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Volume 44 - March 2011

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Paul D. Brinkman, The Second Jurassic Dinosaur Rush: Museums and Paleontology in America at the Turn of the Twentieth Century. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2010. Pp. xiv+345. ISBN 978-0-226-07472-6. $49.00 (hardback).

J.L. Heilbron, Galileo. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. Pp. xiv+508. ISBN 978-0-19-958352-2. £20.00 (hardback).

Amir Alexander, Duel at Dawn: Heroes, Martyrs, and the Rise of Modern Mathematics. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2010. Pp. 307. ISBN 987-0-674-04661-0. £21.95 (hardback).

Lawrence Dritsas, Zambesi: David Livingstone and Expeditionary Science in Africa. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2010. Pp. xii+242. ISBN 978-1-84511-705-4. £54.40 (hardback).

Charles W.J. Withers, Geography and Science in Britain 1831–1939: A Study of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2010. Pp. xvii+278. ISBN 978-0-7190-7976-4. £60.00 (hardback).

Helmuth Trischler and Mark Walker (eds.), Physics and Politics: Research Support in Twentieth Century Germany in International Perspective. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2010. Pp. 285. ISBN 978-3-515-09601-0. €44.00 (paperback).

Andrew Lambert, Franklin: Tragic Hero of Polar Navigation. London: Faber and Faber, 2009. Pp. xii+428. ISBN 978-0-571-23160-7. £20.00 (hardback).

Marco Beretta, Antonio Clericuzio and Lawrence M. Principe (eds.), The Accademia del Cimento and Its European Context. Sagamore Beach: Science History Publications, 2009. Pp. xiii+257. ISBN 978-0-88135-387-7. $49.95 (hardback).

Ian Hesketh, Of Apes and Ancestors: Evolution, Christianity and the Oxford Debate. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009. Pp. viii+144. ISBN 978-0-8020-9284-7. CDN$29.95 (hardback).

Juliana Adelman, Communities of Science in Nineteenth-Century Ireland. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2009. Pp. xi+221. ISBN 978-1-85196-653-0. £60.00 (hardback).

Stephen Gaukroger, The Collapse of Mechanism and the Rise of Sensibility: Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1680–1760. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. Pp. x+505. ISBN 978-0-19-959493-1. £35.00 (hardback).

Alison Bashford and Philippa Levine (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the History of Eugenics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. Pp. xxi+586. ISBN 978-0-19-537314-1. £85.00 (hardback).

Jeffrey R. Wigelsworth, Selling Science in the Age of Newton: Advertising and the Commoditization of Knowledge. Farnham: Ashgate, 2010. Pp. xiii+203. ISBN 978-1-4094-0075-2. £65.00 (hardback).

Laura Salisbury and Andrew Shail (eds.), Neurology and Modernity: A Cultural History of Nervous Systems 1800–1950. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. Pp. xiii+298. ISBN 978-0-230-23313-3. £55.00 (hardback).

Basil Mahon, Oliver Heaviside: Maverick Mastermind of Electricity. London: Institution of Engineering and Technology Press, 2009. Pp. xvii+183. ISBN 978-0-86341-965-2. £15.00/ $30.00 (paperback).

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Kurt Møller Pedersen and Peter de Clercq (eds.), An Observer of Observatories: The Journal of Thomas Bugge's Tour of Germany, Holland and England in 1777. Aarhus: Aarhus Universitetsforlag, 2010. Pp. xxiv+220. ISBN 978-87-7934-311-5. £25.00 (hardback).

Miriam R. Levin, Sophie Forgan, Martina Hessler, Robert H. Kargon and Maurice Low, Urban Modernity: Cultural Innovation in the Second Industrial Revolution. Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 2010. Pp. x+272. ISBN 978-0-262-01398-7. £22.95 (hardback).

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Christoph Gradmann, Laboratory Disease: Robert Koch's Medical Bacteriology, translated by Elborg Forster. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. Pp. 318. ISBN 978-0-8018-9313-1. £18.00 (hardback).

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