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Able, Kenneth P. Gathering of Angels: Migrating Birds and their Ecology. Ithaca: Cornell Univerity Press, 1999. Pp. xi+193.
Ariew, Roger. Descartes and the Scholastics. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999. Pp. xi+230. $42.50 (cloth).
Basos, Cristiana. Global Responses to AIDS: Science in Emergency. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1999. Pp. xvii+244. $27.95 (cloth).
Biagioli, Mario, ed. The Science Studies Reader. New York and London: Routledge, 1999. $35 (paper).
Blay, Michel. Reasoning with the Infinite: From the Closed World to the Mathematical Universe. Trans. M. B. DeBevoise. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1998. Pp. x+216. $30 (cloth).
Collins, Randall. The Sociology of Philosophies: A Global Theory of Intellectual Change. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvrad University Press, 1998. Pp. xxi+1098. $49.95 (cloth).
Crease, Robert P. Making Physics: A Biography of Brookhaven National Laboratory, 1946–1972. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1999. Pp. xii+434. $38.
Crow, Michael J. The Extraterrestrial Life Debate, 1750–1900. Mineola: Dover Publications, 1999. (First published in 1986) pp. xxiv+680. $19.95 (paper).
Dean, Cornelia. Against the Tide: The Battle for America’s Beaches. New York: Columbia University Press. 1999. Pp. xiv+279. $26.95 (cloth).
Dickson, W. Michael. Quantum Chance and Non-Locality: Probability and Non-Locality in the Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xix+244.
Dollins, Francine L. Attitudes to Animals: Views in Animal Welfare. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. x+262. $64.95 (cloth); $23.95 (paper).
Field, J. V. The Invention of Infinity: Mathematics and Art in the Renaissance. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. xii+250. $35 (cloth).
Gadamer, Hans-Georg. Praise of Theory: Speeches and Essays. Trans. Chris Dawson. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999. $30 (cloth).
Giere, Ronald N. Science Without Laws. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1999. Pp. x+285. $25 (cloth)
Godfrey-Smith, Peter. Complexity and the Function of Mind in Nature. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xiii+311. $59.95 (cloth); $18.95 (paper).
Greenberg, Daniel S. The Politics of Pure Science. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1999. (Originally published in 1967. New edition with introductory essays by John Maddox and Steven Shapin and afterward by the author.) Pp. xxvii+311. $15 (paper).
Greenberg, Valerie D. Freud and His Aphasia Book: Language and the Sources of Psychoanalysis. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998. Pp. ix+207. $32.50 (cloth).
Hunter, Lynette. Critiques of Knowing: Situated Sexualities in Science, Computing and the Arts. London and New York: Routledge, 1999. Pp. vii+246. $90 (cloth); $75 (paper).
Jammer, Max. Concepts of Force: A Study in the Foundation of Dynamics. (Originally published in 1957). Mineola: Dover Publications, 1999. Pp. x+269. $9.95 (paper).
Jardine, Lisa and Alan Stewart. Hostage to Fortune: The Troubled Life of Francis Bacon. New York: Hill & Wang, 1999. pp. 637. $35 (cloth).
Johns, Adrian. The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1999. Pp. xxi+753. $40 (cloth).
Jones, Caroline A. and Peter Galison, eds. Picturing Science Producing Art. New York and London: Routledge, 1998. Pp. x+518.
Latour, Bruno. Pandora’s Hope: Essays on the Reality of Science Studies. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999.
Lawrence, Christopher and Steven Shapin, eds. Science Incarnate: Historical Embodiments and Natural Knowledge. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1998. Pp. 342. $19 (paper).
Lightman, Bernard, ed. Victorian Science in Context. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1997. Pp. viii+489. $70 (cloth); $70 (cloth); $22.50 (paper).
McClellan, James E. III and Harold Dorn. Science and Technology in World History. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. pp. viii+404. $55.00 (cloth); $18.95 (paper).
McMullen, Emerson T. William Harvey and the Use of Purpose in the Scientific Revolution: Cosmos by Chance or Universe by Design? Lanham: University Press of America, 1998. Pp. xix+253.
Müller-Sievers, Helmut. Self-Generation: Biology, Philosophy, and Literature Around 1800. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997. Pp. 222. $45.
Patterson, Colin. Evolution. 2nd edition. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998. Pp. ix+166. $39.95 (cloth); $18.95 (paper).
Psillos, Stathis. Scientific Realism: How Science...

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