The New York Review of Books

Machine Dreams

December 7, 1989

The Papers of Thomas A. Edison Volume 1: The Making of an Inventor, February 1847–June 1873 edited by Reese V. Jenkins. others

The Evolution of Technology by George Basalla

American Genesis: A Century of Invention and Technological Enthusiasm, 1870–1970 by Thomas P. Hughes

Glasnost Theater

November 10, 1988

Tak pobedim! (shest’ p’es o Lenine) (That’s How We’ll Win! [Six Plays About Lenin]) by M.F. Shatrov

‘Brestskii mir’ (The Brest Peace) by M.F. Shatrov

‘Diktatura sovesti’ (The Dictatorship of the Conscience) by M.F. Shatrov

‘Dal’she…Dal’she…Dal’she!’ (Further…Further…Further!) by M.F. Shatrov

Off to a Bad Start

November 19, 1987

The Launching of Modern American Science, 1846–1876 by Robert V. Bruce

Controlling Life: Jacques Loeb and the Engineering Ideal in Biology by Philip J. Pauly

Return of the Native

December 5, 1985

Kapitza, Rutherford, and the Kremlin by Lawrence Badash

Ispytuiushchie gody; Iz pisem P.L. Kapitsy k materi 1921–23 gg. (“Years of trial: From P.L. Kapitza’s Letters to his Mother, 1921–1923”) edited by P.E. Rubinin

Dvadtsat’ dva otcheta akademika P.L. Kapitsy (“Twenty-three Reports of Academician P.L. Kapitza”) edited by P.E. Rubinin

Is Science Beautiful?

October 25, 1984

Darwin’s Plots: Evolutionary Narrative in Darwin, George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Fiction by Gillian Beer

Fraud and Science

January 19, 1984

Unholy Science

October 13, 1983

Betrayers of the Truth: Fraud and Deceit in the Halls of Science by William Broad, by Nicholas Wade

Perils of Cognitive Science

January 20, 1983

Body, Mind, and Machine

October 21, 1982

Mind in Science: A History of Explanations in Psychology and Physics by Richard L. Gregory

The Question of Animal Awareness: Evolutionary Continuity of Mental Experience by Donald R. Griffin

The Universe Within: A New Science Explores the Human Mind by Morton Hunt

The Enlightened Machine: An Analytical Introduction to Neuropsychology by Daniel N. Robinson

Was Hiroshima Necessary? Another Exchange

February 19, 1981

Was the Hiroshima Bomb Necessary? An Exchange

October 23, 1980

Was the Hiroshima Bomb Necessary? An Exchange

October 23, 1980

Sin and the Scientist

July 17, 1980

Robert Oppenheimer: Letters and Recollections edited by Alice Kimball Smith, edited by Charles Weiner

Science and Society: An Exchange

October 11, 1979

Scientists as Servants

June 28, 1979

The Physicists: The History of a Scientific Community in Modern America by Daniel J. Kevles

Scientists in Power by Spencer R. Weart

Leo Szilard: His Version of the Facts edited by Spencer R. Weart, edited by Gertrud Weiss Szilard

Science in a Free Society by Paul Feyerabend

Against Method: Outline of an Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge by Paul Feyerabend

The Scientist as Conformist

October 12, 1978

Soviet Science by Zhores A. Medvedev

Scientists under Hitler: Politics and the Physics Community in the Third Reich by Alan D. Beyerchen

Proletarian Science? The Case of Lysenko by Dominique Lecourt, translated by Ben Brewster

A Great Soviet Psychologist

May 16, 1974

The Working Brain: An Introduction to Neuropsychology by A.R. Luria, translated by Basil Haigh

The Man with a Shattered World: The History of a Brain Wound by A.R. Luria, translated by Lynn Solotaroff

The Nature of Human Conflicts: or Emotion, Conflict and Will by A.R. Luria, translated by W. Horsley Gantt

Soviet Psychology: Philosophical, Theoretical, and Experimental Issues by Levy Rahmani

The Head on Jung’s Pillow

September 21, 1972

Darwin Retried: An Appeal to Reason by Norman Macbeth

The Case of the Midwife Toad by Arthur Koestler

The Roots of Coincidence by Arthur Koestler

A Hero in the USSR

September 23, 1971

The Medvedev Papers by Zhores A. Medvedev, translated by Vera Rich, with a Foreword by John Ziman F.R.S.

Cracked Wheat

January 29, 1970

The Rise and Fall of T.D. Lysenko by Zhores A. Medvedev, translated by I. Michael Lerner, with the editorial assistance of Lucy G. Lawrence