Interviews with Scholars of Science, Technology, and Society about their New Books
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                                                    Alastair Bonnett, "40 Maps That Will Change How You See the World" (Ivy Press, 2024)
                                                
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                                            2024-10-16
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                                                    Marietje Schaake, "The Tech Coup: How to Save Democracy from Silicon Valley" (Princeton UP, 2024)
                                                
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                                            2024-10-15
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                                                    Wes Marshall, "Killed by a Traffic Engineer: Shattering the Delusion That Science Underlies Our Transportation System" (Island Press, 2024)
                                                
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                                            2024-10-12
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                                                    Chris Benner and Manuel Pastor, "Charging Forward: Lithium Valley, Electric Vehicles, and a Just Future" (The New Press, 2024)
                                                
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                                            2024-10-09
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                                                    Risa Cromer, "Conceiving Christian America: Embryo Adoption and Reproductive Politics" (NYU Press, 2023)
                                                
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                                            2024-10-09
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                                                    John Withington, "A History of Fireworks from: Their Origins to the Present Day" (Reaktion, 2024)
                                                
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                                            2024-10-08
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                                                    Critique, Wonder, and Chinese Anatomy, with Lan A. Li
                                                
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                                            2024-10-08
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                                                    Pamela O. Long on the Long, Long, Long History of Technology
                                                
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                                            2024-10-07
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                                                    Marco Bastos, "Brexit, Tweeted: Polarization and Social Media Manipulation" (Bristol UP, 2024)
                                                
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                                            2024-10-06
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                                                    Alan F. Blackwell, "Moral Codes: Designing Alternatives to AI" (MIT Press, 2024)
                                                
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                                            2024-10-06
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                                                    Jeffrey Ding, "Technology and the Rise of Great Powers: How Diffusion Shapes Economic Competition" (Princeton UP, 2024)
                                                
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                                            2024-10-05
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                                                    Gerald Sim, "Screening Big Data: Films That Shape Our Algorithmic Literacy" (Routledge, 2024)
                                                
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                                            2024-10-03
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                                                    Christian Wolmar, "The Liberation Line: The Untold Story of How American Engineering and Ingenuity Won World War II" (Hachette, 2024)
                                                
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                                            2024-10-02
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                                                    Paola Bertucci, "In the Land of Marvels: Science, Fabricated Realities, and Industrial Espionage in the Age of the Grand Tour" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
                                                
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                                            2024-10-01
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                                                    Amos C. Fox, "Conflict Realism: Understanding the Causal Logic of Modern War and Warfare" (Howgate, 2024)
                                                
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                                            2024-09-30
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                                                    Jonathan Maskit, "Bicycle" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
                                                
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                                            2024-09-29
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                                                    Jason Weiss, "Listenings" (Spuyten Duyvil, 2023)
                                                
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                                            2024-09-29
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                                                    Annette Kehnel, "The Green Ages: Medieval Innovations in Sustainability" (Brandeis UP, 2024)
                                                
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                                            2024-09-29
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                                                    Jordan Minor, "Video Game of the Year: A Year-By-Year Guide to the Best, Boldest, and Most Bizarre Games from Every Year Since 1977" (Abrams, 2023)
                                                
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                                            2024-09-26
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                                                    Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World
                                                
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                                            2024-09-26
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