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Jamie Cohen-Cole, The Open Mind: Cold War Politics and the Sciences of Human Nature. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2014. Pp. 397. ISBN 978-0-2260-9216-4. £31.50 (hardback). - Mark Solovey, Shaky Foundations: The Politics–Patronage–Social Science Nexus in Cold War America. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2013. Pp. x + 253. ISBN 978-0-8135-5465-5. £39.95 (hardback).
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Christopher Hollings, Mathematics across the Iron Curtain: A History of the Algebraic Theory of Semigroups. Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society, 2014. Pp. xi + 441. ISBN 978-1-4704-1493-1. £79.95 (hardback).
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Roman Duda, Pearls from a Lost City: The Lvov School of Mathematics. Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society, 2014. Pp. xi + 231. ISBN 978-1-4704-1076-6. £28.50 (hardback).
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- 16 March 2016, pp. 141-143
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Jiri Hudecek, Reviving Ancient Chinese Mathematics: Mathematics, History and Politics in the Work of Wu Wen-Tsun. New York: Routledge, 2014. Pp. xii + 210. ISBN 978-0-4157-0296-6. £90.00 (hardback).
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Orit Halpern, Beautiful Data: A History of Vision and Reason since 1945. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2015. Pp. ix + 342. ISBN 978-0-8223-5744-5. £17.99 (paperback)
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Horst Bredekamp, Vera Dünkel and Birgit Schneider (eds.), The Technical Image: A History of Styles in Scientific Imagery. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2015. Pp. 208. ISBN 978-0-2262-5884-3. £35.00 (hardback).
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- 16 March 2016, pp. 146-147
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Thor Hansen, The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, & Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History. New York: Basic Books, 2015. Pp. 288. ISBN 978-0-4650-5599-9. $26.99/£17.99 (hardback).
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- 16 March 2016, pp. 147-148
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Matthew Smith, Another Person's Poison: A History of Food Allergy. New York: Columbia University Press, 2015. Pp. 312. ISBN 978-0-2311-6484-9. £19.95 (hardback).
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- 16 March 2016, pp. 148-150
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James Rodger Fleming and Ann Johnson (eds.), Toxic Airs: Body, Place, Planet in Historical Perspective. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2014. Pp. xiv + 284. ISBN 978-0-8229-6290-8. $28.95 (paperback).
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- 16 March 2016, pp. 150-151
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Pieter Dhondt (ed.), University Jubilees and University Writing: A Challenging Relationship. Leiden: Brill, 2015. Pp. xi + 255. ISBN 978-9-0042-1696-9. £79.00 (hardback).
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Front Cover (OFC, IFC) and matter
BJH volume 49 issue 1 Cover and Front matter
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- 16 March 2016, pp. f1-f2
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BJH volume 49 issue 1 Cover and Back matter
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