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The Life and Legend of James Watt

The Life and Legend of James Watt

Collaboration, Natural Philosophy, and the Improvement of the Steam Engine

A Deeper Understanding of the Work and Character of the Great Eighteenth-Century Engineer

Inevitably Toxic

Inevitably Toxic

Historical Perspectives on Contamination, Exposure, and Expertise

The essays in this collection ask us to confront the toxic landscapes that pervade modern life using the example of exposure of people in four countries to nuclear radiation, industrial waste, pesticides and future biological warfare.

Cuban Studies 48

Cuban Studies 48

In this special issue, Cuban Studies 48 explores Afro-Cuban issues.

Solid State Insurrection

Solid State Insurrection

How the Science of Substance Made American Physics Matter

A new perspective to some of the most enduring questions about the role of physics in American history.

Overtaken by the Night

Overtaken by the Night

One Russian's Journey through Peace, War, Revolution, and Terror

Vladimir Fedorovich Dzhunkovsky, the subject of this book, was a witness to his country’s unfolding tragedy—the decay of the tsarist autocracy, world war, revolution, the rise of a new regime, and its descent into terror. But Dzhunkovsky was not just a passive observer, he was an active participant in the troubled and turbulent events of his time, often struggling against the tide. Overtaken by the Night paints a fascinating picture of Dzhunkovsky’s incredible life that reveals much about a long and crucial period in Russian history. It is a story of Russia in revolution reminiscent of the fictional Doctor Zhivago, but even more extraordinary for being true.

Blues Walked In, The

Blues Walked In, The

A Novel

A Fascinating Historical Novel, featuring Lena Horne, and a Vividly Imagined Portrait of Pittsburgh’s Vibrant Hill District in the 1930’s

Tenant of Fire, The

Tenant of Fire, The

Poems

Winner of the 2018 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize

Unwanted Witnesses

Unwanted Witnesses

Journalists and Conflict in Contemporary Latin America

Latin American Journalists Who Endure Grave Danger to Witness and Report Their Truth

Tough on Crime

Tough on Crime

The Rise of Punitive Populism in Latin America

Examines Tough on Crime Rhetoric and Policies in Latin America

Women at Work

Women at Work

Rhetorics of Gender and Labor

Addresses Women’s Rhetorical Relationship to Work

News from Mars

News from Mars

Mass Media and the Forging of a New Astronomy, 1860-1910

Explores a Transatlantic News Economy That Circulated Information and Actively Shaped New Claims about the Red Planet

The Dogs of Detroit

The Dogs of Detroit

Stories

Winner of the 2018 Drue Heinz Literature Prize, Now in Paperback

From Commodification to the Common Good

From Commodification to the Common Good

Reconstructing Science, Technology, and Society

Explores Public-Interest Science as a Potential Alternative to Commodification

Ringer

Ringer

Poems

Winner of the 2018 Donald Hall Prize for Poetry

World’s Fairs in the Cold War

World’s Fairs in the Cold War

Science, Technology, and the Culture of Progress

Investigates the Ways World’s Fairs Expressed and Provoked Cold War Culture

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