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Volume 31 - December 1998

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PAUL R. JOSEPHSON, New Atlantis Revisited: Akademgorodok, the Siberian City of Science. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997. Pp. xxii+351. ISBN 0-691-04454-6. £27.50, $39.50.

Penelope Gouk (ed.), Wellsprings of Achievement: Cultural and Economic Dynamics in Early Modern England and Japan. Aldershot: Variorum, 1996. Pp. viii+271. ISBN 0-86078-465-7. £42.50.

CHARLES WEBSTER, The National Health Service: A Political History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. xiv+241. ISBN 0-19-289296-7. £9.99 (paperback edition).

Alan Irwin and Brian Wynne (eds.), Misunderstanding Science? The Public Reconstruction of Science and Technology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. vii+229. ISBN 0-521-43268-5. £35.00, $59.95.

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Marshall Clagett, Ancient Egyptian Science, Volume 2: Calendars, Clocks, and Astronomy. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1995. Pp. xiv+575, illus. ISBN 0-87169-214-7. No price given.

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Michael Shortland and Richard Yeo (eds.), Telling Lives in Science: Essays on Scientific Biography. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. xiv+295. ISBN 0-521-43323-1. £50.00.

Mitchell G. Ash and Alfons Söllner (eds.), Forced Migration and Scientific Change: Emigré German-Speaking Scientists and Scholars after 1933. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. xviii+301. ISBN 0-521-49741-8. £35.00, $59.95.

Theodore W. Pietsch (ed.), Fishes, Crayfishes, and Crabs: Louis Renard's Natural History of the Rarest Curiosities of the Seas of the Indies, 2 vols. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. Pp. viii+224, xxii+214, illus. ISBN 0-8018-4790-7. £78.50 (set).

Gillian Beer, Open Fields, Science in Cultural Encounter. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. Pp. x+342. ISBN 0-19-818369-0. £25.00.

Suzanne B. Butters, The Triumph of Vulcan: Sculptors' Tools, Porphyry, and the Prince in Ducal Florence, 2 vols. Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 1996. Pp. 724, illus. ISBN 88-222-4411-7. 320,000 lire (set).

Michael Heyd, ‘Be Sober and Reasonable’: The Critique of Enthusiasm in the Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1996. Pp. xi+312. ISBN 90-04-10118-7. $92.00. Dfl. 142.00.

Hermann von Helmholtz, Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays, edited with an introduction by David Cahan. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995. Pp. xviii+418. ISBN 0-226-32658-6, £41.50, $52.00 (hardback); 0-226-32659-4, £14.25, $17.95 (paperback).

David Philip Miller and Peter Hanns Reill (eds.), Visions of Empire: Voyages, Botany, and Representations of Nature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. xix+370. ISBN 0-521-48303-4. £40.00, $59.95.

Harmke Kamminga and Andrew Cunningham (eds.), The Science and Culture of Nutrition, 1840–1940. Clio Medica, 32/Wellcome Institute Series in the History of Medicine. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1995. Pp. vii+344. ISBN 90-5183-818-2. $33.00, Dfl. 50.00.

Steven Noll, Feeble-Minded in our Midst: Institutions for the Mentally Retarded in the South, 1900–1940. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995. Pp. xiii+254. ISBN 0-8078-2220-5, $39.95 (hardback); 0-8078-4531-0, $16.95 (paperback).

José Brunner, Freud and the Politics of Psychoanalysis. Oxford: Blackwell, 1995. Pp. xiv+238. ISBN 0-631-16404-9. £40.00, $49.95.

German Berrios and Roy Porter (eds.), A History of Clinical Psychiatry: The Origin and History of Psychiatric Disorders. London: Athlone Press, 1995. Pp. xx+684. ISBN 0-485-24011-4, £60.00 (hardback); 0-485-24211, £19.95 (paperback).

A. C. Crombie, Science, Art and Nature in Medieval and Modern Thought. London: Hambledon Press, 1996. Pp. xvi+516. ISBN 1-85285-067-1. £40.00.

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