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Li Zhang, “Anxious China: Inner Revolution and Politics of Psychotherapy” (U California Press, 2020)
Li Zhang
Anxious China
Inner Revolution and Politics of Psychotherapy
University of California Press, 2020

New Books in AnthropologyNew Books in Chinese StudiesNew Books in East Asian StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in PsychoanalysisNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books Network October 22, 2020 Suvi Rautio

The breathless pace of China’s economic reform has brought about deep ruptures in socioeconomic structures and people’s inner landscape. Faced with increasing market-driven competition and profound social changes, more and more middle-class urbanites are turning to Western-style psychological counseling to grapple with their mental distress. Anxious China: Inner Revolution and... Read More
Michael E. McCullough, “The Kindness of Strangers: How a Selfish Ape Invented a New Moral Code” (Basic Books, 2020)
Michael E. McCullough
The Kindness of Strangers
How a Selfish Ape Invented a New Moral Code
Basic Books, 2020

Dan Hill's EQ SpotlightNBN Special SeriesNew Books in Big IdeasNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in PsychologyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and Society October 22, 2020 Dan Hill

Why Give a Damn About Strangers? In his book The Kindness of Strangers: How a Selfish Ape Invented a New Moral Code (Basic Books, 2020), Michael E. McCullough explains. McCullough is a professor of psychology at the University of California San Diego, where he directs the Evolution and Human Behavior... Read More
D. Bilak and T. Nummedal, “Furnace and Fugue. A Digital Edition of Michael Maier’s ‘Atalanta fugiens’ (1618)” (U Virginia Press, 2020)
Donna Bilak and Tara Nummedal
Furnace & Fugue
A Digital Edition of Michael Maier’s “Atalanta fugiens” (1618) with Scholarly Commentary
University of Virginia Press, 2020

New Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in European StudiesNew Books in German StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books NetworkNew Work in Digital Humanities October 21, 2020 Molly Taylor-Poleskey

In 1618, on the eve of the Thirty Years’ War, the German alchemist and physician Michael Maier published Atalanta fugiens, an intriguing and complex musical alchemical emblem book designed to engage the ear, eye, and intellect. The book unfolds as a series of fifty emblems, each of which contains an... Read More
Valerie Olson, “Into the Extreme: U.S. Environmental Systems and Politics Beyond Earth” (U Minnesota Press, 2018)
Valerie Olson
Into the Extreme
U.S. Environmental Systems and Politics Beyond Earth
University of Minnesota Press, 2018

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in Environmental StudiesNew Books in National SecurityNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ScienceNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and Society October 20, 2020 John W. Traphagan

What if outer space is not outside the human environment but, rather, defines it? This is the unusual starting point of Valerie Olson’s Into the Extreme: U.S. Environmental Systems and Politics Beyond Earth (U Minnesota Press, 2018), revealing how outer space contributes to making what counts as the scope and... Read More
Kristina M. Lyons, “Vital Decomposition: Soil Practitioners and Life Politics” (Duke UP, 2020)
Kristina M. Lyons
Vital Decomposition
Soil Practitioners and Life Politics
Duke University Press, 2020

New Books in AnthropologyNew Books in Environmental StudiesNew Books in Latin American StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and Society October 19, 2020 Alejandro Ponce de Leon

In Colombia, decades of social and armed conflict and the US-led war on drugs have created a seemingly untenable situation for scientists and rural communities as they attempt to care for forests and grow non-illicit crops. In her new book Vital Decomposition: Soil Practitioners and Life Politics (Duke University Press,... Read More
Rene Almeling, “GUYnecology: The Missing Science of Men’s Reproductive Health” (U California Press, 2020)
Rene Almeling
GUYnecology
The Missing Science of Men’s Reproductive Health
University of California Press, 2020

New Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in MedicineNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ScienceNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books in Sociology October 15, 2020 Michael O. Johnston

Rene Almeling’s new book GUYnecology: The Missing Science of Men’s Reproductive Health (University of California Press, 2020) provides an in-depth look at why we do not talk about men’s reproductive health and this knowledge gap shapes reproductive politics today. Over the past several centuries, the medical profession has made enormous efforts to... Read More
Scholarly Communication: An Interview with Joerg Heber of PLOS
Joerg Heber
Scholarly Communication
An Interview with Joerg Heber of PLOS
New Books Network, 2020

NBN Special SeriesNew Books in CommunicationsNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ScienceNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books NetworkScholarly Communications October 14, 2020 Daniel Shea

Open Access is spelled with a capital O and a capital A at the Public Library of Science (or PLOS, for short), a nonprofit Open Access publisher. Among PLOS’s suite of journals, PLOS One is the nonprofit’s largest in number of articles published and its broadest in coverage, ranging as... Read More
Ernest Freeberg, “A Traitor to His Species: Henry Bergh and the Birth of the Animal Rights Movement” (Basic Books, 2020)
Ernest Freeberg
A Traitor to His Species
Henry Bergh and the Birth of the Animal Rights Movement
Basic Books, 2020

Animal StudiesNBN Special SeriesNew Books in American StudiesNew Books in BiographyNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and Society October 13, 2020 Ernest Freeberg

In Gilded Age America, people and animals lived cheek-by-jowl in environments that were dirty and dangerous to man and animal alike. The industrial city brought suffering, but it also inspired a compassion for animals that fueled a controversial anti-cruelty movement. From the center of these debates, Henry Bergh launched a... Read More
Margaret Heffernan, “Uncharted: How to Map and Navigate the Future Together” (Simon and Schuster, 2020)
Margaret Heffernan
Uncharted
How to Map and Navigate the Future Together
Simon & Schuster, 2020

New Books in Big IdeasNew Books in EconomicsNew Books in FinanceNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books in SociologyNew Books in Technology October 12, 2020 Andrea Bernardi

Today I spoke with Dr Margaret Heffernan about her latest book, Uncharted: How to Map and Navigate the Future Together (Simon and Schuster, 2020). Margaret produced programmes for the BBC for 13 years. She then moved to the US where she became a businesswomen. She is the author of six... Read More
Boel Berner, “Strange Blood: The Rise and Fall of Lamb Blood Transfusion in 19th-Century Medicine and Beyond” (Transcript Verlag, 2020)
Boel Berner
Strange Blood
The Rise and Fall of Lamb Blood Transfusion in 19th-Century Medicine and Beyond
Transcript Verlag, 2020

NBN Book of the DayNBN Special SeriesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in MedicineNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ScienceNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books Network October 12, 2020 Claire Clark

In the mid-1870s, the experimental therapy of lamb blood transfusion spread like an epidemic across Europe and the USA. Doctors tried it as a cure for tuberculosis, pellagra and anemia; proposed it as a means to reanimate seemingly dead soldiers on the battlefield. It was a contested therapy because it... Read More

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