Books

How Philosophy of Science Can Bring About Change in Political Life

These detailed yet interlocking studies consider whether knowledge evolved more through recurring intercultural links or through localized innovations; or whether it arose more from endogenous scientific study or from exogenous shifts in the world order.

Combining biographical and institutional history, Thomas C. Lassman examines the professional career of theoretical physicist Edward Condon at Princeton University, Pittsburgh’s Westinghouse Electric Company and Manufacturing Company, and the National Bureau of Standards to illuminate contested visions of the usefulness of science that played out during The Great Depression, the Second World War, and the early Cold War.

Explores the risk ridden realm of wise, if always fallible, rhetorical action.

Prince Edward County, Virginia as a microcosm of America’s struggle with race, literacy, and citizenship.

Volume 5 contains 266 letters covering a period of twenty-two months, when Tyndall was in his mid-thirties and had been employed by the Royal Institution as professor of natural philosophy since September 1853.

A new collection of poetry from the poet and novelist Ron Koertge.

Bradley Paul’s third book, uses common objects, animals, people, and experiences as starting points to consider one’s connectivity to the world

Sidebend World explores with clarity and vividness a wide range of emotions—love to hate, tenderness to brutality

Modernity at Gunpoint provides the first study of the political and cultural significance of weaponry in the context of major armed conflicts in Mexico and Central America.

Essays inquiring into conditions for activism, political protest, and public assembly.

A Broad Look at the Environmental History of Eurasia

Traces the “Intellectual Romance” between the European Far Right, and Their Russian Counter-parts.

Explores the complex contours and contested meanings of religious freedom in Russia, from 1520 to the 1990s.

American Dream Deferred challenges postwar narratives of government largess for African Americans by illuminating the neglected stories of these unknown black workers.