Volume 25 - Issue 4 - December 1992
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Book Reviews
Kathryn M. Olesko. Physics as a Calling: Discipline and Practice in the Koenigsberg Seminar for Physics. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1991. Pp. xviii + 488. ISBN 0-8014-2248-5. $39.95.
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Theodore Steinberg, Nature Incorporated: Industrialisation and the Waters of New England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Pp. xvi + 283. ISBN 0-521-39215-2. £30.00, $34.50.
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Peter J. Bowler, Charles Darwin: The Man and His Influence. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1990. Pp. xii + 250, illus. ISBN 0-631-16818-4. £19.95.
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Alfred Russel Wallace. An Anthology of His Shorter Writings, edited by Charles H. Smith. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991. Pp. x + 551. ISBN 0-19-857725-7. £40.00.
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Thomas Junker. Darwinismus und Botanik. Rezeption, Kritik und theoretische Alternativen im Deutschland des 19. Jahrhunderts, with a preface by Rudolf Schmitz. Stuttgart: Deutscher Apotheker Verlag, 1989. Pp. x + 367. ISBN 3-7692-1225-8.
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Sydney Ross. Nineteenth-Century Attitudes: Men of Science. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1991. Pp. xi + 235. ISBN 0-7923-1308-9. £42.00, $69.00, Dfl. 125.00.
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Mikuláš Teich and Roy Porter (eds.). Fin de siècle and its Legacy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. 352. ISBN 0-521-34108-6, £37.50 (hardback); 0-521-34915-X, £12.95 (paperback).
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Pauline M. H. Mazumdar. Eugenics, Human Failings: The Eugenics Society, its Sources and its Critics in Britain. London and New York: Routledge, 1991. Pp. x + 373. ISBN 0-415-04424-3. £40.00.
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Jane Maienschein. Transforming Traditions in American Biology, 1880–1915. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991. Pp. xi + 366. ISBN 0-8018-4126-7. £34.50.
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Peter Crowcroft. Elton's Ecologists: A History of the Bureau of Animal Population. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1991. Pp. xx + 177, illus. ISBN 0-226-12146-1, £27.95, $35.00 (hardback); 0-226-12148-8, £12.75, $14.95 (paperback).
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Jaroslav Malina and Zdenek Vǎsícěk. Archaeology Yesterday and Today: The Development of Archaeology in the Sciences and the Humanities, translated and edited by Marek Zvelebil. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. xiv + 320. ISBN 0-521-26621-1, £40.00, $65 (hardback); 0-521-31977-3, £15.00, $19.95 (paperback).
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Abraham Pais. Niels Bohr's Times, in Physics, Philosophy and Polity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991. Pp. xvii + 565.
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Klaus Hentschel. Die Korrespondenz Petzold—Reichenbach: Zur Entwicklung der ‘wissenschaftlichen Philosophie’ in Berlin. Berliner Beiträge zur Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften und der Tecknik, 12. Berlin: Sigma, 1990. Pp. 91. ISBN 3-928068-03-2. DM 18, 90. - Christoph Meinel. Karl Friedrich Zöllner und die Wissenschaftskultur der Gründerzeit: Eine Fallstudie zur Genese konservativer Zivilisationskritik. Berliner Beiträge zur Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften und der Technik, 13. Berlin: Sigma, 1991. Pp. 91. ISBN 3-928068-04-0. DM 16, 50.
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Robert Clayton and Joan Algar (eds.). A Scientist's War: The War Diary of Sir Clifford Paterson, 1939–45. London: Peter Peregrinus Ltd in association with the Science Museum, 1991. Pp. xxvi + 674. ISBN 0-86341-218-1. £59.00.
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Alfred I. Tauber and Leon Chernyak. Metchnikoff and the Origins of Immunology: From Metaphor to Theory. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991. Pp. xx + 247. ISBN 0-19-506447-X.
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M. Weatherall. In Search of a Cure. A History of Pharmaceutical Discovery. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990. Pp. xiv + 298. ISBN 0-19-261747-8. £19.50.
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Maila L. Walter. Science and Cultural Crisis: An Intellectual Biography of Percy Williams Bridgman (1882–1961). Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1990. Pp. x + 362. ISBN 0-8047-1796-6. $42.50.
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P. R. Morris. A History of the World Semiconductor Industry. IEE History of Technology Series 12. London: Peter Peregrinus on behalf of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, 1990. Pp. 171. ISBN 0-86341-227-0. £32.
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Tom Wilkie. British Science and Politics since 1945. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1991. Pp. x + 142. ISBN 0-631-16849-4, £24.95 (hardback); 0-631-16851-6, £8.95 (paperback).
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Steve J. Heims, The Cybernetics Group. Cambridge, Mass, and London: MIT Press. 1991. Pp. xii + 334. ISBN 0-262-08200-4. £22.50.
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