Van Duzer presents the first detailed study of one of the most important masterpieces of Renaissance cartography...

Smith discusses the US Navy’s role in exploring and charting the ocean world...

"Climate Action Planning" is designed to help planners, municipal staff and officials, citizens and others working at local levels to develop and implement plans to mitigate a community's greenhouse gas emissions...

Lupton critically analyses the social, cultural and political dimensions of contemporary self-tracking and identifies the concepts of selfhood...

Braun documents the history and present-day use of an everyday medical instrument, the spirometer, which measures a person’s lung capacity...

Fredericks makes sense of the garbage-scape of Dakar, Senegal in the wake of the 2007 trash “revolts” against the city and country’s uneven and failing garbage infrastructure...

We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at?

Russian medical researchers—along with their counterparts in France and Germany—were at the forefront of the struggle against cholera...

The remaking of Hanoi as a capital of French empire from the end of the nineteenth century had unintended consequences...

"Indistractable" offers a theoretical framework for the powerful distractions each of us encounters every single day...

Benjamin argues that automation, far from being a sinister story of racist programmers scheming on the dark web, has the potential to hide, speed up, and deepen discrimination...

Rozwadowski talks about the history of the oceans and how these oceans have shaped human history in profound ways...

Schotte charts more than two hundred years of navigational history as she investigates how mariners solved the challenges of navigating beyond sight of land...

Standards are crucial to the way we live—just look around you. A no. 2 pencil, perhaps?

Frederic Tudor was the “Ice King” of early nineteenth-century America..

Both colonies and insane asylums are well known institutions of power. But what of asylums in Europe’s early 20th-century colonial empires?

The history of anthropology remembers James Teit as a field assistant and man-on-the spot for Franz Boas...

How do you reconcile the fact that, in a democracy, everyone’s vote is equal but everyone’s opinion is not?

Daggett suggests that reassessing our relationships with fossil fuels in the face of climate change also requires that we rethink the concept of energy itself...

What do university presses do, and how do they do it?

In 1845, two British naval ships left England with 129 men in search of the Northwest Passage...

Pietruska assesses how different varieties of forecasting created an often-contradictory “culture of prediction” during the rise of modern bureaucracies...

Black covers the history of the mapping of land wars, and shows the way in which maps provide a guide to the history of war...

From 1931 to 1945, leaders of the SS sought to transform their organization into a racially-elite family community that would serve as the Third Reich’s new aristocracy...

Bernard examines the hashtag’s role in changing how we define and discuss keywords...

With the threats of sea water warming and ocean acidification, coral reefs have become both a fire alarm and a barometer for the dangers of human induced climate change...

The things that make people academics do not necessarily make them good teachers...

Think economics is the "dismal science" with abstract formulas that have no impact on life as it is actually lived? Think again...

Olson talks about why the idea of outer space as a “frontier” is giving way to one that frames it as a cosmic ecosystem...

Dalrymple recounts each week’s new edition of the Journal with an eye toward analytical errors and a culture of political correctness in regard to the handling of medical and public health issues...

Roberts anchors 20 biographical chapters to a decadal series of events, whose mathematical significance could not often have been anticipated...

Over fifty years ago, Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring (1962) scolded the agricultural industry for its profligate spread of “poison” and pesticides “indiscriminately from the skies"...

DeLoughrey argues that the cosmopolitan position on Global Warming is in truth a provincial one limited to privileged circles in the Global North...

Behind every landmark drug is a story...

Harman takes scientific facts, as we know them today, and weaves them into narratives that have the tone, grace and drama of myth...

How can the history of rubber be used as a way to understand the history of 20th-century Vietnam?

Richert investigates the myths, meanings, and boundaries of recreational drugs, palliative care drugs, and pharmaceuticals, as well as struggles over product innovation, consumer protection, and freedom of choice in the medical marketplace...

In October 1902, the reservoir of the first Aswan Dam filled, and Egypt's relationship with the Nile River forever changed...

Milam talks about the scientific search for human nature, a project that captured the attention of paleontologists, anthropologists, and primatologists in the years after World War II...

Do we have to grow old? Maybe not. David Sinclair explains...

LeCain presents a path-breaking approach to the study of the environment and history...

Monmonier shares his insights about the relationships between networks and maps through a collection of essays...

Jaffary tracks how medical ideas, practices, and policies surrounding reproduction changed between the late eighteenth and early twentieth centuries in Mexico...

McCann discusses the great circumpolar ocean that surrounds Antarctica...

Hale-Dorrell re-evaluates Khrushchev’s corn campaign as the cornerstone of his reformation programs...

This is the third of three interviews with Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer about their duo-graph, Wind and Power in the Anthropocene...

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?

Boyer examines the politics of wind development in Mexico to think through how the energy and environmental crises of global warming require new approaches to political theory....

This book describes the most complex machine ever sent to another planet...

Howe examines the aborted Mareña Renovables wind park to understand the resistance of indigenous residents to renewable energy...

In the 1980s, fires burned an average of two million acres per year. Today the average is eight million acres and growing...

James talks about the 1905 Galapagos Expedition organized by the California Academy of Sciences...

Veidlinger offers a theoretically compelling exploration of the types communicative “ecosystems” in which Buddhist ideas have flourished throughout history.

Green-Simms examines the paradoxes and ambivalences of automobility through the lens of West African films, novels, plays, and poems...

For all of his fame as one of the seminal figures of the Industrial Revolution, James Watt is a person around whom many misconceptions congregate...

Lavi and his colleagues have produced a groundbreaking work that offers a novel understanding of Israeli bioethics...

Hurley talks about the life and afterlife of the Prussian explorer Ludwig Leichhardt, a man whose reputation has shifted to reflect the changing cultures of Australia and Germany over the past 160 years....

This is a big story, told through an ostensibly marginal event: the birth of a class of “merchant clerks” in the United States...

Gibbons examines the intersection between video games and classical music...

This book is a tool kit for adapting and managing sea level rise and storm events for metropolitan cities and smaller communities...

Rieppel explains how the paleontological discoveries projected American exceptionalism and, at the height of the Gilded Age, became symbols of industrial capitalism....

In 1978, doctors in Denver, Colorado observed several healthy children who suddenly and mysteriously developed a serious, life-threatening illness with no visible source...

When Americans think of freedom, they often picture the open road. Yet nowhere are we more likely to encounter the long arm of the law than in our cars...

Moller traces the histories of migration of three ancient authors, Euclid, Ptolemy and Galen, from ancient Alexandria in 500 to Syria and Constantinople,

Otovo explores the intersecting histories of race, gender, and class in modern Brazil...

Heggie talks about the history of biomedical research in extreme environments...

Personalized healthcare―or what the award-winning author Donna Dickenson calls "Me Medicine"―is radically transforming our longstanding "one-size-fits-all" model...

Once a self-proclaimed dark green eco-pessimist, Dr. Montgomery finds this new hope as he travels the world, meeting farmers at the forefront of an agricultural movement to restore soil health...

Pardo-Guerra explores the history of the finance industry to understand the role of markets and technologies in contemporary capitalism...

Chico’s new book upends the traditional, modern dichotomies which enforce strict separations between literature and science...

Hawks talks about new developments in paleoanthropology – the discovery of a new hominid species Homo Naledi in South Africa, the Neanderthal ancestry of many human populations, and the challenge of rethinking anthropological science’s relationship with indigenous peoples and the general public...

Svetlova looks at how quantitative models are actually used by investors and finds a whole space where human judgment, intuition and non-model based factors come into play as to when and how and to what degree financial models are actually implemented...

Over the past forty years, U.S. prisons and jails have used various psychotropic drugs...

Lina del Castillo’s book explores scientific, geographic, and historiographic inventions in nineteenth-century Colombia...

More than half of American adults and more than seventy-five percent of young Americans believe in intelligent extraterrestrial life...

Could cancer be a contagious disease? Although this possibility might seem surprising to many of us, it has a long history...

The book effectively historicizes categories that are often take for granted (sex, race, vice, habit), and shows us not only their temporal contingency, but by inviting the reader to delve into the strangeness of early modern ontologies and epistemologies...

Alexander examines the approaches to dealing with the ever-present threat of fire in Mexico City in an era in which technology and modernity were transforming the city in fundamental ways...

What is the social role of data?

Nemser examines the long history of how Spanish imperial rule depended upon spatial concentration – the gathering of people and things into centralized spaces – to control populations and consolidate power...

Clements discusses the 1963 American Mount Everest Expedition...

Lippert explores the significance of the pictorial revolution in one of its vanguard cities: San Francisco, the revolving door of the gold rush...

Edney chronicles precisely how the ideal of cartography that has developed in the West since 1800 has gone astray...

Ramirez explores how laypeople impacted the new medical techniques and technologies implemented by the imperial state in the final decades of Spanish rule in colonial Mexico...

The phytotron was not only at the center of post-war plant science, but also connected to the Cold War, commercial agriculture, and long-duration space flight...

Dr. Pauline Chen shares her experiences as a medical student and transplant surgeon and how they’ve shaped the way she practices medicine.

While there is a robust scientific consensus that there is no meaningful genetic basis for race, Russell’s analysis of the role of race in ARTs reveals that when it comes to producing kinship, race is still doing a great deal of work.

Tworek explores how elites in academia, business, and government fought over the regulation of news at home and sought to use communications to extend German power abroad.

With trenchant analyses of Christian intellectual history and the founding figures of ethnology, Keel documents an infrastructure of  thought – about universalism, the supercession of knowledge, creation, and human dispersion – that shaped and still shapes the science of race...

Jones talks about the many different groups, from naturalists and conservationists to African American artists and intellectuals, who begin to recast Africa in the America imagination in the early 20th century...

Dodman explores the history of nostalgia from the late seventeenth to the late nineteenth century...

Milanich explains how fatherhood, long believed to be impossible to know with certainty, became a biological “fact” that could be ascertained with scientific testing...

De Kosnik and Feldman bring together a broad array of chapters that dive into multiple perspectives on social media engagement, especially around hashtag activism and the ways that individuals think about and interact with others via Twitter in regard to social movements and political involvement...

Wallace talks about a 2002 FUNAI expedition to find the Arrow People, one of the last uncontacted tribes in the world.,,

Kerim Yasar argues that modern technologies of sound reproduction and transmission have had profound—and often underappreciated—social, economic, and political effects...

Gökçe Günel explores the United Arab Emirates’s planned Masdar City, an experimental attempt at designing an emissions-free society.

Influential sexologist and activist Magnus Hirschfeld founded Berlin's Institute of Sexual Sciences in 1919 as a home and workplace to study homosexual rights activism and support transgender people...

Using Motorola as a case study, A Telephone for the World tracks how U.S. businesses navigated the end of the twentieth century, a moment marked by the rise of neoliberalism, the economic challenge of Japan, and the end of the Cold War.

Is democracy still the best political regime for countries to adapt to economic and technological pressures and increase their level of prosperity?

It seems logical that would NASA select military test pilots to be the first astronauts, right?