New Books in Science, Technology, and Society

2577 Episodes

1. Wes Marshall, "Killed by a Traffic Engineer: Shattering the Delusion That Science Underlies Our Transportation System" (Island Press, 2024)

   Published: 10/12/2024
2. Risa Cromer, "Conceiving Christian America: Embryo Adoption and Reproductive Politics" (NYU Press, 2023)

   Published: 10/9/2024
3. Chris Benner and Manuel Pastor, "Charging Forward: Lithium Valley, Electric Vehicles, and a Just Future" (The New Press, 2024)

   Published: 10/9/2024
4. John Withington, "A History of Fireworks from: Their Origins to the Present Day" (Reaktion, 2024)

   Published: 10/8/2024
5. Critique, Wonder, and Chinese Anatomy, with Lan A. Li

   Published: 10/8/2024
6. Pamela O. Long on the Long, Long, Long History of Technology

   Published: 10/7/2024
7. Marco Bastos, "Brexit, Tweeted: Polarization and Social Media Manipulation" (Bristol UP, 2024)

   Published: 10/6/2024
8. Alan F. Blackwell, "Moral Codes: Designing Alternatives to AI" (MIT Press, 2024)

   Published: 10/6/2024
9. Jeffrey Ding, "Technology and the Rise of Great Powers: How Diffusion Shapes Economic Competition" (Princeton UP, 2024)

   Published: 10/5/2024
10. Gerald Sim, "Screening Big Data: Films That Shape Our Algorithmic Literacy" (Routledge, 2024)

    Published: 10/3/2024
11. Christian Wolmar, "The Liberation Line: The Untold Story of How American Engineering and Ingenuity Won World War II" (Hachette, 2024)

    Published: 10/2/2024
12. Paola Bertucci, "In the Land of Marvels: Science, Fabricated Realities, and Industrial Espionage in the Age of the Grand Tour" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)

    Published: 10/1/2024
13. Amos C. Fox, "Conflict Realism: Understanding the Causal Logic of Modern War and Warfare" (Howgate, 2024)

    Published: 9/30/2024
14. Jason Weiss, "Listenings" (Spuyten Duyvil, 2023)

    Published: 9/29/2024
15. Annette Kehnel, "The Green Ages: Medieval Innovations in Sustainability" (Brandeis UP, 2024)

    Published: 9/29/2024
16. Jonathan Maskit, "Bicycle" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

    Published: 9/29/2024
17. Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World

    Published: 9/26/2024
18. Jordan Minor, "Video Game of the Year: A Year-By-Year Guide to the Best, Boldest, and Most Bizarre Games from Every Year Since 1977" (Abrams, 2023)

    Published: 9/26/2024
19. Ethical Machines: A Conversation with Reid Blackman

    Published: 9/25/2024
20. Max Hirsh and Till Mostowlansky, "Infrastructure and the Remaking of Asia" (U Hawaii Press, 2022)

    Published: 9/24/2024