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The British Journal for the History of Science , Volume 45 , Issue 3: Special Issue: Transnational History of Science , September 2012 , pp. 477 - 478
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Agar, Jon, Science in the Twentieth Century and Beyond. Cambridge: Polity, 2012. Pp. ix+614. ISBN 978-0-7456-3469-2. £30.00 (hardback).

Anderson, R.G. W. and Jones, Jean (eds.), The Correspondence of Joseph Black. 2 vols. Farnham: Ashgate, 2012. Pp. xiv+1564. ISBN 978-0-7546-0131-9. £300.00 (hardback).

Balmer, Brian, Secrecy and Science: A Historical Sociology of Biological and Chemical Warfare. Farnham: Ashgate, 2012. Pp. xiii+168. ISBN 978-1-4094-3056-8. £55.00 (hardback).

Beeley, Philip and Scriba, Christoph J., Correspondence of John Wallis 1616–1703: Volume III (October 1668–1671). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. Pp. xxiii+630. ISBN 978-0-19-856947-3. £195.00 (hardback).

Bentley, Michael, The Life and Thought of Herbert Butterfield. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pp. xv+381. ISBN 978-1-107-00397-2. £50.00 (hardback).

Bliss, Catherine, Race Decoded: The Genomic Fight for Social Justice. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2012. Pp. xi+265. ISBN 978-0-8047-7408-6. $24.95 (paperback).

Brasier, Martin, Secret Chambers: The Inside Story of Cells and Complex Life. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. Pp. xviii+298. ISBN 978-0-19-964400-1. £16.99 (hardback).

Burkhardt, Frederick, Secord, James A., Browne, Janet, Evans, Samantha, Innes, Shelley, Pearn, Alison M. and White, Paul (eds.), The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 19: 1871. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Pp. xliv+1062. ISBN 978-1-107-01648-4. £90.00 (hardback).

Burnett, D. Graham, The Sounding of the Whale: Science and Cetaceans in the Twentieth Century. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2012. Pp. xxii+793. ISBN 978-0-226-08130-4. $45.00 (hardback).

Carrier, Richard C., Proving History: Bayes's Theorem and the Quest for the Historical Jesus. Amherst: Prometheus Books, 2012. Pp. 340. ISBN 978-1-61614-559-0. $28.00 (hardback).

Derry, Margaret E., Art and Science in Breeding: Creating Better Chickens. Toronto, Buffalo and London: University of Toronto Press, 2012. Pp. viii+281. ISBN 978-1-4426-4395-6. $65.00 (hardback).

Ede, Andrew and Cormack, Lesley B., A History of Science in Society: From Philosophy to Utility. Toronto, Buffalo and London: University of Toronto Press, 2012. Pp. xii+435. ISBN 978-1-4426-0446-9. $49.95 (paperback).

Fantoli, Annibale, The Case of Galileo: A Closed Question? Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2012. Pp. xii+271. ISBN 978-0-268-02891-6. $28.00 (paperback).

Ferber, Sarah and Wilde, Sally (eds.), The Body Divided: Human Beings and Human ‘Material’ in Modern Medical History. Farnham: Ashgate, 2011. Pp. xiii+249. ISBN 978-0-7546-6834-3. £65.00 (hardback).

Ferguson, Christine, Determined Spirits: Eugenics, Heredity and Racial Regeneration in Anglo-American Spiritualist Writing, 1848–1930. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012. Pp. x+230. ISBN 978-0-7486-3965-6. £70.00 (hardback).

Fitch, Walter M., The Three Failures of Creationism: Logic, Rhetoric, and Science. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 2012. Pp. xv+177. ISBN 978-0-520-27053-4. £16.95 (paperback).

Freudenthal, Gad, Science in Medieval Jewish Cultures. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pp. xii+547. ISBN 978-1-107-00145-9. £85.00 (hardback).

García-Sancho, Miguel, Biology, Computing, and the History of Molecular Sequencing, from Proteins to DNA, 1945–2000. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. Pp. xiii+242. ISBN 978-0-230-25032-1. £55.00 (hardback).

Gurdon, John, Wolf Prize in Medicine 1978–2008. 2 vol. set. Singapore and London: World Scientific Press, 2012. Pp. xx+676, xx+547. ISBN 978-981-4291-73-6. £224.00 (hardback).

Haller, John S. Jr, Sectarian Reformers in American Medicine 1800–1910. New York: AMS Press, 2011. Pp. xvii+321. ISBN 978-0-404-64471-0. $97.50 (hardback).

Hillard, Denise, Traité des eaux artificielles: Edition critique, le texte, ses sources et ses éditions (1483 à 1625). Geneva: Librairie Droz S.A., 2012. Pp. 569. ISBN 978-2-600-01520-2. €99.07 (paperback).

Horrocks, Jeremiah and Applebaum, Wilbur (tr.), Venus Seen on the Sun: The First Observation of a Transit of Venus by Jeremiah Horrocks. Leiden: Brill, 2012. Pp. xxiv+82. ISBN 978-90-04-22193-2. €99.00 (hardback).

Illy, József, The Practical Einstein: Experiments, Patents, Inventions. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012. Pp. xi+202. ISBN 978-1-4214-0457-8. £31.00 (hardback).

Jacobsen, Anja Skaar, Léon Rosenfeld: Physics, Philosophy, and Politics in the Twentieth Century. London: World Scientific Press, 2012. Pp. xii+354. ISBN 978-981-4307-81-9. £56.00 (hardback).

Johnston, Sean F., The Neutron's Children: Nuclear Engineers and the Shaping of Identity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. Pp. xi+313. ISBN 978-0-19-969211-8. £35.00 (hardback).

Kragh, Helge, Niels Bohr and the Quantum Atom: The Bohr Model of Atomic Structure 1913–1925. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. Pp. vi+410. ISBN 978-0-19-965498-7. £35.00 (hardback).

Kusukawa, Sachiko, Picturing the Book of Nature: Image, Text, and Argument in Sixteenth-Century Human Anatomy and Medical Botany. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2012. Pp. xvii+331. ISBN 978-0-226-46529-6. $45.00/£29.00 (hardback).

Laucht, Christoph, Elemental Germans: Klaus Fuchs, Rudolf Peierls and the Making of British Nuclear Culture 1939–59. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. Pp. xiv+274. ISBN 978-0-230-35487-6. £55.00 (hardback).

Malic, D.C.V. and Chatterjee, S., Kariamanikkam Srinivasa Krishnan: His Life and Work. Hyderabad: Universities Press, 2012. Pp. xxiii+431. ISBN 978-81-7371-748-2. Rs 895.00 (hardback).

Moser, Stephanie, Wondrous Curiosities: Ancient Egypt at the British Museum. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2012. Pp. xvi+328. ISBN 978-0-226-54210-2. £16.00 (paperback).

Müller-Wille, Staffan and Rheinberger, Hans-Jörg, A Cultural History of Heredity. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2012. Pp. xiv+323. ISBN 978-0-226-54570-7. $45.00/£29.00 (hardback).

Parascandola, John, Studies in the History of Modern Pharmacology and Drug Therapy. Farnham: Ashgate, 2012. Pp. xvi+324. ISBN 978-1-4094-1976-1. £85.00 (hardback).

Peck, Robert McCracken and Stroud, Patricia Tyson, A Glorious Enterprise: The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia and the Making of American Science. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012. Pp. xviii+437. ISBN 978-0-8122-4380-2. £49.00 (hardback).

Powers, John C., Inventing Chemistry: Herman Boerhaave and the Reform of the Chemical Arts. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2012. Pp. viii+260. ISBN 978-0-226-67760-6. £26.00 (hardback).

Quaderns D'Història de L'Enginyeria. Monogràfic: Evolució Científica I Tècnica de La Indústria Del Gas. Barcelona: ETSEIB, 2011. Pp. xiii+326. ISSN 1135-934x. €25.00 (paperback).

Reydams-Schils, Gretchen, Thinking through Excerpts: Studies on Stobaeus. Turnhout: Brepols, 2011. Pp. 730. ISBN 978-2-503-52976-9. €110.00 (paperback).

Saunders, Brian, Discovery of Australia's Fishes: A Study of Australian Ichthyology to 1930. Collingwood: CSIRO Publishing, 2012. Pp. xii+491. ISBN 978-0-643-10670-3. $99.95 (hardback).

Sepkoski, David, Rereading the Fossil Record: The Growth of Paleobiology as an Evolutionary Discipline. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2012. Pp. viii+432. ISBN 978-0-226-74855-9. £35.50 (hardback).

Solovey, Mark and Cravens, Hamilton (eds.), Cold War Social Science: Knowledge Production, Liberal Democracy, and Human Nature. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. Pp. xviii+270. ISBN 978-0-230-34050-3. £55.00 (hardback).

Tomory, Leslie, Progressive Enlightenment: The Origins of the Gaslight Industry, 1780–1820. Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 2012. Pp. xii+348. ISBN 978-0-262-01675-9. £19.95 (hardback).

Walton, Michael T., Genesis and the Chemical Philosophy: True Christian Science in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. New York: AMS Press, 2011. Pp. xvi+172. ISBN 978-0-404-62345-6. $92.50 (hardback).

Wardhaugh, Benjamin, The History of the History of Mathematics: Case Studies for the Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2012. Pp. vi+187. ISBN 978-3-0343-0708-6. £32.00 (paperback).

Weart, Spencer R., The Rise of Nuclear Fear. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2012. Pp. ix+367. ISBN 978-0-674-05233-8. £16.95 (paperback).

Winter, Alison, Memory: Fragments of a Modern History. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2012. Pp. x+319. ISBN 978-0-226-90258-6. $30.00 (hardback).