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Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette's book, "A history of women science writers: hidden in plain sight," sheds light on the careers of around fifty female science journalists who were born between 1875 and 1912. These women worked for the science service, a science news organization based in Washington DC, from the 1920s to the 1960s. Despite their significant contributions, these women have been largely overlooked in the history of science journalism. LaFollette explores the reasons for their obscurity, including the lack of bylines and gender biases in the profession. The book draws on extensive archival material to provide detailed biographies of these pioneering women and highlights the challenges they faced in a male-dominated field. [Extracted from the article]

The book "Bikeri: Two Copper Age Villages on the Great Hungarian Plain" edited by William A. Parkinson, Attila Gyucha, and Richard W. Yerkes provides a comprehensive study of the Körös Regional Archaeological Project (KRAP) in Hungary. The project aimed to understand the transition between the Late Neolithic and the Early Copper Age. The book includes seventeen chapters covering various aspects of the excavations, including the settlement structure, pottery analysis, animal bone tools, stone tools, small finds, faunal remains, and floral assemblage. The authors emphasize the diversity of social and cultural phenomena observed in the two neighboring communities, cautioning against generalizations about the entire Great Hungarian Plain. Overall, the book is a valuable resource for researchers studying the Early Copper Age and serves as an example of a well-designed and executed archaeological project. [Extracted from the article]

"The Unsettled Plain: An Environmental History of the Late Ottoman Frontier" by Chris Gratien explores the history of the Çukurova region in southern Turkey from the 1860s to the 1950s. Using archival materials, memoirs, and folkloric songs, Gratien examines how provincial reform, capitalism, war, and science impacted the environment and the people who lived there. The book focuses on the long-term history of malaria, which was a constant element in the region's fractured history. It also discusses the settlement of refugees, the spread of cotton cultivation, intercommunal tensions, and the transition from the Ottoman to the Republican period. The book provides a social history of the region through an environmental lens, highlighting the ongoing conflict between locals, newcomers, and the state. [Extracted from the article]

"Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains" by Lucas Bessire is a book that explores the issue of aquifer depletion in the midwestern region of the United States. The author, who grew up in western Kansas, returns to his hometown to investigate the decline of groundwater and its impact on the community. Through interviews with farmers, experts, and his own family, Bessire uncovers a culture of denial and complicity surrounding the issue. The book offers a meditation on environmental transformations and the challenges of addressing them. [Extracted from the article]

The Rule of Peshat: Jewish Constructions of the Plain Sense of Scripture and their Christian and Muslim Contexts, 900-1270, written by Mordechai Z. Cohen In I The Rule of Peshat i , Cohen upends this assumption, tracing the dynamic development of what began as a marginal " I peshat i maxim" into the "rule of I peshat i ", the central hermeneutical principle of the medieval period and into the modern era. Cohen theorizes this reinstatement of midrashic prominence resulted from a rejection of the increased prestige of I peshat i in Rabbinite circles, thereby showing that I peshat i did not develop in a linear fashion. [Extracted from the article]

Erika Denise Edwards, (Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 2020), pp. xvi + 168, $54.95 hb and E-book Argentina remains one of the least explored nations in Latin America and the Caribbean in terms of recovering the history of Africans and Afro-descendant populations. Edwards notes that refined chastity, domesticity, dress, and other factors were crucial to the performance of a Spanish woman and subsequent ascent in the social hierarchy for Afro-descendant women. The examples presented in the narrative demonstrate the complexities of relationships during the era, romantic and otherwise, between Afro-descendant women and non Afro-descendant members of those societies. [Extracted from the article]

Edwards' source base is enviable and impressive: covering over four hundred civil and ecclesiastical suits, notarial and probate records, parish books of marriages, births, baptisms, and deaths and regional census data. Córdoba was a prominent "small" city whose manageable size and visible familial networks enabled Edwards to trace socioracial identity and mobility through the sources. [Extracted from the article]

I Running Out i pulls together all the pieces of unsustainable groundwater use, demonstrates that they don't fit nicely, and shakes them together with a few other unsorted puzzles for good measure. On one level, this book is a plait of narratives of the colonial history of western Kansas, Bessire's own family, and the declining water table of the central High Plains. Lucas Bessire's I Running Out i (Bessire 2021), a finalist for the 2021 National Book Award, is a fever dream of unsustainable resource use. [Extracted from the article]

The article reviews the book "Skeletal Biology and Bioarchaeology of the Northwestern Plains," edited by George W. Gill and Rick L. Weathermon.

Reviews the book "The Great Plains," by Walter Prescott.

Reviews the book "The Future of the Southern Plains," edited by Sherry L. Smith.

The article reviews the book "Here You have My Story: Eyewitness Accounts of Nineteenth Century Central Plains," edited by Richard E. Jensen.

Reviews the book "The Plains of the Great West," by Richard I. Dodge.

Reviews the book "Encyclopedia of the Plains," edited by David J. Wishart.

Reviews the non-fiction book 'Handbook of North American Indians. Plains,' vol. 13, edited by Raymond J. DeMallie.

Reviews the book 'Common and Contested Ground: A Human and Environmental History of the Northwestern Plains,' by Theodore Binnema.

The article reviews the book "The Future of the Southern Plains," edited by Sherry L. Smith

Reviews the book 'Plains Folk: A Commonplace of the Great Plains,' by Jim Hoy and Tom Isern.

Reviews the book "Short Grass Country," by Stanley Vestal.

A review of the book "Heartland: The Plains and the Prairie" by David Plowden is presented.

The article reviews the book "My Home, Broome," by Tamzyne Richardson and illustrator Bronwyn Houston.

The article reviews the book "Olympia and the Classical Hellenic City-State Culture: Historik-Filosofiske Meddlelelser," by T. H. Nielsen.

The article reviews the book "Encyclopedia of the Great Plains," edited by David J. Wishart.

Reviews the book "People of the Plains," Amelia M. Paget.

The article reviews the book "The Future of the Southern Plains," edited by Sherry L. Smith.

Reviews the book "Common and Contested Ground: A Human and Environmental History of the Northwestern Plains," by Theodore Binnema.

Reviews the book "The Hell Creek Formation and the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary in the Northern Great Plains: An Integrated Continental Record of the End of the Cretaceous," edited by Joseph Hartman, Kirk Johnson and Douglas Nichols.

Reviews the book "Common and Contested Ground: A Human and Environmental History of the Northwestern Plains," by Theodore Binnema.

Reviews the book 'Common and Contested Ground: A Human and Environmental History of the Northwestern Plains,' by Theodore Binnema.

Reviews the book 'Common and Contested Ground: A Human and Environmental History of the Northwestern Plains,' by Theodore Binnema.

Reviews the book "Mapping the North American Plains: Essays in the History of Cartography," edited by Frederick C. Luebke, Francis W. Kaye and Gary E. Moulton.