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New Books in Science, Technology & Society is an author-interview podcast channel in the . 🎧 on iTunes:

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    Mar 6

    Have you written a good new book? Want to appear on the podcast? Pitch us at the link below and the editors at the will try to match you up with one of our 200+ podcast hosts.

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    . & discuss URGENCY IN THE ANTHROPOCENE (). With detailed analyses of climate accords & theories of geo-engineering, the book exposes how our discourse on limits our imagined possibilities for sustainability.

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    Nov 30

    Interested in ? Listen up! 's released a podcast featuring professor, author and Director . 🎙️

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    Nov 26

    Why don't we die daily? In THE HUMAN BODY IN THE AGE OF CATASTROPHE () Stefanos Geroulanos & explore how scientists working during & after WWI responded to that thorny problem in light of the challenges of wound shock. 👇

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  5. Nov 21

    🎙️ hosts , author of PATENT POLITICS (). The book takes us through a 30-year history of the legal debates around , seeking to understand how knowledge production interacts with the law.

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    Nov 21

    THE MISMEASURE OF MINDS () traces how research around such concepts as learned helplessness, deferred gratification, hyperactivity & emotional intelligence migrated into pop culture & govt policy. Listen to Michael E. Staub's NBN interview👇

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    DISCOGNITION () looks at narratives--in some cases reading philosophical or scientific literature as speculative fiction--to raise important questions about consciousness & sentience. Don't miss 's interview with 👇

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    Fine tuning has received attention from physicists, philosophers & the media. chats with A FORTUNATE UNIVERSE authors & . They elaborate on the concept with memorable examples from the world of ⬇️

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    New episode! Listen to 's conversation w/evolutionary biologist/psychologist David Barash whose new book, THROUGH A GLASS BRIGHTLY (,) explores the process by which science has cut humanity “down to size" & how we've responded.

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    Nov 9

    IS THAT BIG NUMBER? () author joins us. This book helps us realize not only the relative magnitudes of many of the numbers that surround us, but also why our understanding of the universe often comes down to numbers.

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    Nov 8

    📺 Televisions are both less visible and more present than ever today. In THE JOY OF SETS (), professor Chris Horrocks traces the cultural history of the TV set. Tune in (we couldn't resist) to his NBN interview with 👇

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    Nov 8

    RUSSIAN SCIENCE FICTION LITERATURE AND CINEMA () presents not only in terms of aesthetic inspirations & experimentations, but also in terms of political contestations & existential crises. Tune in as author Anindita Banjerjee joins us 👇

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    Nov 5

    I'm very grateful to for her thoughtful questions about my book, The Lighthouse and the Observatory, now available on the New Books podcast!

    Both a history of science & a history of , THE LIGHTHOUSE AND THE OBSERVATORY () looks at how tied together the state & religious practice in Ottoman . ☑️ out 's conversation w/ 🔽
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    Both a history of science & a history of , THE LIGHTHOUSE AND THE OBSERVATORY () looks at how tied together the state & religious practice in Ottoman . ☑️ out 's conversation w/ 🔽

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    Focusing on the public right to hear, NETWORKED PRESS FREEDOM () explores the competing values & publics journalists must negotiate to provide objective news & to build trust. Author & professor joins 👇

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    A trio of professors have assembled THE LIVES OF GUNS (), a volume of essays that considers new ways of thinking about American narratives of ballistic weapons. has Jonathan Obert & Andrew Poe on the 👇

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    🎙️ interviews co-editor & contributor about REDEFINING THE MODERN MILITARY (), a collection of essays examining military professionalism & ethics in light of major changes to modern warfare. Hear the podcast👇

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    . speaks w/ACCOUNTING FOR SLAVERY () author . The book resituates the development of scientific labor optimization practices within the Atlantic slave trade, inviting us to rethink the genealogy of business mgmt.

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    incidentally, Emily Crandall's excellent recent interview with Sandra Harding makes a really interesting counterpoint to the Latour profile:

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    Oct 29

    What a great interview about a fabulous project. A really *global* project, that looks at the Portuguese "assembling" of the tropics into one coherent whole. This needs to be on every reading list and syllabus.

    ASSEMBLING THE TROPICS () by Hugh Cagle is an exciting analysis of the production of the tropics as an idea & as a dimension of imperialism through the development of the Portuguese Empire. Preview the book on the podcast👇
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    Oct 29

    really enjoyed listening to this, which has a great deal methodologically in common with my own work on the 17th c European development of the homogenizing religious umbrella category "paganism." Can't wait to read the book...

    ASSEMBLING THE TROPICS () by Hugh Cagle is an exciting analysis of the production of the tropics as an idea & as a dimension of imperialism through the development of the Portuguese Empire. Preview the book on the podcast👇
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