Science Medicine Technology
Oceans in Depth series
Series editors: Katharine Anderson & Helen M. RozwadowskiOceans under Glass
Tank Craft and the Sciences of the Sea Samantha Muka
A welcome dive into the world of aquarium craft that offers much-needed knowledge about undersea environments.
2023 240 p. 6 x 9 21 halftones
1 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82413-0 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50
The Last Writings of Thomas S. Kuhn
Incommensurability
Thomas S. Kuhn
in Science
A must-read follow-up to The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, one of the most important books of the twentieth century.
2022 312 p. 6 x 9 25 halftones
3 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82274-7 $27.50 Your Price: $19.25
Ocean Bestiary Meeting Marine Life
from Abalone to Orca to Zooplankton
Written and illustrated by Richard J. King
A delightful A-to-Z menagerie of the sea— whimsically illustrated, authoritative, and thought-provoking.
2023 320 p. 51/2 x 8 93 halftones
2 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-81803-0 $22.50 Your Price: $15.75
Water Always Wins
Thriving in an Age of Drought and Deluge Erica Gies
A hopeful journey around the world and across time, illuminating better ways to live with water.
2022 344 p. 6 x 9 17 halftones
4 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-71960-3 $26.00 Your Price: $18.20
The Doctor Who Wasn’t There
Technology, History, and the Limits of Telehealth
Jeremy A. Greene
This gripping history shows how the electronic devices we use to access care influence the kind of care we receive.
2022 336 p. 6 x 9 44 halftones
5 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-80089-9 $29.00 Your Price: $20.30
Of Maybugs and Men
A History and Philosophy of the Sciences of Homosexuality
Pieter R. Adriaens and Andreas De Block
A much-needed exploration of the history and philosophy of scientific research into male homosexuality.
2022 264 p. 6 x 9 14 halftones
7 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82244-0 $32.50 Your Price: $22.75
Dr. Nurse
Science, Politics, and the Transformation of American Nursing Dominique A. Tobbell
An analysis of the efforts of American nurses to establish nursing as an academic discipline and nurses as valued researchers in the decades after World War II.
2022 320 p. 6 x 9
6 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82290-7 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50
How the Clinic Made Gender
The Medical History of a Transformative Idea
Sandra Eder
An eye-opening exploration of the medical origins of gender in modern US history.
2022 336 p. 6 x 9 5 halftones
8 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81993-8 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00
New & Noteworthy 1
Brown Skins, White Coats
Race Science in India, 1920–66
Projit Bihari Mukharji
A unique narrative structure brings the history of race science in mid-twentieth-century India to vivid life.
2022 368 p. 6 x 9 20 halftones
9 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82301-0 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50
The Huxleys
An Intimate History of Evolution
Alison Bashford
Two hundred years of modern science and culture told through one family history.
2022 576 p. 6 x 9 69 halftones
11 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-72011-1 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00
Disputed Inheritance
The Battle over Mendel and the Future of
Biology
Gregory Radick
A root-and-branch rethinking of how history has shaped the science of genetics.
2023 576 p. 6 x 9 60 halftones, 2 tables
10 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82272-3 $37.50 Your Price: $26.25
Crossing the Boundaries of Life
Günter Blobel and the Origins of Molecular Cell Biology
Karl S. Matlin
A close look at Günter Blobel’s transformative contributions to molecular cell biology.
2022 368 p. 6 x 9 38 halftones, 2 line drawings
12 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81934-1 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50
2 New & Noteworthy
Casanova’s Lottery
The History of a Revolutionary Game of Chance
Stephen
M. Stigler
The fascinating story of an important lottery that flourished in France from 1757 to 1836 and its role in transforming our understanding of the nature of risk.
2022 240 p. 6 x 9 62 halftones, 22 tables
13 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82079-8 $22.50 Your Price: $15.75
Phenomena
Doppelmayr’s Celestial Atlas
Giles Sparrow
Lavishly illustrated volume revealing the intricacies of a 1742 map of the cosmos.
2022 256 p. 101/2 x 143/8 600 color plates
15 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82411-6 $65.00 Your Price: $45.50
From Lived Experience to the Written Word
Reconstructing Practical Knowledge in the Early Modern World
Pamela H. Smith
How and why early modern European artisans began to record their knowledge.
2022 352 p. 83/4 x 91/2 75 color plates, 41 halftones
14 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81824-5 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50
Knowing Manchuria
Environments, the Senses, and Natural Knowledge on an Asian Borderland
Ruth Rogaski
Making sense of nature in one of the world’s most contested borderlands.
2022 464 p. 6 x 9 20 color plates, 21 halftones
16 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-80965-6 $45.00 Your Price: $31.50
New & Noteworthy 3
The Experimental Fire
Inventing English Alchemy, 1300–1700
Jennifer M. Rampling
A 400-year history of the development of alchemy in England that brings to light the evolution of the practice.
2023 416 p. 6 x 9 19 halftones, 2 tables
17 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82654-7 $28.00 Your Price: $19.60
Lady Ranelagh
The Incomparable Life of Robert Boyle’s Sister
Michelle DiMeo
A biography of Katherine Jones—older sister to “the father of chemistry” Robert Boyle—that takes her out of her brother’s shadow and reveals the depth of her intellect, knowledge, and range of influence.
2021 296 p. 6 x 9 10 halftones
18 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-73160-5 $45.00 Your Price: $31.50
The
Arts of the Microbial World Fermentation Science in Twentieth-Century Japan
Victoria Lee
The first in-depth study of Japanese fermentation science in the twentieth century.
2021 304 p. 6 x 9 31 halftones, 2 tables
19 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-81274-8 $45.00 Your Price: $31.50
Biotic Borders
Transpacific Plant and Insect Migration and the Rise of Anti-Asian Racism in America, 1890–1950
Jeannie N. Shinozuka
A rich and eye-opening history of the mutual constitution of race and species in modern America.
2022 304 p. 6 x 9 17 halftones
20 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81733-0 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00
4 History of Science
Carbon Technocracy
Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia
Victor Seow
A forceful reckoning with the relationship between energy and power through the history of what was once East Asia’s largest coal mine.
2023 376 p. 6 x 9 25 halftones
21 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82655-4 $27.50 Your Price: $19.25
Split and Splice
A Phenomenology of Experimentation
Hans-Jörg Rheinberger
An esteemed historian of science explores the diversity of scientific experimentation.
2023 256 p. 6 x 9 33 halftones
23 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82532-8 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00
A Global Enlightenment
Western Progress and Chinese Science
Alexander Statman
A revisionist history of the idea of progress reveals an unknown story about European engagement with Chinese science.
2023 320 p. 6 x 9 27 halftones
22 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82576-2 $45.00 Your Price: $31.50
Invisible Hands
Self-Organization and the Eighteenth Century Jonathan Sheehan and Dror Wahrman
A synthesis of eighteenth-century intellectual and cultural developments that offers an original explanation of how Enlightenment thought grappled with the problem of divine agency.
2022 384 p. 6 x 9 5 halftones
24 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82404-8 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50
History of Science 5
Reading the Book of Nature
How Eight Best Sellers Reconnected Christianity and the Sciences on the Eve of the Victorian Age
Jonathan R. Topham
A powerful reimagining of the world in which a young Charles Darwin developed his theory of evolution.
2022 544 p. 6 x 9 47 halftones, 2 tables
25 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-81576-3 $47.50 Your Price: $33.25
The Genesis Quest
The Geniuses and Eccentrics on a Journey to Uncover the Origin of Life on Earth
Michael Marshall
From the primordial soup to meteorite impact zones, the Manhattan Project to the latest research, this book is the first full history of the scientists who strive to explain the genesis of life.
2021 368 p. 6 x 9 7 halftones, 1 table
27 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81804-7 $18.00 Your Price: $12.60
Defining Nature’s Limits
The Roman Inquisition and the Boundaries of Science
Neil Tarrant
A look at the history of censorship, science, and magic from the Middle Ages to the post-Reformation era.
2022 288 p. 6 x 9
26 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-81942-6 $45.00 Your Price: $31.50
Evolution Made to Order
Plant Breeding and Technological Innovation in Twentieth-Century America
Helen Anne Curry
A fascinating historical account of American plant breeding and genetic innovation in the twentieth century
2021 295 p. 6 x 9 29 halftones
28 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-79086-2 $36.00 Your Price: $25.20
6 History of Science
Audubon at Sea
The Coastal and Transatlantic Adventures of John James Audubon
Edited by Christoph Irmscher and Richard J. King
This one-of-a-kind, lavishly illustrated anthology celebrates Audubon’s connection to the sea through both his words and art.
2022 352 p. 6 x 9 20 color plates, 38 halftones 29 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-75667-7 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00
Mapping Nature across the Americas
Edited by Kathleen A. Brosnan & James R. Akerman
This heavily illustrated volume provides the first in-depth and interdisciplinary investigation of the relationship between maps and environmental knowledge in the Americas.
2021 384 p. 7 x 10 20 color plates, 60 halftones, 2 tables 31 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-69643-0 $70.00 Your Price: $49.00
The Nature of the Future Agriculture, Science, and Capitalism in the Antebellum North
Emily Pawley
The Nature of the Future plumbs the innovative, far-ranging, and sometimes downright strange agricultural schemes of nineteenth-century farms in the northern US.
2022 312 p. 6 x 9 16 halftones 30 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82002-6 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50
The Science of Life and Death in “Frankenstein”
Sharon Ruston
The first book to compile the historical scientific and medical thought that influenced Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein .
Distributed for Bodleian Library Publishing
2022 192 p. 61/4 x 91/4 32 color plates, 16 halftones 32 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-557-4 $40.00 Your Price: $28.00
History of Science 7
The Wardian Case
How a Simple Box Moved Plants and Changed the World
Luke Keogh
The story of a nineteenth-century invention (essentially a tiny greenhouse) that allowed for the first time the movement of plants around the world.
2022 288 p. 6 x 9 19 color plates, 40 halftones
33 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82397-3 $26.00 Your Price: $18.20
Rooms of Wonder
From Wunderkammer to Museum, 1599–1899
Florence Fearrington
Rooms of Wonder brings together the most important printed and graphic records of Wunderkammers or, Cabinets of Curiosities.
Distributed for The Grolier Club
2011 124 p. 6 x 9 color plates
35 Paper ISBN: 978-1-60583-043-8 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00
Media and the Mind
Art, Science, and Notebooks as Paper Machines, 1700–1830
Matthew Daniel Eddy
A beautifully illustrated argument that reveals notebooks as extraordinary paper machines that transformed knowledge on the page and in the mind.
2023 512 p. 6 x 9 137 halftones, 2 tables
34 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-18386-2 $65.00 Your Price: $45.50
Curious Devices and Mighty Machines
Exploring Science Museums
Samuel J. M. M. Alberti
From their quirky origins to their contemporary role as centers of advocacy, a look at the secret lives of science museums—past, present, and future.
Distributed for Reaktion Books
2022 256 p. 61/2 x 91/4 99 halftones 36 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-639-4 $27.50 Your Price: $19.25
8 History of Science
Voice Machines
The Castrato, the Cat Piano, and Other Strange Sounds
Bonnie Gordon
An exploration of the castrato as a critical provocation to explore the relationships between sound, music, voice instrument, and machine.
2023 432 p. 6 x 9 49 halftones, 8 line drawings
37 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82514-4 $55.00 Your Price: $38.50
Thinking with Sound
A New Program in the Sciences and Humanities around 1900
Viktoria Tkaczyk
Thinking with Sound traces the formation of auditory knowledge in the sciences and humanities in the decades around 1900.
2023 304 p. 6 x 9 58 halftones
39 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82328-7 $55.00 Your Price: $38.50
Tuning the World
The Rise of 440 Hertz in Music, Science, and Politics, 1859–1955
Fanny Gribenski
Tuning the World tells the unknown story of how the musical pitch A 440 became the global norm.
2023 272 p. 6 x 9 19 halftones
38 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82326-3 $55.00 Your Price: $38.50
Sound Authorities
Scientific and Musical Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Britain Edward J. Gillin
Sound Authorities shows how experiences of music and sound played a crucial role in nineteenth-century scientific inquiry in Britain.
2022 320 p. 6 x 9 33 halftones, 4 tables
40 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-78777-0 $50.00 Your Price: $35.00
History of Science 9
Quantum Legacies
Dispatches from an Uncertain World David Kaiser
A series of engaging essays that explore iconic moments of discovery and debate in physicists’ ongoing quest to understand the quantum world.
2022 360 p. 51/2 x 81/2 47 halftones
41 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81999-0 $18.00 Your Price: $12.60
The Elements
Unearthing Fermi’s Geophysics
Gino C. Segrè and John Stack
Follow—for the first time—Nobel laureate and legendary teacher Enrico Fermi’s lost course on geophysics.
2022 208 p. 51/2 x 81/2 44 halftones, 12 tables
42 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-80514-6 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50
A
Visual History of Their Discovery Philip Ball
From water, air, and fire to tennessine and oganesson, celebrated science writer Philip Ball leads us through the full sweep of the field of chemistry in this exquisitely illustrated history of the elements.
2021 224 p. 71/2 x 93/4 200 color plates
43 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-77595-1 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50
Amber
From Antiquity to Eternity Rachel King
Spanning centuries and continents, a beautifully illustrated history of humanity’s enduring enthrallment with a seemingly banal substance: petrified tree sap, or amber.
Distributed for Reaktion Books
2022 272 p. 61/2 x 91/4 89 color plates, 16 halftones
44 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-591-5 $40.00 Your Price: $28.00
10 History of Science
John Venn A Life in Logic
Lukas
M. VerburgtThe first comprehensive history of John Venn’s life and work.
2022 448 p. 6 x 9 26 halftones, 1 line drawings
45 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-81551-0 $45.00 Your Price: $31.50
Charles Darwin
J.
David Archibald
A fresh account of Charles Darwin’s rich personal and professional lives, well beyond On the Origin of Species.
RB-Critical Lives
Distributed for Reaktion Books
2021 240 p. 5 x 73/4 57 halftones
47 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78914-440-6 $19.00 Your Price: $13.30
From Data to Quanta
Niels Bohr’s Vision of Physics
Slobodan Perovic
The first comprehensive philosophical and historical account of the experimental foundations of Niels Bohr’s practice of physics.
2021 240 p. 6 x 9 8 halftones, 1 line drawing
46 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-79833-2 $45.00 Your Price: $31.50
Edward Lhwyd
c.1660–1709,
Naturalist, Antiquary, Philologist
Brynley F. Roberts
A critical biography of an influential seventeenth-century Welsh intellectual.
CYMRU- Scientists of Wales
Distributed for University of Wales Press
2022 304 p. 51/2 x 81/2 10 halftones
48 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78683-782-0 $21.00 Your Price: $14.70
History of Science 11
The Science of Reading
Information,
Media, and Mind in Modern America
Adrian Johns
For the first time, the story of how and why we have plumbed the mysteries of the defining practice of our age: reading.
2023 512 p. 6 x 9 45 halftones
49 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82148-1 $32.50 Your Price: $22.75
Knowledge Flows in a Global Age A Transnational Approach
Edited by John Krige
A transnational approach to understanding and analyzing knowledge circulation.
2022 368 p. 6 x 9 8 halftones
51 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82038-5 $45.00 Your Price: $31.50
Knowledge Regulation and National Security in Postwar America
Mario Daniels and John Krige
The first historical study of export control regulations as a tool for the sharing and withholding of knowledge.
2022 432 p. 6 x 9 8 tables
50 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81753-8 $40.00 Your Price: $28.00
Language and the Rise of the Algorithm
Jeffrey M. BinderA wide-ranging history of the intellectual developments that produced the modern idea of the algorithm.
2022 320 p. 6 x 9 22 halftones
52 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82253-2 $45.00 Your Price: $31.50
12 History of Science
The Varnish and the Glaze
Pure Adulteration
Painting
Splendor with Oil, 1100–1500 Marjolijn Bol
A new history of the techniques, materials, and aesthetic ambitions that gave rise to the radiant verisimilitude of Jan van Eyck’s oil paintings on panel.
2023 336 p. 6 x 9 80 color plates, 10 halftones
53 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82036-1 $55.00 Your Price: $38.50
Cheating on Nature in the Age of Manufactured Food
Benjamin R. Cohen
Benjamin R. Cohen uses the pure food crusades at the turn of the twentieth century to provide a captivating window onto the origins of manufactured foods in the United States.
2022 320 p. 6 x 9 61 halftones
55 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81674-6 $27.50 Your Price: $19.25
Birth Figures
Early Modern Prints and the Pregnant Body
Rebecca Whiteley
The first full study of “birth figures,” sets of illustrations which were widely reproduced in early modern books on childbirth and midwifery.
2023 312 p. 6 x 9 6 color plates, 55 halftones
54 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82312-6 $49.00 Your Price: $34.30
Extraordinary Women in Science & Medicine
Four Centuries of Achievement
Ronald
K. Smeltzer, Robert J. Ruben, and Paulette Rose
A catalog exploring the legacy of thirty-two women whose accomplishments advanced science.
Distributed for The Grolier Club
2022 184 p. 8 x 11 color plates and halftones
56 Paper ISBN: 978-1-60583-047-6 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50
History of Science 13
Reactionary Mathematics
A Genealogy of Purity
Massimo
MazzottiA forgotten episode of mathematical resistance reveals the rise of modern mathematics and its cornerstone, mathematical purity, as political phenomena.
2023 352 p. 6 x 9 5 halftones, 2 line drawings
57 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82674-5 $37.50 Your Price: $26.25
Beauty and the Brain
The Science of Human Nature in Early America
Rachel E. Walker
Examining the history of phrenology and physiognomy, Beauty and the Brain proposes a bold new way of understanding the connection between science, politics, and popular culture in early America.
2022 288 p. 6 x 9 26 halftones
59 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82256-3 $45.00 Your Price: $31.50
Materials of the Mind
Phrenology, Race, and the Global History of Science, 1815–1920
James Poskett
This is not only the first global history of nineteenth-century science but the first global history of phrenology.
2022 373 p. 6 x 9 47 halftones
58 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82064-4 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50
Axiomatics
Mathematical Thought and High Modernism
Alma
Steingart
The first history of postwar mathematics, offering a new interpretation of the rise of abstraction and axiomatics in the twentieth century.
2023 272 p. 6 x 9 12 halftones
60 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82420-8 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50
14 History of Science
The Book of Minds
How to Understand Ourselves and Other Beings, from Animals to AI to Aliens
Philip Ball
Popular science writer Philip Ball explores a range of sciences to map our answers to a huge, philosophically rich question: How do we even begin to think about minds that are not human?
2022 512 p. 6 x 9 61 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-79587-4 $26.00 Your Price: $18.20
Autistic Intelligence
Nuclear Minds
Cold War Psychological Science and the Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Ran Zwigenberg
How researchers understood the atomic bomb’s effects on the human psyche before the recognition of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.
2023 304 p. 6 x 9 10 halftones
62 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82676-9 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50
Interaction, Individuality, and the
Challenges of Diagnosis
Douglas W. Maynard and Jason Turowetz
Autistic Intelligence examines the diagnostic process to question how we understand autism as a category and to better recognize its intelligence and uncommon sense.
2022 288 p. 6 x 9 22 halftones, 1 line drawings, 1 table 63 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81600-5 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00
Disalienation
Politics, Philosophy, and Radical Psychiatry in Postwar France
Camille Robcis
A transnational history of institutional psychotherapy from its origins in France through its various transformations between 1945 and 1975 Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning
2021 240 p. 6 x 9 24 halftones 64 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-77774-0 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50
History of Science/History of Medicine 15
Partial Stories
Maternal Death from Six Angles
Claire
L. WendlandA close look at stories of maternal death in Malawi that considers their implications in the broader arena of medical knowledge.
2022 384 p. 6 x 9 6 halftones, 3 tables 65 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81688-3 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50
The Quest for Sexual Health
How an Elusive Ideal Has Transformed Science, Politics, and Everyday Life
Steven Epstein
Offering an entryway into the distinctive worlds of sexual health and a window onto their spillover effects, sociologist Steven Epstein traces the development of the concept and parses the debates that swirl around it.
2022 400 p. 6 x 9 7 halftones, 4 line drawings, 2 tables 67 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81822-1 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00
The Maternal Imprint
The Contested Science of Maternal-Fetal Effects
Sarah S. Richardson
Leading gender and science scholar Sarah S. Richardson charts the untold history of the idea that a woman’s health and behavior during pregnancy can have long-term effects on her descendants’ health and welfare.
2021 384 p. 6 x 9 66 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-54480-9 $26.00 Your Price: $18.20
Hearing Happiness
Deafness
Jaipreet
Cures in History
Virdi
Weaving together lyrical history and personal memoir, Virdi powerfully examines society’s— and her own—perception of life as a deaf person in America.
2022 328 p. 6 x 9 40 halftones 68 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82406-2 $19.00 Your Price: $13.30
16 History of Medicine
Ethics by Committee
A History of Reasoning Together about Medicine, Science, Society, and the State Noortje Jacobs
How liberal democracies in the late twentieth century have sought to resolve public concerns over charged issues in medicine and science.
2022 264 p. 6 x 9 5 halftones
69 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81932-7 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50
Stethoscope
The Making of a Medical Icon
Anna Harris and Tom Rice
A surprising investigation of a scientific instrument long at the pulse of medicine.
Distributed for Reaktion Books
2022 224 p. 51/2 x 81/2 54 halftones
71 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-633-2 $27.50 Your Price: $19.25
Pushing Cool
Big Tobacco, Racial Marketing, and the Untold Story of the Menthol Cigarette
Keith Wailoo
Pushing Cool reveals how the twin deceptions of health and Black affinity for menthol were crafted—and how this disturbingly powerful narrative endures today.
2021 392 p. 6 x 9 40 halftones
70 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-79413-6 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00
Nursing Shifts in Sichuan
Canadian Missions and Wartime China, 1937–1951
Sonya Grypma
Now in paperback, the story of how student refugees worked with missionaries to transform Chinese healthcare during World War II.
Distributed for University of British Columbia Press 2022 320 p. 6 x 9 15 color plates, 13 tables, 1 map, 1 chart 72 Paper ISBN: 978-0-7748-6572-2 $37.95 Your Price: $26.57
History of Medicine 17
Giving Birth in Eighteenth-Century England
Sarah Fox
A history of childbirth in the eighteenth century as told by women.
New Historical Perspectives
Distributed for University of London Press
2022 250 p. 61/4 x 91/4
73 Paper ISBN: 978-1-914477-06-5 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50
A Mother’s Manual for the Women of Ferrara
A Fifteenth-Century Guide to Pregnancy and Pediatrics
Michele Savonarola
The first treatise of its kind to be written in a European vernacular.
Other Voice - Toronto Series
Distributed for Iter Press
2022 270 p. 6 x 9 3 halftones
75 Paper ISBN: 978-1-64959-030-5 $54.95 Your Price: $38.46
Making Sense of Medicine
Material Culture and the Reproduction of Medical Knowledge
Edited by John Nott and Anna Harris
A critical reflection on the relationship between materials and the reproduction of medical knowledge.
IB - Global Health Humanities
Distributed for Intellect Ltd
2022 464 p. 63/4 x 91/2 115 color plates
74 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78938-577-9 $54.95 Your Price: $38.46
Freud’s Patients
A Book of Lives
Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen
Portraits of the thirty-eight known patients
Sigmund Freud treated clinically—some wellknown, many obscure—reveal a darker, more complex picture of the famed psychoanalyst.
Distributed for Reaktion Books
2021 256 p. 61/4 x 91/4 20 halftones
76 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-455-0 $27.50 Your Price: $19.25
18 History of Medicine
George Meléndez Wright
The Fight for Wildlife and Wilderness in the National Parks
Jerry Emory
The first biography of a visionary ranger whose groundbreaking ideas regarding wildlife and science revolutionized national parks.
2023 256 p. 6 x 9 26 halftones
77 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82494-9 $28.00 Your Price: $19.60
The Sloth Lemur’s Song
Madagascar from the Deep Past to the Uncertain Present
Alison Richard
A moving account of Madagascar told by a researcher who has spent over fifty years investigating the mysteries of this remarkable island.
2022 352 p. 6 x 9 12 color plates, 50 halftones
79 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-81756-9 $27.00 Your Price: $18.90
National Parks Forever
Fifty Years of Fighting and a Case for Independence
Jonathan Jarvis and T.
Destry Jarvis
Two leaders of the National Park Service provide a front-row seat to the disastrous impact of partisan politics over the past fifty years—and offer a bold vision for the parks’ future.
2022 240 p. 6 x 9 20 halftones
78 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81908-2 $25.00 Your Price: $17.50
Platypus Matters
The Extraordinary Story of Australian Mammals
Jack Ashby
Scientifically informed and funny, a firsthand account of Australia’s wonderfully unique mammals—and how our perceptions impact their future.
2022 400 p. 6 x 9 23 color plates, 14 halftones
80 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-78925-5 $29.00 Your Price: $20.30
Conservation & Environment 19
Uncertain Climes
Debating Climate Change in Gilded Age America
Joseph Giacomelli
Uncertain Climes looks to the late nineteenth century to reveal how climate anxiety was a crucial element in the emergence of American modernity.
2023 256 p. 6 x 9 19 halftones
81 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82443-7 $40.00 Your Price: $28.00
Amber Waves
The Extraordinary Biography of Wheat, from Wild Grass to World Megacrop
Catherine Zabinski
A biography of a staple grain we often take for granted, exploring how wheat went from wild grass to a world-shaping crop.
2022 216 p. 5 x 8 11 halftones 83 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82005-7 $17.00 Your Price: $11.90
Diet for a Large Planet
Industrial Britain, Food Systems, and World Ecology
Chris Otter
A history of the unsustainable modern diet— heavy in meat, wheat, and sugar—that requires more land and resources than the planet is able to support.
2023 400 p. 6 x 9 65 halftones
82 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82653-0 $39.00 Your Price: $27.30
Tropical Arctic
Lost Plants, Future Climates, and the Discovery of Ancient Greenland
Jennifer McElwain, Marlene Hill Donnelly, and Ian Glasspool
An illustrated visit to the tropical arctic of 205 million years ago when Greenland was green.
2021 152 p. 81/2 x 11 91 color plates, 15 halftones 84 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-53443-5 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00
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Red Leviathan
The Secret History of Soviet Whaling Ryan Tucker Jones
A revealing and authoritative history that shows how Soviet whalers nearly destroyed endangered whale populations, while also contributing to the scientific understanding necessary for these creatures’ salvation.
2022 304 p. 6 x 9 30 halftones
85 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-62885-1 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00
Waters of the World
The Story of the Scientists Who Unraveled the Mysteries of Our Oceans, Atmosphere, and Ice Sheets and Made the Planet Whole Sarah Dry
The compelling and adventurous stories of seven pioneering scientists who were at the forefront of what we now call climate science.
2021 368 p. 6 x 9 50 halftones
87 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81684-5 $20.00 Your Price: $14.00
Floating Gold
A Natural (and Unnatural) History of Ambergris Christopher Kemp
A fascinating natural history of an incredibly curious substance.
2022 232 p. 6 x 9 12 color plates, 21 halftones
86 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82105-4 $18.00 Your Price: $12.60
The Other Dark Matter
The Science and Business of Turning Waste into Wealth and Health Lina Zeldovich
Grossly ambitious and rooted in scientific scholarship, The Other Dark Matter shows how human excrement can be a life-saving, money-making resource—if we make better use of it.
2021 264 p. 6 x 9 8 halftones
88 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-61557-8 $26.00 Your Price: $18.20
Conservation & Environment 21
A Sense of Urgency
How the Climate Crisis Is Changing Rhetoric Debra Hawhee
A study of how the climate crisis is changing human communication from a celebrated rhetorician.
2023 272 p. 6 x 9 32 halftones 89 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82678-3 $27.50 Your Price: $19.25
Beginning to End the Climate Crisis
A History of Our Future
Luisa Neubauer and Alexander Repenning
There is no planet B. Activists share how we must inform and organize ourselves to save the future.
Distributed for Brandeis University Press 2023 208 p. 6 x 9 91 Paper ISBN: 978-1-68458-147-4 $24.95 Your Price: $17.46
How Green Became Good
Urbanized Nature and the Making of Cities and Citizens
Hillary Angelo Uncovers the origins and meanings of the enduring appeal of urban green space, showing that city planners have long thought that creating green spaces would lead to social improvement.
2021 264 p. 6 x 9 14 halftones
90 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-73904-5 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00
Weather Forecaster to Research Scientist
My Career in Meteorology
Robert M. Atlas
This memoir follows the sixty-year meteorology career of Robert M. Atlas.
Distributed for American Meteorological Society 2022 120 p. 6 x 9 23 color plates, 3 halftones 92 Paper ISBN: 978-1-944970-77-2 $25.00 Your Price: $17.50
22 Conservation & Environment
For the Love of Mars
A Human History of the Red Planet
Matthew
ShindellA tour of Mars in the human imagination, from ancient astrologers to modern explorers.
2023 240 p. 6 x 9 12 color plates, 20 halftones 93 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82189-4 $27.50 Your Price: $19.25
Soviets in Space
Russia’s Cosmonauts and the Space Frontier
Colin Burgess
A beautifully illustrated history of the Soviet Union’s leading role in the space race.
RB - Kosmos
Distributed for Reaktion Books
2022 240 p. 61/4 x 91/4 85 halftones
95 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-632-5 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50
What’s Eating the Universe?
And Other Cosmic Questions
Paul Davies
Combining the latest scientific advances with storytelling skills unmatched in the cosmos, an award-winning astrophysicist and popular writer leads us on a tour of some of the greatest mysteries of our universe.
2022 208 p. 51/2 x 81/2 17 halftones, 1 table 94 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82387-4 $16.00 Your Price: $11.20
The Greatest Adventure
A History of Human Space Exploration
Colin Burgess
The Greatest Adventure explores the past, present, and future of the space race.
RB - Kosmos
Distributed for Reaktion Books
2021 368 p. 61/4 x 91/4 138 halftones 96 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-460-4 $40.00 Your Price: $28.00
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The Apple II Age
How the Computer Became Personal Laine Nooney
An engrossing origin story for the personal computer—showing how the Apple II’s software helped a machine transcend from hobbyists’ plaything to essential home appliance.
2023 352 p. 6 x 9 19 color plates, 29 halftones
97 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-81652-4 $28.00 Your Price: $19.60
Computing Taste
Algorithms and the Makers of Music
Recommendation
Nick Seaver
Meet the people who design the algorithms that capture our musical tastes.
2022 224 p. 6 x 9 7 halftones
99 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82297-6 $20.00 Your Price: $14.00
The Philosopher of Palo Alto
Mark Weiser, Xerox PARC, and the Original Internet
of Things
John Tinnell
A compelling biography of Mark Weiser, a pioneering innovator whose legacy looms over the tech industry’s quest to connect everything—and who hoped for something better.
2023 368 p. 6 x 9 17 halftones, 1 table 98 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-75720-9 $29.00 Your Price: $20.30
The Digital Factory
The Human Labor of Automation
Moritz Altenried
The Digital Factory reveals the surprising and hidden human labor that supports today’s digital capitalism.
2022 208 p. 51/2 x 81/2
100 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81548-0 $27.50 Your Price: $19.25
24 History of Technology
Getting In
The Essential Guide to Finding a STEMM Undergrad Research Experience
Paris H. Grey and David G. Oppenheimer
An empowering guide for students in STEMM that demystifies the process of securing undergraduate research experiences.
Chicago Guides to Academic Life
2023 240 p. 6 x 9 101 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82541-0 $20.00 Your Price: $14.00
Dead Reckoning
Air Traffic Control, System Effects, and
Diane Vaughan
Risk
Vaughan unveils the complicated and high-pressure world of air traffic controllers as they navigate technology and political and public climates, and shows how they keep the skies so safe.
2023 640 p. 6 x 9 16 halftones 103 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82657-8 $27.50 Your Price: $19.25
Science on a Mission
How Military Funding Shaped What We Do and Don’t Know about the Ocean
Naomi Oreskes
A vivid portrait of how Naval oversight shaped American oceanography, revealing what difference it makes who pays for science.
2022 744 p. 6 x 9 73 halftones, 17 line drawings
102 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82400-0 $32.00 Your Price: $22.40
Paths of Fire
The Gun and the World It Made
Andrew Nahum
This book looks at the long history and possible future of the gun, revealing surprising connections to a wide range of technologies.
Distributed for Reaktion Books
2021 248 p. 63/4 x 83/4 70 halftones
104 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-397-3 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50
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The Ashtray
(Or the Man Who Denied Reality)
Errol Morris
Filmmaker Errol Morris offers his perspective on the world and his powerful belief in the necessity of truth.
2023 192 p. 8 x 10 49 color plates, 39 halftones
105 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-92269-0 $25.00 Your Price: $17.50
Limits of the Numerical The Abuses and Uses of Quantification
Edited by Christopher Newfield, Anna Alexandrova, and Stephen John
This collection examines the uses of quantification in climate science, higher education, and health.
2022 304 p. 6 x 9 2 halftones, 5 tables 107 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81715-6 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00
Experimenting the Human Art, Music, and the Contemporary Posthuman G Douglas Barrett
An engaging argument about what experimental music can tell us about being human.
2023 240 p. 6 x 9 4 halftones
106 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82340-9 $27.50 Your Price: $19.25
What Is Regeneration?
Jane Maienschein and Kate MacCord
Two historians and philosophers of science offer an essential primer on the meaning and limits of regeneration.
Convening Science
2022 184 p. 51/2 x 81/2 18 halftones
108 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81656-2 $20.00 Your Price: $14.00
26 Philosophy of Science
Information and Experimental Knowledge
James Mattingly
An ambitious new model of experimentation that will reorient our understanding of the key features of experimental practice.
2021 400 p. 6 x 9 13 halftones
109 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-80481-1 $47.50 Your Price: $33.25
Theory and Reality
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science, Second Edition
Peter Godfrey-Smith
Theory and Reality combines a survey of recent history of the philosophy of science with current key debates in language that any beginning scholar or critical reader can follow.
2021 368 p. 6 x 9 7 halftones
111 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-61865-4 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00
When Maps Become the World
Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther
We increasingly understand the world in terms of models, and Winther shows us how the scientific theories, models, and concepts we use to intervene in the world function as maps, while also exploring the consequences of this, both good and bad.
2020 336 p. 6 x 9 10 color plates, 37 halftones
110 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-67472-8 $37.50 Your Price: $26.25
Model Cases
On Canonical Research Objects and Sites
Monika Krause
Model Cases uncovers the ways the humanities and social sciences are shaped by and dependent on a set of canonical research objects of their own, often in unacknowledged ways.
2021 224 p. 6 x 9 8 tables
112 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-78083-2 $27.50 Your Price: $19.25
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A Journal of the History of Science Society
The Journal of Clinical Ethics KNOW A Journal on the Formation of Knowledge Osiris
The Social History of Alcohol and Drugs An Interdisciplinary Journal Speculum A Journal of Medieval Studies I Tatti Studies in the Italian Renaissance
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