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Volume 45 - December 2012

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Margaret E. Derry, 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).

Peter Heering and Roland Wittje (eds.), Learning by Doing: Experiments and Instruments in the History of Science Teaching. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2011. Pp. 362. ISBN 978-3-515-09842-7. €49.00 (paperback).

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

Mario Biagioli, Peter Jaszi and Martha Woodmansee (eds.), Making and Unmaking Intellectual Property: Creative Production in Legal and Cultural Perspective. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2011. Pp. vii+466. ISBN 978-0-226-90709-3. £26.00 (paperback).

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

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

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Thomas S. Mullaney, Coming to Terms with the Nation: Ethnic Classification in Modern China. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 2010. Pp. xiv + 232. ISBN 978-0-520-26278-2. £41.95 (hardback).

Michael Sean Mahoney, Histories of Computing. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2011. Pp. x + 250. ISBN 978-0-674-05568-1. £36.95 (hardback).

Eden Medina, 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).

Sally Smith Hughes, Genentech: The Beginnings of Biotech. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2011. Pp. xv + 215. ISBN 978-0-226-35918-2. $25.00 (hardback).

Brian Wynne, Rationality and Ritual: Participation and Exclusion in Nuclear Decision-Making. London and Washington, DC: Earthscan, 2011. Pp. xxvii + 228. ISBN 978-1-84971-161-6. £24.99 (paperback).

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