Archiv für die Kategorie ‘GeneralBook Reviews’

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: Heiner Fangerau; Rethy Chhem; Irmgard Müller; Shih-Chang Wang, eds. Medical Imaging and Philosophy: Challenges, Reflections, Actions.

Review by: Louise Whiteley

Isis, Volume 104, Issue 4, Page 820-821, December 2013.

Review: Francesco Gerali. L’opera e l’archivio spezzino di Giovanni Capellini, un geologo dell’ottocento.Luca Ciancio. Vulcan’s Secret Forge: Explorations of the Verona Area by British Aristocrats and Veneto Naturalists during the Eighteenth Century/La fucina segreta di Vulcano: Naturalisti veneti e aristocratici britannici de Settecento alla scoperta del territorio Veronese.

Review by: Andrea Candela

Isis, Volume 104, Issue 4, Page 821-822, December 2013.