New Books in the History of Science

747 Episodes

1. Sam Wineburg, "Why Learn History (When It's Already on Your Phone)" (U Chicago Press, 2018)

   Published: 10/21/2021
2. Roger Penrose, “The Cyclic Universe” (Open Agenda, 2021)

   Published: 10/19/2021
3. Kalle Kananoja, "Healing Knowledge in Atlantic Africa" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

   Published: 10/11/2021
4. Michael Yudell, "Race Unmasked: Biology and Race in the Twentieth Century" (Columbia UP, 2018)

   Published: 10/8/2021
5. Gideon Fujiwara, "From Country to Nation: Ethnographic Studies, Kokugaku, and Spirits in Nineteenth-Century Japan" (Cornell UP, 2021)

   Published: 10/5/2021
6. Hannah Turner, "Cataloguing Culture: Legacies of Colonialism in Museum Documentation" (UBC Press, 2020)

   Published: 10/5/2021
7. Darrin McMahon, “Deconstructing Genius” (Open Agenda, 2021)

   Published: 10/4/2021
8. Yan Liu, "Healing with Poisons: Potent Medicines in Medieval China" (U Washington Press, 2021)

   Published: 10/1/2021
9. Brian Clegg, "Ten Patterns That Explain the Universe" (MIT Press, 2021)

   Published: 9/28/2021
10. Jonathan Rees, "The Chemistry of Fear: Harvey Wiley's Fight for Pure Food" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021)

    Published: 9/28/2021
11. Lisa T. Sarasohn, "Getting Under Our Skin: The Cultural and Social History of Vermin" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021)

    Published: 9/28/2021
12. Eric. S. Hintz, "American Independent Inventors in an Era of Corporate R&D" (MIT Press, 2021)

    Published: 9/28/2021
13. Tony Leggett, “The Problems of Physics, Reconsidered” (Open Agenda, 2021)

    Published: 9/27/2021
14. Chris Bleakley, "Poems That Solve Puzzles: The History and Science of Algorithms" (Oxford UP, 2020)

    Published: 9/27/2021
15. Vanilla Beer and Allenna Leonard, "Stafford Beer the Father of Management Cybernetics" (2019)

    Published: 9/27/2021
16. Marnie Hughes-Warrington and Anne Martin, "Big and Little Histories: Sizing Up Ethics in Historiography" (Routledge, 2021)

    Published: 9/24/2021
17. Allan V. Horwitz, "DSM: A History of Psychiatry's Bible" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021)

    Published: 9/24/2021
18. Nick Lane, “A Matter of Energy: Biology From First Principles” (Open Agenda, 2021)

    Published: 9/24/2021
19. Rob Dunn and Monica Sanchez, "Delicious: The Evolution of Flavor and How It Made Us Human" (Princeton UP, 2021)

    Published: 9/23/2021
20. Athena Aktipis, "The Cheating Cell: How Evolution Helps Us Understand and Treat Cancer" (Princeton UP, 2020)

    Published: 9/22/2021