Interdisciplinary Science Reviews: Books available for review

Bais, Sander. 2010. In praise of Science: curiosity, understanding, and progress. Cambridge MA and London: MIT Press. http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=12057
Brint, Michael E., David Marcey, and Michael C. Shaw, Ed. 2009. Integrated Science. New Approaches to Education A Virtual Roandtable Discussion. New York: Springer. http://www.springer.com/education/science+education/book/978-0-387-84852-5.
Changeux, Jean-Pierre, and Paul Ricoeur, 2002. What makes us think? A neuroscientist and a philosopher argue about Ethics, Human Nature, and the Brain. Ed. M. B. DeBevoise. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. http://press.princeton.edu/titles/6921.html.
Clarke, Bruce, and B. N. Hansen, Ed. 2009. Emergence and embodiment: new essays on second-order systems theory. Durham: Duke University Press. http://www.dukeupress.edu/books.php3?isbn=978-0-8223-4600-5.
Cohen, Ed. 2009. A body worth defending: immunity, biopolitics, and the apotheosis of the modern body. Durham: Duke University Press. http://www.dukeupress.edu/books.php3?isbn=978-0-8223-4535-0.
Dunham, William. 2008. The calculus gallery: masterpieces from Newton to Lebesgue. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. http://press.princeton.edu/titles/7905.html.
Husbands, Phil. 2008. The mechanical mind in History. Cambridge MA and London: MIT Press. http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11479.
Huxley, Thomas. 2009. Evolution and Ethics. Ed. Michael Ruse. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8893.html.
Imber, Jonathan. 2008. Trusting Doctors: the decline of moral authority in American medicine. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8789.html.
Jouvet, Michel. 2008. The Castle of Dreams. Ed. Laurence Garey. Cambridge MA and London: MIT Press. http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11553.
Juris, Jeffrey. 2008. Networking futures: the movements against Corporate Globalization. Durham N.C.: Duke University Press. http://www.dukeupress.edu/cgibin/forwardsql/search.cgi?template0=nomatch.htm&template2=books/book_detail_page.htm&user_id=4077&Bmain.item_option=1&Bmain.item=14010.
Knight, David. 2009. The making of modern Science. Science, Technology, Medicine and Modernity: 1789-1914. Cambridge: Polity Press. http://www.polity.co.uk/book.asp?ref=9780745636757.
Kox, A. J., Tilman Sauer, Diana Kormos Buchwald, Rudy Hirschmann, Osik Moses, Benjamin Aronin, and Jennifer Stolper, Ed. 2009. The collected papers of Albert Einstein, Volume 11: Cumulative Index, Bibliography, List of Correspondence, Chronology, and Errata to Volumes 1-10. Bd. 11. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8953.html.
Lindauer, Martin. 2009. Psyche and the literary muses: the contribution of literary content to scientific Psychology. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Pub. Co. http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=LAL%207.
Pentland, Alex. 2008. Honest signals: how they shape our World. Cambridge MA and London: MIT Press. http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11532.
Plofker, Kim. 2009. Mathematics in India. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8835.html.
Ratner, Peter. 2009. 3-D human modeling and animation. 3. Aufl. Hoboken N.J.: Wiley. http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470396679.html.
Rentetzi, Maria. 2008. Trafficking materials and gendered experimental practices: Radium research in early 20th century Vienna. New York: Columbia University Press. http://www.isr-journal.org/ISR_books.html.
Saanders, Barry. 2008. CT suite: the work of diagnosis in the age of noninvasive cutting. Durham: Duke University Press. http://www.dukeupress.edu/cgibin/forwardsql/search.cgi?template0=nomatch.htm&template2=books/book_detail_page.htm&user_id=22716&Bmain.item_option=1&Bmain.item=9860./
Siegmand-Schultze, R. 2009. Mathematicians fleeing from Nazi Germany: individual fates and global impact. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8955.html.
Sriver, Tom. 2009. True Jacob: A novel. Kalamazoo MI: Fair Oaks Editions.
Virilio, Paul. 2009. The aesthetics of disappearance. Los Angeles CA: Semiotext. http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11718.
Weyl, Hermann. 2009a. Mind and nature: selected writings on philosophy, mathematics, and physics. Ed. Peter Peisc. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8959.html.
---. 2009b. Philosophy of mathematics and natural science. Ed. Peter Peisc. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8960.html.

Antoniou, Grigoris, and Frank van Harmelen. 2008. A Semantic Web Primer. 2. Ed. Cambridge MA and London: MIT Press. http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11477.
Bijsterveld, Karin. 2008. Mechanical sound: Technology, Culture, and public problems of Noise in the Twentieth Century. Cambridge MA and London: MIT Press. http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11612.
Boellstorff, Tom. 2008. Coming of age in Second Life: An Anthropologist explores the virtually human. Princeton: Princeton University Press. http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8647.html.
Barab, Peter. 2010. The Complementary Nature of Reality. Open Way Press: Portland Oregon. http://openwaypress.com/bookdata.html.
Bowker, Geoffrey C. 2008. Memory practices in the Sciences. Cambridge MA and London: MIT. http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11443.
Brain, Robert M., Robert S. Cohen, and Ole. Knudsen, Ed. 2007. Hans Christian Oersted and the romantic quest for unity: ideas, disciplines, practices. Bd. 241. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science. Dordrecht and London: Springer. http://www.springer.com/humanities/book/978-1-4020-2979-0.
Brooks, Michael. 2008. 13 things that don't make sense: the most intriguing scientific mysteries of our time. London: Profile. http://www.profilebooks.com/title.php?titleissue_id=560.
Deegan, Marilyn. 2009. Text editing, print and the digital world. Farnham, England: Ashgate. http://www.ashgate.com/default.aspx?page=637&calcTitle=1&pageSubject=324&title_id=10076&edition_id=11101.
Dijck, José. 2007. Mediated memories in the digital age. Stanford: Stanford University Press. http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=10395.
Freese, Peter, and Charles B. Harris, Ed. 2006. The holodeck in the garden: Science & Technology in contemporary American fiction. 2. Aufl. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign: Dalkey Archive Press. http://www.dalkeyarchive.com/catalog/show/286.
Fuller, Steve. 2009. The Sociology of intellectual life: the career of the mind in and around the Academy. Los Angeles and London: SAGE. http://www.uk.sagepub.com/booksProdDesc.nav?prodId=Book229759.
Greengrass, Mark, and Lorna Hughes, Ed. 2008. The virtual representation of the past. Farnham, England: Ashgate. http://www.ashgate.com/default.aspx?page=637&calcTitle=1&title_id=9969&edition_id=11049.
Higgins, Hannah. 2009. The Grid book. Cambridge MA and London: MIT Press. http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11683.
James, Carrie. 2009. Young people, Ethics, and the new Digital Media: a synthesis from the GoodPlay project. Cambridge MA and London: MIT Press. http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=12009.
Kelly, Caleb. 2009. Cracked media: the sound of malfunction. Cambridge MA and London: MIT Press. http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11853.
Milburn, Colin. 2008. Nanovision: engineering the future. Durham: Duke University Press. http://www.dukeupress.edu/cgibin/forwardsql/search.cgi?template0=nomatch.htm&template2=books/book_detail_page.htm&user_id=3993&Bmain.item_option=1&Bmain.item=16947.
Pickering, Andrew. 2008. The mangle in practice: Science, Society, and becoming. Durham: Duke University Press. http://www.dukeupress.edu/cgibin/forwardsql/search.cgi?template0=nomatch.htm&template2=books/book_detail_page.htm&user_id=23419&Bmain.item_option=1&Bmain.item=14525.
Pizlo, Zygmunt. 2008. 3D shape: its unique place in visual perception. Cambridge MA and London: MIT Press. http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11496.
Smil, Vaclav. 2008. Global catastrophes and trends: the next fifty years. Cambridge MA and London: The MIT Press. http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11556.
Tasi, Istvan, and Balázs Hornyánszky. 2009. Nature's I.Q.: extraordinary animal behaviors that defy evolution. Badger CA: Torchlight Pub. http://www.naturesiq.com/.
Virilio, Paul. 2009. The aesthetics of disappearance. Los Angeles CA: Semiotext. http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11718.
Wardhaugh, Benjamin. 2008. Music, experiment and mathematics in England, 1653-1705. Farnham, England: Ashgate. http://www.ashgate.com/default.aspx?page=637&calcTitle=1&title_id=10721&edition_id=11378.
Warner, Julian. 2009. Human Information Retrieval. Cambridge MA and London: MIT Press. http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11891.
Wildevuur, Sabine. 2009. Invisible vision: could Science learn from the Arts? Bohn Stafleu van Loghum: Nederlands. http://home.bsl.nl/boek/9789031351015/Invisible_Vision.

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Freese, P. & Harris, C. B. 2004. The Holodeck in the garden: Science and Technology in contemporary American fiction. University of Illinois: Dalkey Archive Press. ISBN 1-56478-355-3
Lane, Nick. 2009. Life ascending: the ten great inventions of Evolution. London: Profile. http://www.profilebooks.com/title.php?titleissue_id=574.
Terras, Melissa. 2008. Digital images for the information professional. Farnham, England: Ashgate. http://www.ashgate.com/default.aspx?page=637&calcTitle=1&title_id=8642&edition_id=9780.

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