8 December, 2014
Sarah Hanks
Secord's Visions of Science weaves together the politics, press, and science of the early nineteenth century.
Gillian Daw
Henchman's The Starry Sky Within is a thought-provoking interdisciplinary work that requires some astronomical expertise.
Anja A. Drautzburg
Watt Smith traces the ways in which the perception and understanding of looking and observing changed from 1872 to 1918.
27 October, 2014
Kate Travers
Blood offers an unexpected and challenging investigation into the role of blood, occuping a crucial space at the centre of the Western canon.
3 June, 2014
Katherine Manfred
Kolbert relates scientifically valid theories in a refreshingly neutral tone as a powerful warning against anthropogenic destruction.
25 November, 2013
Eleanor Hamblen
Rachel Bowlby's exploration of changing conceptions of parenthood results in a convincing, if not entirely cohesive argument, finds Eleanor Hamblen.
10 June, 2013
Luke Brunning
Strictly hyphenated manic-depression is posited as a genre of mental experience in a timely look at bipolar disorder.
27 May, 2013
Harriet Rix
The aim is laudable but the results are disappointing in this new approach to Romantic culture through botany.
2 July, 2012
Joshua Rosaler
Josh Rosaler assesses Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions on the fiftieth anniversary of its publication.
17 May, 2012
Cassiope Kestrel Sydoriak