Books Archive - University of Pittsburgh Press

Nature on Paper

Documenting Science in Prussia, 1770-1850

By Anne Greenwood MacKinney

How Paper Tools Transformed the Infrastructure of Modern Research in Prussia at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century

William Bartram’s Visual Wonders

The Drawings of an American Naturalist

By Elizabeth A. Athens

Positions Bartram’s Illustrations as Central to His Understanding of the Natural World

Most Adaptable to Change

Evolution and Religion in Global Popular Media

Edited By Alexander Hall, Will Mason-Wilkes

How Multimedia Influenced Relationships between Evolutionary Studies and Religion in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

William Whewell

Victorian Polymath

Edited By Lukas M. Verburgt

Reexamines the Work and Legacy of One of the Most Important Figures of the Victorian Era

Sharing Spaces

Technology, Mediation, and Human-Animal Relationships

Edited By Finn Arne Jorgensen, Dolly Jorgensen

Considers the Entangled Human-Animal Relationship of a Complex Multispecies World

Creatures of Reason

John Herschel and the Invention of Science

By Stephen Case

Explores the Early Life and Career of a Figure Central to the Development of Modern Scientific Practice

Science, Religion, and the Protestant Tradition

Retracing the Origins of Conflict

By James C. Ungureanu

Revisiting the Origins, Development, and Popularization of the “Conflict Thesis”

The Graft Hybrid

Challenging Twentieth-Century Genetics

By Matthew Holmes

A New Physiological History of Biotechnology

The People’s Spaceship

NASA, the Shuttle Era, and Public Engagement after Apollo

By Amy Paige Kaminski

How Everyday Citizens Played an Integral Role in the Development of NASA’s Space Shuttle

Victorian Interdisciplinarity and the Sciences

Rethinking the Specialization Thesis

Edited By Bernard Lightman, Efram Sera-Shriar

A Complex and Innovative Analysis of Discipline Formation in Nineteenth-Century Science

The Descent of Artificial Intelligence

A Deep History of an Idea 400 Years in the Making

By Kevin Padraic Donnelly

A Radically Different History of AI Spanning Four Centuries of Research on Human Intelligence and Behavior

The Correspondence of John Tyndall, Volume 14

The Correspondence, October 1873–October 1875

Edited By Gowan Dawson, Matthew Stanley, Matthew Wale

Letters Covering Tyndall’s Infamous Belfast Address

Scientific Advice to the Nineteenth-Century British State

By Roland Jackson

Traces the Early Evolution of Britain’s System of Scientific Advice

Evolutionary Theories and Religious Traditions

National, Transnational, and Global Perspectives, 1800–1920

Edited By Bernard Lightman, Sarah Qidwai

How Intellectuals and Global Publics Viewed the Relationship between Evolution and Diverse Religious Traditions

The Correspondence of John Tyndall, Volume 13

The Correspondence, June 1872–September 1873

Edited By Michael D. Barton, Joseph D. Martin, Gregory Radick, Roy MacLeod

Letters Showing Tyndall’s Widespread Esteem and Increasing Social Status