From the time the public learned of DDT’s dramatic containment of a typhus epidemic in Naples during World War II to the ban on DDT by the Environmental Protection Agency…

The human impulse to religion can be seen to encompass environmentalism as an offshoot of the secular, material faith in human reason and power that dominates modern society. This book…

Traces shifting attitudes toward DDT and pesticides in general through a variety of sources: excerpts from scientific studies and government reports, advertisements from industry journals, articles from popular magazines, and…

Shows how our perception of skin has changed from the eighteenth century onwards. This title examines the changing significance of skin through brilliant analyses of literature, art, philosophy, and anatomical…

A scholarly edition of poems by Thomas Carew. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.

Presents a narrative of the canyons and badlands of eastern New Mexico and western Oklahoma and Texas. This title evokes the history and natural history that shaped the region, drawing…

In this volume, a group of the foremost U.S. military officials and national security experts analyze the American experience in Iraq and Afghanistan thus far in order to map a…