Overview :Eugenic thought and practice swept the world from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century in a remarkable transnational phenomenon.... Read More
Overview :Concern about the size of the world's population did not begin with the "population bomb" in 1968. It arose in the aftermath of World War I ... Read More
Overview :A New Yorker and Economist Best Book of the Year Two hundred years of modern science and culture told through one family history. This m... Read More
Overview :The astonishing story of palmistry--from occultists to the very foundations of modern science and medicine. Why did Isaac Newton read book... Read More
Overview :The New Worlds of Thomas Robert Malthus is a sweeping global and intellectual history that radically recasts our understanding of Malthus's ... Read More