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Volume 56 - December 2023

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Kevin McCain and Kostas Kampourakis: What Is Scientific Knowledge? An Introduction to Contemporary Epistemology of Science London: Routledge, 2019. Pp. 328. ISBN 978-1-1385-7015-3. £36.99 (paperback).

Johan Alfredo Linthorst, Research between Science, Society and Politics: The History and Scientific Development of Green Chemistry Utrecht: Eburon, 2023. Pp. 268. ISBN 978-9-4630-1434-2. €36.00 (paperback).

Marco Tamborini, The Architecture of Evolution: The Science of Form in Twentieth-Century Evolutionary Biology Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022. Pp. 283. ISBN: 978-0-8229-4735-6. $455.00 (hardcover).

Philippe Fontaine and Jefferson D. Pooley, Society on the Edge: Social Science and Public Policy in the Postwar United States Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. 280. ISBN 978-1-1084-8713-9. £74.99 (hardback). ISBN 978-1-1087-3219-2. £26.99 (paperback).

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Hannah Wills, Sadie Harrison, Erika Jones, Rebecca Martin and Farrah Lawrence-Mackey (eds.), Women in the History of Science: A Sourcebook London: UCL Press, 2023. Pp. xxviii + 446. ISBN 978-1-8000-8415-5. £50.00 (hardback); £30.00 (paperback); £0.00 (open-access PDF).

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Michelle DiMeo, Lady Ranelagh: The Incomparable Life of Robert Boyle's Sister Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. Pp. 296. ISBN 978-0-226-73160-5. $45.00 (cloth).

Alida C. Metcalf, Mapping an Atlantic World, circa 1500 Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020. Pp. 224. ISBN 978-1-4214-3852-8. $57.00 (hardback).

Nancy Rose Marshall (ed.), Victorian Science and Imagery: Representation and Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021, Pp. 365, ISBN 978-0-8229-4653-3. $55.00 (hardcover).

Raf de Bont, Nature's Diplomats: Science, Internationalism, and Preservation, 1920–1960 Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021. Pp. x + 373. ISBN 978-0-8229-4661-8. $55.00 (cloth).

Ian M. Miller, Fir and Empire: The Transformation of Forests in Early Modern China Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2020. Pp. 265. ISBN 978-0-2957-4733-0. $40.00 (hardback).

Arie Rip, Nanotechnology and Its Governance London: Routledge, 2019. Pp. 158. ISBN 978-1-1386-1053-8. £130.00 (hardback).

Simon Jarrett, Those They Called Idiots: The Idea of the Disabled Mind from 1700 to the Present Day London: Reaktion Books, 2020. Pp. 352. ISBN 978-1-78914-301-0. £25.00 (hardback).

Nina R. Gelbart, Minerva's French Sisters: Women of Science in Enlightenment France New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2021. Pp. 360. ISBN 978-0-3002-5256-9. $40.00 (hardcover).

Christoph Irmscher, The Poetics of Natural History, 2nd edn New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2019. Pp. 403. ISBN 978-1-9788-0586-6. $43.95 (paperback).

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