History of Science & Knowledge
![Slouch](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691235493.jpg?w=180&auto=format)
The strange and surprising history of the so-called epidemic of bad posture in modern America—from eugenics and posture pageants to today’s promoters of “paleo posture”
![Radical by Nature](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691233796.jpg?w=180&auto=format)
A major biography of the brilliant naturalist, traveler, humanitarian, and codiscoverer of natural selection
![Bedeviled](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691241685.jpg?w=180&auto=format)
How scientists through the ages have conducted thought experiments using imaginary entities—demons—to test the laws of nature and push the frontiers of what is possible
![Greek Fire, Poison Arrows, and Scorpion Bombs](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691211084.jpg?w=180&auto=format)
A gripping and groundbreaking history of how ancient cultures developed and used biological, chemical, and other unconventional weapons of war
![Desert Edens](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691168869.jpg?w=180&auto=format)
How technological advances and colonial fears inspired utopian geoengineering projects during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries