SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
The Forgotten Clones How Nuclear Transplantation Changed Science and Society
By Nathan Crowe Illuminates the importance of the early history of cloning for the biosciences and their institutional, disciplinary, and intellectual contexts. Long before scientists cloned Dolly the sheep in 1996, American developmental biologist Robert Briggs successfully performed the technique of nuclear transplantation by cloning frog nuclei in 1952. Although the history of cloning is often associated with contemporary ethical controversies, The Forgotten Clones revisits the influential work of scientists like Briggs, Thomas King, and Marie DiBerardino, before the possibility of human cloning and its ethical implications first registered as a concern in public consciousness. S CIE N C E, VALU ES , AN D T H E PU B LIC | U N IVERSIT Y OF PITTSBURGH PR E SS Hardback • 9780822946274 • December 2021 • £49.00 296 pages
Composition and Big Data Edited by Amanda Licastro and Benjamin M. Miller This book interprets and implements the drive toward data in diverse ways. Everything is data. And as large-scale aggregation and computational analysis of data become more common and manageable, it becomes more important to rhetoric and composition. Bringing together a range of scholars, teachers, and administrators working with big-data methods and datasets to kickstart a collective reckoning with the role that algorithmic and computational approaches can, or should, play in research and teaching in the field. CO MP OS I T I ON , L I T ERAC Y, AN D CU LT U RE | U N IVERSIT Y OF PITTSBURGH PR E SS Hardback • 9780822946748 • September 2021 • £38.00 272 pages • 75 b/w illus.
The Trinity Circle Anxiety, Intelligence, and Knowledge Creation in Nineteenth-Century England
By William J. Ashworth (University of Liverpool, UK) Explores science and religion at a time when new ways of thinking threatened to divide England. Explores the creation of knowledge in nineteenth-century England, when any notion of a recognisably modern science was still nearly a century off, and religion still infused all ways of elite knowing. The rise of capitalism during this period was, according to Anglican critics, undermining this spiritual world and challenging it with a superficial material one. By focusing on the Trinity College circle, the author details an ongoing struggle between the Established Church and a quest for change to the prevailing social hierarchy. S CI & CU LT U RE I N T H E NIN ET EEN T H CEN T U RY | U N IVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH PR E SS Hardback • 9780822946878 • September 2021 • £41.50 296 pages
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