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SterilizationWhat occurred then was a crisis for a new profession that had emerged as these new institutions arrived on the scene. It’s something of a chicken and egg phenomenon. The...
My book is about that loosely defined cultural phenomenon known as “the recovery movement”—an agglomeration of self-help groups and practices that have grown out of Alcoholics Anonymous since its founding...
They say not to judge a book by its cover or by the images contained within it. I have to say, however, I spent a lot of time thinking about...
I would hope that potential readers who come across the book in their local or campus bookstore will either, having glanced at the opening pages, be sufficiently intrigued to glance...
Socrates in the Boardroom argues that it is experts, not managers that make the better leaders. This is a message that, recently, has been almost unfashionable. I go a step...
When I first heard about the lawsuit, it resonated with me in many ways. I am an art historian, I had been a Getty Fellow, and the Armenian Genocide is...
Embodied Visions is a pathbreaking explanation of how films are crafted to activate innate features of our brains and bodies. The book is based on cutting edge neuropsychology and evolutionary...
Icons of Life explains how we came to think of embryos as tiny, unborn versions of our selves.Today embryos and fetuses are veritable little persons; they star in their own...
Each chapter offers interesting research findings interpreted from an economic perspective. “Chasing the Tale” reviews what evolutionary biology tells us about the transformation of wolves into dogs. It also considers...
Beyond the Map is the kind of book you can dip into anywhere. Reviewers often call it ‘quirky’ and the individual chapters are very different from each other; some are...
The book is about race, but more broadly it is about the idea of Democracy. In it, I’m grappling with how we move closer to a society in which the...
The most contentious of the standards and conventions of “real” journalism, as I’ve found in my dual career as historian and journalist, has long been the ideal of objectivity. Having...
Global Lives aims to offer an introduction to global history between 1550 and 1800. Focusing on Britain’s changing relationships with the rest of the world, it sets out the contours...
I’d like a casual reader to start at the beginning, with the Introduction. That’s because in the Introduction, using recent media stories, I set up the key debate I pursue...
Sustainability is all the rage. Political and business leaders talk earnestly and passionately about going green. A growing number of books, movies, and public conversations signal a general unease about...
This book is part of a much longer project within philosophy and social theory seeking to understand what I describe as the sensed unconscious. The concept describes aspects of our...
On the one hand, this book addresses the well-known literature on Orientalism, and argues that singing Turks were not understood as simply exotic “others” on the European stage. On the...
While getting my PhD at Brandeis University, I studied public administration and administrative law with Professor Peter Woll. A classic issue in those fields is the control of experts, especially...
The anatomy murders were serial killings carried out by William Burke and William Hare, two Irishmen resident in Edinburgh, Scotland. They murdered 16 people in the course of a 12-month...
My interest in the topic of public art and modernism in Los Angeles grew out of a lifelong concern with artistic and literary censorship. Early in my career, I learned...
Recounting the detailed life story of a long-extinct woolly mammoth may seem fantastically impossible, but our little atomic historians are up to the task.The “flavors” of different atoms referred to...
I'm a historian of eastern Europe, I'm a specialist in this region.I've noticed that in general my colleagues avoid the larger tragedies that struck the lands we've studied, such as...
The Rise of the Working-Class Shareholder tells the story of labor’s unheralded shareholder activism. That activism weaponizes the $3 trillion in labor’s capital, which is vested in the pensions of...
Page 6, which shows the difference between the number of states that are included in the data that underpin our book, compared to the number of states identified in existing...
I would hope that readers encounter the last chapter, preferably because they got there through first reading the preceding nine chapters, but I’m not picky. That last chapter is mostly...
If someone began thumbing randomly through this book, I’d hope that it would fall open to page 168–not because that’s where I make a particularly powerful point or lay out...
Zoot Suit takes issue with historians and other scholars who interpret everyday life and culture largely as expressions of power and politics.In this view, subcultural styles are a form of...
This book attempts to place hate speech into a context of long lineage.While hate speech has almost undoubtedly been around for as long as people have been able to recognize...
I came to write Veblen out of years of skepticism about the “outsider thesis.” Added to this was my frustration, at once theoretical and methodological, with the tendency of intellectual...
The Iraq invasion of 2003 was justified by the Bush administration on the grounds of national security. But all of the principal advisors of the administration of president George W....
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