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The Correspondence of John Tyndall, Volume 12

The Correspondence, March 1871-May 1872

Edited By Anne DeWitt, Kathleen Sheppard

Letters Showing Tyndall as an Established Man of Science

Pittsburgh Rising

From Frontier Town to Steel City, 1750-1920

By Edward K. Muller, Rob Ruck

Traces the Arc of Pittsburgh’s Rise from Frontier Outpost to Dynamic Industrial Region

Representing the Barrios

Culture, Politics, and Urban Poverty in Twentieth-Century Caracas

By Rebecca Jarman

Charts the Rise of the Barrios in the Venezuelan Imagination

Capitalist Outsiders

Oil's Legacies in Mexico and Venezuela

By Leslie C. Gates

How Capitalist Outsiders Willing to Accommodate the Dominant Economic Elite Often Defeat Anticapitalist Outsiders

Vortex, The

An Environmental History of the Modern World

By Frank Uekötter

Dissects a Global Environmental Legacy That Will Shape Policies in the New Millennium

Compound Remedies

Galenic Pharmacy from the Ancient Mediterranean to New Spain

By Paula S. DeVos

A Unique History of the Galenic Pharmaceutical Tradition in New Spain

Iron Artisans

Welsh Immigrants and the American Age of Steel

By Ronald L. Lewis

How Skilled Welsh Workers and Managers Helped Build the American Steel Industry

Donora Death Fog

Clean Air and the Tragedy of a Pennsylvania Mill Town

By Andy McPhee

The Complete Story of the Worst Air Pollution Disaster in US History

The Many Voices of Modern Physics

Written Communication Practices of Key Discoveries

By Joseph E. Harmon, Alan G. Gross

A Tribute to the Communicative Practices of Physicists in the Twentieth Century

New Energies

A History of Energy Transitions in Europe and North America

Edited By Stephen G. Gross, Andrew Needham

Captures the Drama and Complexity of Past Transitions While Looking toward Energy Sources of the Future

Unorganized Women

Repetitive Rhetorical Labor and Low-Wage Workers, 1834-1937

By Jane Greer

A Detailed Study of the Rhetorical Labor of Low- and No-Wage Women Workers Unaffiliated with Traditional Labor Unions

Every Form of Ruin

Poems

By Erin Adair-Hodges

A Refutation of Silence and Choosing of Operatic Anger over Abuse and Marginalization

That Ship Has Sailed

By Terence Winch

Poems that Zoom In on the Mysterious and Transformative Nature of Expression

Rhet Ops

Rhetoric and Information Warfare

Edited By Jim Ridolfo, William Hart-Davidson

Weaponized Digital Rhetorics

Mirrors of Whiteness

Media, Middle-Class Resentment, and the Rise of the Far Right in Brazil

By Mauro P. Porto

Highlights the Intersections between Media, Whiteness, and Middle-Class Identity That Feed Brazil’s Ultraconservative Movement