In the aftermath of Prohibition, America’s top scientists joined forces with members of a new group, called Alcoholics Anonymous, and put their clout behind a campaign to convince the nation that alcoholism was a disease rather than a moral failing...

Petel and Moore takes the reader through the long history of the search for lower production costs, extending from European colonial conquests in the fifteenth century up to present agroindustrial systems...

How did Muslims respond to foreign goods in an age characterized by global exchange and European imperial expansion?

O’Hara uncovers a vast array of social practices in colonial Mexico that force us to reconsider who owns the future...

Schulten uses maps to explore five centuries of American history, from the voyages of European discovery to the digital age...

In the late 1500s, the mines of Potosí –a mountain in southern Bolivia — produced 60% of the world’s silver...

Whether we realize it or not, "adcreep"―modern marketing's march to create a world where advertising can be expected anywhere and anytime―has come,..

Danaher explores the issues facing us as we confront our own obsolescence. He defends the idea that a workless future is not only possible, but possibly utopian...

Wakild and Berry offers strategies and approaches that educators can apply in a variety of settings: from high school classrooms to college courses, and from environmental history and environmental studies courses to US and world history surveys...

Why do Americans eat so much beef?

Subramanian provides an insightful account of their emergence is post-independence India as a set of distinct and “world class” institutions underwritten by the Indian state...

Angelina Callahan talks about the Naval Research Laboratory’s Vanguard Project...

"An Ecotopian Lexicon" explores dozens of possible loanwords from world cultures, activists subcultures, and speculative fiction that can inform novel quotidian practices, cosmological insights, and political orientations applicable to the age of the Anthropocene...

Focusing in on the Portuguese colonies in Brazil and Angola and on the imperial capital of Lisbon, Breen deftly explores the process by which novel drugs were located, commodified, and consumed...

Humans are accustomed to being tool bearers, but what happens when machines become tool bearers, calculating human labour via the use of big data and people analytics by metrics?

Friss historicizes the bicycle’s place in New York City’s social, economic, infrastructural and cultural politics...

Much has been written about Millennials, but until now their growing presence in the field of architecture has not been examined in depth...

Liu makes a massive contribution to the field by opening up a fascinating new vista for scholars of cybernetics, film studies, literature, media studies, science and technology studies, and beyond...

Fuller debates the concept of transforming human nature, including such thorny topics as humanity's privilege as a species...

From its crude and uneasy beginnings thirty years ago, Chinese sperm banking has become a routine part of China’s pervasive and restrictive reproductive complex...

Sperber analyzes online consumer management, a practice in which customers monitor, report on, and—sometimes unwittingly—discipline workers through writing and posting online reviews...

Cabrera discusses three possible human enhancement paradigms and explores how each involves different values, uses of technology, and different degrees and kinds of ethical concerns...

What is creativity? What is the relationship between work life and personal life? How is it possible to live truthfully in a world of contradiction and compromise?

"Made Modern" explores the complex interconnections between science, technology, and modernity in Canada...

Never have so many possessed the means to be so lethal..

"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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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"...

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

Behind every landmark drug is a story...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...