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Breaking the Devil’s Pact - A close-up

Because the book presents an historical case study of U.S. v. IBT, it would best be approached chronologically.The Timeline (pages xix—xxi in the book) is a thumbnail overview of the...

James B. Jacobs

Eradication - In a nutshell

Eradication tells the story of modern efforts to rid the world of diseases completely. I use the term “eradication” in the book in its modern, precise, public health sense. Eradication...

Nancy Leys Stepan

Betting on Biotech - In a nutshell

Everyone is talking about innovation. In the current era of the global knowledge economy, it is generally agreed upon that innovation is the engine of economic growth. Making new things...

Joseph Wong

The Pecking Order - The wide angle

One way to situate the book is simply to see it as contributing to ongoing philosophical debates about particular social phenomena, such as the state, the workplace, discrimination, and corruption....

Niko Kolodny

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

Civil Passions - In a nutshell

Civil Passions is about how we deliberate about justice, and specifically about the role the passions play in this process. The dominant views of deliberation rightly emphasize the importance of...

Sharon R. Krause

Heaven’s Bride - In a nutshell

Heaven’s Bride tells for the first time the story of Ida C. Craddock’s life, death, and afterlife.A woman “very clever but queer,” as one contemporary described her, Craddock was a...

Leigh Eric Schmidt

The Age of Irreverence - In a nutshell

The early twentieth century changed the ways people in China talked about what’s funny. The Age of Irreverence is about how and why.Part of the focus is historical: What changed?...

Christopher Rea

Degradation - In a nutshell

This book attempts to place hate speech into a context of long lineage.While hate speech has almost undoubtedly been around for as long as people have been able to recognize...

Kevin W. Saunders

Transatlantic Fascism - A close-up

Transatlantic Fascism investigates how Mussolini’s propaganda endeavors included the fascist rethinking of Argentine history, fascist transatlantic flights and the extensive use of radio, cinema, cartoons and bribes.However, if the Italians...

Federico Finchelstein

What is a Number? Mathematical Concepts and Their Origins - The wide angle

The most contentious of the standards and conventions of “real” journalism, as I’ve found in my dual career as historian and journalist, has long been the ideal of objectivity. Having...

Robert Tubbs

Loath to Print - The wide angle

Loath to Print considers a brief moment in the much longer history of knowledge production and dissemination; specifically, the book addresses ideas of scientific elitism. With the advent of print,...

Nicole Howard

The roots of mental pathologies

The standard view of medicine holds that observant clinicians discover diseases in nature. Accordingly, psychiatrists are no different from other doctors. They, too, discern forms of pathology arising from dysfunctions...

Richard J. McNally

The Invention of Ecocide - The wide angle

Oddly, this book began with the history of New York City. In writing about the building of the United Nations headquarters site for my book on postwar urbanism in New...

David Zierler

The Storytelling Animal - The wide angle

My career has focused on bridging the gap between the estranged cultures of the humanities and sciences. How can we use science to better understand fiction? And what can scientists...

Jonathan Gottschall

Speak Freely - In a nutshell

Speak Freely provides a succinct, accessible explanation of the principles of free speech and their relationship to the workings of a modern university. In contrast to wide-spread polemics about the...

Keith E. Whittington

Fungible Life - The wide angle

We tend to view cosmopolitan science as a universal form that is practiced in many places. But, does modern knowledge itself become transformed in the midst of its peregrinations? Relatedly,...

Aihwa Ong

A Kingdom of Stargazers - A close-up

The third and fifth chapters might be particularly engaging to the reader.The fifth chapter, “To Condemn a King,” encapsulates perfectly the many intellectual points that I take within my study.In...

Michael A. Ryan

Europe’s Promise - In a nutshell

While Europe is considered the “old world,” it is the United States that is actually far older. The European Union in its current configuration of 27 member states and 500...

Steven Hill

Vanishing America - A close-up

Perhaps the greatest challenge I faced in writing this book was presenting a balanced depiction of the celebrated conservationist and nature writer Aldo Leopold. Few people have thought more deeply...

Miles A. Powell

Empire for Liberty - The wide angle

In fundamental respects, I’ve been writing this book my entire professional life. Yet, no less fundamentally, the book is the product of “presentist” concerns.I became a historian in part because...

Richard H. Immerman

Endangered Economies - In a nutshell

Environmental conservation is essential to a prosperous, healthy lifestyle. It is a necessity and not a luxury. We are part of the environment: we evolved with nature and depend on...

Geoffrey Heal

The Performance of Politics - A close-up

If you were to just pick up The Performance of Politics in a bookstore—perhaps attracted by the striking cover photo of Obama striding confidently to a podium in Denver to...

Jeffrey C. Alexander

A Women’s Berlin - A close-up

The first image in the book depicts a woman builder making repairs to the roof of Berlin’s town hall. Balanced on a ladder high atop the city, this young woman...

Despina Stratigakos

Listed - In a nutshell

The first listed species to make headlines after the Endangered Species Act was passed in 1973 was the snail darter, a three-inch fish that stood in the way of a...

Joe Roman

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

From Utopia to Apocalypse - In a nutshell

From Utopia to Apocalypse is a study of political upheaval and revolutionary change, as they are portrayed in works of speculative and science fiction. It is my contention that science...

Peter Y. Paik

The Death of the American Trial - In a nutshell

Despite what TV dramas may suggest, the American trial has become an endangered species. In 2002, less than 2 percent of civil cases ended at trial, down from 12 percent...

Robert P. Burns

Cuba in Revolution - In a nutshell

Essentially this book was written in an attempt to explain to the interested lay reader why a curious phenomenon still called 'the Cuban Revolution' had managed to survive for so...

Antoni Kapcia

Presidents and Parties in the Public Mind - The wide angle

In the broadest sense, the book is meant to contribute to our understanding of how American democracy operates. It is guided by and adds to the scholarly literatures on survey...

Gary C. Jacobson

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