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Volume 47 - December 2014

Book Review

Tatiana Holway, The Flower of Empire: An Amazonian Water Lily, the Quest to Make It Bloom, and the World It Created. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. xiv+306. ISBN 978-0-19-537389-9. £18.99 (hardback).

Silvan S. Schweber, Nuclear Forces: The Making of the Physicist Hans Bethe. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2012. Pp. viii+579. ISBN 978-0-674-06587-1. £25.95 (hardback).

Dan Ch. Christensen, Hans Christian Ørsted: Reading Nature's Mind. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. xix+743. ISBN 978-0-19-966926-4. £39.99 (hardback).

Vera M. Kutzinski, Ottmar Ette and Laura Dassow Walls (eds.), Alexander von Humboldt and the Americas. Berlin: Verlag Walter Frey, 2012. Pp. 295. ISBN 978-3-938944-63-9. €19.80 (paperback)

W. Patrick McCray, The Visioneers: How a Group of Elite Scientists Pursued Space Colonies, Nanotechnologies, and a Limitless Future. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2013. Pp. xii+351. ISBN 978-0-691-13983-8. £19.95 (hardback).

Ted Benton, Alfred Russel Wallace: Explorer, Evolutionist, Public Intellectual – a Thinker for Our Own Times?Manchester: Siri Scientiﬁc Press, 2013. Pp. 223. ISBN 978-0-9574530-2-9. £21.00 (paperback).

Pratik Chakrabarti, Bacteriology in British India: Laboratory Medicine in the Tropics. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press. Pp. x+304. ISBN 978-1-58046-408-6. £60.00 (hardback).

Roger S. Wotton, Walking with Gosse: Natural History, Creation, and Religious Conflicts. Southampton: Clio Publishing, 2012. Pp. viii+214. ISBN 978-0-9556983-9-2. £11.95 (paperback).

Mitchell G. Ash and Jan Surman (eds.), The Nationalization of Scientific Knowledge in the Habsburg Empire, 1848–1918. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. Pp. xi+258. ISBN 978-0-230-28987-1. £50.00 (hardback).

József Illy, The Practical Einstein: Experiments, Patents, Inventions. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012. Pp. xi+202. ISBN 978-1-4214-0457-8. £31.00 (hardback).

Kristian H. Nielsen, Michael Harbsmeier and Christopher J. Ries (eds.), Scientists and Scholars in the Field: Studies in the History of Fieldwork and Expeditions. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 2012. Pp. 476. ISBN 978-87-7124-014-6. £50.00 (hardback).

Heiner Fangerau, Rethy Chhem, Irmgard Müller and Shih-Chang Wang (eds.), Medical Imaging and Philosophy: Challenges, Reflections and Actions. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2012. Pp. 190. ISBN 978-3-515-10046-5. €38.00 (paperback).

Kenneth Bertrams, Nicholas Coupain and Ernst Homburg, Solvay: History of a Multinational Family Firm. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Pp. xviii+630. ISBN 978-1-107-02480-9. £60.00 (hardback).

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Peter Ayres, Shaping Ecology: The Life of Arthur Tansley. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. Pp. xii+213. ISBN 978-0-470-67154-2. £19.99 (paperback).

Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette, Science on American Television: A History. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2013, Pp. x+306. ISBN 978-0-226-92199-0. £29.00 (hardback).

Peter J. Westwick (ed.), Blue Sky Metropolis: The Aerospace Century in Southern California. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012. Pp. xii+308. ISBN 978-0-87328-249-9. £30.95 (hardback).

Jean-Paul Gaudillière and Volker Hess (eds.), Ways of Regulating Drugs in the 19th and 20th Centuries. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Pp. xiv+327. ISBN 978-0-230-30196-2. £60.00 (hardback).

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Nathaniel Comfort, The Science of Human Perfection: How Genes Became the Heart of American Medicine. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2012. Pp. xvii+316. ISBN 978-0-300-16991-1. £25.00 (hardback).

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