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The book is on the quantum revolution. After nearly two decades of studies, based on primary sources (papers, notebooks, letters etc.), the author has presented a book which offers both a revision of the story of that revolution and a dialogical perspective as a possible explanation of the advance of knowledge. The main idea of her version of the story is that quantum physics developed in the atmosphere of doubt and uncertainty, controversions and ambiguity, with the primacy of mathematical tools but no strong prior ontological commitment. Basing upon that (which is Part One of the book: Dialogical Emergence) she builds a new philosophy of science (Part Two: Theoretical Consolidation). Arguing against, in particular, Kuhn's structural approach and Popper's concept of falsifiability, she describes her ``dialogism as an epistemology of science \dots{} built on the notion of the `other' '', thus exposing as a primary element in her attitude, mechanism of communicability. The book is an important contribution to the history and philosophy of science.