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NEXUS: New Histories of Science, Technology, the Environment, Agriculture, and Medicine

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Atomic Environments

Atomic Environments

Nuclear Technologies, the Natural World, and Policymaking, 1945–1960

by Neil Shafer Oatsvall

Price: $49.95

ISBN: 9780817321468

Pub Date: February 2023

Format: Hardcover

Demonstrates how policymakers influenced environmental science during the early nuclear age
 
The Defoliation of America

The Defoliation of America

Agent Orange Chemicals, Citizens, and Protests

by Amy Marie Hay

Foreword by Mark D. Hersey

Price: $49.95

ISBN: 9780817321086

Pub Date: December 2021

Format: Hardcover

Examines the domestic and international use of phenoxy herbicides by the United States in the mid-twentieth century

 
Life Out of Balance

Life Out of Balance

Homeostasis and Adaptation in a Darwinian World

by Joel B. Hagen

Foreword by Alexandra Evonne Hui

Price: $59.95

ISBN: 9780817320898

Pub Date: April 2021

Format: Hardcover

Traces historical developments in scientific conceptions of physiology, ecology, behavior, and evolutionary biology during the mid-twentieth century
 
The Green Revolution in the Global South

The Green Revolution in the Global South

Science, Politics, and Unintended Consequences

by R. Douglas Hurt

Foreword by Alan I Marcus

Price: $49.95

ISBN: 9780817320515

Pub Date: March 2020

Format: Hardcover

A synthesis of the agricultural history of the Green Revolution
Chemical Lands

Chemical Lands

Pesticides, Aerial Spraying, and Health in North America’s Grasslands since 1945

by David D. Vail

Price: $39.95

ISBN: 9780817319731

Pub Date: January 2018

Format: Hardcover

An exploration of the elaborate relationship between farmers, aerial sprayers, agriculturalists, crop pests, chemicals, and the environment
Heightened Expectations

Heightened Expectations

The Rise of the Human Growth Hormone Industry in America

by Aimee Medeiros

Price: $39.95

ISBN: 9780817319106

Pub Date: March 2016

Format: Hardcover

Heightened Expectations explores the complex relationship between the history of the social stigmatization of short stature in boys and the rise of the multibillion-dollar human growth hormone industry.
Service as Mandate

Service as Mandate

How American Land-Grant Universities Shaped the Modern World, 1920–2015

Edited by Alan I Marcus

Contributions by Alan I Marcus, Amy Sue Bix, Gwen Kay, Valerie Grim, Anne B. Effland, David L. Harmon, Donald Alexander Downs, Erinn McComb, Stephanie Statz, Hamilton Cravens, Melissa Walker, Robert C. McMath and R. Douglas Hurt

Price: $59.95

ISBN: 9780817318888

Pub Date: December 2015

Format: Hardcover

Completing a comprehensive history of America’s land-grant universities begun in Science as Service, the thirteen original essays in Service as Mandate examine how these great institutions both changed and were changed by the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
Science as Service

Science as Service

Establishing and Reformulating American Land-Grant Universities, 1865–1930

Edited by Alan I Marcus

Contributions by Alan I Marcus, Roger L. Geiger, Mark R. Finlay, Nathan M. Sorber, Micah Rueber, Paul K. Nienkamp, Debra A. Reid, Robert B. Fairbanks, Richard F. Hirsh, Sara E. Morris and Bruce E. Seely

Price: $59.95

ISBN: 9780817318680

Pub Date: August 2015

Format: Hardcover

Science as Service is a collection of essays that traces the development of the land-grant colleges established by the Morrill Act of 1862, and documents how their faith and efforts in science and technology gave credibility and power to these institutions and their scientists.
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