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On the Fringe: Where Science Meets Pseudoscience

(New York: Oxford University Press, 2021) [link]. Named as one of the top science books of 2021 by Science News.

REVIEWS: Reviews: Publishers Weekly (22 January 2021); Los Angeles Review of Books (12 February 2021); Nature 592 (21 April 2021): 506; The Guardian (2 June 2021); Science News 200, no. 4 (28 August 2021); Domenico del Sole 24 Ore (29 August 2021); Popular Science Books (23 September 2021); Fortean Times (25 December 2021): 59; CHOICE 59, no. 5 (January 2022). [Translated into German as Am Rande: Wo Wissenschaft auf Pseudowissenschaft trifft, tr. Uwe Hebekus (Konstanz: Konstanz University Press, 2022 [link]. REVIEWS: Deutschlandfunk Kultur (15 December 2022); Philosophie Magazin, no. 2 (2023): 88-89.]

Einstein in Bohemia

(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020) [link].

REVIEWS: Science 367, no. 6479 (14 February 2020): 748; Wall Street Journal (14 February 2020); Physics World (March 2020): 50; Times Higher Education (2 March 2020); Nature 579 (5 March 2020): 23-24; Los Angeles Review of Books (23 March 2020); Times Literary Supplement, no. 6105 (3 April 2020); Jerusalem Post (16 April 2020); CHOICE 57, no. 11 (July 2020); Corriere della sera (20 May 2020): 38; The American Interest (13 June 2020); Physics Today 73, no. 10 (October 2020): 58; Physik in unserer Zeit 51, no. 6 (November 2020): ii; Annals of Science 78, no. 1 (2021): 131-132; Isis 112, no. 1 (March 2021): 203-204; Central European History 54, no. 1 (March 2021): 214-215; Metascience 30 (2021): 203-206; Physik Journal 22, no. 3 (2023): 68. [Translated into Czech as Einstein v Čechách, tr. Jiří Kasl (Prague: Argo, 2022) [link]. REVIEW: Salon právo (3 August 2022).]

Scientific Babel: How Science Was Done before and after Global English

(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015) [link] and (London: Profile Books, 2015) [link]. Named as one of the top 20 science books of 2016 by Nature.

REVIEWS: Library Journal (1 March 2015); Nature 519 (12 March 2015): 514-515; Prospect Review (April 2015): Literary Review (1 April 2015): 37; Scientific American 312, no. 4 (April 2015); The Guardian (2 April 2015); Times Higher Education (9 April 2015); Science 348, no. 6231 (10 April 2015): 192; Süddeutsche Zeitung (22 April 2015): New Scientist (2 May 2015): 45-46; Financial Times (London) (11 May 2015); Wall Street Journal (19 June 2015); Science News 188, no. 2 (25 July 2015); Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (29 July 2015): 10; Public Books, 15 September 2015; Chemistry World (5 November 2015); London Review of Books 32, no. 23 (3 December 2015): 23-26; Language Problems & Language Planning 39, no. 3 (2015): 312-318; CHOICE 53, no. 5 (January 2016); Metascience 25, no. 1 (March 2016): 125-129; Distillations 2, no. 1 (Spring 2016): 41; Journal of American History 102 (June 2016): 165-166; Isis 107, no. 3 (September 2016): 665-666; Bioenergia em revista: diálogos 6, no. 2 (December 2016): 123-128; Public Understanding of Science 27, no. 1 (January 2018): 115; Karakter, no. 61 (2018): 5-8. [Translated into Chinese as Xifang kexue yuyan shi, tr. Yan Xinfang and Zhang Lihe (Beijing: Zhongguo kexue jishu chubanshe, 2021) [link].]

How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind: The Strange Career of Cold War Rationality 

With Paul Erickson, Judy Klein, Lorraine Daston, Rebecca Lemov, and Thomas Sturm (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013). [link]

REVIEWS: Science 343 (3 January 2014): 28-29; H-Diplo, H-NET Reviews, February 2014; HOPOS 4, no. 2 (Fall 2014): 358-361; Endeavour 38, no. 3-4 (2014): 146; American Historical Review 120 (February 2015): 287-289; Isis 106, no. 2 (June 2015): 501-502; Journal of Strategic Studies 38, no. 4 (2015): 554-574; Journal of the History of Economic Thought 38, no. 4 (December 2016): 571-575.

The Pseudoscience Wars: Immanuel Velikovsky and the Birth of the Modern Fringe

(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012). [link]

REVIEWS: Publishers Weekly (11 June 2012); Library Journal (1 August 2012); Times Higher Education Supplement, book-of-the-week featured review (4 October 2012); Science 338 (12 October 2012): 194-195; Wall Street Journal (23 October 2012): A15; Nature 490 (25 October 2012): 480-481; London Review of Books 34, no. 21 (8 November 2012): 35-38; CHOICE (February 2013); Inside Higher Ed (6 February 2013); Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (12 February 2013): 26; Chemical Heritage 31, no. 1 (Spring 2013): 47; Dynamis 33, no. 2 (2013): 528-531; Quest: The History of Spaceflight 21, no. 1 (2014): 1-2; American Historical Review 119 (2014): 199-200; Journal of American History 100 (March 2014): 1265-1266; The Nation (14 April 2014); British Journal for the History of Science 47, no. 1 (2014): 386-387; Journal for the History of Astronomy 45 (November 2014): 504-506; Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences 46, no. 1 (2016): 101-109. [Chapter 1 excerpted as “The Pseudoscience Wars,” Cosmos {Australia}, no. 48 (December 2012/January 2013): 36-43.]

Red Cloud at Dawn: Truman, Stalin, and the End of the Atomic Monopoly

(Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009). Paperback edition published by Picador in December 2010. A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice. [link]

REVIEWS: Booklist (1 July 2009), starred review; Library Journal (15 July 2009); Publishers Weekly (3 August 2009); Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel (3 October 2009); New York Times (10 January 2010); Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences 40 (2010): 259-267; H-Diplo Roundtable Review 11, no. 28 (3 June 2010), with author response; American Scientist 98 (July-August 2010); Metascience 20 (2011): 443-465, symposium with author response; Isis 103, no. 2 (June 2012): 426-427. [Translated into Polish as Truman, Stalin i koniec monopolu atomowego, tr. Tadeusz Markowski (Warsaw: Prószyński i S-ka, 2010).] 

Five Days in August: How World War II Became a Nuclear War

(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007). [link]

REVIEWS: Washington Post (11-17 March 2007): BW2; Washington Times (17 June 2007); Science 317 (3 August 2007): 598-599; Journal of American History 94, no. 2 (2007): 618-619; Teaching History: A Journal of Methods 32, no. 2 (2007); Foreign Affairs 86, no. 6 (2007); Pacific Historical Review 77 (May 2008): 360-361; Endeavour 33, no. 2 (2009): 44-45; H-NET, December 2009 (online). [Translated into Estonian as 5 Augustipäeva: Kuidas II Maailmasõjast Sai Tuumasõda, tr. Jaanus Õunpuu (Tallinn: Kirjastus Varrak, 2008); translated into Japanese as Genbaku tōka to Amerikajin no kaku ninshiki: tsūjō heiki kara “kaku” heiki he, tr. Hayashi Yoshikatsu, Fujita Satoshi, and Takei Nozomi (Tokyo: Sairyūsha, 2013.]

A Well-Ordered Thing: Dmitrii Mendeleev and the Shadow of the Periodic Table

(New York: Basic Books, 2004). Prizes: Roy G. Neville Prize in Bibliography or Biography (2007); Basic Prize in the History of Science (2002). Revised edition: (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019). [link]

REVIEWS: Chemical & Engineering News 82, no.21 (24 May 2004): 55-56; Moscow Times, 6 August 2004: 104; Nature 430 (19 August 2004): 834-835; Discover (November 2004); Library Journal (1 April 2005), naming the book a “Best Sci-Tech Book” of 2004; Physics Today (June 2005); London Review of Books (7 July 2005), reprinted in Chemical Heritage 24, no. 3 (Fall 2006): 45-47; Isis 96 (2005): 289-291; Foundations of Chemistry 7, no. 3 (October 2005): 315-319; Journal of the History of Economic Thought 27, no. 4 (December 2005): 467-470; Slavic Review 66 (2007): 345-346.