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"A Culture of Curiosity: Science in the Eighteenth-Century Home" by Leonie Hannan challenges the traditional view of scientific enquiry during the Enlightenment. Hannan argues that science was not solely produced by male elites in the public sphere, but also by a diverse group of domestic scientists including apprentices, artisans, tradespeople, and housewives. Through the analysis of spatial and material resources in the home, domestic record keeping, and case studies of amateur weather diarists, Hannan demonstrates that scientific knowledge was accessible and disseminated through everyday practices and communication networks. The book offers a fresh perspective on the history of science and encourages scholars to construct new images of the past. [Extracted from the article]

This collection of essays showcases recent advances in the study of personal names in medieval Scotland. Both also bring in the perspective of saints' names, a well-established area of names research in Scotland. In chapter 6, Valeria Di Clemente examines the names recorded in the so-called "Ragman Roll", providing an annotated list of around seventy Germanic masculine names found in this text and also on the surviving seals. [Extracted from the article]

In his 2016 follow-up, he further developed this concept by proposing two supposedly defining "laws" - the law of semi-globalization and the law of distance - to summarize the forces at play in globalization processes. This observation provides Ghemawat with an opportunity to revisit his laws of semi-globalization and distance, concluding that the anti-globalization discourse needs to be taken with a hefty pinch of salt. Having concluded his analysis of the macro trends driving globalization, in the second half of the book Pankaj Ghemawat shifts his focus to the issues directly affecting today's business strategies. [Extracted from the article]

The Darwinian revolution and its counterrevolutionaries then and now: Randall Fuller: The book that changed America: how Darwin's theory of evolution ignited a nation. New York: Viking, 2017, x + 294 pp, $27.00 HB Michael J. Behe: Darwin devolves: the new science about DNA that challenges evolution. This self-taught naturalist sent a letter to Darwin from the island of Ternate while exploring the Malay Archipelago (probably March 25, 1858) outlining his theory of natural selection, prompting a shocked and distraught Darwin to finally unveil his theory (along with Wallace's letter) to the Linnean Society on July 1, 1858. Wallace's objections to Darwin's materialism were based on Darwin's own principle of utility, and Wallace's belief that natural selection primarily acted as an eliminative rather than a building force in nature (Flannery [14], 34). [Extracted from the article]

Highlights from the article: A syllabus of (some of) Gingras' errors: Yves Gingras: Science and religion: an impossible dialogue. Advocates of positive relations between science and religion, who argue that science supports religious belief, also act to reinforce the modern boundaries of "science" and "religion". It is obvious that Gingras rejects dialogue between science and religion because he deems religion cognitively null and void. (7) By failing to use actors' categories appropriately, Gingras makes the same mistake that proponents of the "conflict thesis" have made since the nineteenth century: when they impose the terms "science" and "religion" onto historical contexts where they make no sense, they start to see practically any intellectual struggle as a science-religion conflict.

In [2], the renowned physiologist J.S. Haldane, father of J.B.S., published a slender volume called I The Philosophy of a Biologist i . Here we have I The Philosophy of a Biologist, i or perhaps I The World View of a Biologist i , rendered in prose that puts Haldane to shame. I say that Money provides a "gloss" as opposed to an "argument" because the book is not structured as one long argument, or even as a diffuse illustration of a particular substantive claim. [Extracted from the article]

Studies of Agency and Soft Power in the Historic Environment: edited by Michael Dawson, Edward James and Michael Nevell, Oxbow Books, Oxford, 2019, 336 pages, £38.00 ISBN: 9781789252460 The final chapter also deals with the impact of climate change within a European framework, presenting the progress of a I Horizon 2020 i -funded project entitled STORM ( I Safeguarding Cultural Heritage through Technical and Organisational Resources Management i ). At a local scale, the principal heritage challenges and potential impacts of climate change are explored within the context of predicted models for climate change. [Extracted from the article]

Because of its economic importance, Exeter was mapped earlier and more frequently than many other towns: London and Norwich were first mapped in the late 1550s, Cambridge in 1574, and then Exeter in 1587. The first, by Richard Oliver and Roger Kain, puts Birchynshaw's map in its cartographic context; the second, by Todd Gray, looks at Exeter at the time the map was made. William Birchynshaw's Map of Exeter, 1743, edited by Richard Oliver, Roger J. P. Kain and Todd Gray.: Devon and Cornwall Record Society, Extra Series 3. [Extracted from the article]

Here, six short chapters discuss the earliest mentions of the meteorites, traditional and legendary aspects of their early history, how they were finally moved to Tucson and were recognized as meteorites, and the possible presence of yet a third fragment. This important chapter unravels the complex contradictions between legends and records of the Anza family, their importance to the eighteenth-century history of southern Arizona, and their land holdings, all entangled with the occasional history of the meteorites. Part three, called "On The Road", outlines modern efforts to discover more meteorite fragments and how these searches have added new information, presents an analysis of both the Santa Rita and Rincon mountains as potential discovery sites, and suggests a possible flight path and strewn field location. [Extracted from the article]

Mapping the Middle East: by Zayde Antrim Reaktion Books, London, 2018, 336 pp., £35.00 (hbk), ISBN 9781780238500 Mapping the Middle East by Zayde Antrim. The work is replete with beautiful and thought-provoking maps while the text carries a strong message of critical cartography, highlighting the ways in which cartography can be used by those who set the status quo, and those who seek to change it. [Extracted from the article]

' I The Invisible Killer i ' by Gary Fuller, an air pollution scientist based at Kings College, is an interesting and well-written overview of the field of air pollution science. The book puts into context the many aspects of air pollution science, including the link between air quality and health, which have only recently become generally accepted. I would highly recommend this book to anyone with an interest in the history of atmospheric and air pollution science and to those who wish to understand the complexities of identifying and reducing the impacts of poor air quality on our health and on the environment. [Extracted from the article]

In their conclusion, Berman and Adler are honest about both the opportunities and challenges to reforming the US criminal justice system, and acknowledge that they are writing at the beginning of the Trump presidency and the uncertainty that entailed. Berman and Adler advocate the use of procedural justice, therapeutic jurisprudence and the use of community and drug courts. This warehousing of the poor and the structuring of poverty around drug use drives the criminal justice systems of both the UK and USA and until it is reformed, there will be little change. [Extracted from the article]