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As a complex, dynamic system, wind challenged physics and scientific modelling capabilities while also presenting human imagination with the very embodiment of change and ephemera in spite of its apparent insubstantiality.

Author Patricia O'Hara explains how her small molecular gastronomy course transformed into popular general course on food chemistry—introducing students to the basics of chemistry through approachable recipes.

Darshana Sreedhar Mini, author of "Rated A," speaks about labor in soft porn in India and the unflattering treatment of actors.

Brian Fauteux, author of "Music in Orbit," writes about the legacy of satellite radio

We're thrilled to announce a selection of our latest book signings!

Author Julia Alekseyeva discusses what lessons antifascist avanat-garde documentaries from the 1960s hold for our current political moment.

The co-editors of "Incomplete: The Feminist Possibilities of the Unfinished Film," winner of the SCMS 2025 Best Edited Collection Award, highlight five new projects that expand the horizons of the feminist incomplete.

Masha Salazkina, author of "Romancing Yesenia" and "World Socialist Cinema" discusses how the 70's Mexican melodrama "Yesenia" became the highest grossing movie in the history of Soviet film exhibition—and what we can learn by studying popular culture on a global scale.

"Golden States" author Eileen Luhr writes about her new book and how it ties into the current climate.

Lisa Jacobson, author of "Intoxicating Pleasures," about how alcohol’s place as an emblem of “the good life” may be in jeopardy.