Elizabeth Yale Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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History of the book, History of Science, Early Modern Britain. #histsci #histarchives #histbook
Into the Archive: Writing and Power in Colonial Peru
Kathryn BurnsElizabeth Yale@GrubStreetWomen Kathryn Burns, Into the Archive, Marisa Fuentes, Dispossessed Lives, and my Book History state of the field essay on history of archives--a little old now, but lots of suggestions for (especially) early modern focused materials.
Paperback, 2010
$34.95Member price:$33.20 + Free shipping5% off
The Astronomer and the Witch: Johannes Kepler's Fight for His Mother
Ulinka RublackElizabeth Yale@Malentendre @pennmaterialtxt Yesssss! It's so fun. Have you come across Ulinka Rublack, The Astronomer and the Witch, as you've been prepping your syllabus? I have yet to read it, but I've heard it's very good.
Paperback, 2017
$19.98Member price:$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Mind Has No Sex?: Women in the Origins of Modern Science
Londa SchiebingerElizabeth Yale@MBarany @clancynewyork @EricaNWalker @mathhistory @LauraGowing @lizbruton @tosullivan06 @CarlaNappi @beckyfh @msformato @amhistorymuseum It is old at this point, but I still use Londa Schiebinger’s The Mind Has No Sex? with undergrads as a general overview of women in (European) Science. That one‘s not so much with the math, though, except for the chapter on Maria Winckelmann.
Paperback, 1991
$52.00Member price:$52.00 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)
Eternal Life
Dara HornElizabeth Yale@hashtagoras On the imaginative side, but Dara Horn's novel Eternal Life has some sensorially rich (and well crafted) depictions of 1st century Jerusalem.
Paperback, 2019
$15.95Member price:$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Adèle
Leila SlimaniElizabeth Yale@MeghanKRoberts You may have already picked up books by her, but Leila Slimani? I’ve only read them in English, but Perfect Nanny and Adèle are both very good—dark and spare.
Paperback, 2019
$16.00Member price:$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Ministry for the Future
Kim Stanley RobinsonElizabeth Yale@STS_News If you include novels, Kim Stanley Robinson's The Ministry for the Future?
Paperback, 2021
$19.99Member price:$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Reading Material in Early Modern England: Print, Gender, and Literacy
Heidi Brayman HackelElizabeth Yale@cendarcy So fun! I think there might be some examples of spectacles (or at least scissors?) stored in books in Heidi Brayman Hackel’s book Reading Material in Early Modern England.
Paperback, 2009
$57.00Member price:$54.15 + Free shipping5% off
Human Voices
Penelope FitzgeraldElizabeth Yale@meganlcook Megan, have you ever read Penelope Fitzgerald's novel Human Voices? Set at the BBC during WWII--It's just about perfect.
Paperback, 2015
$18.99Member price:$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive
Marisa J. FuentesElizabeth Yale@GrubStreetWomen Kathryn Burns, Into the Archive, Marisa Fuentes, Dispossessed Lives, and my Book History state of the field essay on history of archives--a little old now, but lots of suggestions for (especially) early modern focused materials.
Paperback, 2018
$29.95Member price:$14.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book