Douglas A. Lorimer, Science, Race Relations and Resistance: Britain, 1870–1914 . Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2013. Pp. xi + 344. ISBN 978-0-7190-3357-5. £80.00 (hardback).

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Efram Sera-Shriar,
The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 48 Issue 02, pp 373-374

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P.J. Capelotti, Shipwreck at Cape Flora: The Expeditions of Benjamin Leigh Smith, England’s Forgotten Arctic Explorer . Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2013. Pp. xxix + 269. ISBN 978-1-55238-705-4. US$41.95 (paperback).

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Peder Roberts,
The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 48 Issue 02, pp 371-372

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Bernard Lightman and Bennett Zon (eds.), Evolution and Victorian Culture . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Pp. xvii + 320. ISBN 978-1-107-02842-5. £60.00 (hardback).

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Gowan Dawson,
The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 48 Issue 02, pp 370-371

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James A. Secord, Visions of Science: Books and Readers at the Dawn of the Victorian Age . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. xiii + 306. ISBN 978-0-19-967526-5. £18.99 (hardback).

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David Knight,
The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 48 Issue 02, pp 368-370

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Margaret C. Jacob, The First Knowledge Economy: Human Capital and the European Economy, 1750–1850 . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Pp. ix + 257. ISBN 978-1-107-61983-8. £19.99 (paperback)

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Thomas Palmelund Johansen,
The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 48 Issue 02, pp 367-368

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Alison Bashford, Global Population: History, Geopolitics, and Life on Earth . New York: Columbia University Press, 2014. Pp. xii + 466. ISBN 978-0-231-14766-8. £34.50 (hardback); 978-0-231-51952-6. £34.50 (e-book). Robert J. Mayhew, Malthus: The Life and Legacies of an Untimely Prophet . Cambridge, MA and London: The Belknap Press, 2014. Pp. 284. ISBN 978-0-674-72871-4. £20.00 (hardback).

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Chris Renwick,
The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 48 Issue 02, pp 365-367

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William J. Turkel, Spark from the Deep: How Shocking Experiments with Strongly Electric Fish Powered Scientific Discovery . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. Pp. xi + 287. ISBN 978-1-4214-0981-8. £22.50 (hardback).

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James F. Stark,
The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 48 Issue 02, pp 364-365

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Amir Alexander, Infinitesimal: How a Dangerous Mathematical Theory Shaped the Modern World . London: Oneworld, 2014. Pp. 352. ISBN 978-1-78074-532-9. £20.00 (paperback).

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Michael J. Barany,
The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 48 Issue 02, pp 362-364

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Matthew C. Hunter, Wicked Intelligence: Visual Art and the Science of Experiment in Restoration London . Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2013. ISBN 978-0-226-01729-7. £38.50 (hardback).

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Sachiko Kusukawa,
The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 48 Issue 02, pp 361-362

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Richard Yeo, Notebooks, English Virtuosi, and Early Modern Science . Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2014. Pp. xvii + 398. ISBN 978-0-226-10656-4. $45.00/£31.50 (hardback).

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Anna Marie Roos,
The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 48 Issue 02, pp 360-361

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