Interviews with Scholars of Science, Technology, and Society about their New Books
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David D. Vail, "Chemical Lands: Pesticides, Aerial Spraying, and Health in North America’s Grasslands since 1945" (U Alabama Press, 2019)
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2019-10-15
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Oren Harman, "Evolutions: Fifteen Myths That Explain Our World" (FSG, 2018)
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2019-10-14
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Thomas Hager, "Ten Drugs: How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine" (Abrams Press, 2019)
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2019-10-14
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Michitake Aso, "Rubber and the Making of Vietnam: An Ecological History, 1897-1975" (UNC Press, 2018)
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2019-10-11
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Lucas Richert, “Strange Trips: Science, Culture, and the Regulation of Drugs” (McGill-Queens UP, 2018)
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2019-10-11
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Jennifer L. Derr, "The Lived Nile: Environment, Disease, and Material Colonial Economy in Egypt" (Stanford UP, 2019)
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2019-10-10
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David Sinclair, "LifeSpan: Why We Age and Why We Don't Have To" (Simon and Schuster, 2019)
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2019-10-04
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Erika Milam, "Creatures of Cain: The Hunt for Human Nature in Cold War America" (Princeton UP, 2019)
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2019-10-04
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Timothy LeCain, "The Matter of History: How Things Create the Past" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
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2019-09-30
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Mark Monmonier, "Connections and Content: Reflections on Networks and the History of Cartography" (ESRI Press, 2019)
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2019-09-27
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Nora Jaffary, "Reproduction and its Discontents in Mexico: Childbirth and Contraception from 1750 to 1905" (UNC Press, 2016)
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2019-09-26
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Joy McCann, "Wild Sea: A History of the Southern Ocean" (U New South Wales Press, 2018)
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2019-09-13
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Aaron Hale-Dorrell, "Corn Crusade: Khrushchev’s Farming Revolution in the Post-Stalin Soviet Union" (Oxford UP, 2018)
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2019-09-11
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Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer, "Wind and Power in the Anthropocene" (Duke UP, 2019)
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2019-09-10
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E. H. Ecklund and D. R. Johnson, "Secularity and Science: What Scientists Around the World Really Think of Religion" (Oxford UP, 2019)
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2019-09-05
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Dominic Boyer, "Energopolitics: Wind and Power in the Anthropocene" (Duke UP, 2019)
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2019-09-03
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Emily Lakdawalla, "The Design and Engineering of Curiosity: How the Mars Rover Performs Its Job" (Springer, 2018)
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2019-08-30
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Cymene Howe, "Ecologics: Wind and Power in the Anthropocene" (Duke UP, 2019)
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2019-08-27
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Michael Kodas, "Megafire: The Race to Extinguish a Deadly Epidemic of Flame" (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017)
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2019-08-23
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Matthew James, "Collecting Evolution: The Galapagos Expedition that Vindicated Darwin" (Oxford UP, 2017)
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2019-08-16
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