This is a list of books added to our catalog with call number Q-T and history or biography in the subject headings plus a few books added by request. This is not a comprehensive list of new books. There are certainly other new books related to the history of science, technology and medicine, so please search the catalog for specific titles. Requests welcome! You can send requests to Ruth Lewis, to your primary Subject Librarian, or to the book request form. Please click on the titles for current location and status of the book. Remember that the Becker Medical Library also adds books and ebooks which may interest WU history of science folks!
Because of the way this search in done, ebooks are not found as readily as paper books.
100 years of Swiss design / edited by Christian Brändle, Renate Menzi, Arthur Rüegg. Zürich : Lars Müller Publishers, [2015] paper book
Alexander Mcqueen / edited by Claire Wilcox. New York, NY : Abrams, 2015. paper book
Amazon [electronic resource] : biodiversity conservation, economic development and human impact / editor, Clênia Rodrigues-Alcântara (Universidade Federal de Campina Grande, Centro de Tecnologia e Recursos Naturais, Unidade Academica de Ciencias Atmosferica, Cidade Universitaria-Campina Grande, PB, Brazil). Hauppauge, New York : Nova Science Publishers, Inc., 2013. eMO ebooks
Animal, vegetable, mineral? : how eighteenth-century science disrupted the natural order / Susannah Gibson. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015. paper book
Beehives of invention : Edison and his laboratories / by George E. Davidson. National Park Service history series Washington, D.C. : Office of Publications, National Park Service : For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1973. paper book
Between two fires : a fire history of contemporary America / Stephen J. Pyne. Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, 2015. paper book
Biogeography, environmental history, and sustainability in coastal Ghana [electronic resource] / Michael O'Neal Campbell. New York : Nova Science Publishers, ©2013. eMO ebooks
Black man in a white coat : a doctor's reflections on race and medicine / Damon Tweedy, M.D. New York : Picador, 2015. paper book
Bridging traditions : alchemy, chemistry, and Paracelsian practices in the early modern era / edited by Karen Hunger Parshall, Michael T. Walton, and Bruce T. Moran. Early modern studies series ; 15. Kirksville, Missouri : Truman State University Press, [2015] paper book
Caring for the heart : Mayo Clinic and the rise of specialization / W. Bruce Fye. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2015];"©2015" paper book
Carved in stone [electronic resource] : the artistry of early New England gravestones / photographs by Thomas E. Gilson ; essay by William Gilson. Middletown, CT : Wesleyan University Press, c2012. eMO ebooks
China : through the looking glass / Andrew Bolton with John Galliano [and six others] ; photography by Platon. New York : The Metropolitan Museum of Art, [2015] paper book
Connecting Women: Women, Gender and ICT in Europe in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Editors: Valérie Schafer, Benjamin G. Thierry History of Computing Springer ebooks
Cosmic ray history / Lev I. Dorman and Irina V. Dorman (Aviv University and Israel Space Agency, Israel). Space science, exploration and policies;"" Hauppauge, New York : Nova Science Publishers, Inc., 2014. eMO ebooks
Courtiers' anatomists : animals and humans in Louis XIV's Paris / Anita Guerrini. Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, [2015] paper book
Desert year / Joseph Wood Krutch ; decorations by Rudolf Freund. New York : Penguin Books, 1977, ©1952. paper book
Development of organic phosphorus chemistry : discoveries of the nineteenth century / editor, Louis DuBose Quin (Duke Univ. and Univ.of Massachusetts, US). Chemistry research and applications;"Chemistry research and applications series. Hauppauge, New York : Nova Science Publishers, Inc., [2014] eMO ebooks
Ensuring America's health : the public creation of the corporate health care system / Christy Ford Chapin, University of Maryland, Baltimore County. New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2015. paper book
Everything but clothes : fashion, photographers, magazines / authors, Jos Arts, Danielle Bruggeman, Maaike Feitsma, Jhim Lamoree, José Teunissen, Hanka van der Voet, Megan Wray Schertler ; editors, Jhim Lamoree, José Teunissen, Hanka van der Voet. Arnhem, The Netherlands : ArtEZ Press ; Houten, The Netherlands : Uitgeverij Terra Lannoo bv, [2015] paper book
Evolution of Theodosius Dobzhansky [electronic resource] : Essays on His Life and Thought in Russia and America. Princeton Legacy Library;"Princeton legacy library. Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014. eMO ebooks
Fashioning the body : an intimate history of the silhouette / edited by Denis Bruna (editor). New York : Published for Bar Graduate Center, Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture by Yale University Press, [2015] paper book
First Knowledge Economy: Human Capital and the European Economy, 1750–1850 Margaret C. Jacob Cambridge Univ. Press, 2014 Cambridge Books online
Fragile Power [electronic resource] : Scientists and the State. Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014. eMO ebooks
Frontiers of ancient science : essays in honor of Heinrich von Staden / edited by Brooke Holmes and Klaus-Dietrich Fischer ; with the assistance of Emilio Capettini. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, 1616-0452 ; Band 338. Berlin : De Gruyter, [2015] paper book
G.H. Kaestlin collection of Zemstvo and Imperial Russian stamps and covers : finding guide / prepared by Thomas Lera, Annette Shumway [Washington, D.C.] : Smithsonian, National Postal Museum, 2012 paper book
George Gaylord Simpson : paleontologist and evolutionist / Léo F. Laporte. New York : Columbia University Press, [2000] eMO ebooks
Getting the picture : the visual culture of the news / [edited by] Jason E. Hill and Vanessa R. Schwartz. London, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2015. paper book
Global transformation of time : 1870-1950 / Vanessa Ogle. Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [2015];"©2015" paper book
Haunted journeys : desire and transgression in European travel writing / Dennis Porter. Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1991] eMO ebooks
Health care in America : a history / John C. Burnham. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2015] paper book
Hidden in plain sight : an archaeology of magic and the cinema / Colin Williamson. Techniques of the moving image. New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2015] paper book
Hirten, Bauern, Götter : eine Geschichte der römischen Landwirtschaft / Werner Tietz. München : C.H. Beck, [2015] paper book
Historical epistemology and the making of modern Chinese medicine / edited by Howard Chiang. Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2015 paper book
Historical studies in the physical sciences / Russell Mccormmach, editor ; contributors, Joan Bromberg [and seven others]. Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences ; 7 Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 1976 eMO ebooks
Historiography of the chemical revolution [electronic resource] : patterns of interpretation in the history of science / by John G. McEvoy. London ; Brookfield, Vt. : Pickering & Chatto, 2010. eMO ebooks
History of public health / George Rosen ; foreword by Pascal James Imperato ; introduction by Elizabeth Fee ; biographical essay and new bibliography by Edward T. Morman. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015. paper book
History of science in world cultures : voices of knowledge / Scott L. Montgomery and Alok Kumar. Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2015. paper book
Homage to the discovery of cosmic rays, the meson-muon and solar cosmic rays / editor, Jorge A. Perez-Peraza (Instituto de Geofísica, UNAM, C.U., Coyoacán, México, D.F. Mexico). Hauppauge, New York : Nova Science Publishers, [2013] eMO ebooks
In the eye's mind : vision and the Helmholtz-Hering controversy / R. Steven Turner. Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1994] eMO ebooks
In this together : my story / Ann Romney. New York : Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press, 2015. paper book
Indian doctors in Kenya, 1890-1940 : the forgotten history / Anna Greenwood and Harshad Topiwala. Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series. Houndmills, Basingstoke Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. paper book
Instruments and the imagination / Thomas L. Hankins and Robert J. Silverman. Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1995] eMO ebooks
Invention of nature : Alexander von Humboldt's new world / Andrea Wulf. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2015. paper book
Jesuit science and the end of nature's secrets / Mark A. Waddell, Michigan State University, USA. Burlington : Ashgate, [2015] paper book
Knowledge of nature and the nature of knowledge in early modern Japan / Federico Marcon. Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University. Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2015.;"©2015" paper book
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy : 60 Fotos / [Essays by David Evans, Franz Roh, Jeffrey Ladd]. Books on books ; 12. [New York] : [Errata Editions], [2011] paper book
Let me heal : the opportunity to preserve excellence in American medicine / Kenneth M. Ludmerer. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2015] paper book
Lipman Bers : a life in mathematics / Linda Keen, Irwin Kra, Rubi E. Rodriguez, editors. [Providence, Rhode Island] : American Mathematical Society, [2015] paper book
Making Nature : the history of a scientific journal / Melinda Baldwin. Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2015. paper book
Man is not lost : a record of two hundred years of astronomical navigation with The Nautical Almanac, 1767-1967 / by D.H. Sadler. London : Published jointly for the National Maritime Museum, The Royal Greenwich Observatory : H.M.S.O., 1968. paper book
Mathematics, the loss of certainty / Morris Kline. New York : Oxford University Press, 1980. paper book
Medical Miracles: Doctors, Saints, and Healing in the Modern World Jacalyn Duffin Oxford Univ. Press, 2009 Oxford Scholarship Online ebooks
Medicine across cultures : history and practice of medicine in non-Western cultures / editor, Helaine Selin ; advisory editor, Hugh Shapiro. Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, ©2003. paper book
Medicine across cultures : history and practice of medicine in non-Western cultures / editor, Helaine Selin ; advisory editor, Hugh Shapiro. Science across cultures. Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, ©2003. paper book
Miracle of analogy, or, The history of photography / Kaja Silverman. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2015- paper book
"" Model experts : wax anatomies and enlightenment in Florence and Vienna, 1775-1815 / Anna Maerker. Manchester : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed in the United States by Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. paper book
Modern history of the stomach [electronic resource] : gastric illness, medicine and British society, 1800-1950 / by Ian Miller. Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine ; no. 4 London : Pickering & Chatto, 2011. eMO ebooks
Nature science [electronic resource] / M.R. Islam, editor. Environmental science, engineering and technology New York : Nova Science, c2013. eMO ebooks
Neurotribes : the legacy of autism and the future of neurodiversity / Steve Silberman. New York : Avery, an imprint of Penguin Random House, [2015] paper book
New perspectives on the history of life sciences and agriculture / Denise Phillips, Sharon Kingsland, editors. Archimedes (Dordrecht, Netherlands) ; v. 40. Cham ; New York : Springer, [2015] paper book
NS-Medizin und Öffentlichkeit : Formen der Aufarbeitung nach 1945 / Stephan Braese, Dominik Groß (Hg.) ; mit Beiträgen von Cornelia Blasberg [and fifteen others]. Frankfurt : Campus Verlag, [2015]. paper book
Number words and number symbols : a cultural history of numbers / Karl Menninger ; translated by Paul Broneer from the rev. German ed. Cambridge, Mass. : M.I.T. Press, ©1969. paper book
Origins of ancient Greek science : blood, a philosophical study / Michael Boylan. Routledge monographs in classical studies. New York : Routledge, 2015. paper book
Patient expectations : how economics, religion, and malpractice shaped therapeutics in early America / Catherine L. Thompson. Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2015] paper book
Physiognomy in the European novel : faces and fortunes / by Graeme Tytler. Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1982] eMO ebooks
Plague and public health in early modern Seville / Kristy Wilson Bowers. Rochester studies in medical history. Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2013. paper book
Private science of Louis Pasteur / Gerald L. Geison. Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1995] eMO ebooks
Regionalizing science [electronic resource] : placing knowledges in Victorian England / by Simon Naylor. Science and culture in the nineteenth century ; no. 11 London : Pickering & Chatto, 2010. eMO ebooks
Science a la Mode [electronic resource] : Physical Fashions and Fictions. Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014. eMO ebooks
Scientific revolution in global perspective / by William E. Burns. New York : Oxford University Press, [2016] paper book
Social life of nanotechnology / edited by Barbara Herr Harthorn and John W. Mohr. Routledge studies in science, technology, and society ; 18. New York : Routledge, 2012. paper book
Software Paradox. Sebastopol O'Reilly & Associates 2015 paper book
Tale of two continents : a physicist's life in a turbulent world / Abraham Pais. Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1997] eMO ebooks
Tartaglia's science of weights and mechanics in the sixteenth century : selections from Quesiti et inventioni diverse: books VII-VIII / Raffaele Pisano, Danilo Capecchi. History of mechanism and machine science ; volume 28. Dordrecht ; New York : Springer, [2016] paper book
Twentieth-century color photographs : Identification and care / Sylvie Pénichon. Los Angeles, California : Getty Conservation Institute, [2013] paper book
Uranium : war, energy, and the rock that shaped the world / Tom Zoellner. New York : Penguin, 2010. paper book
Using Medicine in Science Fiction: The SF Writer’s Guide to Human Biology H. G. Stratmann Springer ebooks
Victorian scientific naturalism : community, identity, continuity / edited by Gowan Dawson and Bernard Lightman. Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, [2014] paper book
World of Carolus Clusius [electronic resource] : natural history in the making, 1550-1610 / by Florike Egmond. Perspectives in economic and social history ; no. 6 London ; Brookfield, Vt. : Pickering & Chatto, 2010. eMO ebooks