Interviews with Scholars of Science, Technology, and Society about their New Books
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Charles R. Acland, "American Blockbuster: Movies, Technology, and Wonder" (Duke UP, 2020)
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2020-12-29
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Elizabeth Catte, "Pure America: Eugenics and the Making of Modern Virginia" (Belt, 2021)
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2020-12-29
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Alyson K. Spurgas, "Diagnosing Desire: Biopolitics and Femininity Into the Twenty-First Century" (Ohio State UP, 2020)
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2020-12-28
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Paul Davies, "The Demon in the Machine: How Hidden Webs of Information Are Solving the Mystery of Life" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
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2020-12-24
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Eben Kirksey, "The Mutant Project: Inside the Global Race to Genetically Modify Humans" (St. Martin's Press, 2020)
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2020-12-23
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Jeff Levin, "Religion and Medicine: A History of the Encounter Between Humanity's Two Greatest Institutions" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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2020-12-22
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Alicia Puglionesi, "Common Phantoms: An American History of Psychic Science" (Stanford UP, 2020)
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2020-12-18
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Richard Ovenden, "Burning the Books: A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge" (Harvard UP, 2020)
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2020-12-18
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S. L. Lewis and M. A. Maslin, "The Human Planet: How We Created the Anthropocene" (Yale UP, 2018)
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2020-12-18
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Christopher M. Kelty, "The Participant: A Century of Participation in Four Stories" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
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2020-12-16
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Jeremy Black, "Tank Warfare" (Indiana UP, 2020)
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2020-12-16
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Nick Haddad, "The Last Butterflies: A Scientist's Quest to Save a Rare and Vanishing Creature" (Princeton UP, 2019)
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2020-12-16
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Anne Lawrence-Mathers, "Medieval Meteorology: Forecasting the Weather from Aristotle to the Almanac" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
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2020-12-15
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Jose Sanchez, "Architecture for the Commons: Participatory Systems in the Age of Platforms" (Routledge, 2020)
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2020-12-15
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Trevor Pearce, "Pragmatism's Evolution: Organism and Environment in American Philosophy" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
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2020-12-15
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Erica Fretwell, "Sensory Experiments: Psychophysics, Race, and the Aesthetics of Feeling" (Duke UP, 2020)
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2020-12-11
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Edward Wilson-Lee, "The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books: Christopher Columbus, His Son, and the Quest to Build the World's Greatest Library" (Scribner, 2019)
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2020-12-11
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Andrea Ballestero, "A Future History of Water" (Duke UP, 2019)
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2020-12-11
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Gemma Milne, "Smoke and Mirrors: How Hype Obscures the Future and How to See Past It" (Robinson, 2021)
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2020-12-10
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Virginia Postrel, "The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World" (Basic Books, 2020)
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2020-12-09
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