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Volume 39 - December 2006

Book Review

DIANA WYNDHAM, Eugenics in Australia: Striving for National Fitness. London: Diana Wyndham and the Galton Institute, 2003. Pp. 406. ISBN 0-9504066-7-8. £5.00 (paperback).

JANET BROWNE, Charles Darwin: The Power of Place. Volume 2 of a Biography. London: Jonathan Cape, 2002. Pp. 591. ISBN 0-679-42932-8. £25.00 (hardback).

AILEEN FYFE, Science and Salvation: Evangelical Popular Science Publishing in Victorian Britain. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 2004. Pp. xiv+325. ISBN 0-226-27648-1. $25.00 (paperback).

KEVIN BRIGHT, The Royal Dublin Society, 1815–1845. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2004. Pp. 288. ISBN 1-85182-813-3. €45.00, £45.00, $45.00 (hardback).

JACK MEADOWS, The Victorian Scientist: The Growth of a Profession. London: The British Library, 2004. Pp. vi+202. ISBN 0-7123-0894-6. £16.95 (hardback).

DEBORAH FITZGERALD, Every Farm a Factory: The Industrial Ideal in American Agriculture. Yale Agrarian Studies. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2003. Pp. xi+241. ISBN 0-300-08813-2. £35.00 (hardback).

ALEX OWEN, The Place of Enchantment: British Occultism and the Culture of the Modern. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2004. Pp. xiv+335. $30.00, £21.50 (hardback).

NOAH HERINGMAN, Romantic Rocks, Aesthetic Geology. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2004. Pp. xxii+304. ISBN 0-8014-4127-7. £27.50, $47.50 (hardback).

BASIL MAHON, The Man Who Changed Everything: The Life of James Clerk Maxwell. Chichester: John Wiley, 2003. Pp. xx+226. ISBN 0-470-86088-X. £18.99 (hardback).

STEVEN B. KARCH, A History of Cocaine: The Mystery of Coca Java and the Kew Plant. London: Royal Society of Medicine Press, 2003. Pp. xi+224. ISBN 1-85315-547-0. £24.95, $39.95 (paperback).

BERT BENDER, Evolution and ‘the Sex Problem': American Narratives during the Eclipse of Darwinism. Kent, OH and London: Kent State University Press, 2004. Pp. xvi+389. ISBN 0-87338-809-7. $59.95 (hardback).

CHARLES DARWIN, The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex. 2nd edition of 1874. With an introduction by James Moore and Adrian Desmond. Penguin Classics. London: Penguin, 2004. Pp. lxvi+791. ISBN 0-140-43631-6. £9.99 (paperback).

GEORGES DIDI-HUBERMAN, Invention of Hysteria: Charcot and the Photographic Iconography of the Salpêtrière. Translated by Alisa Hartz. Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 2003. Pp. xii+373. ISBN 0-262-04215-0. £23.50 (hardback).

LESLEY RICHMOND, JULIE STEVENSON and ALISON TURTON (eds.), The Pharmaceutical Industry: A Guide to Historical Records. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003. Pp. ix+561. ISBN 0-7546-3352-7. £55.00 (hardback).

ANGELIQUE RICHARDSON, Love and Eugenics in the Late Nineteenth Century: Rational Reproduction and the New Woman. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. 250. ISBN 0-1981-8700-9. £51.00 (hardback).

ROGER D. LAUNIUS and JANET R. DALEY BEDNAREK (eds.), Reconsidering a Century of Flight. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. Pp. xii+300. ISBN 0-8078-5488-3. £14.95, $19.95 (paperback).

PETER J. RAMBERG, Chemical Structure, Spatial Arrangement: The Early History of Stereochemistry, 1874–1914. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003. Pp. xxiv+399. ISBN 0-75546-0397-0. £57.50 (hardback).

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