What makes song sparrows, Verdi, medieval monks, and minstrelsy part of the same taxonomy?

Leys focuses on the post–World War II period, when interest in emotions as an object of study began to revive...

The Spanish Empire in particular was created for and founded upon the mining and coining of silver ore from its colonies...

With the burst of new technologies in the 1870s, many inventors and visionaries believed that the transmission of moving images was just around the corner...

Bian offers a beautiful cultural history of pharmacy in early modern China..

Holthaus offers a radical vision of our future, specifically how to reverse the short- and long-term effects of climate change over the next three decades...

Ramirez examines eight inventions―clocks, steel rails, copper communication cables, photographic film, light bulbs, hard disks, scientific labware, and silicon chips―and reveals how they shaped the human experience....

What can explain the success of science as an endeavor for getting closer to truth?

Bronfman traces the emergence and growth of telecommunications technologies in Haiti, Jamaica, and Cuba during the first half of the twentieth century...

Obertreis explores the infrastructural, technical, and environmental aspects of the history of cotton agriculture and irrigation in Soviet Central Asia...

What is the culture of the tech industry?

Kerr argues that Argentine scientific projects of the era were not just racial encounters, but were also conditioned by sexual relationships in all their messy, physical reality...

Is modern racism a product of secularization and the decline of Christian universalism?

The idea of a single scientific method, shared across specialties and teachable to ten-year-olds, is just over a hundred years old...

What are some of the prevalent ways in which we lie to ourselves and limit our flexibility?

Gelber examines several athletes through the prism of the “Cobra Effect, ”a phenomenon that occurs when an attempted solution to a problem results in an unintended consequence...

Eisler argues that modern humans are descended from primates who imitated the hunting practices and pack hierarchies of wolves during the scarcity of the ice age...

Braddock applies existing theories of persuasion to domains unique to this digital era, such as social media, YouTube, websites, and message boards to name but a few....

Dolmage links anti-immigration rhetoric to eugenics—the flawed “science” of controlling human population based on racist and ableist ideas about bodily values...

Han analyzes the nexus of death and digital culture in the contemporary moment in the context of recent developments in social, cultural and political theory....

Stevens uses the 1833 Cholera epidemic that devastated independent Mexico as his his point of departure, this is not primarily a medical history...

Greene offers the the reader a theory of everything...

Though his advice has saved the lives of millions of people, the name Ignaz Semmelweis is not one commonly known today...

What is spam?

Automobiles and their associated infrastructures, deeply embedded in Western cities, have become a rapidly growing presence in the mega-cities of the Global South...