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Cassia Roth, “A Miscarriage of Justice: Women’s Reproductive Lives and the Law in Early Twentieth-Century Brazil” (Stanford UP, 2020)
Cassia Roth
A Miscarriage of Justice
Women’s Reproductive Lives and the Law in Early Twentieth-Century Brazil
Stanford University Press, 2020

New Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Latin American StudiesNew Books in LawNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books Network April 10, 2020 Patricia Martins Marcos

While the negotiation of ideals of nationhood and citizenship have traditionally fallen under the purview of landmark court decisions, state reforms, and the political exigencies of statesmen, Cassia Roth‘s new book A Miscarriage of Justice: Women’s Reproductive Lives and the Law in Early Twentieth-Century Brazil (Stanford University Press, 2020) chooses to... Read More
Amy Koerber, “From Hysteria to Hormones: A Rhetorical History” (Penn State UP, 2018)
Amy Koerber
From Hysteria to Hormones
A Rhetorical History
Penn State University Press, 2018

New Books in CommunicationsNew Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in LanguageNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in PsychologyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and Society April 7, 2020 Lee Pierce

On this episode of the New Books Network, Dr. Lee Pierce (she/they) interviews Dr. Amy Koerber (she/hers), Professor at Texas Tech University, on the groundbreaking book From Hysteria to Hormones: A Rhetorical History (Penn State University Press, 2018). Filled with fresh takes on classical rhetorical theories, From Hysteria is an... Read More
Paul Nahin, “Hot Molecules, Cold Electrons” (Princeton UP, 2020)
Paul J. Nahin
Hot Molecules, Cold Electrons
From the Mathematics of Heat to the Development of the Trans-Atlantic Telegraph Cable
Princeton University Press, 2020

New Books in CommunicationsNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in MathematicsNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books in TechnologyNew Books Network April 3, 2020 Jim Stein

Hot Molecules, Cold Electrons: From the Mathematics of Heat to the Development of the Trans-Atlantic Telegraph Cable (Princeton University Press, 2020), by Paul Nahin, is a book that is meant for someone who is comfortable with calculus, but for those readers who are, it is a treat. It is a... Read More
Owen Whooley, “On the Heels of Ignorance: Psychiatry and the Politics of Not Knowing” (U Chicago Press, 2019)
Owen Whooley
On the Heels of Ignorance
Psychiatry and the Politics of Not Knowing
University of Chicago Press, 2019

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in PsychologyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books in SociologyNew Books Network April 3, 2020 Krystina Millar

Psychiatry has always aimed to peer deep into the human mind, daring to cast light on its darkest corners and untangle its thorniest knots, often invoking the latest medical science in doing so.  But, as Owen Whooley’s sweeping new book tells us, peering deep into the human mind is, well,... Read More
Arthur Asseraf, “Electric News in Colonial Algeria” (Oxford UP, 2019)
Arthur Asseraf
Electric News in Colonial Algeria

Oxford University Press, 2019

New Books in CommunicationsNew Books in French StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Middle Eastern StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and Society April 3, 2020 Roxanne Panchasi

Arthur Asseraf’s Electric News in Colonial Algeria (Oxford University Press, 2019) examines the workings of the “news ecosystem” in Algeria from the 1880s to the beginning of the Second World War. The study of a society divided between a dominant (European) settler minority and an Algerian Muslim majority, the book... Read More
G. Clinton Godart, “Darwin, Dharma, and the Divine: Evolutionary Theory and Religion in Modern Japan” (U Hawaii Press, 2017)
G. Clinton Godart
Darwin, Dharma, and the Divine
Evolutionary Theory and Religion in Modern Japan
University of Hawaii Press, 2017

New Books in East Asian StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ReligionNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books Network March 30, 2020 Roman Paşca

In Darwin, Dharma, and the Divine. Evolutionary Theory and Religion in Modern Japan (University of Hawaii Press, 2017), G. Clinton Godart (Associate Professor at Tohoku University’s Department of Global Japanese Studies) brings to life more than a century of ideas by examining how and why Japanese intellectuals, religious thinkers of... Read More
Adrian Currie, “Rock, Bone, and Ruin: An Optimist’s Guide to the Historical Sciences” (MIT Press, 2018)
Adrian Currie
Rock, Bone, and Ruin:
An Optimist’s Guide to the Historical Sciences
MIT Press, 2018

New Books in ArchaeologyNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ScienceNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books Network March 27, 2020 Lukas Rieppel

The “historical sciences”—geology, paleontology, and archaeology—have made extraordinary progress in advancing our understanding of the deep past. How has this been possible, given that the evidence they have to work with offers mere traces of the past? In Rock, Bone, and Ruin: An Optimist’s Guide to the Historical Sciences (MIT... Read More

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