Book Reviews Archives | Issues in Science and Technology https://issues.org/section/book-review/ The best minds on the most important topics. Tue, 29 Jul 2025 19:56:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://issues.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/cropped-issues-favicon-32x32.png Book Reviews Archives | Issues in Science and Technology https://issues.org/section/book-review/ 32 32 A Century of Conflict Over Evolution Education https://issues.org/evolution-education-hundred-years-trial-scopes-branch/ https://issues.org/evolution-education-hundred-years-trial-scopes-branch/#respond Wed, 30 Jul 2025 10:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=46422 In July 1925, a young science teacher named John Thomas Scopes was on trial in Dayton, Tennessee, for violating a recently enacted state law, the Butler Act. The law forbade public school… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/evolution-education-hundred-years-trial-scopes-branch/feed/ 0 Where Are the Moonshots? https://issues.org/moonshots-artificial-intelligence-technological-republic-laforge/ https://issues.org/moonshots-artificial-intelligence-technological-republic-laforge/#respond Wed, 16 Jul 2025 10:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=46537 Gordon LaForge reviews “The Technological Republic” by Alexander C. Karp and Nicholas W. Zamiska.

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]]> https://issues.org/forest-lost-review-unsal/feed/ 0 War Is Us https://issues.org/why-war-review-alic/ https://issues.org/why-war-review-alic/#respond Wed, 07 May 2025 10:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=45563 Richard Overy is a preeminent historian of war, especially the Second World War. He is perhaps best known for Why the Allies Won, which seems to me the finest account of… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/science-communication-crisis-review-nelson/feed/ 0 Attempting a Democratic Technology https://issues.org/peoples-spaceship-review-logsdon/ https://issues.org/peoples-spaceship-review-logsdon/#respond Wed, 05 Mar 2025 11:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=44588 John M. Logsdon reviews Amy Paige Kaminsky’s book about the development of and justification for NASA’s space shuttle program.

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]]> https://issues.org/peoples-spaceship-review-logsdon/feed/ 0 Sound Therapy https://issues.org/music-and-mind-review-fitzpatrick/ https://issues.org/music-and-mind-review-fitzpatrick/#respond Wed, 27 Nov 2024 11:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=43576 If given the choice, I will always choose the quiet of nature over the jangle of artificial sounds. Imagine my shock, then, when I developed tinnitus. The onset of this constant sound—a… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/music-and-mind-review-fitzpatrick/feed/ 0 The Puzzle of Pricing the Future https://issues.org/discounting-the-future-review-simpson/ https://issues.org/discounting-the-future-review-simpson/#respond Wed, 16 Oct 2024 10:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=43572 Liliana Doganova describes her book, Discounting the Future: The Ascendency of a Political Technology, as a study in the “historical sociology” of discounting. Discounting—determining what value to place on income in… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/discounting-the-future-review-simpson/feed/ 0 Go to Hell, Robots! https://issues.org/rur-vision-artificial-life-capek-review-trump/ https://issues.org/rur-vision-artificial-life-capek-review-trump/#respond Wed, 28 Aug 2024 10:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=42824 In 1920, what might be the most successful anthology in German-language publishing history appeared. Menschheitsdämmerung, or“Twilight of Humanity,” collects 275 poems, many of which rage against the Machine Age. Viewing Europe… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/rur-vision-artificial-life-capek-review-trump/feed/ 0 Like the Web Is Part of the Spider https://issues.org/maniac-labatut-review-trapani/ https://issues.org/maniac-labatut-review-trapani/#respond Wed, 07 Aug 2024 10:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=42827 Applying too much presentism—interpreting past events in terms of modern values and concepts—can ruin fiction. The power of literature, after all, is in revealing and exploring the universal qualities that make us… Read More

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