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Joy McCann, “Wild Sea: A History of the Southern Ocean” (U New South Wales Press, 2018)
Joy McCann
Wild Sea
A History of the Southern Ocean
University of New South Wales Press, 2018

New Books in Australian and New Zealand StudiesNew Books in Environmental StudiesNew Books in GeographyNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books Network September 13, 2019 Michael F. Robinson

Joy McCann discusses the great circumpolar ocean that surrounds Antarctica. McCann is the author of Wild Sea: A History of the Southern Ocean (University of New South Wales Press, 2018). She is a historian at the Centre for Environmental History at Australian National University. Flowing completely around the Earth and unimpeded... Read More
Aaron Hale-Dorrell, “Corn Crusade: Khrushchev’s Farming Revolution in the Post-Stalin Soviet Union” (Oxford UP, 2018)
Aaron Hale-Dorrell
Corn Crusade
Khrushchev’s Farming Revolution in the Post-Stalin Soviet Union
Oxford University Press, 2018

New Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in FoodNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Russian and Eurasian StudiesNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books Network September 11, 2019 Samantha Lomb

In Corn Crusade: Khrushchev’s Farming Revolution in the Post-Stalin Soviet Union (Oxford University Press, 2018), Aaron Hale-Dorrell re-evaluates Khrushchev’s corn campaign as the cornerstone of his reformation programs. Corn was key to Khrushchev’s promises of providing everyone with the abundance required for achieving communism, which included the introduction of a... Read More
Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer, “Wind and Power in the Anthropocene” (Duke UP, 2019)
Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer
Wind and Power in the Anthropocene

Duke University Press, 2019

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 SocietyNew Books in SociologyNew Books Network September 10, 2019 Lance C. Thurner

This is the third of three interviews with Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer about their duo-graph, Wind and Power in the Anthropocene.  Also listen to my individual interviews with Howe and Boyer about their separate volumes, Ecologics and Energopolitics. In this interview, I talk to both authors together about their... Read More
E. H. Ecklund and D. R. Johnson, “Secularity and Science: What Scientists Around the World Really Think of Religion” (Oxford UP, 2019)
Elaine Howard Ecklund and David Johnson
Secularity and Science
What Scientists Around the World Really Think of Religion
Oxford University Press, 2019

New Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ReligionNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books in ScienceNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books in SecularismNew Books in SociologyNew Books Network September 5, 2019 Carrie Lynn Evans

It is common to see science and religion portrayed as mutually exclusive and warring ways of viewing the world, but is that how actual scientists see it? For that matter, which cultural factors shape the attitudes of scientists toward religion? Could scientists help show us a way to build collaboration... Read More
Dominic Boyer, “Energopolitics: Wind and Power in the Anthropocene” (Duke UP, 2019)
Dominic Boyer
Energopolitics
Wind and Power in the Anthropocene
Duke University Press, 2019

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 SocietyNew Books in SociologyNew Books Network September 3, 2019 Lance C. Thurner

This is the second of three interviews with Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer about their duo-graph, Wind and Power in the Anthropocene.  Also listen to my interview with Howe about her volume, Ecologics, as well as my interview with both authors together about collaborative research and the wider implications of... Read More
Emily Lakdawalla, “The Design and Engineering of Curiosity: How the Mars Rover Performs Its Job” (Springer, 2018)
Emily Lakdawalla
The Design and Engineering of Curiosity
How the Mars Rover Performs Its Job
Springer, 2018

New Books in ScienceNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books Network August 30, 2019 Michael F. Robinson

Emily Lakdawalla talks about the design and construction of Curiosity, formally known as the Mars Science Laboratory, one of the most sophisticated machines ever built. Curiosity landed on Mars in 2012 where it has been conducting research within the ancient Gale Crater. This book describes the most complex machine ever... Read More
Davide Crippa, “The Impossibility of Squaring the Circle in the 17th Century” (Birkhäuser, 2019)
Davide Crippa
The Impossibility of Squaring the Circle in the 17th Century
A Debate Among Gregory, Huygens and Leibniz
Birkhäuser, 2019

New Books in European StudiesNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in MathematicsNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ScienceNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books Network August 28, 2019 Cory Brunson

From 1667 to 1676, a pivotal controversy played out among several mathematical luminaries of the time, partly in the proceedings of the Royal Society but partly in private correspondence. The controversy concerned whether an infamous problem of Ancient Greek geometry, the quadrature of the central conic sections (better known as... Read More