New Books in Science, Technology, and Society
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Steve Feldstein, "Bytes and Bullets: Global Rivalries, Private Tech, and the New Shape of Modern Warfare" (St. Martin's Press, 2026)
Aug 23, 202645 min
Sandeep Vaheesan, "Democracy in Power: A History of Electrification in the United States" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Aug 22, 202654 min
Jessica Riskin, "The Power of Life: The Invention of Biology and the Revolutionary Science of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck" (Penguin, 2026)
Aug 21, 20261h 10m
Jeff Jarvis, "Hot Type: The Magnificent Machine that Gave Birth to Mass Media and Drove Mark Twain Mad" (Bloomsbury, 2026)
Aug 20, 202655 min
A Succinct View of How AI is Changing Business and Work Right Now
Aug 20, 202628 min
Jehnie Burns on Mixtape Culture
Aug 17, 202654 min
Karen M'Closkey and Keith VanDerSys eds., "Media Matters in Landscape Architecture" (Applied Research & Design, 2025)
Aug 16, 202653 min
Aarthi Vadde, "We the Platform: How the Internet Changed Twenty-First-Century Literature (Columbia UP, 2026)
Aug 15, 202632 min
Ellery E. Foutch, "A Perfectionist Impulse: The Art of Stopping Time in the Nineteenth Century (U Minnesota Press, 2026)
Aug 14, 20261h 0m
The New Modern Medicine: Disease, Evidence, and Epidemiological Medicine with Jonathan Fuller
Aug 13, 202645 min
Beyond Free Speech: Why AI Governance Demands Freedom of Thought
Aug 9, 202658 min
Hiroshima's Last Witnesses and Japan's Nuclear Future
Aug 8, 202633 min
The Microbiopolitics of Novel Foods
Aug 7, 2026
Elizabeth Darling, "Palace of the Ether: Broadcasting House and the Architecture of the BBC, 1922–32" (Lund Humphries, 2026)
Aug 3, 202657 min
Magdalena E. Stawkowski, "Atomic Collective: Radioactive Life in Kazakhstan" (U Toronto Press, 2025)
Aug 1, 202656 min
Devin Kennedy, "Coding Capitalism: Computers and the Remaking of the Postwar US Economy" (Columbia UP, 2026)
Jul 31, 202656 min
The Resurgence of War and the Collapse of Arms Control
Jul 31, 202634 min
The Long Reach of the Strong Arm: Evolving Forms of Transnational Authoritarianism in Asia and Beyond
Jul 30, 2026
Paul Langley and Andrew Leyshon, "Fintech Capital: The Digital Transformation of Everyday Money and Finance" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Jul 28, 202651 min
Lana Swartz on Digital Money and Digital Cultures of Money
Jul 27, 20261h 24m
Mitra Sharafi, "Fear of the False: Forensic Science and the Law of Crime in Colonial South Asia" (Cornell UP, 2026)
Jul 25, 202657 min
Building A Freedom Infrastructure in the Age of Networked Control
Jul 23, 2026
David I. Waddington, "The Hidden Curriculum of Video Games" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2026)
Jul 22, 202642 min
Mark Crinson, "Aviationland: Heathrow and the Making of an Airport Landscape" (Paul Mellon Centre, 2026)
Jul 22, 20261h 16m
Daniel L. Gardner, "Thresholds of Digital Gameplay" (MIT Press, 2025)
Jul 21, 20261h 2m
Stefan Höltgen et al., "Commodore 64: Past, Present, and Future of a Home Computer" (Projekt Verlag, 2026)
Jul 20, 202627 min
Gretchen Heefner, "Sand, Snow, and Stardust: How US Military Engineers Conquered Extreme Environments" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
Jul 18, 202650 min
Hector Amaya, "The Economy of Anonymity: Power in the Age of Identification" (Stanford UP 2026)
Jul 18, 202656 min
Fenwick McKelvey, "SimPolitics: America’s Quest to Solve Politics with Computers" (MIT Press, 2026)
Jul 17, 202651 min
Spirituality, Science and Environmentalism in Taiwan
Jul 16, 2026
Adam Geczy, "Glasses" (Bloomsbury, 2026)
Jul 15, 202634 min
Soraya Murray, "Technothriller: Film and the American Imagination" (MIT Press, 2026)
Jul 14, 20261h 6m
The Emerging Anocracy: AI, Tech Oligarchs, and the Future of Democracy with Alexis Cruz
Jul 12, 20261h 0m
Ali Fard, "Grounding the Cloud: Urbanism in the Shadow of Data" (U Minnesota Press, 2026)
Jul 10, 202643 min
Kit Chapman, "The Age of Alchemy: How Early Innovators Shaped Modern Chemistry" (Profile Books, 2026)
Jul 9, 20261h 18m
Roberta J. Magnusson, "Urban Infrastructure in Medieval England: Sustainability and Resilience" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2026)
Jul 8, 20261h 10m
Meena Khandelwal, "Cookstove Chronicles: Social Life of a Women's Technology in India" (U Arizona Press, 2026)
Jul 8, 20261h 1m
Aswin Punathambekar, Adrienne Shaw and Jonathan Gray eds., "Planet Digital: A Global Media Cultures Reader" (NYU Press, 2026)
Jul 7, 20261h 1m
Hayagreeva Rao and Henrich R Greve, "Ctrl+Alt+Doubt: Decoding the Language of Online Conspiracy Talk" (Oxford UP, 2026)
Jul 5, 20261h 7m
Bjørn Berge, "Smell: The Tale of a Fading Sense" (Reaktion Books, 2026)
Jul 3, 202635 min
Joseph Turow, "The Problem with Personalization: How Advertisers Learned to Make and Break Us from Ancient Times to the AI Age" (U Chicago Press, 2026)
Jul 3, 20261h 7m
Christian Martinez, "NYC Open Data Student Gallery" (Brooklyn College CUNY, 2026)
Jul 2, 20261h 0m
Chinese EVs: From Nordic Streets to Central Asian Hubs
Jul 2, 2026
John Wills, "Doom Town, USA: The Nevada Test Site As Ground Zero of 1950s American Culture" (UP of Kansas, 2026)
Jun 30, 202643 min
Shawn William Miller, "Dream Road to Pan America: A Century in Pursuit of the World's Longest Highway" (U California Press, 2026)
Jun 29, 202640 min
Dallas Liddle, "News Machines: The Systems of Daily Journalism in Britain, 1785–1885" (Oxford UP, 2026)
Jun 29, 202652 min
Ijeoma Uchegbu, "Chain Reaction: How Chemistry Shapes Us and Our World" (HarperCollins, 2026)
Jun 28, 202649 min
Thomas S. Mullaney, "How We Disappear: A Personal History of Information" (W. W. Norton, 2026)
Jun 28, 20261h 16m
Elizabeth Cotton, "UberTherapy: The New Business of Mental Health" (Policy Press, 2025)
Jun 27, 202650 min
Cleo Nisse, "Venetian Canvas and the Transformation of Painting" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Jun 26, 202647 min