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Wednesday’s Book Review: “A Vision of Modern Science”
A Vision of Modern Science: John Tyndall and the Role of the Scientist in Victorian Culture. By Ursula DeYoung. (Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology.) 280 pp., illus., bibl., index. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. $85 (cloth). … Continue reading
Wednesday’s Book Review: “Eismitte in the Scientific Imagination”
Eismette in the Scientific Imagination: Knowledge and Politics at the Center of Greenland. By Janet Martin-Nielson. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Eismette means “middle ice” in German, and this book is about the quest to reach that middle point on … Continue reading
Wednesday’s Book Review: “The Roots of American Exceptionalism”
The Roots of American Exceptionalism: Institutions, Culture, and Policies. By Charles Lockhart. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. This book seeks to answer the core question: is the United States different from other wealthy democracies, and if so how? Is it exceptional? … Continue reading
Wednesday’s Book Review: “Empire and Science in the Making”
Empire and Science in the Making: Dutch Colonial Scholarship in Comparative Global Perspective, 1760-1830. Edited by Peter Boomgaard. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. As co-editor of the series, Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology, my comments will … Continue reading
Wednesday’s Book Review: “Eugenics and the Nature-Nurture Debate in the Twentieth Century”
Eugenics and the Nature-Nurture Debate in the Twentieth Century. By Aaron Gillette. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. In the early twentieth century a convergence of ideas swirling around sociobiology, evolutionary psychology, and eugenics led to an argument that heredity had … Continue reading
Wednesday’s Book Review: “Imagining Outer Space: European Astroculture in the Twentieth Century”
Imagining Outer Space: European Astroculture in the Twentieth Century. Edited by Alexander C.T. Geppert. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. Hardcover. 393 pp. Color plates, notes, index. ISBN 978-0-230-23172-6. US $105.00. In 1997 Howard E. McCurdy published the path-breaking Space and … Continue reading
Wednesday’s Book Review: “Inventing the American Astronaut”
Inventing the American Astronaut. By Matthew H. Hersch. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. x + 219 pp., illus., notes, selected bibliography, index. ISBN 978-1-137-02528-9. $27.00 (paperback). Matthew H. Hersch takes on an exploration of the work life of the American astronauts … Continue reading
Publication of my Edited Work: “Exploring the Solar System: The History and Science of Planetary Exploration”
I am pleased to note that this week Palgrave Macmillan released my edited work, Exploring the Solar System: The History and Science of Planetary Exploration. This book has been years in the making, and includes essays on a broad selection … Continue reading
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