Pamela Smith and Benjamin Schmidt have gathered together a wide-ranging and provocative set of original essays that successfully demonstrate how contingent the process of making knowledge was during a period of fundamental epistemological change. This is a finely crafted and conceptualized collection.

If the butterfly wings its way to the sweet light that attracts it, it's only because it doesn't know that the fire can consume it.

You do angry. I just saw it. And you left at least one hole in my carpet to prove it.

Be still,” he said, voice harsh. “I might not be able to control myself if you step away.

Scholars do one of two things when they discover information that doesn't fit what they already know. Either they sweep it aside so it doesn't bring their cherished theories into question or they focus on it with laserlike intensity and try to get to the bottom of the mystery.

English vampires may not be as well behaved around witches as the American ones are.

Pamela Smith and Benjamin Schmidt have gathered together a wide-ranging and provocative set of original essays that successfully demonstrate how contingent the process of making knowledge was during a period of fundamental epistemological change. This is a finely crafted and conceptualized collection.