Campbell explores how a therapy that can stop an accidental drug overdose, called Naloxone, emerged in the American mainstream in the early years of the new millennium...

Former social media executives tell us that the system is an addiction-machine...

Singer brings together the most consequential essays of his career to make this devastating case against our failure to confront what we are doing to animals, to public health, and to our planet...

Sauer presents a powerful and important framework for reconciling the historically changing divide between science and religion...

Bench traces the changing ways dance is distributed and created on the internet from the heady early internet of the 1990s to the ubiquitous social media platforms of today.,,

Snyder offers an in-depth study of hope's exploitation...

Weltman surveys a number of ways this conception of mathematics has informed scientific undertakings and public policies, not to mention our everyday behaviors, and makes a powerful case for reevaluating its assumptions...

Rafalow provides an ethnographic study of students and teachers at three Los Angeles schools utilizing instructional technology...

Using case studies and the results of extensive fieldwork, this book considers the nature of state power and legal violence in liberal democracies by focusing on the interaction between law, science, and policing in India...

Wang explores how rural China is not just adapting the technology used around the world, but innovating on it...

While various systems theories have received rigorous treatments across the literature of the field, reliable and robust advice for systems practice can be somewhat harder to come by...

Leguizamón explores why Argentines largely support GM soy despite the widespread damage it creates...

What are chromosomes? And what does it mean to treat them as visual objects?

The Icelandic mappae mundi were a series of maps produced in the late medieval period (c. 1225 - c. 1400) that bore witness to fundamental changes in the landscape of vernacular literary culture, scientific thinking and regional geopolitics...

Rhodes explicates the sixteen specific duties that doctors take on when they join the profession...

Social and Conceptual Issues in Astrobiology focuses on the emerging scientific discipline of astrobiology, exploring many of the humanistic issues this multidisciplinary field is generating.

Strocchia continues the work of her career: recentering the discourse to include the formative contributions of women in the Italian Renaissance...

At the book’s center is a neglected treasure of the late Renaissance: the Four Elements manuscripts of Joris Hoefnagel (1542–1600), a learned Netherlandish merchant, miniaturist, and itinerant draftsman...

Just as the demon-haunted world was being exorcized by the enlightening power of reason, a new kind of demon mischievously materialized in the scientific imagination itself....

Deudney argues that the major result of the "Space Age" has been to increase the likelihood of global nuclear war...

DeNardis shows that the policy tools and normative constructs we have built around the internet are outdated...

Monopoly, Solitaire, football and Minecraft are all games, but for C. Thi Nyugen they are also an art form – specifically, the art form of agency...

Are robots going to be our overlords? No, we can make them our friends...

Rutkow retraces the fascinating, decades-long history of the attempt to build the world’s longest highway...

Cmiel and Peters provides a genealogy of the information age from its early origins up to the reign of Google...