Daniel J. Kevles is Stanley Woodward Professor of History at Yale University. His most recent book is The Baltimore Case.
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An American Passion Revealed
May 13, 2010
Fruits and Plains: The Horticultural Transformation of America
by Philip J. Pauly
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Vavilov and the Famine
December 4, 2008
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Martyred by Monsters
October 9, 2008
The Murder of Nikolai Vavilov: The Story of Stalin’s Persecutionof One of the Great Scientistsof the Twentieth Century
by Peter Pringle
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Keeping Mum about ‘No First Use’
May 31, 2007
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The Poor Man’s Atomic Bomb
April 12, 2007
War of Nerves: Chemical Warfare from World War I to Al-Qaeda
by Jonathan B. Tucker
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The Strange Case of Robert Oppenheimer
December 4, 2003
Brotherhood of the Bomb: The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller
by Gregg Herken
Pandora’s Keepers: Nine Men and the Atomic Bomb by Brian VanDeMark
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His Master’s Voice
April 10, 2003
The Soundscape of Modernity: Architectural Acoustics and the Culture of Listening in America, 1900–1933
by Emily Thompson
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Cancer: What Do They Know?
September 23, 1999
The Nazi War on Cancer
by Robert N. Proctor
One Renegade Cell: How Cancer Begins
by by Robert A. Weinberg
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Darwin in Dayton
November 19, 1998
Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America’s Continuing Debate over Science and Religion
by Edward J. Larson
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Endangered Environmentalists
February 20, 1997
The Last Harvest: The Genetic Gamble That Threatens to Destroy American Agriculture by Paul Raeburn
Our Children’s Toxic Legacy: How Science and Law Fail to Protect Us from Pesticides by Wargo John
Noah’s Choice: The Future of Endangered Species by Charles C. Mann, by Mark L. Plummer
Losing Ground: American Environmentalism at the Close of the Twentieth Century by Mark Dowie
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Earth First!
December 1, 1994
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Greens in America
October 6, 1994
The House of Life: Rachel Carson at Work, with Selections from Her Writings by Paul Brooks
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
Forcing the Spring: The Transformation of the American Environmental Movement by Robert Gottlieb
The Green Crusade: Rethinking the Roots of Environmentalism by Charles T. Rubin
The Green Revolution: The American Environmental Movement, 1962-1992 by Kirkpatrick Sale
A Fierce Green Fire: The American Environmental Movement
by Philip Shabecoff
Coyotes and Town Dogs: Earth First! and the Environmental Movement by Susan Zakin
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The Sticking Gas
June 25, 1992
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Some Like It Hot
March 26, 1992
Preserving the Global Environment: The Challenge of Shared Leadership edited by Jessica Tuchman Mathews
It’s a Matter of Survival by Anita Gordon, by David Suzuki
Ecology, Economics, Ethics: The Broken Circle edited by F. Herbert Bormann, edited by Stephen R. Kellert
Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh
by Helena Norberg-Hodge
Eco-Warriors: Understanding the Radical Environmental Movement by Rik Scarce
Green Rage: Radical Environmentalism and the Unmaking of Civilization by Christopher Manes
Ozone Diplomacy: New Directions in Safeguarding the Planet by Richard Elliot Benedick
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‘The Final Secret of the Universe’?
May 16, 1991
Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos: The Scientific Quest for the Secret of the Universe by Dennis Overbye
The Big Bang Never Happened: A Startling Refutation of the Dominant Theory of the Origin of the Universe
by Eric J. Lerner
Origins: The Lives and Worlds of Modern Cosmologists by Alan Lightman, by Roberta Brawer
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Begetting Big Science
October 25, 1990
Lawrence and His Laboratory: A History of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Volume I by J.L. Heilbron, by Robert W. Seidel
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Paradise Lost
December 21, 1989
The End of Nature by Bill McKibben
Global Warming: Are We Entering the Greenhouse Century? by Stephen H. Schneider
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Science and Society: An Exchange
October 11, 1979