Tag: 2016
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Lupton, Deborah, The Quantified Self
Deborah Lupton, The Quantified Self (Cambridge: Polity Press 2016) 183 pp. £15.99 Pb, £50.00 Hb. ISBN: 9781509500598 Deborah Lupton’s timely sociological survey of the latest trends in technologically assisted self-tracking cultures focuses on both voluntary and coercive forms of personalized data gathering. In contrast to older forms of collecting and reflecting on information about oneself…
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Ridley, Rosalind, Peter Pan and the Mind of J M Barrie: An Exploration of Cognition and Consciousness
Rosalind Ridley, Peter Pan and the Mind of J M Barrie: An Exploration of Cognition and Consciousness (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2016) 191 pp. £47.99 Hb. ISBN: 978-1-4438-9107-3 When the theatre manager Herbert Beerbohm Tree read a draft of J M Barrie’s play Peter Pan in 1904,1 he looked at the large cast, the exuberant…
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Rose, Hilary and Steven Rose, Can Neuroscience Change Our Minds?
Hilary Rose and Steven Rose, Can Neuroscience Change Our Minds? (Cambridge: Polity Press 2016) 170 pp. £35.00 Hb, £9.99 Pb. ISBN: 9780745689319 The equivocal title of this short book by Emerita Professor of Social Policy Hilary Rose and Emeritus Professor of Neuroscience Steven Rose is admittedly ‘a restatement of our overall perspective on the mutual…
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Kaiser, David and W Patrick McCray (eds), Groovy Science: Knowledge, Innovation and American Counterculture
David Kaiser and W Patrick McCray, eds, Groovy Science: Knowledge, Innovation and American Counterculture (Chicago: University of Chicago Press 2016) 416 pp. $25.00 Pb, $75.00 Hb. ISBN: 9780226372884 Groovy Science: Knowledge, Innovation and American Counterculture examines the boom of American scientific and technological advancement between the late 1960s and the early 1980s. However, rather than…
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Tattersdill, Will, Science, Fiction and the Fin-de-Siècle Periodical Press
Will Tattersdill, Science, Fiction and the Fin-de-Siècle Periodical Press (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: 2016) 220 + x pp. $80.00 PDF, £64.99 Hb. ISBN: 9781107144651 Will Tattersdill’s engaging study of the periodical and its role in the creation of science fiction as a genre aims much wider in scope than a survey of the general periodical…
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Willis, Martin (ed), Staging Science: Scientific Performance on Street, Stage and Screen
Martin Willis (ed.) Staging Science: Scientific Performance on Street, Stage and Screen (London: Palgrave 2016) xi+140 pp. £29.99 EPUB & PDF, £37.99 Hb. ISBN: 978-1-137-49993-6 The relationship between science and performance is an issue which scholars across many disciplines have found compelling. In the field of geography, Charles Withers and David Livingstone have examined the…
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Dawson, Gowan, Show Me the Bone: Reconstructing Prehistoric Monsters in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America
Gowan Dawson, Show Me the Bone: Reconstructing Prehistoric Monsters in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America (Chicago: University of Chicago Press 2016) 480pp. $50.00 Hb. ISBN: 9780226332734 ‘“Give me the bone, and I will describe the animal”’ (1), Cuvier is supposed to have declared. Dawson’s monograph examines the rise and fall of Cuvier’s law of correlation, which…
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Adam, Alison, A History of Forensic Science
Alison Adam, A History of Forensic Science (Oxford: Routledge 2016) 236 pp. £90 Hb. ISBN: 9780415856423 The history of forensics is certainly not a large field, but thus far 2016 has witnessed a bumper crop of forensic-centric history books. Alison Adam’s A History of Forensic Science joins David Arnold’s Toxic Histories: Poison and Pollution in…
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Albritton, Vicky and Fredrik Albritton Jonsson, Green Victorians: The Simple Life in John Ruskin’s Lake District
Vicky Albritton and Fredrik Albritton Jonsson, Green Victorians: The Simple Life in John Ruskin’s Lake District (Chicago: University of Chicago Press 2016) 209 pp. £28.00 Hb. ISBN: 978-0-226-339986 Vicky Albritton and Fredrik Albritton Jonsson open their account of The Simple Life in John Ruskin’s Lake District, as their book is subtitled, with the work of…
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Choi, Tina Young, Anonymous Connections: The Body and Narratives of the Social in Victorian Britain
Tina Young Choi, Anonymous Connections: The Body and Narratives of the Social in Victorian Britain (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press 2016) 192 pp. $65.00 Hb. ISBN: 978-0-472-11972-1 We live, Tina Young Choi reminds us, in an age of proliferating virtual networks, pervasive economic globalisation, and the transmission of diseases such as Ebola and influenza across…
