What kind of time do we endure on our daily commutes? What kind of space do we occupy? What new sorts of urbanites do we thereby become?

Jennifer Thomson revisits canonical figures and events from the environmental movement in the United States and finds everywhere talk of health. At its best, viewing the environment through the lens of health encouraged decentralized organizing and a sense of collective responsibility...

The development of a whole suite of new reproductive technologies in recent decades has contributed to broad cultural conversations and controversies over the meaning of family in the United States...

Rosemblatt traces how U.S.- and Mexican-trained intellectuals, social and human scientists, and anthropologists applied their ethnographic field work on indigenous and Native American peoples on both sides of the Rio Grande to debates over race, national culture, and economic development...

Germany in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries witnessed key developments in LGBT history...

Eric Topol explores how AI can help to fix many of the issues medicine is facing today...

Daou analyzes the daily political skirmishing that rages online, urges progressives to engage on the “digital battlefield.”

Even a math-phobic can read the book, skip the math, and then more than hold his or her own in any but the highest-level discussion of quantum computing...

Krementsov provides a fascinating analysis of the vicissitudes of Russian attempts to improve the human species...

What does it mean to be famous on the Internet?

It is estimated that malaria kills between 650,000 to 1.2 million Africans every year; experts believe that nearly 90 percent of these deaths occur in Africa...

"Trains, Buses, People' is a fascinating book about “How To” develop better transportation modes for US cities and urban...

By digging into recently opened regional archives, conducting dozens of interviews, and visiting sites across Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia, Brown sought to understand the extent of the damage from the 1986 explosion of Chernobyl’s reactor No. 4.

Who is excluded from science?

Dr. Christopher Preston argues that what is most startling about the Anthropocene is not only how much impact humans have had, but how much deliberate shaping humans will do...

What role do visual media play in establishing a medical phenomenon?

Jungle medicine: it's everywhere, from chia seeds to ginseng tea to CBD oil..

Wheeler is a former President of the National Cable and Telecommunications Association and former CEO of the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association...

How can feminist theory help address the climate crisis?

In Cult of the Irrelevant, Desch traces the history of the relationship between the Washington and the academy across the 20th century...

In the information age, knowledge is power. Hence, facilitating the access to knowledge to wider publics empowers citizens and makes societies more democratic...

Open conflict between religion and science may not be inevitable, but a germ of discord resides in some of the fundamental commitments of both...

Knowledge of algorithms can in some sense be considered to be the literacy of the 21st century...

Kate Ervine provides an accessible and trenchant introduction to the severity of our situation and the international climate politics of the past 30 years...