HeLa cells—the first continuous cancer cell line—have been a mainstay of cancer research
ever since their isolation from the aggressive glandular cervical cancer of a young woman …

An overview of tobacco smoking represents an essential starting point for an issue on lung
cancer. In the absence of tobacco smoking, there would be far fewer cases of lung cancer …

This paper investigates how ExxonMobil uses rhetoric and framing to shape public
discourse on climate change. We present an algorithmic corpus comparison and machine …

Opening with the statement “The anthropocene is no time to set things straight,” Stacy
Alaimo puts forth potent arguments for a material feminist posthumanism in the chapters that …

Shaking Up the City critically examines many of the concepts and categories within
mainstream urban studies that serve dubious policy agendas. Through a combination of …

Multiple 'green transformations' are required if humanity is to live sustainably on planet
Earth. Recalling past transformations, this book examines what makes the current challenge …

How do we understand the agency and significance of material forces and their interface
with human bodies? What does it mean to be human in these times, with bodies that are …

" Cancer can kill: this fact makes it concrete. Still, it's a devious knave. Nearly every
American will experience it up-close and all too personally, wondering why the billions of …

The basic idea for this book arose from my dealings with postgraduate social science
students during the mid to late 1990s. Such students, when following, say, a taught …

On April 26, 1986, Unit Four of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor exploded in then Soviet
Ukraine. More than 3.5 million people in Ukraine alone, not to mention many citizens of …