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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...