New Books in Science, Technology, and Society

2414 Episodes

1. Stephanie A. Martin, "Decoding the Digital Church: Evangelical Storytelling and the Election of Donald J. Trump" (U Alabama Press, 2021)

   Published: 1/27/2022
2. Juan Manuel del Nido, "Taxis Vs. Uber: Courts, Markets and Technology in Buenos Aires" (Stanford UP, 2021)

   Published: 1/25/2022
3. Brian Fagan and Nadia Durrani, "Climate Chaos: Lessons on Survival from Our Ancestors" (PublicAffairs, 2021)

   Published: 1/21/2022
4. Matthew C. Kruger, "What The Living Know: A Novel of Suicide and Philosophy" (Nfb Publishing, 2020)

   Published: 1/20/2022
5. Helga Nowotny, "In AI We Trust: Power, Illusion and Control of Predictive Algorithms" (Polity, 2021)

   Published: 1/20/2022
6. Colin Jerolmack, "Up to Heaven and Down to Hell: Fracking, Freedom, and Community in an American Town" (Princeton UP, 2021)

   Published: 1/19/2022
7. John Cardina, "Lives of Weeds: Opportunism, Resistance, Folly" (Cornell UP, 2021)

   Published: 1/19/2022
8. Matt Carlson et al., "News After Trump: Journalism's Crisis of Relevance in a Changed Media Culture" (Oxford UP, 2021)

   Published: 1/19/2022
9. Ginger Nolan, "Savage Mind to Savage Machine: Racial Science and Twentieth-Century Design" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)

   Published: 1/18/2022
10. Rebekah Lee, "Health, Healing and Illness in African History" (Bloomsbury, 2021)

    Published: 1/17/2022
11. Thomas Huckle and Tobias Neckel, "Bits and Bugs: A Scientific and Historical Review of Software Failures in Computational Science" (SIAM, 2019)

    Published: 1/17/2022
12. Harry Yi-Jui Wu, "Mad by the Millions: Mental Disorders and the Early Years of the World Health Organization" (MIT Press, 2021)

    Published: 1/14/2022
13. Charles Foster, "Being a Human: Adventures in Forty Thousand Years of Consciousness" (Metropolitan Books, 2021)

    Published: 1/14/2022
14. Brendan Borrell, "The First Shots: The Epic Rivalries and Heroic Science Behind the Race to the Coronavirus Vaccine" (Mariner Books, 2021)

    Published: 1/13/2022
15. Paul Halpern, "Flashes of Creation: George Gamow, Fred Hoyle, and the Great Big Bang Debate" (Basic Books, 2021)

    Published: 1/11/2022
16. Jonathan B. Edelmann, "Hindu Theology and Biology: The Bhagavata Purana and Contemporary Theory" (Oxford UP, 2020)

    Published: 1/11/2022
17. COVID-19 and Vaccine Hesitancy in Japan

    Published: 1/7/2022
18. Karl Herrup, "How Not to Study a Disease: The Story of Alzheimer's" (MIT Press, 2021)

    Published: 1/3/2022
19. Exploring Science Literacy and Public Engagement with Science

    Published: 12/31/2021
20. David Sulzer, "Music, Math, and Mind: The Physics and Neuroscience of Music" (Columbia UP, 2021)

    Published: 12/30/2021