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...

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

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...

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...