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The Industrialists - The wide angle

Historians and political scientists have long used NAM to represent “big business” or “industry.” In part, this was because NAM claimed to be the voice of organized industry and also...

Jennifer Delton

Into the Extreme - A close-up

I hope the reader will thumb through the book and check out the images and illustrations. U.S. human spaceflight is both a civil and a military activity, which means that...

Valerie Olson

A Global Green New Deal - The wide angle

This book is a substantial revision and expansion of my influential February 2009 report for the UN Environment Programme.In October 2008, the global economy was reeling from a spate of...

Edward B. Barbier

Secular Devotion - The wide angle

A great deal of what I am saying depends on the claim that black musical genres and belief-systems are part of a single, unified complex in the Americas from Brazil...

Timothy Brennan

Fashioning Faces - In a nutshell

Fashioning Faces, a cross-disciplinary study, looks at how literary and visual portraiture in the British Romantic era embodied a newly commercial culture.I consider the Romantic era as a transitional period...

Elizabeth A. Fay

Frantic Panoramas - In a nutshell

My book looks at what happened to American literary culture when a new world of mass culture—tabloid newspapers, amusement parks, early cinema, Wild West shows—began to dominate public life. Most...

Nancy Bentley

Crises and Opportunities - The wide angle

The financial crisis of 2007-2008 triggered a huge demand for history, an unprecedented urge to place the event in a historical perspective.Two questions came up time and time again. How...

Youssef Cassis

The Interface - The wide angle

The Interface is an attempt to explain how computing became an essential aspect of everyday life. This wasn’t always the case, and it wasn’t always certain that it would be.Since...

John Harwood

Foretelling the End of Capitalism - The wide angle

Foretelling the End of Capitalism looks back into the past to answer key questions for our time. But this has nothing to do with the uses of the past one...

Francesco Boldizzoni

A Nice Place to Visit - In a nutshell

A Nice Place to Visit explores how four American cities – Baltimore, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, and St. Louis – coped with the problems of economic decline after World War II, and...

Aaron Cowan

Eurolegalism - A close-up

I begin the book with the story of passenger rights in the EU—a story which illustrates many of the dynamics described in the book.Many readers will be familiar with the...

R. Daniel Kelemen

The Tyranny of Opinion - The wide angle

We tend to assume that freedom of speechnaturally accompanies other democratic rights. But the construction of the virtual and physical spaces where modern individuals could publicly and freely use their...

Pablo Piccato

Indoor America - A close-up

p>To those who do not have the time to peruse the book from cover to cover, I would recommend reading chapter five, which looks at windows and glass architecture in...

Andrea Vesentini

The Idealized Mind - The wide angle

My interest in discussions about scientific modeling, idealization and scientific realism started with a coauthored paper “The Literalist Fallacy and the Free Energy Principle: Model-building, Scientific Realism and Instrumentalism”, published...

Michael D. Kirchhoff

Loneliness as a Way of Life - The wide angle

I first approached this study as an intellectual history of individualism. From early on in my life as a political theorist, I have been interested in those large forces that...

Thomas Dumm

The Rise of Climate Science - The wide angle

I describe my experiences and observations over a career that has grown parallel to a field of scientific and practical interest that has grown from raw data collection to its...

Gerald R. North

Adcreep - The wide angle

Given its nearly ubiquitous presence in our lives, advertising is one of the most important economic and social drivers in American society. Yet its sheer ubiquity lulls us into complacency....

Mark Bartholomew

Crises and Opportunities - A close-up

How far have bankers been held responsible for the outbreak of financial crises? Charles Baring, the first Lord Revelstoke, the firm’s senior partner, took the brunt of the Baring Crisis...

Youssef Cassis

The Week - A close-up

I wrote the book’s preface in the expectation that it would draw a potential reader into a deceptively familiar subject. The global shutdown in 2020 exposed all sorts of odd...

David M. Henkin

Thomas Eakins and the Cultures of Modernity - A close-up

I would like to highlight the subsections on “Indian Portraits” and “Zuni Perspectives,” in Chapter 3 (pages 191-212 in the book). On those pages, I discuss a remarkable 1895 portrait...

Alan C. Braddock

From Utopia to Apocalypse - The wide angle

I had not undertaken any scholarly studies of science fiction or popular culture prior to writing this book—my graduate work had focused on the aesthetics of literary modernism. But the...

Peter Y. Paik

Broke and Patriotic - A close-up

I would hope that readers open the book precisely at the first page of Chapter 1, where we hear Eddy’s thoughts (all names have been disguised, to protect anonymity), an...

Francesco Duina

Making Sense of the Alt-Right - A close-up

I think my chapter on the Alt-Right and the 2016 presidential election is especially important. There has been a lot of talk about Donald Trump being an Alt-Right president. I...

George Hawley

The History of Missed Opportunities - In a nutshell

The History of Missed Opportunities explores an unrecognized, certainly an unappreciated, development in Romantic-era Britain: the discovery of everyday life as a world that had been overlooked or, as Maurice...

William H. Galperin

Rebels at the Gates - In a nutshell

Rebels at the Gates is about the United States Civil War in the 1860s. Of course, entire forests have been filled with pages of books on the American Civil War, and rightfully so. It was clearly one of the defining events in American history. However, my angle is new and unexplored...

Robert Watson

The Frankfurt School in Exile - In a nutshell

My book aims to challenge what I consider to be some pervasive views about the Frankfurt School during its period of exile in the United States and to re-evaluate the...

Thomas Wheatland

The Theory That Changed Everything - A close-up

The first chapter, “Strawberries,” presents the formative experience: the voyage of HMS Beagle that formed Darwin’s views on the common humanity of all people and set the stage for his...

Philip Lieberman

Reading Orientalism - A close-up

It is sometimes said that you cannot judge a book by its cover. But this should not prevent the reader of Orientalism from reading into its cover illustration. This is...

Daniel Martin Varisco

The Atheist's Guide to Reality - A close-up

It doesn’t matter what part of The Atheist’s Guide I may want people to open up first, it’s a safe bet browsers will go right to chapters 5 and 6:...

Alex Rosenberg

Lenin's Brother - In a nutshell

Lenin’s Brother tells the tragic story of a brilliant young scientist and his turn to terrorism, and the history of the family that his actions devastated.During his senior year at...

Philip Pomper

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