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Entangled and Enchanted
Scott McLemee reviews Kay Harel’s Darwin’s Love of Life: A Singular Case of Biophilia.
Our Own Devices
Scott McLemee surveys new university press titles on information technology and digital media, covering topics ranging from technology in policing to online felines.
Patterns of Prestige
Scott McLemee reviews W. David Marx’s Status and Culture: How Our Desire for Social Rank Creates Taste, Identity, Art, Fashion, and Constant Change.
Espionage! (Not)
Scott McLemee reviews Ralph Engelman and Carey Shenkman’s A Century of Repression: The Espionage Act and Freedom of the Press.
‘Professor of Apocalypse’
Scott McLemee reviews Jerry Z. Muller’s Professor of Apocalypse: The Many Lives of Jacob Taubes.
Scandal
Scott McLemee reviews J. Michael Martinez’s Libertines: American Political Sex Scandals From Alexander Hamilton to Donald Trump.
Blowing in the Wind
Scott McLemee takes a look at forthcoming university press titles.
Snapshots of the Cyclops
Scott McLemee takes a peek at Lynn Spigel's TV Snapshots: An Archive of Everyday Life