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Volume 20 - October 1987

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E. J. Aiton. Leibniz. A Biography. Bristol and Boston: Adam Hilger, 1985. Pp. xiv + 370. ISBN 0-85274-470-6. £30.00.

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Maxine Berg. The Age of Manufactures. Industry, Innovation and Work in Britain, 1700–1820. London: Fontana Paperback, 1985. Pp. 378. ISBN 0-00-686019-2. £4.95.

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Merritt Roe Smith (ed.) Military Enterprise and Technological Change: Perspectives on the American Experience. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 1985. Pp. 391. £29.95.

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Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, (ed. and tr.) The Complete Letters of Sigmund Freud to Wilhelm Fliess, 1887–1904. Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard University Press, 1985. Pp. xv + 505. ISBN 0-674-15420-7. £19.95.

Joseph Needham & Francesca Bray. Science & Civilization in China, Vol. 6, Part 2. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984. xxvii + 724. ISBN 0-521-250765. £50.00.

John M. Staudenmaier. Technology's Storytellers: Reweaving the Human Fabric. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Society for the History of Technology and the MIT Press, 1985. Pp. xxvii + 282. ISBN 0-262-19237-3. £39.25.

W. F. Bynum & Roy Porter, (eds.) William Hunter and the Eighteenth-Century Medical World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985. Pp. xi + 424. ISBN 0-521-26806-0. £35.00. $49.50.

Sander L. Gilman. Difference and Pathology. Stereotypes of Sexuality, Race and Madness. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1985. Pp. 292. $38.45 (cloth), $14.25 (paper).

Alan J. Friedman & Carol C. Donley. Einstein as Myth and Muse. Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge University Press, 1985. Pp. xiv + 224. ISBN 0-521-26720-X. £25.00, $39.50.

Harry W. Paul. From Knowledge to Power. The Rise of the Science Empire in France, 1860–1939. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985. Pp. ix + 415. ISBN 0-521-25404-5. £32.50, $49.50.

James Paradis & Thomas Postlewait (eds). Victorian Science and Victorian Values. Literary Perspectives. New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1985. Pp. xiii + 362.

Georg Lilienthal. Der ‘Lebensborn e.V.’: Ein Instrument Nationalsozialistischer Rassenpolitik. Stuttgart/New York: G. Fischer, 1985. Pp. viii + 264. ISBN 3-437-10939-1.

Thomas L. Hankins. Science and the Enlightenment. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985. Pp. viii + 216. ISBN 0-521-24349-9 (hard covers). £20.00. ISBN 0-521-28619-0 (paperback). £6.95.

Stanley L. Jaki. Uneasy Genius: The Life and Work of Pierre Duhem. Dordrecht: Martinus Nijhoff, 1985. Pp. xii + 472. ISBN 90-247-2897-5. Dfl. 175.00; £44.50.

Robert P. McIntosh. The Background of Ecology. Concept and Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985. Pp. xiii + 383. ISBN 0-521-24935-X. £30.00, $39.50.

Clive Hart. The Prehistory of Flight. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985. Pp. xvii + 279. ISBN 0-520-05213-7. £29.75.

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