New Books in Science & Technology
Ann Fabian, “The Skull Collectors: Race, Science and America’s Unburied Dead” (University of Chicago, 2010)
Ann Fabian
The Skull Collectors
Race, Science and America's Unburied Dead
University of Chicago Press, 2010

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in AnthropologyNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ScienceNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books Network December 17, 2010 Marshall Poe

What should we study? The eighteenth-century luminary and poet Alexander Pope had this to say on the subject: “Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man ” (An Essay on Man, 1733). He was not alone in this opinion. The philosophers of the... Read More
James Fleming, “Fixing the Sky: The Checkered History of Weather and Climate Control” (Columbia UP, 2010)
James Fleming
Fixing the Sky
The Checkered History of Weather and Climate Control
Columbia University Press, 2010

New Books in Environmental StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Public PolicyNew Books in ScienceNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books Network October 20, 2010 Marshall Poe

In the summer of 2008 the Chinese were worried about rain. They were set to host the Summer Olympics that year, and they wanted clear skies. Surely clear skies, they must have thought, would show the world that China had arrived. So they outfitted a small army (50,000 men) with... Read More
Jeffrey Reznick, “John Galsworthy and the Disabled Soldiers of the Great War” (Manchester UP, 2009)
Jeffery Reznick
John Galsworthy and the Disabled Soldiers of the Great War

Manchester University Press, 2009

New Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in European StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Literary StudiesNew Books in MedicineNew Books in Military HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books Network May 18, 2010 Marshall Poe

You may not know who John Galsworthy is, but you probably know his work. Who hasn’t seen some production of The Forsyte Saga? Galsworthy was one of the most popular and famous British writers of the early 20th century (the Edwardian Era). He left an enormous body of work, for... Read More
Joel Wolfe, “Autos and Progress: The Brazilian Search for Modernity” (Oxford UP, 2010)
Joel Wolfe
Autos and Progress
The Brazilian Search for Modernity
University Press, 2010

New Books in HistoryNew Books in Latin American StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in TechnologyNew Books Network March 19, 2010 Marshall Poe

Here’s something I learned by reading Joel Wolfe’s terrific Autos and Progress: The Brazilian Search for Modernity (Oxford, 2010): the United States and Brazil have a lot in common. Both hived off European empires; both struggled with slavery and its legacy; both are profoundly multiethnic and multiracial; both have spent... Read More
Nick Reding, “Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town” (Bloomsbury, 2009)
Nick Reding
Methland
The Death and Life of an American Small Town
Bloomsbury, 2009

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in Drugs, Addiction and RecoveryNew Books in HistoryNew Books in MedicineNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Public PolicyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books Network August 14, 2009 Marshall Poe

In 1980 I left Kansas to go to college in Iowa. A lot of things caught my attention about Iowa, for example, that the people really are very nice. I also noticed that there were a lot of drugs. One of them was “crystal methamphetamine,” or “crystal meth” for short.... Read More

Social media & sharing icons powered by UltimatelySocial