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Second Wind Oral Histories of Lung Transplant Survivors

Themes: Social History • Sociology • Science

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A Brief History of the Female Body An Evolutionary Look at How and Why the Female Form Came to Be

Themes: Social History • Sociology • Science

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Hubbub Filth, Noise, and Stench in England, 1600-1770

Themes: Social History • Sociology • Science

Men in Dark Times — Hannah Arendt

Men in Dark Times

Themes: Social History • Sociology • Science

Power Trip From Oil Wells to Solar Cells—Our Ride to the Renewable Future — Amanda Little

Power Trip From Oil Wells to Solar Cells—Our Ride to the Renewable Future

Themes: Social History • Sociology • Science

The Happiness Myth Why What We Think Is Right Is Wrong — Jennifer Michael Hecht

The Happiness Myth Why What We Think Is Right Is Wrong

Jennifer Michael Hecht

Themes: Social History • Sociology • Science

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Quality of Life and Climate Change Impacts, Sustainable Adaptation, and Social-ecological Resilience

Themes: Social History • Sociology • Science

The Sweet Spot The Pleasures of Suffering and the Search for Meaning — Paul Bloom

The Sweet Spot The Pleasures of Suffering and the Search for Meaning

Themes: Social History • Sociology • Science

Disenchanted Night The Industrialization of Light in the Nineteenth Century — Wolfgang Schivelbusch

Disenchanted Night The Industrialization of Light in the Nineteenth Century

Wolfgang Schivelbusch

Themes: Social History • Sociology • Science

The City in American History — Blake McKelvey

The City in American History

Themes: Social History • Sociology • Science

Off with Her Head Three Thousand Years of Demonizing Women in Power — Eleanor Herman

Off with Her Head Three Thousand Years of Demonizing Women in Power

Themes: Social History • Sociology • Science

Don’t Trust Your Gut Using Data to Get What You Really Want in Life — Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

Don’t Trust Your Gut Using Data to Get What You Really Want in Life

Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

Themes: Social History • Sociology • Science

Wild Ones A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals in America — Jon Mooallem

Wild Ones A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals in America

Themes: Social History • Sociology • Science

Growth and Change in Post-socialist Cities of Central Europe — Waldemar Cudny

Growth and Change in Post-socialist Cities of Central Europe

Themes: Social History • Sociology • Science

Architectures of Hurry Mobilities, Cities and Modernity — Phillip Gordon Mackintosh

Architectures of Hurry Mobilities, Cities and Modernity

Phillip Gordon Mackintosh

Themes: Social History • Sociology • Science

The Narrative Turn in Urban Planning Plotting the Helsinki Waterfront — Lieven Ameel

The Narrative Turn in Urban Planning Plotting the Helsinki Waterfront

Themes: Social History • Sociology • Science

Hidden Brilliance Unlocking the Intelligence of Autism — Lynn Kern Koegel

Hidden Brilliance Unlocking the Intelligence of Autism

Lynn Kern Koegel

Themes: Social History • Sociology • Science

Electable Why America Hasn’t Put a Woman in the White House…yet — Ali Vitali

Electable Why America Hasn’t Put a Woman in the White House…yet

Themes: Social History • Sociology • Science

Orthodoxy and the Cold War Religion and Political Power in Romania, 1947-65 — L. Leustean

Orthodoxy and the Cold War Religion and Political Power in Romania, 1947-65

Themes: Social History • Sociology • Science

The Routledge Handbook of Memory and Place — Sarah De Nardi

The Routledge Handbook of Memory and Place

Themes: Social History • Sociology • Science

Fool Proof How Fear of Playing the Sucker Shapes Our Selves and the Social Order-and what We Can Do about it — Tess Wilkinson-Ryan

Fool Proof How Fear of Playing the Sucker Shapes Our Selves and the Social Order-and what We Can Do about it

Tess Wilkinson-Ryan

Themes: Social History • Sociology • Science

A Walk Around the Block Stoplight Secrets, Mischievous Squirrels, Manhole Mysteries & Other Stuff You See Every Day (and Know Nothing About) — Spike Carlsen

A Walk Around the Block Stoplight Secrets, Mischievous Squirrels, Manhole Mysteries & Other Stuff You See Every Day (and Know Nothing About)

Themes: Social History • Sociology • Science

The Injustice of Place Uncovering the Legacy of Poverty in America — Kathryn Edin

The Injustice of Place Uncovering the Legacy of Poverty in America

Themes: Social History • Sociology • Science

The Ghost Map A Street, an Epidemic and the Hidden Power of Urban Networks. — Steven Johnson

The Ghost Map A Street, an Epidemic and the Hidden Power of Urban Networks.

Themes: Social History • Sociology • Science

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