Archiv für die Kategorie ‘book review’

Review: David Sellers. In Search of William Gascoigne: Seventeenth Century Astronomer.

Review by: Frances Willmoth

Isis, Volume 104, Issue 4, Page 846-847, December 2013.

Review: David R. Montgomery. The Rocks Don’t Lie: A Geologist Investigates Noah’s Flood.

Review by: Kennard B. Bork

Isis, Volume 104, Issue 4, Page 828-829, December 2013.

Review: John Parascandola. King of Poisons: A History of Arsenic.

Review by: Alan Rocke

Isis, Volume 104, Issue 4, Page 829, December 2013.

Review: Henry Petroski. To Forgive Design: Understanding Failure.

Review by: Matthew Wisnioski

Isis, Volume 104, Issue 4, Page 829-830, December 2013.

Review: Hillel Schwartz. Making Noise: From Babel to the Big Bang and Beyond.

Review by: Trevor Pinch

Isis, Volume 104, Issue 4, Page 830-831, December 2013.

Review: Thomas R. Williams; Michael Saladyga. Advancing Variable Star Astronomy: The Centennial History of the American Association of Variable Star Observers.

Review by: David H. DeVorkin

Isis, Volume 104, Issue 4, Page 831-832, December 2013.

Review: T. J. Hinrichs; Linda L. Barnes, eds. Chinese Medicine and Healing: An Illustrated History.

Review by: Xiaoping Fang

Isis, Volume 104, Issue 4, Page 825-826, December 2013.

Review: Mark Harrison. Contagion: How Commerce Has Spread Disease.

Review by: Ann Herring

Isis, Volume 104, Issue 4, Page 824-825, December 2013.

Review: Snait B. Gissis; Eva Jablonka, eds. Transformations of Lamarckism: From Subtle Fluids to Molecular Biology.

Review by: Richard Burian

Isis, Volume 104, Issue 4, Page 822-824, December 2013.

Review: Gowan Dawson; Bernard Lightman; Claire Brock; Marwa Elshakry; Sujit Sivasundaram; Ralph O’Connor; Roger Luckhurst; Justin Sausman, eds. Victorian Science and Literature.

Review by: Sally Shuttleworth

Isis, Volume 104, Issue 4, Page 850-851, December 2013.