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Susanne Schmidt, Midlife Crisis: The Feminist Origins of a Chauvanist Cliché Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. Pp. 280. ISBN 978-0-226-63714-3. $89.00 (cloth).
Kevin Matthew Jones
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16 May 2024, pp. 1-2
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Concluding conversation: decentring science diplomacy
Gordon Barrett, Claire Edington, Aya Homei, Kate Sullivan de Estrada, Zuoyue Wang
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13 May 2024, pp. 1-13
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Gordon Barrett (GB): Research Associate, Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Manchester, UK (special issue co-editor).

Stig S. Frøland, Duel without End: Mankind's Battle with Microbes (trans. John Irons) London: Reaktion Books, 2022. Pp. 632. ISBN: 978-1-78914-505-2. £30.00 GBP (paperback).
Emily Webster
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09 May 2024, pp. 1-2
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Emma Kowal, Haunting Biology: Science and Indigeneity in Australia Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023. Pp. 248. ISBN 978-1-4780-2537-5. $27.95 (paperback).
Simon Farley
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25 April 2024, pp. 1-2
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Leonie Hannan, A Culture of Curiosity: Science in the Eighteenth-Century Home Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2023. Pp. 272. ISBN 978-1-5261-5303-6. £85.00 (hardcover).
E. C. Spary
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Nandini Bhattacharya, Disparate Remedies: Making Medicines in Modern India Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2023. Pp. 272. ISBN 978-0-2280-1753-0. CA$47.95 (paperback).
Sharmin Jahan Chowdhury
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25 April 2024, pp. 1-3
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Technology diplomacy in early Communist China: the visit to the Jingjiang Flood Diversion Project in 1952
Yue Liang
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25 April 2024, pp. 1-13
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This article focuses on the 1952 visit to the Jingjiang Flood Diversion Project, the first large-scale water infrastructure built on the Yangzi river after the founding of the People's Republic of China, by a foreign delegation from the Asia-Pacific Peace Conference. Serving as a form of technology diplomacy, this trip advanced two main purposes for the newly established country – to build up closer ties with ‘foreign friends’ who advocated international peace in the context of the Korean War, and to demonstrate China's own technical capabilities and achievements as part of the national campaign of ‘peaceful construction’ of the early 1950s. I argue that vernacular technologies, which were grounded in indigenous knowledge and practices for water control in the mid-Yangzi region, were essential in shaping China's self-reliant modernization and China's public diplomacy, which targeted individuals without scientific or technical backgrounds.

James T. Costa, Radical by Nature: The Revolutionary Life of Alfred Russel Wallace Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2023. Pp. 552. ISBN 978-0-6-9123-379-6. £35.00 (hardcover).
Richard Bellon
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19 April 2024, pp. 1-2
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Roger Smith, Kinasthesia in the Psychology, Philosophy and Culture of Human Experience London: Routledge, 2023. Pp. 156. ISBN 978-1-032-43590-9. £48.99 (hardback).
Susan Lanzoni
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18 April 2024, pp. 1-2
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Pamela H. Smith, From Lived Experience to the Written Word: Reconstructing Practical Knowledge in the Early Modern World Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022. Pp. 352. ISBN 978-0-226-81824-5. $35.00 (paperback).
Jennifer M. Rampling
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16 April 2024, pp. 1-2
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James A. Stark, The Cult of Youth: Anti-ageing in Modern Britain Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. 262. ISBN 978-1-108-48415-2. $108.00 (hardcover).
Michael Hau
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12 April 2024, pp. 1-2
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Lynn M. Thomas, Beneath the Surface: A Transnational History of Skin Lighteners Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020. Pp. 368. ISBN 978-1-478-00642-8. $107.95 (cloth).
Arya Thampuran
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Dipesh Chakrabarty, One Planet, Many Worlds: The Climate Parallax Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, 2023. Pp. 144. ISBN: 978-1-6845-8157-3. $24.95 (paper).
Richard Staley
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11 April 2024, pp. 1-2
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Kathleen M. Crowther, Policing Pregnant Bodies from Ancient Greece to Post-Roe America Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023. Pp. 288. ISBN 978-1-4214-4763-6. $29.95 (hardcover).
Rebecca Whiteley
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11 April 2024, pp. 1-2
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Marsha Morton and Ann-Marie Akehurst (eds), Visual Culture and Pandemic Disease since 1750: Capturing Contagion London: Routledge, 2023. Pp. 270. ISBN 978-1-032-26107-2. £130.00 (hardback).
Christine Slobogin
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11 April 2024, pp. 1-3
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Paola Bertucci, In the Land of Marvels: Science, Fabricated Realities, and Industrial Espionage in the Age of the Grand Tour Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023. Pp. 184. ISBN 978-1-4214-4710-0. $54.95 (hardcover).
Marlis Hinckley
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11 April 2024, pp. 1-2
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Projit Bihari Mukharji, Brown Skins, White Coats: Race Science in India, 1920–66 Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022. Pp. 360. ISBN 978-0-226-82301-0. $35.00 (paper).
Stefan Bernhardt-Radu
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Sebastián Gil-Riaño, The Remnants of Race Science: UNESCO and Economic Development in the Global South New York: Columbia University Press, 2023. Pp. 392. ISBN 978-0-231-19435-8. £30.00 (paperback).
Elise K. Burton
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Timothy W. Lorek, Making the Green Revolution: Agriculture and Conflict in Colombia Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2023. Pp. 342. ISBN 978-1-4696-7382-0. $34.95 (paperback).
Shawn Van Ausdal
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Philip Ball, Beautiful Experiments: An Illustrated History of Experimental Science Chicago: University of Chicago, 2023. Pp. 240. ISBN 978-0-226-82582-3. $35.00 (cloth).
Gino Elia
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01 April 2024, pp. 1-3
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Susanne Schmidt, Midlife Crisis: The Feminist Origins of a Chauvanist Cliché Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. Pp. 280. ISBN 978-0-226-63714-3. $89.00 (cloth).

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Concluding conversation: decentring science diplomacy

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Stig S. Frøland, Duel without End: Mankind's Battle with Microbes (trans. John Irons) London: Reaktion Books, 2022. Pp. 632. ISBN: 978-1-78914-505-2. £30.00 GBP (paperback).

Emma Kowal, Haunting Biology: Science and Indigeneity in Australia Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023. Pp. 248. ISBN 978-1-4780-2537-5. $27.95 (paperback).

Leonie Hannan, A Culture of Curiosity: Science in the Eighteenth-Century Home Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2023. Pp. 272. ISBN 978-1-5261-5303-6. £85.00 (hardcover).

Nandini Bhattacharya, Disparate Remedies: Making Medicines in Modern India Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2023. Pp. 272. ISBN 978-0-2280-1753-0. CA$47.95 (paperback).

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Technology diplomacy in early Communist China: the visit to the Jingjiang Flood Diversion Project in 1952

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James T. Costa, Radical by Nature: The Revolutionary Life of Alfred Russel Wallace Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2023. Pp. 552. ISBN 978-0-6-9123-379-6. £35.00 (hardcover).

Roger Smith, Kinasthesia in the Psychology, Philosophy and Culture of Human Experience London: Routledge, 2023. Pp. 156. ISBN 978-1-032-43590-9. £48.99 (hardback).

Pamela H. Smith, From Lived Experience to the Written Word: Reconstructing Practical Knowledge in the Early Modern World Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022. Pp. 352. ISBN 978-0-226-81824-5. $35.00 (paperback).

James A. Stark, The Cult of Youth: Anti-ageing in Modern Britain Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. 262. ISBN 978-1-108-48415-2. $108.00 (hardcover).

Lynn M. Thomas, Beneath the Surface: A Transnational History of Skin Lighteners Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020. Pp. 368. ISBN 978-1-478-00642-8. $107.95 (cloth).

Dipesh Chakrabarty, One Planet, Many Worlds: The Climate Parallax Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, 2023. Pp. 144. ISBN: 978-1-6845-8157-3. $24.95 (paper).

Kathleen M. Crowther, Policing Pregnant Bodies from Ancient Greece to Post-Roe America Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023. Pp. 288. ISBN 978-1-4214-4763-6. $29.95 (hardcover).

Marsha Morton and Ann-Marie Akehurst (eds), Visual Culture and Pandemic Disease since 1750: Capturing Contagion London: Routledge, 2023. Pp. 270. ISBN 978-1-032-26107-2. £130.00 (hardback).

Paola Bertucci, In the Land of Marvels: Science, Fabricated Realities, and Industrial Espionage in the Age of the Grand Tour Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023. Pp. 184. ISBN 978-1-4214-4710-0. $54.95 (hardcover).

Projit Bihari Mukharji, Brown Skins, White Coats: Race Science in India, 1920–66 Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022. Pp. 360. ISBN 978-0-226-82301-0. $35.00 (paper).

Sebastián Gil-Riaño, The Remnants of Race Science: UNESCO and Economic Development in the Global South New York: Columbia University Press, 2023. Pp. 392. ISBN 978-0-231-19435-8. £30.00 (paperback).

Timothy W. Lorek, Making the Green Revolution: Agriculture and Conflict in Colombia Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2023. Pp. 342. ISBN 978-1-4696-7382-0. $34.95 (paperback).

Philip Ball, Beautiful Experiments: An Illustrated History of Experimental Science Chicago: University of Chicago, 2023. Pp. 240. ISBN 978-0-226-82582-3. $35.00 (cloth).

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