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The British Journal for the History of Science , Volume 46 , Issue 2 , June 2013 , pp. 357 - 358
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Azzolini, Monica, The Duke and the Stars: Astrology and Politics in Renaissance Milan. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2013. Pp. xiii+370. ISBN 978-0-674-06663-2. £36.95 (hardback).

Bakker, Paul J.J.M., De Boer, Sander W. and Leijenhorst, Cees (eds.), Psychology and Other Disciplines: A Case Study of Cross-disciplinary Interaction (1250–1750). Leiden: Brill, 2012. Pp. viii+387. ISBN 978-90-04-23953-1. €105.00 (hardback).

Benjamin, Ludy T. Jr and Barton, Lizette Royer, From Coca-Cola to Chewing Gum: The Applied Psychology of Harry Hollingworth, vol. 2. Akron: University of Akron Press, 2013. Pp. xxii+260. ISBN 978-1-935603-54-2. $34.95 (paperback).

Boudia, Soraya and Jas, Nathalie (eds.), Toxicants, Health and Regulation since 1945. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2013. Pp. xiii+193. ISBN 978-1-84893-403-0. £60.00 (hardback).

Budge, Gavin, Romanticism, Medicine and the Natural Supernatural: Transcendent Vision and Bodily Spectres, 1789–1852. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Pp. viii+295. ISBN 978-0-230-23846-6. £55.00 (hardback).

Dathan, Wendy, The Reindeer Botanist: Alf Erling Porsild, 1901–1977. Alberta: University of Calgary Press, 2012. Pp. xxii+726. ISBN 978-1-55238-586-9. $51.95 (paperback).

Davids, Karel, Religion, Technology, and the Great and Little Divergences: China and Europe Compared, c.700–1800. Leiden: Brill, 2013. Pp. xii+278. ISBN 978-90-04-23388-1. €109.00 (hardback).

Echterhölter, Anna, Schattengefechte: Genealogische Praktiken in Nachrufen auf Naturwissenschaftler (1710–1860). Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2012. Pp. 365. ISBN 978-3-8353-1071-1. €39.90 (paperback).

Gitelman, Lisa, ‘Raw Data’ Is an Oxymoron. Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 2013. Pp. vii+182. ISBN 978-0-262-51828-4. £20.95 (paperback).

Jones, David S., Broken Hearts: The Tangled History of Cardiac Care. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. Pp. xiii+319. ISBN 978-1-4214-0801-9. £18.00 (hardback).

Kelly, Laura, Irish Women in Medicine, c.1880s–1920s: Origins, Education and Careers. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2012. Pp. xvi+255. ISBN 978-0-7190-8835-3. £60.00 (hardback).

Kindi, Vasso and Arabatzis, Theodore (eds.), Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Revisited. London: Routledge, 2012. Pp. ix+259. ISBN 978-0-415-80855-2. £80.00 (hardback).

Kohlstedt, Sally Gregory and Kaiser, David (eds.), Science and the American Century: Readings from Isis. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2013. Pp. vi+476. ISBN 978-0-226-92514-1. £19.50 (paperback).

Kumar, Neelam (ed.), Gender and Science: Studies across Cultures. Delhi: Foundation Books, 2012. Pp. xxx+323. ISBN 978-81-7596-925-4. $55.00 (hardback).

Lachmund, Jens, Greening Berlin: The Co-production of Science, Politics and Urban Nature. Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 2013. Pp. ix+320. ISBN 978-0-262-01859-3. £28.95 (hardback).

Larson, Barbara and Flach, Sabine (eds.), Darwin and the Theories of Aesthetics and Cultural History. Farnham: Ashgate, 2013. Pp. xi+176. ISBN 978-1-4094-4870-9. £55.00 (hardback).

Mayer, Thomas F., The Roman Inquisition: A Papal Bureaucracy and Its Laws in the Age of Galileo. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. Pp. vi+385. ISBN 978-0-8122-4473-1. £52.00 (hardback).

Mohun, Arwen P., Risk: Negotiating Safety in American Society. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. Pp. viii+329. ISBN 978-1-4214-0790-6. £28.50 (hardback).

Monforte, Guillermo Lusa, Cátedras Especiales y Nuevo Plan de Estudios (1953–1957). Barcelona: ETSEIB, 2012. Pp. 176. ISSN 1137-0238. Price unknown (paperback).

Monod, Paul Kleber, Solomon's Secret Arts: The Occult in the Age of Enlightenment. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2013. Pp. x+430. ISBN 978-0-300-12358-6. £27.50 (hardback).

Nicolson, Malcolm and Fleming, John E.E., Imaging and Imagining the Fetus: The Development of Obstetric Ultrasound. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. Pp. xiii+317. ISBN 978-1-4214-0793-7. £26.00 (hardback).

Oliver, Kendrick, To Touch the Face of God: The Sacred and the Profane, and the American Space Program 1957–1975. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. Pp. xiii+229. ISBN 978-1-4214-0788-3. £21.00 (hardback).

Pender, Stephen and Struever, Nancy S. (eds.), Rhetoric and Medicine in Early Modern Europe. Farnham: Ashgate, 2012. Pp. ix+299. ISBN 978-1-4094-3022-3. £65.00 (hardback).

Preece, Richard C. and Sparks, Tim H., Fauna Cantabrigiensis. The Vertebrate and Molluscan Fauna of Cambridgeshire by the Rev. Leonard Jenyns (1800–1893): Transcript and Commentaries. London: The Ray Society, 2012. Pp. vii+226. ISBN 978-0-903874-44-1. £65.00 (hardback).

Quickenden, Kenneth, Baggot, Sally and Dick, Malcolm (eds.), Matthew Boulton: Enterprising Industrialist of the Enlightenment. Farnham: Ashgate, 2013. Pp. xviii+294. ISBN 978-1-4094-2218-1. £65.00 (hardback).

Quinlan-McGrath, Mary, Influences: Art, Optics, and Astrology in the Italian Renaissance. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2013. Pp. xi+284. ISBN 978-0-226-92284-3. $35.00 (hardback).

Roberts, Siobhan, Wind Wizard: Alan G. Davenport and the Art of Wind Engineering. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2013. Pp. vii+278. ISBN 978-0-691-15153-3. £19.95 (hardback).

Rose, Nikolas and Abi-Rached, Joelle M., Neuro: The New Brain Science and the Management of the Mind. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2013. Pp. xiii+335. ISBN 978-0-691-14961-5. £16.95 (paperback).

Roulstone, Ian and Norbury, John, Invisible in the Storm: The Role of Mathematics in Understanding Weather. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2013. Pp. ix+325. ISBN 978-0-691-15272-1. £24.95 (hardback).

Smith, Charles H. and Derr, Megan (eds.), Alfred Russel Wallace's 1886–1887 Travel Diary: The North American Lecture Tour. Manchester: SIRI Scientific Press, 2013. Pp. xiii+258. ISBN 978-0-9567795-8-8. £21.00 (paperback).

Thomasson, Fredrik, The Life of J.D. Åkerblad: Egyptian Decipherment and Orientalism in Revolutionary Times. Leiden: Brill, 2013. Pp. xiv+455. ISBN 978-90-04-21116-2. €129.00 (hardback).

Von Humboldt, Alexander, Views of the Cordillera and Monuments of the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas: A Critical Edition. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2013. Pp. xxxv+618. ISBN 978-0-226-86506-5. £42.00 (hardback).

Wolfe, Audra J., Competing with the Soviets: Science, Technology, and the State in Cold War America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. Pp. viii+166. ISBN 978-1-4214-0771-5. £10.50 (hardback).