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Mapping Medical Modernity: Urban Space and Public Health in Tokyo, 1868–1920 with Susan L. Burns (U Pittsburgh Press, 2026)
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Oct 28, 2026 |
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Hidden Terrors: The Scourge of Cholera in Jackson's America with Paul Kelton (Oxford UP, 2026)
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Oct 14, 2026 |
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The Preventioneers: Diseases, Disasters, and the Discoveries That Changed Our World with Barry R Davis (JHU Press, 2026)
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Oct 11, 2026 |
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How Real Is Race?: Unraveling Race, Biology, and Culture with Carol C. Mukhopadhyay and Rosemary Henze (Rowman & Littlefield, 2025)
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Sep 28, 2026 |
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The Story of North Carolina's Research Triangle Park with Mack Paul
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Sep 25, 2026 |
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Projecting Knowledge: The Optical Lantern and Science Communication, 1880s-1940s with Dulce da Rocha Gonçalves, Nico de Klerk and Frank Kessler (Brepols, 2026)
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Sep 25, 2026 |
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Pablo F. Gomez, "Bloody Numbers: The Early Atlantic Slave Trade and the Invention of Modern Corporeality" (U Chicago Press, 2026)
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Sep 20, 2026 |
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Lee Alan Dugatkin, "Nary a Horse Left Standing: How a Nineteenth-Century Epidemic Transformed Medicine, Animal Welfare, and the Modern City" (MIT Press, 2026)
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Sep 08, 2026 |
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Erin Maglaquel "Presence: A Hidden History of the Female Body" (Astra House, 2026)
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Sep 08, 2026 |
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Ketil Slagstad, "Standardizing Sex: A History of Trans Medicine" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
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Sep 07, 2026 |
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Xiaochang Li, "Divination Engines: Natural Language Processing, Artificial Intelligence, and the Making of Algorithmic Culture" (U Chicago Press, 2026)
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Sep 02, 2026 |
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Special Episode: Accounting for Computing, or Why We So Badly Need a New Social and Economic History of Everyday Digital Technology Use
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Aug 31, 2026 |
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Jessica Riskin, "The Power of Life: The Invention of Biology and the Revolutionary Science of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck" (Penguin, 2026)
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Aug 21, 2026 |
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The New Modern Medicine: Disease, Evidence, and Epidemiological Medicine with Jonathan Fuller
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Aug 19, 2026 |
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Ellery E. Foutch, "A Perfectionist Impulse: The Art of Stopping Time in the Nineteenth Century (U Minnesota Press, 2026)
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Aug 14, 2026 |
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Devin Kennedy, "Coding Capitalism: Computers and the Remaking of the Postwar US Economy" (Columbia UP, 2026)
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Jul 31, 2026 |
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Susanne Paola Antonetta, "The Devil's Castle: Nazi Eugenics, Euthanasia, and How Psychiatry's Troubled History Reverberates Today" (Catapult, 2025)
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Jul 17, 2026 |
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Kit Chapman, "The Age of Alchemy: How Early Innovators Shaped Modern Chemistry" (Profile Books, 2026)
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Jul 09, 2026 |
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Sadiah Qureshi, "Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction" (Penguin, 2025)
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Jul 04, 2026 |
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Thomas S. Mullaney, "How We Disappear: A Personal History of Information" (W. W. Norton, 2026)
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Jun 28, 2026 |
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Andy Byford, "Science of the Child in Late Imperial and Early Soviet Russia" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Jun 27, 2026 |
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Hilary R. Buxton, "Disabled Empire: The Colonial Body in First World War Britain" (U Chicago Press, 2026)
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Jun 24, 2026 |
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Great Minds in Despair
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Jun 17, 2026 |
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Philippe Huneman, "When Metaphysics Meets Biology: Kantian Approaches to the Concept of An Organism" (Routledge, 2026)
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Jun 13, 2026 |
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Margaret O’Mara on the Clintons, Tech, and Memory
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Jun 08, 2026 |
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Geraldine Fela, "Critical Care: Nurses on the Frontline of Australia's AIDS Crisis" (UNSW Press, 2024)
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Jun 03, 2026 |
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Helen Veit, "Picky: How American Children Became the Fussiest Eaters in History" (St Martin's Press, 2026)
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Jun 01, 2026 |
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Richard Elwes, "Huge Numbers: A Story of Counting Ambitiously, from 4 1/2 to Fish 7" (Basic Books, 2026)
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May 22, 2026 |
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Tara Mulder, "A Womb of One's Own: Lost Histories of Childbirth in Ancient Rome" (U California Press, 2026)
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May 16, 2026 |
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Paul Stob, "Empire of Skulls: Phrenology, the Fowler Family, and a New Nation's Quest to Unlock the Secrets of the Mind" (Counterpoint Publishing, 2026)
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May 15, 2026 |
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Rina Bliss, "What's Real About Race: Untangling Science, Genetics, and Society" (W.W. Norton, 2025)
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May 13, 2026 |
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Angus Burgin on the Rise of the Internet
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May 11, 2026 |
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Deirdre Loughridge & Thomas Patteson, "The Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments" (Reaktion, 2026)
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Apr 30, 2026 |
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Raffaele Danna, "The Craft of Indo-Arabic Numerals: How Practical Arithmetic Shaped Commerce and Mathematics in Western Europe, 1200–1600" (Harvard UP, 2026)
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Apr 28, 2026 |
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Vin Nardizzi, "Marvellous Vegetables in the English Renaissance" (U Toronto Press, 2025)
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Apr 24, 2026 |
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Jim Downs, "Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine" (Harvard UP, 2023)
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Apr 21, 2026 |
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Nabil Ali, "Gold from Newton's Apple Tree: Historical Recipes for Natural Inks, Paints, and Dyes" (Princeton UP, 2026)
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Apr 14, 2026 |
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Kim Embrey, "Coca and the Victorians: From Botanical Curiosity to Regulated Drug, 1835–1912" (Transcript Publishing, 2025)
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Apr 12, 2026 |
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Matthew P. Romaniello, "Europe's Laboratory: Climate and Health in Eighteenth-Century Russia" (Cornell UP, 2025)
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Apr 11, 2026 |
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Beans Velocci, "Sex Isn't Real: The Invention of an Incoherent Binary" (Duke UP, 2026)
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Apr 11, 2026 |
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Douglas H. Erwin, "The Origins of the New: Novelty and Innovation in the History of Life, Culture, and Technology" (Princeton UP, 2026)
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Apr 06, 2026 |
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Dominik Berrens, "Naming New Things and Concepts in Early Modern Science: The Case of Natural History" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
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Apr 06, 2026 |
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Katherine Harvey, "The Medieval Guide to Healthy Living" (Reaktion, 2026)
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Apr 01, 2026 |
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César A. Hidalgo, "The Infinite Alphabet: And the Laws of Knowledge" (Allen Lane, 2026)
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Mar 16, 2026 |
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Susannah B. Mintz, "Hypochondria: In Sickness and in Story" (Reaktion, 2026)
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Mar 15, 2026 |
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Anne W. Johnson, "Mexico in Space: From La Raza Cósmica to the Space Race" (U Arizona Press, 2026)
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Mar 12, 2026 |
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Michael Bycroft, "Gems and the New Science: Matter and Value in the Scientific Revolution" (U Chicago Press, 2026)
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Mar 11, 2026 |
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Jacob Stegenga, "Heart of Science: A Philosophy of Scientific Inquiry" (U Chicago Press, 2026)
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Mar 10, 2026 |
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Amelia Acker, "Archiving Machines: From Punch Cards to Platforms" (MIT Press, 2025)
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Mar 04, 2026 |
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Anna-Luna Post, "Galileo’s Fame: Science, Credibility, and Memory in the Seventeenth Century" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2025)
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Feb 25, 2026 |
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W. Patrick McCray, "README: A Bookish History of Computing from Electronic Brains to Everything Machines" (MIT Press, 2025)
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Feb 19, 2026 |
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David King Dunaway, "A Four-Eyed World: How Glasses Changed the Way We See" (Bloomsbury, 2026)
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Feb 19, 2026 |
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Howard Alan Israel, "Nazi Anatomy Lessons: A Dissection of Evil" (Vallentine Mitchell, 2026)
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Feb 13, 2026 |
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Andrew Billing, "Animal Rhetoric and Natural Science in Eighteenth-century Liberal Political Writing" (Routledge, 2023)
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Feb 04, 2026 |
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Jennifer Vail, "Friction: A Biography" (Harvard UP, 2026)
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Feb 03, 2026 |
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Andreas Killen, "Nervous Systems: Brain Science in the Early Cold War" (Harper, 2023)
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Feb 01, 2026 |
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John L. Rudolph, "Why We Teach Science (and Why We Should)" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Jan 31, 2026 |
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Emily Mendenhall, "Invisible Illness: A History, from Hysteria to Long COVID" (U California Press, 2026)
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Jan 24, 2026 |
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Alex Wellerstein, "The Most Awful Responsibility: Truman and the Secret Struggle for Control of the Atomic Age" (Harper, 2025)
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Jan 21, 2026 |
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Steve Ramirez, "How to Change a Memory: One Neuroscientist’s Quest to Alter the Past" (Princeton UP, 2025)
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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Clare Griffin, "Mixing Medicines: The Global Drug Trade and Early Modern Russia" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022)
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Jan 11, 2026 |
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Alison Bashford, "Decoding the Hand: A History of Science, Medicine, and Magic" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
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Jan 10, 2026 |
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Jim Endersby, "The Arrival of the Fittest: Biology's Imaginary Futures, 1900-1935" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
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Jan 07, 2026 |
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Mike Jay, "Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind" (Yale UP, 2023)
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Jan 06, 2026 |
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Kate Clancy, "Period: The Real Story of Menstruation" (Princeton UP, 2023)
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Dec 30, 2025 |
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Donna J. Drucker, "Fertility Technology" (MIT Press, 2023)
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Dec 29, 2025 |
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Anne Lawrence-Mathers, "The Magic Books: A History of Enchantment in 20 Medieval Manuscripts" (Yale UP, 2025)
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Dec 12, 2025 |
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Thomas Haigh on the History of “AI” as a Brand
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Dec 08, 2025 |
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Taylor McCall, "The Art of Anatomy in Medieval Europe" (Reaktion Books, 2023)
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Nov 28, 2025 |
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Thomas Morel, "Underground Mathematics: Craft Culture and Knowledge Production in Early Modern Europe" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Nov 21, 2025 |
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Judith L. Pearson, "Radical Sisters: Shirley Temple Black, Rose Kushner, Evelyn Lauder, and the Dawn of the Breast Cancer Movement" (Mayo Clinic Press, 2025)
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Nov 11, 2025 |
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Ellen Muehlberger, "Things Unseen: Essays on Evidence, Knowledge, and the Late Ancient World" (U California Press, 2025)
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Nov 10, 2025 |
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Al Posamentier, "Math Makers: The Lives and Works of 50 Famous Mathematicians" (Prometheus, 2020)
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Nov 09, 2025 |
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Jenny C. Mann, "The Trials of Orpheus: Poetry, Science, and the Early Modern Sublime" (Princeton UP, 2021)
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Nov 08, 2025 |
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Eram Alam, "The Care of Foreigners: How Immigrant Physicians Changed US Healthcare" (JHU Press, 2025)
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Oct 30, 2025 |
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Rick A López, "Rooted in Place: Botany, Indigeneity, and Art in the Construction of Mexican Nature, 1570-1914" (U Arizona Press, 2025)
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Oct 28, 2025 |
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Garrett Hardin’s Tragic Environmentalism
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Oct 27, 2025 |
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Alice Lovejoy, "Tales of Militant Chemistry: The Film Factory in a Century of War" (U California Press, 2025)
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Oct 23, 2025 |
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Dagmar Wujastyk, "Indian Alchemy: Sources and Contexts" (Oxford UP, 2025)
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Oct 23, 2025 |
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Jeffrey D. Sharon, "The Great Balancing Act: An Insider's Guide to the Human Vestibular System" (Columbia UP, 2025)
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Oct 21, 2025 |
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Kalle Kananoja, "Healing Knowledge in Atlantic Africa" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
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Oct 19, 2025 |
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David Bressoud, "Calculus Reordered: A History of the Big Ideas" (Princeton UP, 2019)
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Oct 19, 2025 |
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Julia Ross Cummiskey, "Virus Research in Twentieth-Century Uganda: Between Local and Global" (Ohio UP, 2024)
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Oct 16, 2025 |
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Daniel J. Sherman, "Sensations: French Archaeology Between Science and Spectacle, 1890-1940" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
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Oct 09, 2025 |
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Spike Bucklow, "The Year: An Ecology of the Zodiac" (Reaktion Books, 2025)
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Sep 15, 2025 |
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Dan Roche, "Eyes by Hand: Prosthetics of Art and Healing" (MIT Press, 2025)
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Sep 05, 2025 |
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Anne Lawrence-Mathers, "Medieval Meteorology: Forecasting the Weather from Aristotle to the Almanac" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
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Aug 31, 2025 |
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John Lisle, "Project Mind Control: Sidney Gottlieb, the CIA, and the Tragedy of MKULTRA" (St. Martin's Press, 2025)
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Aug 29, 2025 |
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Agnes Arnold-Forster, "The Cancer Problem: Malignancy in Nineteenth-Century Britain" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Aug 25, 2025 |
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Mario Livio and Jack Szostak, "Is Earth Exceptional?: The Quest for Cosmic Life" (Basic Books, 2024)
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Aug 21, 2025 |
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Raphael Cormack, "Holy Men of the Electromagnetic Age: A Forgotten History of the Occult" (Norton, 2025)
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Aug 18, 2025 |
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Joshua Nall, "News from Mars: Mass Media and the Forging of a New Astronomy, 1860-1910" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2019)
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Aug 17, 2025 |
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Thomas Kemple, “Intellectual Work and the Spirit of Capitalism: Weber’s Calling” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014)
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Aug 16, 2025 |
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Hannah Star Rogers, "Art, Science, and the Politics of Knowledge (MIT Press, 2022)
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Aug 13, 2025 |
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Emilio Elizalde, "The True Story of Modern Cosmology: Origins, Main Actors and Breakthroughs" (Springer, 2021)
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Aug 09, 2025 |
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Lewis A. Grossman, "Choose Your Medicine: Freedom of Therapeutic Choice in America" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Aug 09, 2025 |
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Athena Aktipis, "The Cheating Cell: How Evolution Helps Us Understand and Treat Cancer" (Princeton UP, 2020)
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Aug 08, 2025 |
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Christa Kuljian, "Our Science, Ourselves: How Gender, Race, and Social Movements Shaped the Study of Science" (U Massachusetts Press, 2024)
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Jul 30, 2025 |
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Book Talk 67 : The Knowledge Machine: How Irrationality Created Modern Science
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Jul 29, 2025 |
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Jessica Ratcliff, "Monopolizing Knowledge: The East India Company and Britain's Second Scientific Revolution" (Cambridge UP, 2025))
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Jul 28, 2025 |
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How ClioVis is Transforming Education and Historical Research
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Jul 19, 2025 |
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Meegan Kennedy, "Writing Embodiment in Victorian Microscopy: Beautiful Mechanism" (Oxford UP, 2025)
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Jul 18, 2025 |
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Edward Tenner, "Why the Hindenburg Had a Smoking Lounge: Essays in Unintended Consequences" (APS Press, 2025)
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Jul 11, 2025 |
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Robert G. Morrison, "Merchants of Knowledge: Intellectual Exchange in the Ottoman Empire and Renaissance Europe" (Stanford UP, 2025)
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Jul 10, 2025 |
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Brent Z. Kaup and Kelly F. Austin, "The Pathogens of Finance: How Capitalism Breeds Vector-Borne Disease" (U of California Press, 2025)
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Jul 04, 2025 |
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Patrick Luiz Sullivan De Oliveira, "Ascending Republic: The Ballooning Revival in Nineteenth-Century France" (MIT Press, 2025)
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Jul 02, 2025 |
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Matthew Wisnioski on the History of the Idea and Culture of “Innovation” in the United States
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Jun 30, 2025 |
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Niayesh Afshordi and Phil Halper, "Battle of the Big Bang: The New Tales of Our Cosmic Origins" (University of Chicago Press, 2025)
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Jun 30, 2025 |
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Sarah Bull, "Selling Sexual Knowledge: Medical Publishing and Obscenity in Victorian Britain" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
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Jun 30, 2025 |
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Judith Weisenfeld, "Black Religion in the Madhouse: Race and Psychiatry in Slavery’s Wake" (NYU Press, 2025)
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Jun 24, 2025 |
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Bernd Roeck, "The World at First Light: A New History of the Renaissance" (Princeton UP, 2025)
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Jun 22, 2025 |
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Jeremy Stolow, "Picturing Aura: A Visual Biography" (MIT Press, 2025)
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Jun 20, 2025 |
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Laura Frances Goffman, "Disorder and Diagnosis: Health and the Politics of Everyday Life in Modern Arabia" (Stanford UP, 2024)
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Jun 19, 2025 |
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Violet Moller, "Inside the Stargazer's Palace: The Transformation of Science in 16th-Century Europe" (OneWorld, 2024)
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Jun 18, 2025 |
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Kathleen Miller, ed., "Doctrine and Disease in the British and Spanish Colonial World" (Penn State UP, 2025)
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Jun 03, 2025 |
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Beth Linker on Slouch: Posture Panic in Modern America
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Jun 02, 2025 |
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Agustín Fuentes, "Sex Is a Spectrum: The Biological Limits of the Binary" (Princeton UP, 2025)
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Jun 02, 2025 |
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Jack Ashby, "Nature's Memory: Behind the Scenes at the World’s Natural History Museums" (Penguin, 2025)
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May 31, 2025 |
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Matthew Shindell, "Lunar: A History of the Moon in Myths, Maps and Matter" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
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May 22, 2025 |
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From Hal to Siri: How Computers Learned to Speak
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May 19, 2025 |
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Andrew Griebeler, "Botanical Icons: Critical Practices of Illustration in the Premodern Mediterranean" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
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May 12, 2025 |
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Matthew Daniel Eddy, "Media and the Mind: Art, Science, and Notebooks as Paper Machines, 1700-1830" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
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Apr 30, 2025 |
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Howard Chiang, "After Eunuchs: Science, Medicine, and the Transformation of Sex in Modern China" (Columbia UP, 2018)
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Apr 23, 2025 |
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Scientists Cooperate while Humanists Ruminate (EF, JP)
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Apr 17, 2025 |
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Sally King, "Menstrual Myth Busting: The Case of the Hormonal Female" (Policy Press, 2025)
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Apr 02, 2025 |
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William Max Nelson, "Enlightenment Biopolitics: A History of Race, Eugenics, and the Making of Citizens" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
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Mar 28, 2025 |
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Andrew Janiak, "The Enlightenment's Most Dangerous Woman: Émilie Du Châtelet and the Making of Modern Philosophy" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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Mar 18, 2025 |
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Anne Greenwood Mackinney, "Nature on Paper: Documenting Science in Prussia, 1770-1850" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2024)
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Mar 15, 2025 |
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M. Chirimuuta, "The Brain Abstracted: Simplification in the History and Philosophy of Neuroscience" (MIT Press, 2024)
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Mar 10, 2025 |
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Anthony Grafton, "Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa" (Harvard UP, 2023)
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Mar 08, 2025 |
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Christos Lynteris, "Visual Plague: The Emergence of Epidemic Photography" (MIT Press, 2022)
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Mar 02, 2025 |
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Peter J. Bowler, "Evolution for the People: Shaping Popular Ideas from Darwin to the Present" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
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Feb 09, 2025 |
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Karenleigh A. Overmann, "The Material Origin of Numbers: Insights from the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East" (Gorgias Press, 2024)
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Jan 28, 2025 |
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Vera Keller, "Curating the Enlightenment: Johann Daniel Major and the Experimental Century" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
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Jan 27, 2025 |
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Pierre Sokolsky, "The Clock in the Sun: How We Came to Understand Our Nearest Star" (Columbia UP, 2024)
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Jan 21, 2025 |
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Bruce Lieberman and Niles Eldredge, "Macroevolutionaries: Reflections on Natural History, Paleontology, and Stephen Jay Gould" (Columbia UP, 2024)
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Jan 19, 2025 |
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Disability and the History of Science (Osiris, Vol 36)
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Jan 18, 2025 |
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Patchen Barss, "The Impossible Man: Roger Penrose and the Cost of Genius" (Basic Books, 2024)
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Jan 18, 2025 |
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Melissa B. Reynolds, "Reading Practice: The Pursuit of Natural Knowledge from Manuscript to Print" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
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Jan 17, 2025 |
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Mariam Motamedi Fraser, "Dog Politics: Species Stories and the Animal Sciences" (Manchester UP, 2024)
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Jan 15, 2025 |
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Nancy Reddy, "The Good Mother Myth: Unlearning Our Bad Ideas About How to Be a Good Mom" (St. Martin's Press, 2025)
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Jan 13, 2025 |
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Rebecca Charbonneau, "Mixed Signals: Alien Communication Across the Iron Curtain" (Polity, 2024)
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Jan 08, 2025 |
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Joel Whitebook, "Freud: An Intellectual Biography" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
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Jan 07, 2025 |
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Camille Robcis, "Disalienation: Politics, Philosophy, and Radical Psychiatry in Postwar France" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
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Jan 02, 2025 |
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Rachel Louise Moran, "Blue: A History of Postpartum Depression in America" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
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Jan 02, 2025 |
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Frederick Crews, "Freud: The Making of an Illusion" (Picador, 2018)
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Dec 31, 2024 |
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Michael Bresalier, "Modern Flu: British Medical Science and the Viralisation of Influenza, 1890-1950" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023)
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Dec 27, 2024 |
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AI: How We Got Here in Three Powerful Tales
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Dec 26, 2024 |
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Donald R. Prothero, "The Story of Earth's Climate in 25 Discoveries: How Scientists Found the Connections Between Climate and Life" (Columbia UP, 2024)
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Dec 14, 2024 |
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Renée Bergland, "Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science" (Princeton UP, 2024)
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Dec 13, 2024 |
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David J. Collins, SJ, "Disenchanting Albert the Great: The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval Magician" (Penn State UP, 2024)
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Dec 12, 2024 |
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Caroline Winterer, "How the New World Became Old: The Deep Time Revolution in America" (Princeton UP, 2024)
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Dec 10, 2024 |
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Katherine C. Epstein, "Analog Superpowers: How Twentieth-Century Technology Theft Built the National Security State" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
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Nov 24, 2024 |
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Ken Krimstein, "Einstein in Kafkaland: How Albert Fell Down the Rabbit Hole and Came Up with the Universe" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
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Nov 23, 2024 |
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Fiona Smyth, "Pistols in St Paul's: Science, Music, and Architecture in the Twentieth Century" (Manchester UP, 2024)
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Nov 22, 2024 |
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Ian Miller, "Self-Esteem: An American History" (Polity Press, 2024)
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Nov 17, 2024 |
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Adam Bobbette, "The Pulse of the Earth: Political Geology in Java" (Duke UP, 2023)
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Nov 15, 2024 |
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Anthony Grasso, "Dual Justice: America's Divergent Approaches to Street and Corporate Crime" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
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Nov 11, 2024 |
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Stuart Anderson, "Pharmacopoeias, Drug Regulation, and Empires: Making Medicines Official in Britain's Imperial World, 1618-1968" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2024)
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Nov 06, 2024 |
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Jerry Brotton, "Four Points of the Compass: The Unexpected History of Direction" (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2024)
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Nov 05, 2024 |
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Salem Elzway and Jason Resnikoff on Automation
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Nov 04, 2024 |
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Jonathan A. Allan, "Uncut: A Cultural Analysis of the Foreskin" (U Regina Press, 2024)
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Nov 02, 2024 |
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Nicholas Spencer, "Magisteria: The Entangled Histories of Science & Religion" (Oneworld, 2024)
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Nov 01, 2024 |
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Peter Harrison, "Some New World: Myths of Supernatural Belief in a Secular Age" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
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Oct 29, 2024 |
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Wilko Graf von Hardenberg, "Sea Level: A History" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
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Oct 21, 2024 |
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Lois Peters Agnew, "Fitter, Happier: The Eugenic Strain in Twentieth-Century Cancer Rhetoric" (U Alabama Press, 2024)
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Oct 19, 2024 |
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Critique, Wonder, and Chinese Anatomy, with Lan A. Li
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Oct 08, 2024 |
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Pamela O. Long on the Long, Long, Long History of Technology
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Oct 07, 2024 |
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Kyle Falcon, "Haunted Britain: Spiritualism, Psychical Research and the Great War" (Manchester UP, 2023)
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Oct 06, 2024 |
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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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Oct 01, 2024 |
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Jason A. Josephson Storm, "The Myth of Disenchantment: Magic, Modernity, and the Birth of the Human Sciences" (U Chicago Press, 2017)
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Sep 23, 2024 |
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Amir Alexander, "Liberty's Grid: A Founding Father, a Mathematical Dreamland, and the Shaping of America" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
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Sep 21, 2024 |
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Whitney Barlow Robles, "Curious Species: How Animals Made Natural History" (Yale UP, 2023)
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Sep 13, 2024 |
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Matthew C. Ehrlich, "The Krebiozen Hoax: How a Mysterious Cancer Drug Shook Organized Medicine" (U Illinois Press, 2024)
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Sep 11, 2024 |
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Jess Whatcott, "Menace to the Future: A Disability and Queer History of Carceral Eugenics" (Duke UP, 2024)
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Sep 07, 2024 |
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Kostas Kampourakis, "Darwin Mythology: Debunking Myths, Correcting Falsehoods" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
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Sep 03, 2024 |
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Violet Moller, "The Map of Knowledge: A Thousand-Year History of How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found" (Doubleday, 2019)
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Sep 02, 2024 |
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Elizabeth A. Williams, "Appetite and Its Discontents: Science, Medicine, and the Urge to Eat, 1750-1950" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
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Sep 02, 2024 |
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Brian Clegg, "Ten Patterns That Explain the Universe" (MIT Press, 2021)
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Sep 02, 2024 |
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Joanna Wuest, "Born This Way: Science, Citizenship, and Inequality in the American LGBTQ+ Movement" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
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Aug 27, 2024 |
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Cyrus Mody on the Importance of Square (as in NOT COOL) Scientists and Engineers
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Aug 26, 2024 |
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Regina G. Kunzel, "In the Shadow of Diagnosis: Psychiatric Power and Queer Life" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
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Aug 25, 2024 |
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Noah Heringman, "Deep Time: A Literary History" (Princeton UP, 2023)
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Aug 14, 2024 |
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Heather Murray, "Asylum Ways of Seeing: Psychiatric Patients, American Thought and Culture" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
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Aug 13, 2024 |
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Gavin Steingo, "Interspecies Communication: Sound and Music Beyond Humanity" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
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Aug 10, 2024 |
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Edward Shanks, "The People of the Ruins" (MIT Press, 2024)
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Aug 06, 2024 |
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Mark Walker, "Hitler's Atomic Bomb: History, Legend, and the Twin Legacies of Auschwitz and Hiroshima" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
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Aug 05, 2024 |
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Robert Baker, "Making Modern Medical Ethics: How African Americans, Anti-Nazis, Bureaucrats, Feminists, Veterans, and Whistleblowing Moralists Created Bioethics" (MIT Press, 2024)
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Aug 02, 2024 |
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Resonant Grains
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Jul 29, 2024 |
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Kirsten Moore-Sheeley, "Nothing But Nets: A Biography of Global Health Science and Its Objects" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
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Jul 24, 2024 |
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Anton Howes, "Arts and Minds: How the Royal Society of Arts Changed a Nation" (Princeton UP, 2020)
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Jul 22, 2024 |
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Sasha Warren, "Storming Bedlam: Madness, Mental Health, and Revolt" (Common Notions, 2024)
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Jul 10, 2024 |
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Monika Krause, "Model Cases: On Canonical Research Objects and Sites" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
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Jul 10, 2024 |
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Donna Drucker, "Contraception: A Concise History" (The MIT Press, 2020)
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Jul 08, 2024 |
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Alan Lightman, "Einstein's Dreams" (Vintage, 1992)
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Jul 07, 2024 |
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The (ir)Rational Rainbow (the DSM & the Fight to Depathologize Homosexuality)
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Jul 06, 2024 |
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Pierre Sokolsky, "Clock in the Sun: How We Came to Understand Our Nearest Star" (Columbia UP, 2024)
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Jul 05, 2024 |
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Pandemics Perspectives 15: The Dynamic Nature of Science
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Jul 02, 2024 |
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Peter Murray Jones, "The Medicine of the Friars in Medieval England" (Boydell & Brewer, 2024)
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Jun 30, 2024 |
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Ann Johnson and Johannes Lenhard, "Cultures of Prediction: How Engineering and Science Evolve with Mathematical Tools" (MIT Press, 2024)
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Jun 24, 2024 |
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Paula S. De Vos, "Compound Remedies: Galenic Pharmacy from the Ancient Mediterranean to New Spain" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2020)
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Jun 23, 2024 |
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Paulina Rowinska, "Mapmatics: How We Navigate the World Through Numbers" (Pan Macmillan, 2024)
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Jun 19, 2024 |
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Test Subjects
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Jun 17, 2024 |
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Madman in the White House?
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Jun 16, 2024 |
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Benjamin Breen, "Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science" (Grand Central, 2024)
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Jun 14, 2024 |
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Carl Elliott, "The Occasional Human Sacrifice: Medical Experimentation and the Price of Saying No" (Norton, 2024)
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Jun 12, 2024 |
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Sharrona Pearl, "Do I Know You?: From Face Blindness to Super Recognition" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
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Jun 08, 2024 |
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Alan H. McGowan, "The Political Activism of Anthropologist Franz Boas, Citizen Scientist" (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2024)
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Jun 07, 2024 |
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Claire Weeda, "Ethnicity in Medieval Europe 950-1250: Medicine, Power and Religion" (Boydell and Brewer, 2021)
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Jun 02, 2024 |
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The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present
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Jun 02, 2024 |
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David S. Richeson, "Tales of Impossibility: The 2000-Year Quest to Solve the Mathematical Problems of Antiquity" (Princeton UP, 2019)
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May 28, 2024 |
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Bernardo Kastrup, "Analytic Idealism in a Nutshell: A Straightforward Summary of the 21st Century's Only Plausible Metaphysics" (Iff Books, 2024)
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May 24, 2024 |
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Assaf Tamari, "God as Patient: The Medical Discourse of Lurianic Kabbalah" (Magnes Press, 2023)
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May 20, 2024 |
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Joanne Edge, "Onomantic Divination in Late Medieval Britain: Questioning Life, Predicting Death" (York Medieval Press, 2024)
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May 11, 2024 |
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Rustam Alexander, "Gay Lives and ‘Aversion Therapy’ in Brezhnev’s Russia, 1964–1982" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023)
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May 06, 2024 |
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Renée Bergland, "Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science" (Princeton UP, 2024)
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May 01, 2024 |
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Stefanos Geroulanos on "The Invention of Prehistory"
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Apr 26, 2024 |
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Alexander Statman, "A Global Enlightenment: Western Progress and Chinese Science" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
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Apr 25, 2024 |
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Jessica Cox, "Confinement: The Hidden History of Maternal Bodies in Nineteenth-Century Britain" (The History Press, 2023)
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Apr 21, 2024 |
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Coreen McGuire, "Measuring Difference, Numbering Normal: Setting the Standards for Disability in the Interwar Period" (Manchester UP, 2020)
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Apr 20, 2024 |
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Miriam Piilonen, "Theorizing Music Evolution: Darwin, Spencer, and the Limits of the Human" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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Apr 15, 2024 |
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Annaliese Jacobs Claydon, "Arctic Circles and Imperial Knowledge: The Franklin Family, Indigenous Intermediaries, and the Politics of Truth" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
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Apr 15, 2024 |
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Kevin Lambert, "Symbols and Things: Material Mathematics in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2021)
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Apr 15, 2024 |
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Rasmus Winther, "Our Genes: A Philosophical Perspective on Human Evolutionary Genomics" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Apr 14, 2024 |
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Stewart Lawrence Sinclair, "Space Rover" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
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Apr 13, 2024 |
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James McElvenny, "A History of Modern Linguistics: From the Beginnings to World War II" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)
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Apr 09, 2024 |
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Claudia de Rham, "The Beauty of Falling: A Life in Pursuit of Gravity" (Princeton UP, 2024)
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Apr 01, 2024 |
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Huaping Lu-Adler, "Kant, Race, and Racism: Views from Somewhere" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Apr 01, 2024 |
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Stefanos Geroulanos, "The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins" (Liveright, 2024)
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Mar 31, 2024 |
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Matthew H. Hersch, "Dark Star: A New History of the Space Shuttle" (MIT Press, 2023)
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Mar 30, 2024 |
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Maarten Couttenier, "Anthropology and Race in Belgium and the Congo (1839-1922)" (Routledge, 2023)
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Mar 24, 2024 |
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Beth Linker, "Slouch: Posture Panic in Modern America" (Princeton UP, 2024)
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Mar 21, 2024 |
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Ruth A. Morgan, "Climate Change and International History: Climate Diplomacy in the Global North and South Since 1950" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
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Mar 16, 2024 |
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Lorraine Daston, "Rivals: How Scientists Learned to Cooperate" (Columbia Global Reports, 2023)
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Mar 10, 2024 |
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Kenneth Miller, "Mapping the Darkness: The Visionary Scientists Who Unlocked the Mysteries of Sleep" (Hachette Books, 2023)
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Mar 08, 2024 |
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Alan Bollard, "Economists at War: How a Handful of Economists Helped Win and Lose the World Wars" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Mar 06, 2024 |
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Jennifer Evans, "Men's Sexual Health in Early Modern England" (Amsterdam UP, 2023)
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Mar 02, 2024 |
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Sara J. Grossman, "Immeasurable Weather: Meteorological Data and Settler Colonialism from 1820 to Hurricane Sandy" (Duke UP, 2023)
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Feb 28, 2024 |
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Alison M. Downham Moore, "The French Invention of Menopause and the Medicalisation of Women's Ageing" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Feb 14, 2024 |
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Chen-Pang Yeang, "Transforming Noise. A History of Its Science and Technology from Disturbing Sounds to Informational Errors, 1900-1955" (2023)
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Jan 30, 2024 |
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Elinor Cleghorn, "Unwell Women: A Journey Through Medicine and Myth in a Man-Made World" (Dutton, 2022)
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Jan 28, 2024 |
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Camillo Leonardi, "Speculum Lapidum: A Renaissance Treatise on the Healing Properties of Gemstones" (Penn State UP, 2023)
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Jan 23, 2024 |
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Catherine Powell-Warren, "Gender and Self-Fashioning at the Intersection of Art and Science: Agnes Block, Botany, and Networks in the Dutch 17th Century" (Amsterdam UP, 2023)
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Jan 22, 2024 |
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The Future of Images of Human Evolution
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Jan 20, 2024 |
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Karen C. Pinto, "Medieval Islamic Maps: An Exploration" (U Chicago Press, 2016)
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Jan 16, 2024 |
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Mark Monmonier, "Connections and Content: Reflections on Networks and the History of Cartography" (ESRI Press, 2019)
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Jan 10, 2024 |
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Jack Glazier, "Anthropology and Radical Humanism: Native and African American Narratives and the Myth of Race" (MSU Press, 2020)
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Jan 04, 2024 |
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Lenny A. Ureña Valerio, "Colonial Fantasies, Imperial Realities: Race Science and the Making of Polishness on the Fringes of the German Empire, 1840-1920" (Ohio UP, 2019
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Jan 02, 2024 |
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Lee McIntyre, "The Scientific Attitude: Defending Science from Denial, Fraud, and Pseudoscience" (MIT Press, 2019)
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Jan 02, 2024 |
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John Christopoulos, "Abortion in Early Modern Italy" (Harvard UP, 2021)
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Jan 01, 2024 |
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Douglas Hunter, "Beardmore: The Viking Hoax That Rewrote History" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2018)
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Dec 30, 2023 |
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Erika Dyck, "Psychedelic Prophets: The Letters of Aldous Huxley and Humphry Osmond" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2018)
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Dec 30, 2023 |
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Anne E. Linton, "Unmaking Sex: The Gender Outlaws of Nineteenth-Century France" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Dec 22, 2023 |
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Wayne Soon, "Global Medicine in China: A Diasporic History" (Stanford UP, 2020)
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Dec 19, 2023 |
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Katherine D. Von Schaik, "How to Be Healthy: An Ancient Guide to Wellness" (Galen) (Princeton UP, 2024)
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Dec 17, 2023 |
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Emma K. Sutton, "William James, MD: Philosopher, Psychologist, Physician" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
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Dec 05, 2023 |
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Peter Bellerby, "The Globemakers: The Curious Story of an Ancient Craft" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
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Nov 27, 2023 |
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Ran Zwigenberg, "Nuclear Minds: Cold War Psychological Science and the Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
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Nov 27, 2023 |
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David K. Zimmerman, "Ensnared Between Hitler and Stalin: Refugee Scientists in the USSR" (U Toronto Press, 2023)
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Nov 22, 2023 |
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Maura C. Flannery, "In the Herbarium: The Hidden World of Collecting and Preserving Plants" (Yale UP, 2023)
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Nov 14, 2023 |
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Woodrow Wilson: Patrick Weil’s "The Madman in the White House"
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Oct 31, 2023 |
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Leonie Hannan, "A Culture of Curiosity: Science in the Eighteenth-Century Home" (Manchester UP, 2023)
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Oct 30, 2023 |
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Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, "American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer" (Vintage, 2006)
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Oct 21, 2023 |
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Elena Serrano, "Ladies of Honor and Merit. Gender, Useful Knowledge, and Politics in Enlightened Spain" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2022)
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Oct 18, 2023 |
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Branko Milanovic, "Visions of Inequality: From the French Revolution to the End of the Cold War" (Harvard UP, 2023)
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Oct 16, 2023 |
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Jonathan Downs, "Discovery at Rosetta: Revealing Ancient Egypt" (American University in Cairo Press, 2020)
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Oct 15, 2023 |
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E. Summerson Carr, "Working the Difference: Science, Spirit, and the Spread of Motivational Interviewing" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
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Oct 14, 2023 |
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Stephen Bales, "Serapis: The Sacred Library and Its Declericalization" (Library Juice Press, 2021)
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Oct 12, 2023 |
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Joshua May, "Neuroethics: Agency in the Age of Brain Science" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Oct 07, 2023 |
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Claudine Chavannes-Mazel and Linda Ijpelaar, "The Green Middle Ages: The Depiction and Use of Plants in the Western World 600-1600" (Amsterdam UP, 2023)
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Oct 02, 2023 |
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Michael D. Gordin, "Pseudoscience: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Sep 27, 2023 |
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Debapriya Sarkar, "Possible Knowledge: The Literary Forms of Early Modern Science" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)
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Sep 27, 2023 |
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Joshua Ehrlich, "The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Sep 16, 2023 |
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Christopher T. Fleming et al., "Science and Society in the Sanskrit World" (Brill, 2023)
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Sep 14, 2023 |
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Neil Tarrant, "Defining Nature's Limits: The Roman Inquisition and the Boundaries of Science" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
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Sep 13, 2023 |
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A Better Way to Buy Books
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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Situating Religion and Medicine (with Michael Stanley-Baker)
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Sep 08, 2023 |
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Herlinde Koelbl, "Fascination of Science: 60 Encounters with Pioneering Researchers of Our Time" (MIT Press, 2023)
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Sep 06, 2023 |
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Gerald O'Brien, "Eugenics, Genetics, and Disability in Historical and Contemporary Perspective: Implications for the Social Work Profession" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Sep 05, 2023 |
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Nancy L. Segal, "The Twin Children of the Holocaust: Stolen Childhood and the Will to Survive" (Academic Studies Press, 2023)
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Sep 05, 2023 |
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Alexandra Roginski, "Science and Power in the Nineteenth-Century Tasman World: Popular Phrenology in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Sep 04, 2023 |
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Jonathan Ablard, "Madness in Buenos Aires: Patients, Psychiatrists, and the Argentine State, 1880-1983" (Ohio UP, 2008)
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Sep 01, 2023 |
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Donna J. Drucker, "Fertility Technology" (MIT Press, 2023)
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Aug 29, 2023 |
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Barbara Sattler, "The Concept of Motion in Ancient Greek Thought: Foundations in Logic, Method, and Mathematics" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
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Aug 28, 2023 |
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Lawrence Goldman, "Victorians and Numbers: Statistics and Society in Nineteenth Century Britain" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Aug 25, 2023 |
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Travis Holloway, "How to Live at the End of the World: Theory, Art, and Politics for the Anthropocene" (Stanford UP, 2022)
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Aug 23, 2023 |
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Thomas Simpson, "The Frontier in British India: Space, Science, and Power in the Nineteenth Century" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
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Aug 22, 2023 |
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Laura R. Kremmel, "Romantic Medicine and the Gothic Imagination: Morbid Anatomies" (U Wales Press, 2022)
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Aug 20, 2023 |
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Al Coppola, "The Theater of Experiment: Staging Natural Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Britain" (Oxford UP, 2016)
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Aug 15, 2023 |
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Michael Ruse, "Darwinism as Religion: What Literature Tells Us about Evolution" (Oxford UP, 2017)
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Aug 11, 2023 |
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Chris Wiggins and Matthew L Jones, "How Data Happened: A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms" (Norton, 2023)
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Aug 10, 2023 |
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Andreas Killen, "Nervous Systems: Brain Science in the Early Cold War" (Harper, 2023)
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Aug 06, 2023 |
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Moving Innovation: A History of Computer Animation
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Aug 03, 2023 |
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Ruth Yun-Ju Chen, "Good Formulas: Empirical Evidence in Mid-Imperial Chinese Medical Texts" (U Washington Press, 2023)
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Aug 02, 2023 |
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Taylor McCall, "The Art of Anatomy in Medieval Europe" (Reaktion Books, 2023)
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Aug 01, 2023 |
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Archaeology and Nomadism in the Russian Empire: An interview with Ismael Biyashev
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Jul 29, 2023 |
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Jonathan R. Topham, "Reading the Book of Nature: How Eight Best Sellers Reconnected Christianity and the Sciences on the Eve of the Victorian Age" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
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Jul 29, 2023 |
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Heidi Hausse, "The Malleable Body: Surgeons, Artisans, and Amputees in Early Modern Germany" (Manchester UP, 2023)
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Jul 21, 2023 |
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Yi-Tang Lin, "Statistics and the Language of Global Health: Institutions and Experts in China, Taiwan, and the World, 1917-1960" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Jul 21, 2023 |
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Victoria Lee, "The Arts of the Microbial World: Fermentation Science in Twentieth-Century Japan" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
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Jul 16, 2023 |
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Liana Saif et al., "Islamicate Occult Sciences in Theory and Practice" (Brill, 2020)
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Jul 10, 2023 |
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Kevin Killeen, "The Unknowable in Early Modern Thought: Natural Philosophy and the Poetics of the Ineffable" (Stanford UP, 2023)
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Jul 09, 2023 |
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Marco Caboara, "Regnum Chinae: The Printed Western Maps of China to 1735" (Brill, 2022)
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Jul 06, 2023 |
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Rose Marie San Juan, "Violence and the Genesis of the Anatomical Image" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2023)
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Jul 03, 2023 |
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Eileen V. Wallis, "California and the Politics of Disability, 1850–1970" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
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Jun 28, 2023 |
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Rebecca Whiteley, "Birth Figures: Early Modern Prints and the Pregnant Body" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
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Jun 26, 2023 |
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Tom Higham, "The World Before Us: The New Science Behind Our Human Origins" (Yale UP, 2021)
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Jun 24, 2023 |
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Andrew Jones, "How Kant Matters for Biology: A Philosophical History" (U Wales Press, 2023)
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Jun 23, 2023 |
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James Hannam, "The Globe: How the Earth Became Round" (Reaktion Books, 2023)
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Jun 22, 2023 |
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John L. Rudolph, "Why We Teach Science (and Why We Should)" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Jun 20, 2023 |
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Rachel E. Walker, "Beauty and the Brain: The Science of Human Nature in Early America" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
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Jun 19, 2023 |
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Benjamin Schultz-Figueroa, "The Celluloid Specimen: Moving Image Research into Animal Life" (U California Press, 2023)
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Jun 18, 2023 |
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Keith Tribe, "Constructing Economic Science: The Invention of a Discipline 1850-1950" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Jun 18, 2023 |
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Vera Keller, "The Interlopers: Early Stuart Projects and the Undisciplining of Knowledge" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
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Jun 17, 2023 |
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Chris Manias, "The Age of Mammals: Nature, Development, and Paleontology in the Long Nineteenth Century" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2023)
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Jun 17, 2023 |
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Grace Elisabeth Lavery, "Pleasure and Efficacy: Of Pen Names, Cover Versions, and Other Trans Techniques" (Princeton UP, 2023)
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Jun 15, 2023 |
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Simon Paul Cox, "The Subtle Body: A Genealogy" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Jun 15, 2023 |
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Fredrik Albritton Jonsson and Carl Wennerlind, "Scarcity: A History from the Origins of Capitalism to the Climate Crisis" (Harvard UP, 2023)
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Jun 12, 2023 |
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Athene Donald, "Not Just for the Boys: Why We Need More Women in Science" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Jun 07, 2023 |
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The History of 19th-Century Quarantine Politics: A Conversation with David S. Barnes
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Jun 05, 2023 |
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Philip Kirby and Margaret J. Snowling, "Dyslexia: A History" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022)
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Jun 03, 2023 |
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Anne Gerritsen and Burton Cleetus, "Histories of Health and Materiality in the Indian Ocean World: Medicine, Material Culture and Trade, 1600-2000" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
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May 29, 2023 |
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James Poskett, "Horizons: The Global Origins of Modern Science" (Mariner Books, 2022)
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May 21, 2023 |
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Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, "Split and Splice: A Phenomenology of Experimentation" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
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May 20, 2023 |
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The Future of the Human Heart: A Discussion with Vincent M. Figueredo
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May 19, 2023 |
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Hasok Chang, "Realism for Realistic People: A New Pragmatist Philosophy of Science (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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May 10, 2023 |
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Michael Brown, "Emotions and Surgery in Britain, 1793-1912" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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May 10, 2023 |
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Britta K. Ager, "The Scent of Ancient Magic" (U Michigan Press, 2022)
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May 10, 2023 |
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Pharmacological Histories Ep. 1: Nancy D. Campbell on Naloxone
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May 08, 2023 |
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Break on Through: Radical Psychiatry and the American Counterculture
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May 02, 2023 |
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Ian Hembrow, "Ralph Edwards: Rare Events--The Inside Story of a Worldwide Quest for Safer Medicines" (Springer, 2023)
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Apr 30, 2023 |
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The History of Contraception
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Apr 27, 2023 |
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Paul A. Lombardo, "Three Generations, No Imbeciles: Eugenics, the Supreme Court, and Buck v. Bell" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2022)
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Apr 24, 2023 |
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Mònica Calabritto, "Murder and Madness on Trial: A Tale of True Crime from Early Modern Bologna" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2023)
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Apr 23, 2023 |
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Freddy Foks, "Participant Observers: Anthropology, Colonial Development, and the Reinvention of Society in Britain" (U California Press, 2023)
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Apr 14, 2023 |
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Cristina Mejia Visperas, "Skin Theory: Visual Culture and the Postwar Prison Laboratory" (NYU, 2022)
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Apr 14, 2023 |
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David Baumeister, "Kant on the Human Animal: Anthropology, Ethics, Race" (Northwestern UP, 2022)
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Apr 12, 2023 |
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Joseph Giacomelli, "Uncertain Climes: Debating Climate Change in Gilded Age America" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
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Apr 05, 2023 |
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Katherine Johnston, "The Nature of Slavery: Environment and Plantation Labor in the Anglo-Atlantic World" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Apr 03, 2023 |
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Mike Jay, "Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind" (Yale UP, 2023)
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Apr 02, 2023 |
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Heidi J. Larson, "Stuck: How Vaccine Rumors Start--and Why They Don't Go Away" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Mar 27, 2023 |
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Declan Warde et al., "Safety As We Watch: Anaesthesia in Ireland 1847-1998" (Wordwell Books, 2022)
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Mar 27, 2023 |
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Dominique A. Tobbell, "Dr. Nurse: Science, Politics, and the Transformation of American Nursing" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
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Mar 24, 2023 |
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Gordon Barrett, "China’s Cold War Science Diplomacy" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Mar 23, 2023 |
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Nadia Abu El-Haj, "Combat Trauma: Imaginaries of War and Citizenship in Post-9/11 America" (Verso, 2022)
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Mar 21, 2023 |
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Patrick L. Schmidt, "Harvard's Quixotic Pursuit of a New Science: The Rise and Fall of the Department of Social Relations" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2022)
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Mar 19, 2023 |
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Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Andrew S. Curran, "Who's Black and Why?: A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race" (Harvard UP, 2022)
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Mar 14, 2023 |
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Illuminations Episode 1: Experimental Methods
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Mar 12, 2023 |
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Aya Homei, "Science for Governing Japan's Population" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Mar 10, 2023 |
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Measure for Measure Episode 7: Kinsey
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Mar 08, 2023 |
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H. Yumi Kim, "Madness in the Family: Women, Care, and Illness in Japan" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Mar 08, 2023 |
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Clare Griffin, "Mixing Medicines: The Global Drug Trade and Early Modern Russia" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022)
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Mar 06, 2023 |
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Elizabeth T. Hurren, "Hidden Histories of the Dead: Disputed Bodies in Modern British Medical Research" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
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Mar 03, 2023 |
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Gravity's Kiss: The Detection of Gravitational Waves
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Mar 03, 2023 |
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Nuclear Ghosts: Ryo Morimoto (EF, JP)
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Mar 02, 2023 |
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Garima Garg, "Heavens and Earth: The Story of Astrology Through Ages and Cultures" (Penguin, 2023)
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Feb 20, 2023 |
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Lynn Cullen, "The Woman with the Cure" (Berkley Books, 2023)
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Feb 19, 2023 |
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Lee D. Baker, "From Savage to Negro: Anthropology and the Construction of Race, 1896-1954" (U California Press, 1998)
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Feb 13, 2023 |
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Curtis Runstedler, "Alchemy and Exemplary Poetry in Middle English Literature" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
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Feb 03, 2023 |
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The History of Teletherapy
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Jan 30, 2023 |
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Elizabeth Kelly Gray, "Habit Forming: Drug Addiction in America, 1776-1914" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Jan 27, 2023 |
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Deafness “Cures” in History
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Jan 22, 2023 |
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Lorraine Daston Books In Dark Times (JP)
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Jan 19, 2023 |
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On Émile Durkheim's "The Elementary Forms of Religious Life" (1912)
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Jan 15, 2023 |
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Challenges to Scientific Authority in Modern America
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Jan 12, 2023 |
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Matthew Smith, "The First Resort: The History of Social Psychiatry in the United States" (Columbia UP, 2022)
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Jan 10, 2023 |
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Ciara Breathnach, "Ordinary Lives, Death, and Social Class: Dublin City Coroner's Court, 1876-1902" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Jan 10, 2023 |
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Robin Vose, "The Index of Prohibited Books: Four Centuries of Struggle Over Word and Image for the Greater Glory of God" (Reaktion, 2022)
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Jan 09, 2023 |
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Lorraine Daston Rules the World (EF, JP)
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Jan 05, 2023 |
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Samantha Muka, "Oceans Under Glass: Tank Craft and the Sciences of the Sea" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
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Jan 04, 2023 |
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Dannelle Gutarra Cordero, "She Is Weeping: An Intellectual History of Racialized Slavery and Emotions in the Atlantic World" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Jan 03, 2023 |
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Donovan O. Schaefer, "Wild Experiment: Feeling Science and Secularism after Darwin" (Duke UP, 2022)
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Jan 02, 2023 |
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Josiah Ober, "The Greeks and the Rational: The Discovery of Practical Reason" (U California Press, 2022)
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Jan 01, 2023 |
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Felicity M. Turner, "Proving Pregnancy: Gender, Law, and Medical Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century America" (UNC Press, 2022)
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Jan 01, 2023 |
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Edmund Leach on Roman Jakobson's Contributions to Linguistics
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Dec 30, 2022 |
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Ed Cohen, "On Learning to Heal or, What Medicine Doesn't Know" (Duke UP, 2022)
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Dec 28, 2022 |
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Neurasthenia
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Dec 23, 2022 |
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Pamela H. Smith, "From Lived Experience to the Written Word: Reconstructing Practical Knowledge in the Early Modern World" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
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Dec 19, 2022 |
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Efram Sera-Shriar, "Psychic Investigators: Anthropology, Modern Spiritualism, and Credible Witnessing in the Late Victorian Age" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2022)
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Dec 18, 2022 |
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Thomas M. Kemple, "Marx's Wager: Das Kapital and Classical Sociology" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)
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Dec 18, 2022 |
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Shelley Fraser Mickle, "Borrowing Life: How Scientists, Surgeons, and a War Hero Made the First Successful Organ Transplant a Reality" (Imagine, 2020)
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Dec 17, 2022 |
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Samuel J. Redman, "Bone Rooms: From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museums" (Harvard UP, 2022)
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Dec 15, 2022 |
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Jacalyn Duffin, "Covid-19: A History" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022)
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Dec 12, 2022 |
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Cathy McClive, "The Art of Childbirth: A Seventeenth-Century Midwife's Epistolary Treatise to Doctor Vallant" (Iter Press, 2022)
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Dec 05, 2022 |
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Jennifer Smith, "Women, Mysticism, and Hysteria in Fin-De-Siècle Spain" (Vanderbilt UP, 2021)
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Dec 03, 2022 |
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Irene Hilden, "Absent Presences in the Colonial Archive: Dealing with the Berlin Sound Archive's Acoustic Legacies" (Leuven UP, 2022)
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Dec 03, 2022 |
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Wei Yu Wayne Tan, "Blind in Early Modern Japan: Disability, Medicine, and Identity" (U Michigan Press, 2022)
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Nov 29, 2022 |
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Christopher Willoughby, "Masters of Health: Racial Science and Slavery in US Medical Schools" (UNC Press, 2022)
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Nov 24, 2022 |
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Travis Zadeh, "Wonders and Rarities: The Marvelous Book That Traveled the World and Mapped the Cosmos" (Harvard UP, 2023)
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Nov 24, 2022 |
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Probability
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Nov 22, 2022 |
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Science Against the People: Anti-Capitalist Science
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Nov 16, 2022 |
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Anita Guerrini, "Experimenting with Humans and Animals: From Aristotle to CRISPR" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2022)
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Nov 16, 2022 |
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Melancholy
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Nov 15, 2022 |
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The Future of Rules: A Discussion with Lorraine Daston
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Nov 08, 2022 |
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Erin Webster, "The Curious Eye: Optics and Imaginative Literature in Seventeenth-Century England" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Nov 04, 2022 |
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David Kaiser, "Well, Doc, You're In: Freeman Dyson’s Journey through the Universe" (MIT Press, 2022)
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Nov 02, 2022 |
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Joanna Ebenstein, "Frederik Ruysch and His Thesaurus Anatomicus: A Morbid Guide" (MIT Press, 2022)
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Nov 02, 2022 |
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Mackenzie Cooley, "The Perfection of Nature: Animals, Breeding, and Race in the Renaissance" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
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Oct 31, 2022 |
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John Stillwell, "The Story of Proof: Logic and the History of Mathematics" (Princeton UP, 2022)
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Oct 31, 2022 |
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Annalisa Berta and Susan Turner, "Rebels, Scholars, Explorers: Women in Vertebrate Paleontology" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2020)
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Oct 28, 2022 |
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Leslie A. Geddes, "Watermarks: Leonardo Da Vinci and the Mastery of Nature" (Princeton UP, 2020)
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Oct 17, 2022 |
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Nadine Weidman, "Killer Instinct: The Popular Science of Human Nature in Twentieth-Century America" (Harvard UP, 2021)
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Oct 11, 2022 |
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The Psychedelic World of Hollywood Hospital
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Oct 03, 2022 |
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On David Hume's "A Treatise of Human Nature"
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Sep 30, 2022 |
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Michael Slouber, "Early Tantric Medicine: Snakebite, Mantras, and Healing in the Garuda Tantras" (Oxford UP, 2016)
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Sep 29, 2022 |
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On Einstein's Discoveries
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Sep 29, 2022 |
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On Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species"
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Sep 28, 2022 |
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Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt, "Franz Boas: The Emergence of the Anthropologist" (U Nebraska Press, 2019)
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Sep 27, 2022 |
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The Future of Brainwashing: A Discussion with Daniel Pick
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Sep 27, 2022 |
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Kirsti Niskanen and Michael J. Barany, "Gender, Embodiment, and the History of the Scholarly Persona" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
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Sep 26, 2022 |
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History, Space, and Getting Things Wrong
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Sep 14, 2022 |
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Ethan Czuy Levine, "Rape by the Numbers: Producing and Contesting Scientific Knowledge about Sexual Violence" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
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Sep 13, 2022 |
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Karen Hunger Parshall, "The New Era in American Mathematics, 1920–1950" (Princeton UP, 2022)
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Sep 12, 2022 |
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On Thomas Kuhn's "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions"
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Sep 08, 2022 |
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William C. Kirby, "Empires of Ideas: Creating the Modern University from Germany to America to China" (Harvard UP, 2022)
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Sep 08, 2022 |
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The Twisted Science of Great Replacement Theory
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Sep 08, 2022 |
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Georg Striedter, "Model Systems in Biology: History, Philosophy, and Practical Concerns" (MIT Press, 2022)
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Sep 07, 2022 |
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On John Maynard Keynes’ "General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money"
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Sep 05, 2022 |
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On "Encyclopédie"
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Sep 02, 2022 |
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Sandra Eder, "How the Clinic Made Gender: The Medical History of a Transformative Idea" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
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Aug 30, 2022 |
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Sarah Neville, "Early Modern Herbals and the Book Trade" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Aug 29, 2022 |
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Asad Q. Ahmed, "Palimpsests of Themselves: Logic and Commentary in Postclassical Muslim South Asia" (U California Press, 2022)
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Aug 26, 2022 |
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On Edwin Hubble’s "The Realm of the Nebulae"
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Aug 22, 2022 |
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Elena Aronova, "Scientific History: Experiments in History and Politics from the Bolshevik Revolution to the End of the Cold War" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
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Aug 19, 2022 |
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Lindsay Starkey, "Encountering Water in Early Modern Europe and Beyond" (Amsterdam UP, 2020)
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Aug 09, 2022 |
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Nina Rattner Gelbart, "Minerva's French Sisters: Women of Science in Enlightenment France" (Yale UP, 2021)
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Aug 04, 2022 |
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Mark Solovey, "Social Science for What? Battles over Public Funding for the 'Other Sciences' at the National Science Foundation" (MIT Press, 2020)
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Aug 01, 2022 |
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Kimberly Anne Coles, "Bad Humor: Race and Religious Essentialism in Early Modern England" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
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Jul 29, 2022 |
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The Science Wars: Post-Truth and the Nature of Science
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Jul 29, 2022 |
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Lachlan Fleetwood, "Science on the Roof of the World: Empire and the Remaking of the Himalaya" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Jul 28, 2022 |
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Mark Solovey, "Social Science for What?: Battles over Public Funding for the 'Other Sciences' at the National Science Foundation" (MIT Press, 2020)
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Jul 25, 2022 |
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Laurie Marhoefer, "Racism and the Making of Gay Rights: A Sexologist, His Student, and the Empire of Queer Love" (U Toronto Press, 2022)
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Jul 14, 2022 |
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“Vaccine: The Human Story”: A Chat with Historian and Podcaster Annie Kelly
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Jul 08, 2022 |
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Sarah Fox, "Giving Birth in Eighteenth-Century England" (U London Press, 2022)
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Jul 07, 2022 |
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Frank Close, "Elusive: How Peter Higgs Solved the Mystery of Mass" (Basic Book, 2022)
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Jul 06, 2022 |
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Christina Ramos, "Bedlam in the New World: A Mexican Madhouse in the Age of Enlightenment" (UNC Press, 2022)
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Jul 01, 2022 |
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Susan H. Brandt, "Women Healers: Gender, Authority, and Medicine in Early Philadelphia" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
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Jun 29, 2022 |
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Howard Gardner, "A Synthesizing Mind: A Memoir from the Creator of Multiple Intelligences Theory" (MIT Press, 2022)
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Jun 23, 2022 |
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Slobodan Perovic, "From Data to Quanta: Niels Bohr’s Vision of Physics" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
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Jun 22, 2022 |
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Natalie Lira, "Laboratory of Deficiency: Sterilization and Confinement in California, 1900-1950s" (U California Press, 2021)
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Jun 22, 2022 |
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The Future of Public Opinion: A Conversation with Susan Herbst
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Jun 21, 2022 |
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Marga Vicedo, "Intelligent Love: The Story of Clara Park, Her Autistic Daughter, and the Myth of the Refrigerator Mother" (Beacon Press, 2021)
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Jun 17, 2022 |
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Catherine Gibson, "Geographies of Nationhood: Cartography, Science, and Society in the Russian Imperial Baltic" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Jun 17, 2022 |
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Thomas Dixon and Adam Shapiro, "Science and Religion: A Very Short Introduction" Second Edition. (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Jun 16, 2022 |
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Albert Folch, "Hidden in Plain Sight: The History, Science, and Engineering of Microfluidic Technology" (MIT Press, 2022)
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Jun 15, 2022 |
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Danielle J. Whittaker, "The Secret Perfume of Birds: Uncovering the Science of Avian Scent" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2022)
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Jun 13, 2022 |
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Timothy J. Jorgensen, "Spark: The Life of Electricity and the Electricity of Life" (Princeton UP, 2021)
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Jun 10, 2022 |
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Thomas J. Misa, "Leonardo to the Internet: Technology and Culture from the Renaissance to the Present" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2022)
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Jun 06, 2022 |
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Jason Sion Mokhtarian, "Medicine in the Talmud: Natural and Supernatural Therapies Between Magic and Science" (U California Press, 2022)
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Jun 02, 2022 |
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Steven G. Epstein, "The Quest for Sexual Health: How an Elusive Ideal Has Transformed Science, Politics, and Everyday Life" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
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May 30, 2022 |
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Jim Downs, "Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine" (Harvard UP, 2021)
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May 23, 2022 |
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John Lardas Modern, "Neuromatic: Or, a Particular History of Religion and the Brain" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
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May 23, 2022 |
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Shannon L. Walsh, "Eugenics and Physical Culture Performance in the Progressive Era: Watch Whiteness Workout" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2020)
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May 19, 2022 |
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Jim Al-Khalili, "The Joy of Science" (Princeton UP, 2022)
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May 19, 2022 |
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Suman Seth, "Difference and Disease: Medicine, Race, and the Eighteenth-Century British Empire" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
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May 13, 2022 |
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Banu Subramaniam, "Holy Science: The Biopolitics of Hindu Nationalism" (U of Washington Press, 2019)
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May 12, 2022 |
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Samuel J. Redman, "Prophets and Ghosts: The Story of Salvage Anthropology" (Harvard UP, 2021)
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May 11, 2022 |
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Pandemic Perspectives 10: Covid and the Art of Science Communication
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May 11, 2022 |
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Eugenics
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May 09, 2022 |
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Sarah Walsh, "The Religion of Life: Eugenics, Race, and Catholicism in Chile" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2021)
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May 05, 2022 |
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William F. Eadie, "When Communication Became a Discipline" (Lexington, 2021)
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May 02, 2022 |
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Maia Weinstock, "Carbon Queen: The Remarkable Life of Nanoscience Pioneer Mildred Dresselhaus" (MIT Press, 2022)
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Apr 29, 2022 |
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Emily Klancher Merchant, "Building the Population Bomb" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Apr 28, 2022 |
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Rana A. Hogarth, "Medicalizing Blackness: Making Racial Difference in the Atlantic World, 1780-1840" (UNC Press, 2017)
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Apr 28, 2022 |
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Nancy L Segal, "Deliberately Divided: Inside the Controversial Study of Twins and Triplets Adopted Apart" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2021)
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Apr 27, 2022 |
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Pandemic Perspectives 8: Covid and the Embrace of the Biological World
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Apr 27, 2022 |
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Rod Tanchanco, "First Patients: The Incredible True Stories of Pioneer Patients" (First Hawk, 2022)
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Apr 20, 2022 |
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Dashun Wang and Albert-László Barabási, "The Science of Science" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
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Apr 13, 2022 |
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James C. Ungureanu, "Science, Religion, and the Protestant Tradition: Retracing the Origins of Conflict" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2019)
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Apr 12, 2022 |
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Zeynep Pamuk, "Politics and Expertise: How to Use Science in a Democratic Society" (Princeton UP, 2021)
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Apr 05, 2022 |
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Pandemic Perspectives 4: Science, Societal Values and COVID
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Mar 30, 2022 |
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Thomas Haigh and Paul E. Ceruzzi, "A New History of Modern Computing" (MIT Press, 2021)
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Mar 30, 2022 |
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Emily J. Levine, "Allies and Rivals: German-American Exchange and the Rise of the Modern Research University" (UChicago Press, 2021)
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Mar 25, 2022 |
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Lucy Ward, "The Empress and the English Doctor: How Catherine the Great Defied a Deadly Virus" (ONEWorld, 2022)
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Mar 25, 2022 |
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John Bellamy Foster, "The Return of Nature: Socialism and Ecology" (Monthly Review Press, 2021)
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Mar 23, 2022 |
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John W. I. Lee, "The First Black Archaeologist: A Life of John Wesley Gilbert" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Mar 21, 2022 |
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Nanna Katrine Luders Kaalund, "Explorations in the Icy North: How Travel Narratives Shaped Arctic Science in the Nineteenth Century" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2021)
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Mar 16, 2022 |
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Carl Erik Fisher, "The Urge: Our History of Addiction" (Penguin, 2022)
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Mar 16, 2022 |
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Pratik Chakrabarti, "Inscriptions of Nature: Geology and the Naturalization of Antiquity" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2020)
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Mar 10, 2022 |
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Carl R. Weinberg, "Red Dynamite: Creationism, Culture Wars, and Anticommunism In America" (Cornell UP, 2021)
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Mar 10, 2022 |
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The Future of Consciousness: A Discussion with Eva Jablonka
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Mar 08, 2022 |
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Chase Burton, "Nicole Rafter" (Routledge, 2021)
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Mar 02, 2022 |
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Paul M. Dover, "The Information Revolution in Early Modern Europe" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
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Feb 25, 2022 |
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Mauro José Caraccioli, "Writing the New World: The Politics of Natural History in the Early Spanish Empire" (U Florida Press, 2021)
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Feb 21, 2022 |
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Marissa Mika, "Africanizing Oncology: Creativity, Crisis, and Cancer in Uganda" (Ohio UP, 2021)
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Feb 18, 2022 |
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Kathryn Millard, "Double Exposure: How Social Psychology Fell in Love with the Movies" (Rutgers UP, 2022)
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Feb 17, 2022 |
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Carl Erik Fisher, "The Urge: Our History of Addiction" (Penguin, 2022)
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Feb 16, 2022 |
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Eric Herschthal, "The Science of Abolition: How Slaveholders Became the Enemies of Progress" (Yale UP, 2021)
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Feb 11, 2022 |
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Retraction Watch: A Discussion with Adam Marcus and Ivan Oransky
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Feb 11, 2022 |
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Aubrey Clayton, "Bernoulli's Fallacy: Statistical Illogic and the Crisis of Modern Science" (Columbia UP, 2021)
|
Feb 10, 2022 |
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Kenneth L. Caneva, "Helmholtz and the Conservation of Energy: Contexts of Creation and Reception" (MIT Press, 2021)
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Feb 10, 2022 |
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Michele Alacevich, "Albert O. Hirschman: An Intellectual Biography" (Columbia UP, 2021)
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Feb 09, 2022 |
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Sydney A. Halpern, "Dangerous Medicine: The Story Behind Human Experiments with Hepatitis" (Yale UP, 2021)
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Feb 09, 2022 |
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Rudolf Ramm, "Medical Jurisprudence and Rules of the Medical Profession [1942]" (Springer, 2019)
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Feb 08, 2022 |
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Paul A. Offit, "You Bet Your Life: From Blood Transfusions to Mass Vaccination, the Long and Risky History of Medical Innovation" (Basic Book, 2021)
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Feb 07, 2022 |
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Emily Levesque, "The Last Stargazers: The Enduring Story of Astronomy's Vanishing Explorers" (Sourcebooks, 2021)
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Feb 04, 2022 |
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Kenneth Anderson, "Strychnine and Gold: The Untold History of Addiction Treatment in the United States" (2021)
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Feb 02, 2022 |
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Joan L. Richards, "Generations of Reason: A Family's Search for Meaning in Post-Newtonian England" (Yale UP, 2021)
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Feb 01, 2022 |
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Margareta von Oswald and Jonas Tinius, "Across Anthropology: Troubling Colonial Legacies, Museums, and the Curatorial" (Leuven UP, 2020)
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Jan 31, 2022 |
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Carla Yanni, "The Architecture of Madness: Insane Asylums in the United States" (U Minnesota Press, 2007)
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Jan 28, 2022 |
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Ginger Nolan, "Savage Mind to Savage Machine: Racial Science and Twentieth-Century Design" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
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Jan 18, 2022 |
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Rebekah Lee, "Health, Healing and Illness in African History" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
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Jan 17, 2022 |
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Thomas Huckle and Tobias Neckel, "Bits and Bugs: A Scientific and Historical Review of Software Failures in Computational Science" (SIAM, 2019)
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Jan 17, 2022 |
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Harry Yi-Jui Wu, "Mad by the Millions: Mental Disorders and the Early Years of the World Health Organization" (MIT Press, 2021)
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Jan 14, 2022 |
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Brendan Borrell, "The First Shots: The Epic Rivalries and Heroic Science Behind the Race to the Coronavirus Vaccine" (Mariner Books, 2021)
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Jan 13, 2022 |
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Paul Halpern, "Flashes of Creation: George Gamow, Fred Hoyle, and the Great Big Bang Debate" (Basic Books, 2021)
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Jan 11, 2022 |
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Jonathan B. Edelmann, "Hindu Theology and Biology: The Bhagavata Purana and Contemporary Theory" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Jan 11, 2022 |
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Robert W. Baloh and Robert E. Bartholomew, "Havana Syndrome: Mass Psychogenic Illness and the Real Story Behind the Embassy Mystery and Hysteria" (Copernicus, 2020)
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Jan 04, 2022 |
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Karl Herrup, "How Not to Study a Disease: The Story of Alzheimer's" (MIT Press, 2021)
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Jan 03, 2022 |
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Aro Velmet, "Pasteur's Empire: Bacteriology and Politics in France, Its Colonies, and the World" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Dec 31, 2021 |
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Omar W. Nasim, "The Astronomer's Chair: A Visual and Cultural History" (MIT Press, 2021)
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Dec 28, 2021 |
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Paul Steinhardt, "Inflated Expectations: A Cosmological Tale" (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Dec 28, 2021 |
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Bill Schutt, "Pump: A Natural History of the Heart" (Algonquin Books, 2021)
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Dec 28, 2021 |
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Melinda Baldwin, "Making 'Nature': The History of a Scientific Journal" (U Chicago Press, 2015)
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Dec 24, 2021 |
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Claudia de Rham, “The Pull of the Stars” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Dec 24, 2021 |
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Luis Lobo-Guerrero et al., "Mapping, Connectivity, and the Making of European Empires" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2021)
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Dec 22, 2021 |
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Migual Nicolelis, “Minds and Machines” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Dec 21, 2021 |
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Sarah S. Richardson, "The Maternal Imprint: The Contested Science of Maternal-Fetal Effects" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
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Dec 21, 2021 |
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Rocky Kolb, “A Universe of Particles: Cosmological Reflections” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Dec 16, 2021 |
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Arnold Pacey and Francesca Bray, "Technology in World Civilization" (MIT Press, 2021)
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Dec 10, 2021 |
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Diana Kelly, "The Red Taylorist: The Life and Times of Walter Nicholas Polakov" (Emerald, 2020)
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Dec 09, 2021 |
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Britt Rusert, "Fugitive Science: Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American Culture" (NYU Press, 2017)
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Dec 09, 2021 |
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Jennifer Ferng and Lauren R. Cannady, "Crafting Enlightenment: Artisanal Histories and Transnational Networks" (Voltaire Foundation, 2021)
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Dec 08, 2021 |
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Lewis A. Grossman, "Choose Your Medicine: Freedom of Therapeutic Choice in America" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Dec 08, 2021 |
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James Wynn and G. Mitchell Reyes, "Arguing with Numbers: The Intersections of Rhetoric and Mathematics" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2021)
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Dec 07, 2021 |
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Anne Hugon, "Etre mère en situation coloniale: Gold Coast (années 1910-1950)" (Editions de la Sorbonne, 2020)
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Dec 06, 2021 |
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Philip Zimbardo, “Critical Situations” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Dec 03, 2021 |
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Devin J. Vartija, "The Color of Equality: Race and Common Humanity in Enlightenment Thought" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2021)
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Dec 02, 2021 |
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Oliver Rollins, "Conviction: The Making and Unmaking of the Violent Brain" (Stanford UP, 2021)
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Nov 26, 2021 |
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Brandy Schillace, "Mr. Humble and Dr. Butcher: A Monkey's Head, the Pope's Neuroscientist, and the Quest to Transplant the Soul" (Simon and Schuster, 2021)
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Nov 19, 2021 |
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Claire Weeda, "Ethnicity in Medieval Europe 950-1250: Medicine, Power and Religion" (Boydell and Brewer, 2021)
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Nov 19, 2021 |
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Scott Tremaine, “Astrophysical Wonders” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Nov 18, 2021 |
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Joel Whitebook, "Freud: An Intellectual Biography" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
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Nov 17, 2021 |
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Naomi Oreskes, "Why Trust Science?" (Princeton UP, 2021)
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Nov 15, 2021 |
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Paul Steinhardt, “Indiana Steinhardt and the Quest for Quasicrystals” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Nov 11, 2021 |
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Kristin Hussey, "Imperial Bodies in London: Empire, Mobility, and the Making of British Medicine, 1880-1914" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2021)
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Nov 11, 2021 |
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Scott Soames, “Appreciating Analytic Philosophy” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Nov 09, 2021 |
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Diego Armus and Pablo Gómez, "The Gray Zones of Medicine: Healers and History in Latin America" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2021)
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Nov 08, 2021 |
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Lee Smolin, “Examining Time” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Nov 08, 2021 |
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Justin K. Stearns, "Revealed Sciences: The Natural Sciences in Islam in Seventeenth-Century Morocco" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
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Nov 05, 2021 |
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Sam Wineburg, "Why Learn History (When It's Already on Your Phone)" (U Chicago Press, 2018)
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Oct 21, 2021 |
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Roger Penrose, “The Cyclic Universe” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Oct 19, 2021 |
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Kalle Kananoja, "Healing Knowledge in Atlantic Africa" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
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Oct 11, 2021 |
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Michael Yudell, "Race Unmasked: Biology and Race in the Twentieth Century" (Columbia UP, 2018)
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Oct 08, 2021 |
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Gideon Fujiwara, "From Country to Nation: Ethnographic Studies, Kokugaku, and Spirits in Nineteenth-Century Japan" (Cornell UP, 2021)
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Oct 05, 2021 |
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Hannah Turner, "Cataloguing Culture: Legacies of Colonialism in Museum Documentation" (UBC Press, 2020)
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Oct 05, 2021 |
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Darrin McMahon, “Deconstructing Genius” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Oct 04, 2021 |
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Yan Liu, "Healing with Poisons: Potent Medicines in Medieval China" (U Washington Press, 2021)
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Oct 01, 2021 |
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Brian Clegg, "Ten Patterns That Explain the Universe" (MIT Press, 2021)
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Sep 28, 2021 |
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Jonathan Rees, "The Chemistry of Fear: Harvey Wiley's Fight for Pure Food" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021)
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Sep 28, 2021 |
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Lisa T. Sarasohn, "Getting Under Our Skin: The Cultural and Social History of Vermin" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021)
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Sep 28, 2021 |
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Eric. S. Hintz, "American Independent Inventors in an Era of Corporate R&D" (MIT Press, 2021)
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Sep 28, 2021 |
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Tony Leggett, “The Problems of Physics, Reconsidered” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Sep 27, 2021 |
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Vanilla Beer and Allenna Leonard, "Stafford Beer the Father of Management Cybernetics" (2019)
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Sep 27, 2021 |
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Chris Bleakley, "Poems That Solve Puzzles: The History and Science of Algorithms" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Sep 27, 2021 |
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Nick Lane, “A Matter of Energy: Biology From First Principles” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Sep 24, 2021 |
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Allan V. Horwitz, "DSM: A History of Psychiatry's Bible" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021)
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Sep 24, 2021 |
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Marnie Hughes-Warrington and Anne Martin, "Big and Little Histories: Sizing Up Ethics in Historiography" (Routledge, 2021)
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Sep 24, 2021 |
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Rob Dunn and Monica Sanchez, "Delicious: The Evolution of Flavor and How It Made Us Human" (Princeton UP, 2021)
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Sep 23, 2021 |
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Justin Khoury, “Cosmological Conundrums” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Sep 21, 2021 |
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Richard Janko, “The Derveni Papyrus” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Sep 17, 2021 |
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Bruce Clarke, "Gaian Systems: Lynn Margulis, Neocybernetics, and the End of the Anthropocene" (U Minnesota Press, 2020)
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Sep 17, 2021 |
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Paul Shankman, "Margaret Mead" (Berghahn Books, 2021)
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Sep 17, 2021 |
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Alexander Wragge-Morley, "Aesthetic Science: Representing Nature in the Royal Society of London, 1650-1720" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
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Sep 17, 2021 |
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Katy Borner, "Atlas of Forecasts: Modeling and Mapping Desirable Futures" (MIT Press, 2021)
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Sep 10, 2021 |
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H. Glenn Penny, "In Humboldt's Shadow: A Tragic History of German Ethnology" (Princeton UP, 2021)
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Sep 06, 2021 |
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Roy Richard Grinker, "Nobody’s Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness" (Norton, 2021)
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Sep 01, 2021 |
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Magnus Ramage and Karen Shipp, "Systems Thinkers" (Springer, 2020)
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Sep 01, 2021 |
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Thomas O. Haakenson, "Grotesque Visions: The Science of Berlin Dada" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
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Aug 31, 2021 |
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Jennifer L. Lambe, "Madhouse: Psychiatry and Politics in Cuban History" (UNC Press, 2017)
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Aug 31, 2021 |
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Michael Gordin, “Science and Pseudoscience” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Aug 30, 2021 |
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Kirsten A. Greer, "Red Coats and Wild Birds: How Military Ornithologists and Migrant Birds Shaped Empire" (UNC Press, 2020)
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Aug 25, 2021 |
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Michael Friendly and Howard Wainer, "A History of Data Visualization and Graphic Communication" (Harvard UP, 2021)
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Aug 23, 2021 |
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Beverly A. Tsacoyianis, "Disturbing Spirits: Mental Illness, Trauma, and Treatment in Modern Syria and Lebanon" (U Notre Dame Press, 2021)
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Aug 19, 2021 |
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Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim, "ReOrienting Histories of Medicine: Encounters Along the Silk Roads" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
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Aug 16, 2021 |
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Martha Few et al., "Baptism Through Incision: The Postmortem Cesarean Operation in the Spanish Empire" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2020)
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Aug 16, 2021 |
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Kah Seng Loh and Li Yang Hsu, "Tuberculosis: The Singapore Experience, 1867-2018" (Routledge, 2021)
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Aug 16, 2021 |
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John Davies and Alexander J. Kent, "The Red Atlas: How the Soviet Union Secretly Mapped the World" (U Chicago Press, 2017)
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Aug 06, 2021 |
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John Christopoulos, "Abortion in Early Modern Italy" (Harvard UP, 2021)
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Aug 05, 2021 |
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Alex Csiszar, "The Scientific Journal: Authorship and the Politics of Knowledge in the Nineteenth Century" (U Chicago Press, 2018)
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Aug 04, 2021 |
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Anthony Q. Hazard, "Boasians at War: Anthropology, Race, and World War II" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
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Jul 28, 2021 |
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Jack Green and Ros Henry, "Olga Tufnell’s 'Perfect Journey': Letters and Photographs of an Archaeologist in the Levant and Mediterranean" (UCL Press, 2021)
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Jul 27, 2021 |
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Eugene T. Richardson, "Epidemic Illusions: On the Coloniality of Global Public Health" (MIT Press, 2020)
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Jul 22, 2021 |
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James Robert Brown, “Plato’s Heaven: A User’s Guide” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Jul 22, 2021 |
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Andrew Jenks, "Collaboration in Space and the Search for Peace on Earth" (Anthem Press, 2021)
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Jul 21, 2021 |
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John Troyer, "Technologies of the Human Corpse" (MIT Press, 2020)
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Jul 19, 2021 |
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Anna Reser and Leila McNeill, "Forces of Nature: The Women who Changed Science" (Frances Lincoln, 2021)
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Jul 16, 2021 |
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Adam Crymble, "Technology and the Historian: Transformations in the Digital Age" (U Illinois Press, 2021)
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Jul 15, 2021 |
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Ruth Ahnert et al., "The Network Turn: Changing Perspectives in the Humanities" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
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Jul 14, 2021 |
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Nima Arkani-Hamed, “The Power of Principles: Physics Revealed” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Jul 13, 2021 |
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Martin Summers, "Madness in the City of Magnificent Intentions" (Oxford UP, 2019)
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Jul 07, 2021 |
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Camille Robcis, "Disalienation: Politics, Philosophy, and Radical Psychiatry in Postwar France" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
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Jun 28, 2021 |
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Rob Boddice, "Humane Professions: The Defence of Experimental Medicine, 1876-1914" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
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Jun 02, 2021 |
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Jenny Bangham, "Blood Relations: Transfusion and the Making of Human Genetics" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
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May 26, 2021 |
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Deborah R. Coen, "The Earthquake Observers: Disaster Science from Lisbon to Richter" (U Chicago Press, 2013)
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May 21, 2021 |
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Michael D. Gordin, "On the Fringe: Where Science Meets Pseudoscience" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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May 17, 2021 |
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Susan M. Reverby, "Examining Tuskegee: The Infamous Syphilis Study and Its Legacy" (UNC Press, 2013)
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May 05, 2021 |
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Jörg Matthias Determann, "Islam, Science Fiction and Extraterrestrial Life: The Culture of Astrobiology in the Muslim World" (I. B. Tauris, 2020)
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May 05, 2021 |
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Elise K. Burton, "Genetic Crossroads: The Middle East and the Science of Human Heredity" (Stanford UP, 2021)
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Apr 29, 2021 |
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Douglas M. O'Reagan, "Taking Nazi Technology: Allied Exploitation of German Science after the Second World War" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021)
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Apr 23, 2021 |