Isis Current Bibliography 2006, Vol. 97 - History of Science Society

360-161. COMPUTER AND COMMUNICATION
TECHNOLOGIES
2623. MACDOUGALL, Robert Duncan. “The People’s
Telephone: The Politics of Telephony in the
United States and Canada, 1876–1926.” Diss. Abstr.
Int. A 65/05 (2004): 1932.
Dissertation at Harvard University, 2004. Advisers: Cohen,
Lizabeth, Stephan Thernstrom, and Peter Galison. UMI pub.
no. 3131915. 418 pp.
2624. SARKAR, Tapan K., Robert MAILLOUX,
Arthur A. OLINER, Magdalena SALAZAR-PALMA,
and Dipak L. SENGUPTA. History of Wireless. Wiley
Series in Microwave and Optical Engineering.
(xix + 655 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index.) Hoboken, N.J.:
Wiley-Interscience, 2006. ISBN: 0471718149.
360-163. AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES
2625. BOECK, Gisela. “Liebigs Spuren in Mecklenburg.”
Mitt. Ges. Deut. Chem. Fachgr. Gesch. Chem.
17 (2004): 86–99.
2626. COOK, George M. “ ‘Spray, Spray, Spray!’:
Insecticides and the Making of Applied Entomology
in Canada, 1871–1914.” Sci. Canadensis 22-23
(1998-1999): 7–50.
2627. GRIGGS, Peter. “Improving Agricultural Practices:
Science and the Australian Sugarcane Grower,
1864–1915.” Agr. Hist. 78 (2004): 1–33.
2628. HAK, Gordon. Turning Trees into Dollars:
The British Columbia Coastal Lumber Industry,
1858–1913. (239 pp.; maps; bibl.; index.) Toronto:
Univ. of Toronto Press, 2000. ISBN: 0802047459.
2629. HARWOOD, Jonathan. “On the Genesis of
Technoscience: A Case Study of German Agricultural
Education.” Special issue on Technoscientic
Productivity [ref. 190]. Perspect. Sci. 13 (2005):
329–351.
2630. HARWOOD, Jonathan. Technology’s Dilemma:
Agricultural Colleges between Science and Practice
in Germany, 1860–1934. (288 pp.; map; bibl.; index.)
Oxford: Peter Lang Publishing, 2005. ISBN:
3039102990.
2631. LACK, John, and Charles FAHEY. “Harvester
Wars: The Global Struggle between H.V. McKay,
Massey-Harris and International Harvester.” Ontario
Hist. 46 (2004): 9–40.
2632. NIELSEN, Anita Kildebæk. “The Making of
Scientific Butter: Injecting Scientific Reasoning into
Agriculture.” Endeavour 28 (2004): 167–171.
2633. SUNSERI, Thaddeus. “Reinterpreting a Colonial
Rebellion: Forestry and Social Control in German
East Africa, 1874–1915.” Environ. Hist. 8
(2003): 430–451.
2634. WATANABE Yoshiaki. “Meat Extract Originated
by Justus von Liebig.” [Translated title.] In
Japanese. Kagakushi Ken. (Chem.) 32 (2005): 61–66.
2635. YOKOTA Tokuo. “The Origin of Liebig’s Theory
that Atmospheric Nitrogen is Sufficient for Agriculture.”
[Translated title.] In Japanese. Kagakushi
Ken. (Chem.) 32 (2005): 144–152.
360-164. AIR AND SPACE TECHNOLOGIES
2636. SOLLINGER, Gunther. S. A. Andree: The
Beginning of Polar Aviation 1896–1897. (720 pp.;
370. Twentieth century 123
ill.; bibl.; index.) Moscow: Russian Academy of
Sciences, 2005. ISBN: 5900078427.
Contains photographs from the expedition.
370. TWENTIETH CENTURY (ENTIRE, AND
WORKS UP TO 1950)
370-1. GENERAL HISTORIES OF SCIENCE
2637. BRIAN, Denis. Unexpected Einstein: The Real
Man Behind the Icon. (xi + 260 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index.)
Hoboken: John Wiley, 2005. ISBN: 0471718408.
2638. BROWN, Andrew. J.D. Bernal: The Sage of
Science. (xiv + 562 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index.) Oxford:
Oxford Univ. Press, 2005. ISBN: 0198515448.
2639. CALAPRICE, Alice. Albert Einstein: A Biography.
Greenwood Biographies. (xxiii + 161 pp.; ill.;
bibl.; index.) Westport: Greenwood, 2005. ISBN:
0313330808.
2640. CAPRIA, Marco Mamone. “Albert Einstein: A
Portrait.” In CAPRIA [ref. 2830], 1–20.
2641. CARSON, Cathryn, and David A.
HOLLINGER. (Eds.) Reappraising Oppenheimer:
Centennial Studies and Reflections. Berkeley Papers
in History of Science, 21. (xii + 413 pp.; ill.; bibl.;
index.) Berkeley, Cali.: Office for History of Science
and Technology, Univ. of California, Berkeley, 2005.
ISBN: 0967261732.
Contents (from WorldCat): David C. CASSIDY, “From Theoretical
Physics to the Bomb: J. Robert Oppenheimer and
the American School of Theoretical Physics”; Karl HUF-
BAUER, “J. Robert Oppenheimer’s Path to Black Holes”;
Gregg HERKEN, “Was Robert Oppenheimer a ‘Closet Communist’?
The Debate and the Evidence”; Kai BIRD, Martin J.
SHERWIN, “Robert Oppenheimer and the Communist Party”;
Barton J. BERNSTEIN, “The Puzzles of Interpreting J. Robert
Oppenheimer, His Politics, and the Issues of His Possible
Communist Party Membership”; David HOLLOWAY,
“Parallel Lives? Oppenheimer and Khariton”; Alexei KO-
JEVNIKOV, “The Making of the Soviet Bomb and the Shaping
of Cold War Science”; James G. HERSHBERG, “ ‘The
jig was up’: J. Robert Oppenheimer and the International
Control of Atomic Energy, 1947–49”; David KAISER, “The
Atomic Secret in Red Hands? American Suspicions of Theoretical
Physicists during the Early Cold War”; Stephanie
YOUNG, “Something Resembling Justice: John Francis Neylan
and the AEC Personnel Security Hearings at Berkeley,
1948–49”; W. Patrick MCCRAY, “Killing the Messenger:
Robert Oppenheimer and Caltech’s Project Vista”; Richard
POLENBERG, “The Fortunate Fox”; J.L. HEILBRON, “Oppenheimer’s
Guru”; Charles THORPE, “The Scientist in Mass
Society: J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Postwar Liberal
Imagination”; Robert P. CREASE, “Oppenheimer and the
Sense of the Tragic”; Daniel J. KEVLES, “Scientists, Arms,
and the State: J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Twentieth
Century”; S.S. SCHWEBER, “Intersections: Oppenheimer
and Einstein”; Jon ELSE, Peter GALISON, “Oppenheimer in
Film: A Transcript”; David A. HOLLINGER, “Afterword.”
2642. DALEN, Dirk van. Mystic, Geometer, and
Intuitionist: The Life of L. E. J. Brouwer 1881–1966.
Volume 2: Hope and Disillusion. (x + 946 pp.; ill.;
bibl.; index.) Oxford: Clarendon Press and New
York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2005. ISBN: 0198516207.
2643. FITAS, Augusto J. S., and António A. P.
VIDEIRA. (Eds.) Cartas Entre Guido Beck e Ci-