Behind every landmark drug is a story...

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

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...

Do we have to grow old? Maybe not. David Sinclair explains...

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...

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...

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

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

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...