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Books in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine

2013-2014

Einsteins Berlin
In the Footsteps of a Genius Dieter Hoffmann This is a wonderful guidebook for the intellectual tourist deeply interested in Einstein. Catherine Westfall, Michigan State University

SCIENCE
Spark from the Deep
How Shocking Experiments with Strongly Electric Fish Powered Scientific Discovery William J. Turkel Turkel is able to bounce around among piscine evolution, plate tectonics, electromagnetism, the history of science, and much else with ease and aplomb. John R. McNeill, Georgetown University
2013 304 pp. 978-1-4214-0981-8 $34.95 hc

2013 192 pp., 75 halftones, 2 line drawings 978-1-4214-1040-1 $45.00 pb

Isaac Beeckman on Matter and Motion

Mechanical Philosophy in the Making Klaas van Berkel Helps shed new light on the nature of European science on the eve of the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century. Mordechai Feingold, California Institute of Technology
2013 280 pp., 9 line drawings Also available as an e-book 978-1-4214-0936-8 $39.95 pb

Entertaining Elephants
Animal Agency and the Business of the American Circus Susan Nance An important contribution to the history of entertainment, advertising, management, and consumption as well as to the history of humananimal relations.

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Competing with the Soviets

Science, Technology, and the State in Cold War America Audra J. Wolfe It is a reminder of how valuable a clear, wellresearched synthesisone sophisticated, holistic take on all those little case studiescan be.

Etienne Benson, author of Wired Wilderness

2013 304 pp., 20 halftones Also available as an e-book 978-1-4214-0829-3 $55.00 hc

AmericanScience
2013 176 pp., 15 halftones Also available as an e-book 978-1-4214-0771-5 $19.95 pb

Experimental Life
Vitalism in Romantic Science and Literature Robert Mitchell Establishes the multiple ways in which Romantic authors appropriated the notion of experimentation from the natural sciences.
2013 320 pp., 2 line drawings Also available as an e-book 978-1-4214-1088-3 $55.00 hc

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Refrigeration Nation
A History of Ice, Appliances, and Enterprise in America Jonathan Rees A solid, comprehensive account of the technological creation of cold chains in the United States. Mansel G. Blackford, author of Making Seafood Sustainable: American Experiences in Global Perspective
2013 248 pp., 12 b&w illus. Also available as an e-book 978-1-4214-1106-4 $45.00 hc

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TECHNOLOGY
Information at Sea
Shipboard Command and Control in the U.S. Navy, from Mobile Bay to Okinawa Timothy S. Wolters

Chasing Sound
Technology, Culture, and the Art of Studio Recording from Edison to the LP Susan Schmidt Horning

A rich account of the development of recording studio technology and musical culture. It offers An extremely well-researched and well-written captivating new material and is a valuable con- history of the U.S. Navys efforts to develop the technology and technological systems nectribution to scholarship in sound studies. essary to manage operations at sea, especially Emily Thompson, Princeton University during war. 2013 304 pp., 16 b&w photos Also available as an e-book 978-1-4214-1022-7 $45.00 hc William M. McBride, United States Naval Academy
2013 336 pp., 16 b&w illus. Also available as an e-book 978-1-4214-1026-5 $54.95 hc

Risk
Negotiating Safety in American Society Arwen P. Mohun Writing in a lucid style, Mohun gives an impressive overview of the American transition from vernacular to expert-centered or state-driven risk regimes. British Journal for the History of Science
2013 344 pp., 21 halftones Also available as an e-book 978-1-4214-0790-6 $55.00 hc

To Touch the Face of God

The Sacred, the Profane, and the American Space Program, 19571975 Kendrick Oliver Oliver engages histories of theology and religious practice in a broad conversation of motivations, implications, transformations, and reinforcements of religion in the history of spaceflight. Times Higher Education
2013 248 pp., 12 b&w illus. Also available as an e-book 978-1-4214-0788-3 $39.95 hc

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Licensed to Practice
The Supreme Court Defines the American Medical Profession James C. Mohr How did American doctors come to be licensed on the terms we now take for granted?
2013 224 pp., 13 b&w illus. Also available as an e-book 978-1-4214-1142-2 $21.95 pb

Anxiety
A Short History Allan V. Horwitz A wise guide through the historical path of anxiety conceptualizations. Peter Conrad, Brandeis University
2013 208 pp. 978-1-4214-1080-7 $24.95 pb

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The PKU Paradox

A Short History of a Genetic Disease Diane B. Paul and Jeffrey P. Brosco A highly compelling story about a successful medical interventionliterally life changingthat has also had unintended consequences. M. Susan Lindee, University of Pennsylvania
2013 320 pp., 12 b&w illus. Also available as an e-book 978-1-4214-1131-6 $24.95 pb

MEDICINE

The Story Within

Personal Essays on Genetics and Identity edited by Amy Boesky A thought-provoking collection of personal essays explores complex issues surrounding genetic identity.
2013 280 pp. 978-1-4214-1096-8 $24.95 pb

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On Depression
Drugs, Diagnosis, and Despair in the Modern World Nassir Ghaemi An informed, challenging, and readable approach to a vital subject. Despair is in the title, but readers will rejoice in the reading.
2013 232 pp. 978-1-4214-0933-7 $24.95 hc

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The Placebo
A Reader edited by Franklin G. Miller, Luana Colloca, Robert A. Crouch, and Ted J. Kaptchuk A thorough collection of classic and contemporary resources about the placebo effect.
2013 352 pp., 95 b&w illus. 978-1-4214-0866-8 $49.95 pb

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Marrow of Tragedy
The Health Crisis of the American Civil War Margaret Humphreys A consistently engaging overview of Civil War medicine in its every aspect. Charles Rosenberg, Harvard University
2013 400 pp., 19 halftones Also available as an e-book 978-1-4214-0999-3 $34.95 hc

Broken Hearts
The Tangled History of Cardiac Care David S. Jones The light Jones shines on the interventional cardiovascular enterprise illuminates numerous, sometimes fatal, and always costly flaws that every patient and society at large ignores at great peril. Scientists Bookshelf
2013 336 pp., 25 b&w illus. Also available as an e-book 978-1-4214-0801-9 $34.95 hc

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The Inevitable Hour

A History of Caring for Dying Patients in America Emily K. Abel With the immediacy of a novelist and the critical insights of a historian, Abel offers a sobering reinterpretation of medical history from the perspective of the dying.Alice Wexler, author of The Woman Who Walked into the Sea: Huntingtons and the Making of a Genetic Disease
2013 240 pp., 3 b&w illus. 978-1-4214-0919-1 $32.95 hc Also available as an e-book

MEDICINE

The American Red Cross

from Clara Barton to the New Deal Marian Moser Jones Jones skillfully dissects the origins, principles, and practices shaping the contemporary ARC. Journal of the History of Medicine
2013 404 pp., 19 b&w illus. Also available as an e-book 978-1-4214-0738-8 $39.95 hc

Imaging and Imagining the Fetus

The Development of Obstetric Ultrasound Malcolm Nicolson and John E. E. Fleming An excellent historical account and celebration of one of the unsung heroes of modern obstetrics. Obs Gynae & Midwifery News
2013 336 pp., 15 halftones, 2 line drawings Also available as an e-book 978-1-4214-0793-7 $50.00 hc

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Trees of Life
A Visual History of Evolution Theodore W. Pietsch

Honorable Mention, Biological Sciences, PROSE Awards

With the concept of evolution now often iconified to the point of misrepresentation, Trees of Life reminds us that both the idea and its representation wereand arefluid, debated, and reconstructed.
2012 376 pp., 5 halftones, 226 line drawings 978-1-4214-1185-9 $34.95 pb

Science

Einsteins Jewish Science

Physics at the Intersection of Politics and Religion Steven Gimbel Gimbel is an engaging writer . . . he takes readers on enlightening excursions through the nature of Judaism, Hegelian philosophy, wherever his curiosity leads. New York Times
2012 256 pp. 978-1-4214-1182-8 $22.95 pb

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The Practical Einstein

Experiments, Patents, Inventions Jzsef Illy

Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Magazine

With a lean and matter-of-fact prose, [Illy] takes us through a long history of such things as Einsteins many expert opinions on everything from gyrocompasses and pile drivers to an electrophonic piano and a makeup mirror. Physics Today
2012 216 pp., 66 halftones, 6 line drawings Also available as an e-book 978-1-4214-1171-2 $35.00 pb

Nature Exposed
Photography as Eyewitness in Victorian Science Jennifer Tucker The strength of the book lies in Tuckers analysis of the broad historical context in which scientific photography emerged in Victorian Britain.
2006 312 pp., 68 halftones 978-1-4214-1093-7 $34.95 pb

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The Electric Vehicle

Technology and Expectations in the Automobile Age Gijs Mom

Winner, Engineer-Historian Award, International History and Heritage Committee of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Winner, Nicholas-Joseph Cugnot Award, Society of Automotive Historians
2004 440 pp., 42 halftones, 15 line drawings Also available as an e-book 978-1-4214-0970-2 $34.95 pb

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Grand Central Terminal

Railroads, Engineering, and Architecture in New York City Kurt C. Schlichting

Winner, Professional/Scholarly Publishing Award in Architecture, Association of American Publishers

Grand Central Terminal is celebrated for its Beaux-Arts style, but Schlichting looks behind the facade to see the hidden engineering marvels. New York Times Book Review
2001 264 pp., 82 b&w photos, 6 b&w illus., 82 halftones, 6 line drawings Also available as an e-book 978-1-4214-1192-7 $29.95 pb

Grand Centrals Engineer

William J. Wilgus and the Planning of Modern Manhattan Kurt C. Schlichting The single best analysis we have of freight transportation in an early twentieth-century U.S. city. Journal of American History
2012 296 pp., 31 b&w illus., 21 maps Also available as an e-book 978-1-4214-1193-4 $29.95 pb

Every Home a Distillery

Alcohol, Gender, and Technology in the Colonial Chesapeake Sarah Hand Meacham A well-composed, clearly written, highly informative study that significantly contributes to our understanding of how alcohol was brewed, distributed, and consumed in the colonial Chesapeake area. Journal of American History
2009 208 pp., 9 halftones Also available as an e-book 978-1-4214-0963-4 $24.95 pb

The Anatomy of Blackness

Science and Slavery in an Age of Enlightenment Andrew S. Curran

Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Magazine

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A definitive statement on the complex, painful, and richly revealing topic of how the major figures of the French Enlightenment reacted to the enslavement of black Africans, often to their discredit. Symposium
2011 328 pp., 29 b&w photos Also available as an e-book 978-1-4214-0965-8 $29.95 pb

The Evolution of Obesity

Michael L. Power and Jay Schulkin Power and Schulkin argue that our present-day obesity crisis is the consequence of a mismatch between our biology and the environment in which we live. Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
2009 408 pp., 16 halftones, 46 line drawings Also available as an e-book 978-1-4214-0960-3 $29.95 pb

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