History Within: The Science, Culture, and Politics of Bones, Organisms, and Molecules
Book
Personal genomics services such as 23andMe and Ancestry.com now offer what once was science fiction:...
Radium and the Secret of Life
Book
Before the hydrogen bomb indelibly associated radioactivity with death, many chemists, physicians,...
Scenescapes: How Qualities of Place Shape Social Life
Daniel Aaron Silver and Terry Nichols Clark
Book
Let's set the scene: there's a regular on his barstool, beer in hand. He's watching a young couple...
The Courtiers' Anatomists: Animals and Humans in Louis XIV's Paris
Book
The Courtiers' Anatomists is about dead bodies and live animals in Louis XIV's Paris - and the...
The New York Times 36 Hours: USA & Canada. Midwest & Great Lakes
Book
Weekends on the road. This is the best of the American Midwest & Great Lakes. The "New York Times"...
Dislocating the Orient: British Maps and the Making of the Middle East, 1854-1921
Book
While the twentieth century's conflicting visions and exploitation of the Middle East are well...
history geography
Jonathan Brown
Podcast
Jonathan Brown is the Alwaleed bin Talal Chair of Islamic Civilization in the School of Foreign...
The Distressed Body: Rethinking Illness, Imprisonment, and Healing
Book
Bodily pain and distress come in many forms. They can well up from within at times of serious...
Judicial Reputation: A Comparative Theory
Book
Judges are society's elders and experts, our masters and mediators. We depend on them to dispense...
