January-March 2017

Previous Isis Books Received Lists

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Infinitesimal: How a Dangerous Mathematical Theory Shaped the Modern World
Compound Solutions
American Eclipse: A Nation
Eye for Detail: Images of Plants and Animals in Art and Science, 1500-1630
Natures in Translation: Romanticism and Colonial Natural History
Histoire des techniques : Mondes, sociétés, cultures - XVIe-XVIIIe siècle
Mad-Doctors in the Dock: Defending the Diagnosis, 1760–1913
Game Changer: The Technoscientific Revolution in Sports
Life Histories of Genetic Disease: Patterns and Prevention in Postwar Medical Genetics
Playing with Earth and Sky: Astronomy, Geography, and the Art of Marcel Duchamp (Interfaces: Studies in Visual Culture)
Rise of the Modern Hospital: An Architectural History of Health and Healing, 1870-1940
Ressourcenmobilisierung
Scurvy: The Disease of Discovery
Humanités environnementales: Enquêtes et contre-enquêtes
Medicine, Natural Philosophy and Religion in Post-Reformation Scandinavia (The History of Medicine in Context)
The Theater of Experiment: Staging Natural Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Britain
The Foundations of Celestial Reckoning: Three Ancient Chinese Astronomical Systems (Scientific Writings from the Ancient and Medieval World)
The Animal Game: Searching for Wildness at the American Zoo
Italian Psychology and Jewish Emigration under Fascism: From Florence to Jerusalem and New York (Italian and Italian American Studies)
Eco-Cultural Networks and the British Empire: New Views on Environmental History
The De Subtilitate of Girolamo Cardano (MEDIEVAL & RENAIS TEXT STUDIES)
The Science of Sympathy: Morality, Evolution, and Victorian Civilization (History of Emotions)
Le Mathématicien renaissant et son savoir: Le statut des mathématiques selon Oronce Fine (Histoire Et Philosophie Des Sciences) (French Edition)
de Arte Magna -Libri Quatuor (Sciences Et Savoirs) (French Edition)
The General: A History of the Montreal General Hospital
Alice in Space: The Sideways Victorian World of Lewis Carroll (Carpenter Lectures)
Medicine and Pharmacy in Byzantine Hospitals: A study of the extant formularies (Medicine in the Medieval Mediterranean)
Medicine and Humanism in Late Medieval Italy: The Carrara Herbal in Padua (Medicine in the Medieval Mediterranean)
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Madhouse: Psychiatry and Politics in Cuban History (Envisioning Cuba)
The Baroulkos and the Mechanics of Heron (Biblioteca Di Nuncius Studie Testi)
CHEMISTRY DEPARTMENT AT IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON, THE: A HISTORY, 1845-2000
Wundt and the Philosophical Foundations of Psychology: A Reappraisal
Gardens, Knowledge and the Sciences in the Early Modern Period (Trends in the History of Science)
A History of Global Health: Interventions into the Lives of Other Peoples
My Search for Ramanujan: How I Learned to Count
A Saving Science: Capturing the Heavens in Carolingian Manuscripts
Amazing Stories of the Space Age: True Tales of Nazis in Orbit, Soldiers on the Moon, Orphaned Martian Robots, and Other Fascinating Accounts from the Annals of Spaceflight
Network Medicine: Complex Systems in Human Disease and Therapeutics
The Lost White Tribe: Explorers, Scientists, and the Theory that Changed a Continent
Pharmocracy: Value, Politics, and Knowledge in Global Biomedicine (Experimental Futures)
The Rhinoceros and the Megatherium: An Essay in Natural History
Der Fall Paul Kammerer
Heredity Explored: Between Public Domain and Experimental Science, 1850–1930 (Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology)
A Body of Work: An Anthology of Poetry and Medicine
The Life Organic: The Theoretical Biology Club and the Roots of Epigenetics
Berlin, the Mother of All Research Universities: 1860–1918
Toxic Exposures: Mustard Gas and the Health Consequences of World War II in the United States (Critical Issues in Health and Medicine)
The Hubble Space Telescope: From Concept to Success (Springer Praxis Books)
Under Desert Skies: How Tucson Mapped the Way to the Moon and Planets
Redefining Science: Scientists, the National Security State, and Nuclear Weapons in Cold War America (Culture, Politics, and the Cold War)
The Globalization of Knowledge in the Iberian Colonial World
The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England
Freuds Traum Von Einer Neuen Wissenschaft: Chemie Und Bakteriologie Im Traum Von Irmas Injektion (Jahrbuch Der Psychoanalyse. Beihefte) (German Edition)
Testing Fate
Materia médica: Rareza, singularidad y accidente en la España temprano-moderna (North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures) (Spanish Edition)
Pompa E Intelletto: Formen Der Ordnung Und Inszenierung Botanischen Wissens Im Späten Großherzogtum Der Medici (Phoenix) (German Edition)
Historiography of Mathematics in the 19th and 20th Centuries (Trends in the History of Science)
Histories of Medicine and Healing in the Indian Ocean World, Volume One: The Medieval and Early Modern Period (Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies)
Impressions de Chine : L

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