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Reading the paper to know the past: Carla Bittel, Elaine Leong, and Christine von Oertzen: Working with paper: gendered practice in the history of knowledge. This collection of essays restores to our attention the important place of paper and "paper stuff" in the gendered knowledge practices of Europe and the United States from the early modern to the modern period. Eyferth's essay brings Euro-American assumptions about paper into stark relief, observing, for example, that into the twentieth century, 'the Chinese burned more paper in religious ceremonies than they used for all other purposes combined' (213). [Extracted from the article]

Hodgkin and Huxley hastily published their findings (Hodgkin and Huxley [2]) in what the former called in his memoirs "a cautious note to I Nature i " (p. 135; Hodgkin [1]). The second paper (Hodgkin and Huxley [3]) followed up on the "sodium hypothesis" proposed earlier by Hodgkin and Katz ([7]). In the third of the 1952 papers, Hodgkin and Huxley showed that the permeability of the membrane behaves like conductance in an electronic circuit (Hodgkin and Huxley [4]). Five papers that defined the course of history of neuroscience: Indira M. Raman and David L. Ferster: The Annotated HODGKIN & HUXLEY - A Reader's Guide, Princeton University Press (2021). [Extracted from the article]

I believe that a broad audience of educators, regardless of mathematics specialization, will be equally inspired after reading this book to spark a grassroots movement toward mathematics literacy for all. Revisiting "Radical Equations: Civil Rights from Mississippi to the Algebra Project" by Robert P. Moses and Charles E. Cobb, Jr.: Beacon Press, Boston, MA, 2001, 233 pp, $16.00 (Paper), ISBN: 0-8070-3127-5 As a current mathematics education researcher whose work involves teaching mathematics for social justice, I have found Moses' work inspiring and well worth reading. [Extracted from the article]

Given the scope of its content, the book would have benefited from an introductory chapter from the editor. The breadth of regional, chronological and methodological coverage presented together in a single volume is the key strength of the book, and the editor should be congratulated for soliciting additional contributions from beyond the conference attendees. Although this is the only chapter in the volume that deals with heritage that falls within the traditional remit of maritime archaeology - specifically boats - she embeds her study of a traditional craft into a broader narrative. [Extracted from the article]

The following fourth and fifth chapters are devoted to paper-based electrochemical devices, including interesting and new points of view such as the role of paper in electroanalytical devices with special emphasis on its use as reactor as well as on the employ of different electrochemical techniques (amperometric, voltammetric, impedimetric or potentiometric), on the development of lateral and vertical flow paper-based microfluidic devices or on the detection in liquid and gas phases. The first chapter explores paper as a substrate for electrochemical micro-devices, being this principle of detection the most promising in the (bio)sensor field. The following three chapters (nineth, tenth and eleventh) are more specific, related to nanopaper-based (optical and electrical) sensors, nanoparticle-based lateral flow assays, and flexible cellulose-based devices for monitoring physical parameters. [Extracted from the article]

The article reviews the book "Weimar Culture and Quantum Mechanics: Selected Papers by Paul Forman and Contemporary Perspectives on the Forman Thesis" edited by Cathryn Carson, Alexei Kojevnikov and Helmut Trischler.

The article reviews the book "Selected Papers on the Periodic Table," by Eric R. Scerri.

The article reviews the book "Herod and Augustus: Papers Presented at the IJS Conference, 21st-23rd June 2005," edited by David M. Jacobson and Nikos Kokkinos.

The article reviews the book "The Pauling Catalog: The Linus and Ava Helen Papers at Oregon State University," by Chris Peterson and Cliff Mead.

Reviews the book "The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell," vol. 3, edited by P.M. Harman.

Chapter 7 contains perhaps the newest contribution to the history of cell theory in the book, as the work and career of Mazia have not been treated significantly by historians of science. Sherrie Lyons has produced a potentially useful survey of cell theory from its earliest days in the seventeenth century (Anton van Leeuwenhoek and Robert Hooke) using the simplest microscopes, through the introduction and improvement of the compound microscope, stains and methods of preparing specimen in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, through the mid-1980s and work of cell biologist Daniel Mazia (1912-1996) with the introduction of the electron microscope and molecular tools for studying the details of cell structure and function. Book Review: Sherrie Lyons, From Cells to Organisms: Re-envisioning Cell Theory: (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020), 224 pp., 17 b&w illus., $39.95 Paper, ISBN: 978-1-4426-3509-8; $71.25 Cloth, ISBN: 978-1-4426-3510-4. [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses the concept of Shapley value which is used for distributional analysis and inequality decomposition. It informs that author Tony Shorrocks was dissatisfied with various aspects of traditional inequality decomposition methods and wanted to know the link of various inequality factors with the marginal effect of those factors. It also informs the Shapley value formula was applied in the context of inequality and poverty measures.

A rich resource on scientific knowledge: Kevin McCain and Kostas Kampourakis: What is scientific knowledge? While McCain and Kampourakis do not mention this in their introduction, at least some of the papers will be of potential interest for researchers in the relevant areas. McCain also begins his paper by hinting that the goal of science is to provide an understanding of natural phenomena, which he seems to see as synonymous with explanations. In the introduction, McCain and Kampourakis identify the intended uses of this volume and, thereby, do part of my job for me: This volume is designed to introduce non-experts to key debates concerning scientific knowledge. [Extracted from the article]

The article reviews the book "China on Paper: European and Chinese Works From the Late 16th to the Early 19th Century," by Marcia Reed and Paola Demattè.

Reviews the book "The Kinetic Theory of Gases: An Anthology of Classic Papers With Historical Commentary," by S. G. Brush.

Reviews the book "The Evolutionary Biology Papers of Elie Metchnikoff," edited by Helena Gourko, Donald Williamson and Alfred I. Tauber.

Reviews the book 'Paper Palaces. The Rise of the Renaissance Architectural Treatise,' edited by Vaughan Hart and Peter Hicks.