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Reviews the book 'The Formation of Science in Japan,' by J.R. Bartholomew.

Reviews several books. "Made in America: Regaining the Productive Edge," by Michael L. Dertouzos, Richard K. Lester, Robert Solow; "Technical Change and Economic Theory," edited by Giovanni Dosi.

The article reviews the book "Industrial Enlightenment: Science, Technology and Culture in Birmingham and the West Midlands 1760-1820," by Peter M. Jones.

Reviews the book "Nature in Its Greatest Extent: Western Science in the Pacific," edited by Roy MacLeud and Philip F. Rehbock.

The article reviews the book "The Applied-Science Problem," edited by James E. McClellan.

The article reviews the book "Technology and the Culture of Progress in Meiji Japan" by David G. Wittner.

The article reviews the book "The democratisation of invention: patents and copyrights in American economic development, 1790-1920," by B. Zorina Khan.

Reviews the book "Practical Matter: Newton's Science in the Service of Industry and Empire 1687-1851," by Margaret C. Jacob and Larry Stewart.

Reviews the book "Exceptionalism and Industrialization: Britain and its European Rivals, 1688-1815," edited by Leandro Prados de la Escosura.

Reviews the book `Manufacturing Ideology: Scientific Management in Twentieth-Century Japan,' by William M. Tsutsui.

This volume, second in the series Science in history (General Editor G. L'E. Turner), follows a number of articles by the author on various aspects of the life and work of Benjamin Martin (1705-1782). A man of considerable versatility and energy, if not genius, Martin's activities as a schoolmaster, instrument maker, scientific lecturer, philologist, editor and businessman are given separate treatments in an approximately chronological order. He thereby emerges as a man of parts-innovater in the design and construction of microscopes, pioneer itinerant lecturer, inventor of somewhat unique table clocks, improver of quadrants and magnetic compasses, and compiler of an English dictionary contemporary with that of Johnson. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reviews the book 'Royal Mail: The Post Office since 1840,' by M.J. Daunton, with foreword by Asa Briggs.

Reviews the book 'Science and the Raj 1857-1905,' by Deepak Kumar.

Reviews the book 'Science and Empire, Essays in Indian Context,' edited by Deepak Kumar. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]