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Volume 15 - November 1982

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The New Physics - Television review of ‘Oppenheimer’, 7 part serial, shown on BBC-2 in the UK in 1980 and of Peter Goodchild, J. Robert Oppenheimer ‘Shatterer of Worlds’. London: BBC Publications, 1980. Pp 301 incl. index and illustrations. £9.95.

Bibliography - A. J. Meadows (ed), Development of science publishing in Europe. Amsterdam, New York, Oxford: Elsevier Science Publishers, 1980. Pp. ix + 269.

Science Studies - Bruno Latour and Steve Woolgar, Laboratory life: the social construction of scientific facts. Beverly Hills and London: Sage Publications, 1979. Pp. 271. £11.25; £5.50 (paperback).

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Report of Council for the Year 1981–2

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Bibliography - David Bearman and John T. Edsall (ed), Archival sources for the history of biochemistry and molecular biology: a reference guide and report. Boston: American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1980. Pp. xii + 338. (No price stated.)

Technology and Development - Anne Van Neck, Les debúts de la machine à vapeur dans l'industrie belge, 1800–1850. Brussels: Palais des Academics, 1979. Pp. 898. No price.

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Technology and Development - Ian Inkster, Japan as a development model? relative backwardness and technological transfer. Berliner Beiträge zur social- und wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Japan-Forschung: Band 7 Bochum: Studienverlag Dr N. Brockmeyer, 1980. Pp. ii + 101. D.M. 14–80.

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Technology and Development - Robert Fox and George Weisz (ed), The organization of science and technology in France 1808–1914. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Paris: Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, 1980. Pp. x + 355. £15.00.

Technology and Development - Lucile H. Brockway, Science and colonial expansion: the role of the British Royal Botanic Gardens. New York, London, Toronto, Sydney & San Francisco: Academic Press, 1979. Pp. xvi + 215. £12.00/$21.00.

Technology and Development - Robert Lewis, Science and industrialisation in the USSR: industrial research and development 1917–40. London: Macmillan in association with the Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham. 1979 Pp. xiv + 211. £12.00

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