dartmouth College Press, 2012. Pp. viii+318. ISBN 978-1-61168-044-7. $39.95 (paperback).

Asher, Robert J., Evolution and Belief: Confessions of a Religious Palaeontologist. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Pp. xxiii+300. ISBN 978-0-521-19383-2. £15.99 (hardback).

Baltas, Aristides, Peeling Potatoes or Grinding Lenses: Spinoza and Young Wittgenstein Converse on Immanence and Its Logic. Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh University Press, 2012. Pp. xix+290. ISBN 978-0-8229-4416-4. $65.00 (hardback).

Baricos, William H., Biochemistry at Tulane Medical School: 1834–2010. Boston: Socirab Press Ltd, 2011. Pp. viii+236. No ISBN. Price unknown (paperback).

Boi, Luciano, The Quantum Vacuum: A Scientific and Philosophical Concept, from Electrodynamics to String Theory and the Geometry of the Microscopic World. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011. Pp. ix+222. ISBN 978-1-4214-0247-5. £39.00 (hardback).

Borch-Jacobsen, Mikkel and Shamdasani, Sonu, The Freud Files: An Inquiry into the History of Psychoanalysis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Pp. x+404. ISBN 978-0-521-72978-9. £16.99 (paperback).

Brown, Jeannette E., African American Women Chemists. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. Pp. xii+252. ISBN 978-0-19-974288-2. £22.50 (hardback).

Clark, Patricia Ann, A Cretan Healer's Handbook in the Byzantine Tradition. Farnham: Ashgate, 2011. Pp. xviii+301. ISBN 978-0-7546-6101-6. £65.00 (hardback).

Clouse, Michele L., Medicine, Government and Public Health in Philip II's Spain: Shared Interests, Competing Authorities. Farnham: Ashgate, 2011. Pp. xiv+204. ISBN 978-1-4094-3794-9. £60.00 (hardback).

Cohen, Claudine, La méthode de Zadig: La trace, le fossile, le preuve. Paris : Editions de Seuil, 2011. Pp. 342. ISBN 978-2-02040-298-9. €23.00 (paperback).

Corneanu, Sorana, Regimens of the Mind: Boyle, Locke and the Early Modern Cultura Animi Tradition. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2011. Pp. ix+308. ISBN 978-0-226-11639-6. £32.50 (hardback).

Crook, Paul, Grafton Elliot Smith, Egyptology and the Diffusion of Culture: A Biographical Perspective. Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 2012. Pp. vii+160. ISBN 978-1-84519-481-9. £19.95 (paperback).

Darrigol, Olivier, A History of Optics: From Greek Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. Pp. xii+327. ISBN 978-0-19-964437-7. £35.00 (hardback).

Dascal, Marcelo and Boantza, Victor D. (eds.), Controversies within the Scientific Revolution. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2011. Pp. vi+287. ISBN 978-90-272-1895-7. $158.00 (hardback).

De Callataÿ, Godefroid and Halflants, Bruno (eds.), On Magic I: An Arabic Critical Edition and English Translation of Epistle 52a. Epistles of the Brethren of Purity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. xxv+308. ISBN 978-0-19963-895-6. £50.00 (hardback).

Dormandy, Thomas, Opium: Reality's Dark Dream. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2012. Pp. x+366. ISBN 978-0-300-17532-5. £25.00 (hardback).

Edgerton, David, Britain's War Machine: Weapons, Resources and Experts in the Second World War. London: Allen Lane, 2011. Pp. xvii+445. ISBN 978-0-713-99918-1. £25.00 (hardback).

Fyfe, Aileen, Steam-Powered Knowledge: William Chambers and the Business of Publishing, 1820–1860. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2012. Pp. xvi+313. ISBN 978-0-226-27651-9. $50.00 (hardback).

Gavroglu, Kostas and Simões, Anna, Neither Physics nor Chemistry: A History of Quantum Chemistry. Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 2012. Pp. xiv+351. ISBN 978-0-262-01618-6. £27.95 (hardback).

Goodman, Lenn E. and McGregor Richard (tr.), The Case of the Animals versus Man before the King of the Jinn: A Translation from the Epistles of the Brethren of Purity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. Pp. xvi+389. ISBN 978-0-19-964251-9. £16.99 (paperback).

Gotthelf, Allan, Teleology, First Principles, and Scientific Method in Aristotle's Biology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. Pp. xvi+440. ISBN 978-0-19-928795-6. £55.00 (hardback).

Haggett, Ali, Desperate Housewives, Neuroses and the Domestic Environment 1945–1970. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2012. Pp. ix+239. ISBN 978-1-84893-310-1. £60.00 (hardback).

Haskell, Yasmin (ed.), Diseases of the Imagination and Imaginary Disease in the Early Modern Period. Turnhout: Brepols, 2011. Pp. 424. ISBN 978-2-503-52796-3. €95.00 (hardback).

Henry, John, A Short History of Scientific Thought. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. Pp. xvii+306. ISBN 978-0-230-01943-0. £16.99 (paperback).

Hirai, Hiro, Medical Humanism and Natural Philosophy: Renaissance Debates on Matter, Life and the Soul. Leiden: Brill, 2012. Pp. xiii+227. ISBN 978-90-04-21871-0. €99.00 (hardback).

Hollingsworth, J. Rogers and Hollingsworth, Ellen Jane, Major Discoveries, Creativity, and the Dynamics of Science. Vienna: Edition Echoraum, 2012. Pp. 145. ISBN 978-3-901941-24-5. €19.50 (hardback).

Iqbal, Muzaffar, New Perspectives on the History of Islamic Science. Islam and Science: Historic and Contemporary Perspectives, Vol. 3. Farnham: Ashgate, 2012. Pp. xxiv+546. ISBN 978-0-75462-2914-6. £140.00 (hardback).

Iqbal, Muzaffar, Studies in the Making of Islamic Science: Knowledge in Motion. Islam and Science: Historic and Contemporary Perspectives, Vol. 4. Farnham: Ashgate, 2012. Pp. xxiii+552. ISBN 978-0-75462-2916-0. £140.00 (hardback).

Jami, Catherine, The Emperor's New Mathematics: Western Learning and Imperial Authority during the Kangxi Reign (1622–1722). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. Pp. xv+436. ISBN 978-0-19-960140-0. £60.00 (hardback).

Kember, Joe, Plunkett, John and Sullivan, Jill A. (eds.), Popular Exhibitions, Science and Showmanship 1840–1910. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2012. Pp. xvi+283. ISBN 978-1-84893-306-4. £60.00 (hardback).

Lehoux, Daryn, What Did the Romans Know? An Inquiry into Science and Worldmaking. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2012. Pp. xii+275. ISBN 978-0-226-47114-3. £29.00 (hardback).

McClellan, James E. and Regourd, François, The Colonial Machine: French Science and Overseas Expansion in the Old Regime. Turnhout: Brepols, 2011. Pp. 694. ISBN 978-2-503-53260-8. €70.00 (hardback).

McLaren, Angus, Reproduction by Design: Sex, Robots, Trees, and Test-Tube Babies in Interwar Britain. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2012. Pp. viii+235. ISBN 978-0-226-56069-4. $55.00 (hardback).

McWilliams, Stuart, Magical Thinking: History, Possibility and the Idea of the Occult. London: Continuum, 2012. Pp. x+187. ISBN 978-1-4411-1697-0. £65.00 (hardback).

Medina, Eden, Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende's Chile. Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 2011. Pp. xv+326. ISBN 978-0-262-01649-0. £22.95 (hardback).

Mody, Cyrus C.M., Instrumental Community: Probe Microscopy and the Path to Nanotechnology. Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 2011. Pp. xiii+260. ISBN 978-0-262-13494-1. £24.95 (hardback).

Monforte, Guillermo Lusa (ed.), La Primera Huelga de Estudiantes de Ingeniería Bajo el Franquismo (1950). Documentos de la Escuela de Ingenieros Industriales de Barcelona Número 21. Barcelona: ETSEIB, 2011. Pp. 166. ISSN 1137-0238. Price unknown (paperback).

Morrison-Low, Alison D., Dupré, Sven, Johnston, Stephen and Strano, Giorgio (eds.), From Earth-Bound to Satellite: Telescopes, Skill and Networks. Leiden: Brill, 2012. Pp. xlvi+265. ISBN 978-90-04-21150-6. €99.00 (hardback).

Mueggler, Erik, The Paper Road: Archive and Experience in the Botanical Exploration of West China and Tibet. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011. Pp. xiv+361. ISBN 978-0-520-26903-3. £20.95 (paperback).

Nicolaidis, Efthymios, Science and Eastern Orthodoxy: From the Greek Fathers to the Age of Globalization. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011. Pp. xviii+252. ISBN 978-1-4212-0298-7. £28.50 (hardback).

Nielsen, Kristian H., Harbsmeier, Michael and Ries, Christopher J. (eds.), Scientists and Scholars in the Field: Studies in the History of Fieldwork and Expeditions. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 2012. Pp. 476. ISBN 978-87-7124-014-6. £50.00 (hardback).

Oslund, Karen, Iceland Imagined: Nature, Culture and Storytelling in the North Atlantic. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2011. Pp. xvi+260. ISBN 978-0-295-99083-5. $35.00 (hardback).

Packham, Catherine, Eighteenth-Century Vitalism: Bodies, Culture, Politics. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. Pp. viii+250. ISBN 978-0-230-27618-5. £50.00 (hardback).

Parry, Glynn, The Arch-conjuror of England, John Dee. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2011. Pp. xii+335. ISBN 978-0-300-11719-6. £25.00 (hardback).

Quinn, Terry, From Artefacts to Atoms: The BIPM and the Search for Ultimate Measurement Standards. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. Pp. xviii+408. ISBN 978-0-19-530786-3. £70.00 (hardback).

Regal, Brian, Searching for Sasquatch: Crackpots, Eggheads, and Cryptozoology. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. Pp. xi+249. ISBN 978-0-2300-11147-9. £55.00 (hardback).

Reid, Steven J. and Wilson, Emma Annette (eds.), Ramus, Pedagogy and the Liberal Arts: Ramism in Britain and the Wider World. Farnham: Ashgate, 2011. Pp. xvi+256. ISBN 978-0-7546-6794-0. £65.00 (hardback).

Renwick, Chris, British Sociology's Lost Biological Roots: A History of Futures Past. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. Pp. xvii+240. ISBN 978-0-230-35616. £55.00 (hardback).

Richards, Graham, ‘Race’, Racism and Psychology: Towards a Reflexive History. London and New York: Routledge, 2012. Pp. xxi+511. ISBN 978-0-415-56142-6 £25.95 (paperback).

Richardson, John T.E., Howard Andrew Knox: Pioneer of Intelligence Testing at Ellis Island. New York: Columbia University Press, 2011. Pp. xxxii+309. ISBN 978-0-231-14168-0. £38.00 (hardback).

Roberts, Lissa (ed.), Centres and Cycles of Accumulation in and around the Netherlands during the Early Modern Period. Zurich and Berlin: LIT Verlag, 2011. Pp. ii+290. ISBN 978-3-643-90095-1. €34.95 (paperback).

Schwartz, Hillel, Making Noise: From Babel to the Big Bang and Beyond. New York: Zone Books, 2011. Pp. 912. ISBN 978-1-935408-12-3. £26.95 (hardback).

Semi, Maria, Music as a Science in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Farnham: Ashgate, 2012. Pp. x+185. ISBN 978-1-4094-2868-8. £55.00 (hardback).

Shipley, Graham, Pseudo-Skylax's Periplous: The Circumnavigation of the Inhabited World. Text, Translation and Commentary. Exeter: Bristol Phoenix Press, 2011. Pp. xii+244. ISBN 978-1-904675-83-9. £16.00 (paperback).

Simonyi, Károly, A Cultural History of Physics. Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2012. Pp. xiv+622. ISBN 978-1-56881-329-5. £37.99 (hardback).

Takeshita, Chikako, The Global Biopolitics of the IUD: How Science Constructs Contraceptive Users and Women's Bodies. Cambridge MA, and London: MIT Press, 2012. Pp. xvi+238. ISBN 978-0-262-01658-2. £20.95 (hardback).

Thompson, Gilbert (ed.), Nobel Prizes That Changed Medicine. London: Imperial College Press, 2012. Pp. xvii+354. ISBN 978-1-84816-826-8. £32.00 (paperback).

Turchetti, Simone, The Pontecorvo Affair: A Cold War Defection and Nuclear Physics. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2012. Pp. iv+292. ISBN 978-0-226-81664-7. £29.00 (hardback).

Valero, Stefan Pohl, Energía y Cultura: Historia de la Termodinámica en la España de la Segunda Mitad del Siglo XIX. Bogotá: Editorial Pontifica Universidad Javeriana, 2011. Pp. 321. ISBN 978-958-716-498-5. Price unknown (paperback).

Walker, John R., Britain and Disarmament: The UK and Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Weapons Arms Control and Programmes 1956–1975. Farnham: Ashgate, 2012. Pp. xv+305. ISBN 978-1-4094-3580-8. £70.00 (hardback).

Walker, Malcolm, History of the Meteorological Office. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Pp. xxvi+468. ISBN 978-0-521-85985-1. £70.00 (hardback).

Watson, Ian, The Universal Machine: From the Dawn of Computing to Digital Consciousness. Berlin and Heidelberg: Springer, 2012. Pp. xi+284. ISBN 978-3-642-28101-3. $24.95 (paperback).

Zanin, Fabio, La Scomparsa della Filosofia Naturale: Alle Origine della Fisica Matematica. Padova: Cleup, 2011. Pp. 291. ISBN 978-88-6129-681-7. €17.00 (paperback).