New Books in Science, Technology, and Society

2587 Episodes

1. The GiveWell Method

   Published: 8/7/2024
2. Edward Shanks, "The People of the Ruins" (MIT Press, 2024)

   Published: 8/6/2024
3. Thomas A. Kerns and Kathleen Dean Moore, "Bearing Witness: The Human Rights Case Against Fracking and Climate Change" (Oregon State UP, 2021)

   Published: 8/6/2024
4. Mark Walker, "Hitler's Atomic Bomb: History, Legend, and the Twin Legacies of Auschwitz and Hiroshima" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

   Published: 8/5/2024
5. Jeremy Black, "Histories of War" (Pen & Sword Military, 2024)

   Published: 8/4/2024
6. Mitchel P. Roth and Mahmut Cengiz, "Murder by Mail: A Global History of the Letter Bomb" (Reaktion Books, 2024)

   Published: 8/2/2024
7. Edward Kaplan, "The End of Victory: Prevailing in the Thermonuclear Age" (Cornell UP, 2022)

   Published: 8/2/2024
8. Monica Berger, "Predatory Publishing and Global Scholarly Communications" (ACRL, 2024)

   Published: 7/31/2024
9. Kate McDonald on Asian Mobility History as Labor History

   Published: 7/29/2024
10. Tim Sweijs and Jeffrey H. Michaels, "Beyond Ukraine: Debating the Future of War" (Oxford UP, 2024)

    Published: 7/26/2024
11. Bishnupriya Ghosh, "The Virus Touch: Theorizing Epidemic Media" (Duke UP, 2023)

    Published: 7/26/2024
12. Quantifying the American Mind: George Gallup, and the Promise of Political Polling

    Published: 7/24/2024
13. Kirsten Moore-Sheeley, "Nothing But Nets: A Biography of Global Health Science and Its Objects" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)

    Published: 7/24/2024
14. Anton Howes, "Arts and Minds: How the Royal Society of Arts Changed a Nation" (Princeton UP, 2020)

    Published: 7/22/2024
15. David Badre, "On Task: How Our Brain Gets Things Done" (Princeton UP, 2020)

    Published: 7/21/2024
16. Sören Schoppmeier, "Playing American: Open-World Videogames and the Reproduction of American Culture" (De Gruyter, 2023)

    Published: 7/19/2024
17. Özge Çelikaslan, "Archiving the Commons: Looking Through the Lens of bak.ma" (DPR Barcelona, 2024)

    Published: 7/19/2024
18. Thomas Zeller, "Consuming Landscapes: What We See When We Drive and Why It Matters" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2022)

    Published: 7/17/2024
19. Jill A. Fisher, "Adverse Events: Race, Inequality, and the Testing of New Pharmaceuticals" (NYU Press, 2020)

    Published: 7/15/2024
20. Paula Bialski on Middletech, Software Work, and the Culture of Good Enough

    Published: 7/15/2024