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Good Old-Fashioned Nostalgia
Scott McLemee highlights another round of titles from next season’s offerings from university presses.
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‘Every Cook Can Govern’
Scott McLemee interviews Ceri Dingle, the director of an ambitious documentary on the West Indian political theorist and scholar C. L. R. James about how Dingle, 200 volunteers and others brought such a daunting project to fruition.
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Fall Forward
Scott McLemee continues to survey some of the upcoming publishing season’s offerings.
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Books, Exposed
Scott McLemee highlights some of the new books coming out this fall and winter that are likely to be of general or topical appeal.
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Digital Folklore?
Scott McLemee has found most recently published books on digital discourse -- memes, tweeting and other modes of contemporary communication -- hard to keep reading. The exception is Whitney Phillips and Ryan M. Milner’s The Ambivalent Internet.
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I Spy
In Citizen Spies, Joshua Reeves demonstrates that the surveillance systems established in America since the Sept. 11 attacks depend largely on habits that have been a long time in forming, writes Scott McLemee.
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Mad Science
In Paranoid Science: The Christian Right’s War on Reality, Antony Alumkal shows that hostility toward science -- including a kind of fearful contempt toward scientists -- is fairly palpable, writes Scott McLemee.
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The Other Leonardo
In Finding Fibonacci: The Quest to Rediscover the Forgotten Mathematical Genius Who Changed the World, Keith Devlin helps rescue a mathematician from 13th-century Italy from near total oblivion, writes Scott McLemee.