Robin Schuldenfrei on Objects in Exile January 30, 2024 Robin Schuldenfrei reveals how the process of migration was crucial to the development of modernism. Read More
How to Be Healthy January 22, 2024 The second-century Greek physician Galen—the most famous doctor in antiquity after Hippocrates—is a central figure in Western medicine. Read More
Listen in: The Weirdness of the World January 22, 2024 Do we live inside a simulated reality or a pocket universe embedded in a larger structure about which we know virtually nothing? Is consciousness a purely physical matter, or might it require something extra, something nonphysical? Read More
PUP Speaks: Hana Schank on public interest technology January 19, 2024 PUP Speaks author Hana Schank describes how a revolutionary new approach—public interest technology—can transform the way we solve problems. Read More
Radio then and now January 17, 2024 When I was a kid, you could actually look inside a radio and see all sorts of neat stuff in there, like the amazing mechanical linkages of the tuning mechanism, or the mysterious, soft yellow glow of the vacuum tubes (the transistor hadn’t yet completely replaced tubes). The wonders of what I could see inside my parents’ 1947 AM/FM radio console hooked me. Read More
Doing great deeds, or on the generosity of the rich January 17, 2024 Across history the rich have achieved plenty of things from which we continue to benefit. Surely, they did it for their own benefit, and to bolster their social status—in plainer words, to show off and to impress their fellow patricians—but the fact remains that we benefit aesthetically from their efforts. Read More
The Struggle for the People’s King January 12, 2024 In the post–civil rights era, wide-ranging groups have made civil rights claims that echo those made by Black civil rights activists of the 1960s, from people with disabilities to women’s rights activists and LGBTQ coalitions. Read More
25 books for 25 years in Europe January 12, 2024 The 25th anniversary of the establishment of our European office is an important milestone in PUP’s mission to be a truly global publisher. These 25 books reflect the global appeal of the Press, and in the spirit of celebration, we offer a peek behind-the-scenes at our work on these unforgettable titles. Read More
Matsutake as world-makers January 10, 2024 What a Mushroom Lives For takes us beyond the animal realm to explore a place barely known to most people, the inner realm of fungi and how they participate in making the world around them via their relations to microbes, other fungi, plants, and animals. Read More
New year, old problems January 10, 2024 The struggle against distraction might seem utterly specific to the twenty-first century, but it was in fact singled out as a crisis more than a millennium and a half ago. Read More
Chinese Cosmopolitanism January 08, 2024 Historically, the Western encounter with difference has been catastrophic: the extermination and displacement of aboriginal populations, the transatlantic slave trade, and colonialism. Read More
A history of twins in science January 08, 2024 Twins share their environment and (in the case of identical siblings) much of their genetic make-up with another person. This has made them idealized research subjects in scientific studies. Read More
How We Age January 05, 2024 All of us would like to live longer, or to slow the debilitating effects of age. In How We Age, Coleen Murphy shows how recent research on longevity and aging may be bringing us closer to this goal. Read More
Turning language inside out January 05, 2024 We know that words wield immense power. They express, represent, inspire, provoke, evoke. They can wound, figuratively, and also literally. Read More
What can we learn from Einstein today? January 03, 2024 Einstein has left his mark not only on physics of the twentieth century but also on the public image of science and scientists and on the cultural and political history of the twentieth century, far beyond his area of expertise. Read More