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The "NBN Book of the Day" features the most timely and interesting author interviews from the New Books Network delivered to you every weekday.
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Pamela Aronson and Matthew R. Fleming, "Gender Revolution: How Electoral Politics and #MeToo are Reshaping Everyday Life" (Routledge, 2023)
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May 12, 2024 |
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Gina Sipley, "Just Here for the Comments: Lurking as Digital Literacy Practice" (Bristol UP, 2024)
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May 11, 2024 |
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Carl Zimmer, "Life's Edge: The Search For What it Means to be Alive" (Dutton, 2022)
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May 10, 2024 |
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Jeremy Garlick, "Advantage China: Agent of Change in an Era of Global Disruption" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
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May 09, 2024 |
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Marion R. Casey, "The Green Space: The Transformation of the Irish Image" (NYU Press, 2024)
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May 08, 2024 |
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Eziaku Atuama Nwokocha, "Vodou en Vogue: Fashioning Black Divinities in Haiti and the United States" (UNC Press, 2023)
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May 07, 2024 |
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Rustam Alexander, "Gay Lives and ‘Aversion Therapy’ in Brezhnev’s Russia, 1964–1982" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023)
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May 06, 2024 |
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Tanisha M. Fazal, "Military Medicine and the Hidden Costs of War" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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May 05, 2024 |
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Mateo Jarquín, "The Sandinista Revolution: A Global Latin American History" (UNC Press, 2024)
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May 04, 2024 |
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Illia Ponomarenko, "I Will Show You How It Was: The Story of Wartime Kyiv" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
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May 03, 2024 |
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Katie Gee Salisbury, "Not Your China Doll: The Wild and Shimmering Life of Anna May Wong" (Dutton, 2024)
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May 02, 2024 |
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J. P. Messina, "Private Censorship" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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May 01, 2024 |
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Markus Vinzent, "Resetting the Origins of Christianity: A New Theory of Sources and Beginnings" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Apr 30, 2024 |
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Robert Gerwarth, "November 1918: The German Revolution" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Apr 29, 2024 |
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David Pozen, "The Constitution of the War on Drugs" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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Apr 28, 2024 |
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Leigh Gilmore, "The #MeToo Effect: What Happens When We Believe Women" (Columbia UP, 2023)
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Apr 27, 2024 |
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Dana Gorzelany-Mostak, "Tracks on the Trail: Popular Music, Race, and the US Presidency" (U Michigan Press, 2023)
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Apr 26, 2024 |
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Alexander Statman, "A Global Enlightenment: Western Progress and Chinese Science" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
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Apr 25, 2024 |
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Anu Bradford, "Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Apr 24, 2024 |
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Michael J. Graetz, "The Power to Destroy: How the Antitax Movement Hijacked America" (Princeton UP, 2024)
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Apr 23, 2024 |
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John Tolan, "England's Jews: Finance, Violence, and the Crown in the Thirteenth Century" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)
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Apr 22, 2024 |
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Rogers M. Smith and Desmond King, "America’s New Racial Battle Lines: Protect Versus Repair" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
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Apr 21, 2024 |
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Heather Parry, "Electric Dreams: Sex Robots and Failed Promises of Capitalism" (404 Ink, 2024)
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Apr 20, 2024 |
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Guido Alfani, "As Gods Among Men: A History of the Rich in the West" (Princeton UP, 2023)
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Apr 19, 2024 |
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Jonathan Chatwin, "The Southern Tour: Deng Xiaoping and the Fight for China's Future" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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Thor Rydin, "The Works and Times of Johan Huizinga (1872-1945): Writing History in the Age of Collapse" (Amsterdam UP, 2023)
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Apr 17, 2024 |
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Felipe Fernández-Armesto and Manuel Lucena Giraldo, "How the Spanish Empire Was Built: A 400 Year History" (Reaktion, 2024)
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Apr 16, 2024 |
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Melvin L. Rogers, "The Darkened Light of Faith: Race, Democracy, and Freedom in African American Political Thought" (Princeton UP, 2023)
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Apr 15, 2024 |
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Rasmus Winther, "Our Genes: A Philosophical Perspective on Human Evolutionary Genomics" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Apr 14, 2024 |
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Maria Snegovaya, "When Left Moves Right: The Decline of the Left and the Rise of the Populist Right in Postcommunist Europe" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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Apr 13, 2024 |
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David Petraeus and Andrew Roberts, "Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare From 1945 to the Russian Invasion of Ukraine" (Harper, 2023)
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Apr 12, 2024 |
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Robert D. Kaplan, "The Loom of Time: Between Empire and Anarchy, from the Mediterranean to China" (Random House, 2023)
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Apr 11, 2024 |
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Eric Schwitzgebel, "The Weirdness of the World" (Princeton UP, 2024)
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Apr 10, 2024 |
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Sumita Pahwa, "Politics as Worship: Righteous Activism and the Egyptian Muslim Brothers" (Syracuse UP, 2023)
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Apr 09, 2024 |
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Christopher Michael Blakley, "Empire of Brutality: Enslaved People and Animals in the British Atlantic World" (Louisiana State UP, 2023)
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Apr 08, 2024 |
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Jonathan W. Hackett, "Theory of Irregular War" (McFarland, 2024)
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Apr 07, 2024 |
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Joseph M. Thompson, "Cold War Country: How Nashville's Music Row and the Pentagon Created the Sound of American Patriotism" (UNC Press, 2024)
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Apr 06, 2024 |
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Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway, "The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market" (Bloomsbury. 2023)
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Apr 05, 2024 |
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Stefanos Geroulanos, "The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins" (Liveright, 2024)
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Apr 04, 2024 |
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Marc Masters, "High Bias: The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape" (UNC Press, 2023)
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Apr 03, 2024 |
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Matthieu Grandpierron, "Nostalgic Virility as a Cause of War: How Leaders of Great Powers Cope with Status Decline" (McGill-Queen's Press, 2024)
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Apr 02, 2024 |
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Max Bennett, "A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, Ai, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains" (Mariner Books, 2023)
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Apr 01, 2024 |
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Huaping Lu-Adler, "Kant, Race, and Racism: Views from Somewhere" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Mar 31, 2024 |
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Matthew H. Hersch, "Dark Star: A New History of the Space Shuttle" (MIT Press, 2023)
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Mar 30, 2024 |
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Thomas S. Mullaney, "The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the Information Age" (MIT Press, 2024)
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Mar 29, 2024 |
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Ignacio Cofone, "The Privacy Fallacy: Harm and Power in the Information Economy" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Mar 28, 2024 |
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Neil Gong, "Sons, Daughters, and Sidewalk Psychotics: Mental Illness and Homelessness in Los Angeles" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
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Mar 27, 2024 |
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Anita R. Gohdes, "Repression in the Digital Age: Surveillance, Censorship, and the Dynamics of State Violence" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Mar 26, 2024 |
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Maggie Hennefeld, "Death by Laughter: Female Hysteria and Early Cinema" (Columbia UP, 2024)
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Mar 25, 2024 |
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Colette Cann and Eric Demeulenaere, "The Activist Academic: Engaged Scholarship for Resistance, Hope and Social Change" (Myers Education Press, 2020)
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Mar 24, 2024 |
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Lillian Guerra, "Patriots and Traitors in Revolutionary Cuba, 1961-1981" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2023)
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Mar 23, 2024 |
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Anelise Hanson Shrout, "Aiding Ireland: The Great Famine and the Rise of Transnational Philanthropy" (NYU Press, 2024)
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Mar 22, 2024 |
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Beth Linker, "Slouch: Posture Panic in Modern America" (Princeton UP, 2024)
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Mar 21, 2024 |
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Matthias Doepke and Fabrizio Zilibotti, "Love, Money, and Parenting: How Economics Explains the Way We Raise Our Kids" (Princeton UP, 2019)
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Mar 20, 2024 |
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Colin Elliott, "Pox Romana: The Plague That Shook the Roman World" (Princeton UP, 2024)
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Mar 19, 2024 |
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Dan Stone, "The Holocaust: An Unfinished History" (Mariner Books, 2023)
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Mar 18, 2024 |
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Anna Kornbluh, "Immediacy: Or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism" (Verso, 2024)
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Mar 17, 2024 |
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Ruth A. Morgan, "Climate Change and International History: Climate Diplomacy in the Global North and South Since 1950" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
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Mar 16, 2024 |
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SherAli Tareen, "Perilous Intimacies: Debating Hindu-Muslim Friendship After Empire" (Columbia UP, 2023)
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Mar 15, 2024 |
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Foster Care, Family, and Social Class: A Conversation with Rob Henderson
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Mar 14, 2024 |
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Travis Rieder, "Catastrophe Ethics: How to Choose Well in a World of Tough Choices" (Dutton, 2024)
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Mar 13, 2024 |
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Judith Tick, "Becoming Ella Fitzgerald: The Jazz Singer Who Transformed American Song" (Norton, 2023)
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Mar 12, 2024 |
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Amy Paeth, "The American Poet Laureate: A History of U.S. Poetry and the State" (Columbia UP, 2023)
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Mar 11, 2024 |
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Brian Merchant, "Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech" (LIttle, Brown, 2023)
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Mar 10, 2024 |
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Jacqueline Kennelly, "Burnt by Democracy: Youth, Inequality, and the Erosion of Civic Life" (U Toronto Press, 2023)
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Mar 09, 2024 |
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Matthew Longo, "The Picnic: A Dream of Freedom and the Collapse of the Iron Curtain" (Norton, 2024)
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Mar 08, 2024 |
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Murray Dick, "The Infographic: A History of Data Graphics in News and Communications" (MIT Press, 2020)
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Mar 07, 2024 |
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Alan Bollard, "Economists at War: How a Handful of Economists Helped Win and Lose the World Wars" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Mar 06, 2024 |
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Diego Javier Luis, "The First Asians in the Americas: A Transpacific History" (Harvard UP, 2024)
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Mar 05, 2024 |
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Derron Wallace, "The Culture Trap: Ethnic Expectations and Unequal Schooling for Black Youth" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Mar 04, 2024 |
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Jennifer Evans, "Men's Sexual Health in Early Modern England" (Amsterdam UP, 2023)
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Mar 02, 2024 |
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Terry Williams, "Life Underground: Encounters with People Below the Streets of New York" (Columbia UP, 2024)
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Mar 01, 2024 |
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Carly Goodman, "Dreamland: America's Immigration Lottery in an Age of Restriction" (UNC Press, 2023)
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Feb 29, 2024 |
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Gerald Epstein, "Busting the Bankers' Club: Finance for the Rest of Us" (U California Press, 2024)
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Feb 28, 2024 |
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Alessandro Gerosa, "The Hipster Economy: Taste and Authenticity in Late Modern Capitalism (UCL Press, 2024)
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Feb 27, 2024 |
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Stanley Wells, "What Was Shakespeare Really Like?" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Feb 26, 2024 |
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Sarah Keyes, "American Burial Ground: A New History of the Overland Trail" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)
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Feb 25, 2024 |
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Paul Scharre, "Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence" (Norton, 2023)
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Feb 24, 2024 |
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Michael Kimmage, "Collisions: The Origins of the War in Ukraine and the New Global Instability" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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Feb 23, 2024 |
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Katharina Pistor, "The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality" (Princeton UP, 2019)
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Feb 22, 2024 |
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Neil Lee, "Innovation for the Masses: How to Share the Benefits of the High-Tech Economy" (U California Press, 2024)
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Feb 21, 2024 |
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Cameron McWhirter and Zusha Elinson, "American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15" (FSG, 2023)
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Feb 20, 2024 |
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Todd McGowan, "Emancipation After Hegel: Achieving a Contradictory Revolution" (Columbia UP, 2019)
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Feb 19, 2024 |
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Lawrence Glickman, "Free Enterprise: An American History" (Yale UP, 2019)
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Feb 18, 2024 |
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Max Felker-Kantor, "DARE to Say No: Policing and the War on Drugs in Schools" (UNC Press, 2023)
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Feb 17, 2024 |
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Sarah Parry Myers, "Earning Their Wings: The WASPs of World War II and the Fight for Veteran Recognition" (UNC Press, 2023)
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Feb 16, 2024 |
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Richard L. Hasen, "A Real Right to Vote: How a Constitutional Amendment Can Safeguard American Democracy" (Princeton UP, 2024)
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Feb 15, 2024 |
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How to Stage a Coup and Ten Other Lessons from the World of Secret Statecraft
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Feb 14, 2024 |
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Paul Katsafanas, "Philosophy of Devotion: The Longing for Invulnerable Ideals" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Feb 13, 2024 |
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Rob Percival, "The Meat Paradox: Eating, Empathy, and the Future of Meat" (Pegasus, 2022)
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Feb 12, 2024 |
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Yamini Narayanan, "Mother Cow, Mother India: A Multispecies Politics of Dairy in India" (Stanford UP, 2023)
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Feb 11, 2024 |
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Michael Devitt, "Biological Essentialism" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Feb 10, 2024 |
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Klaus Schmider, "Hitler's Fatal Miscalculation: Why Germany Declared War on the United States" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
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Feb 09, 2024 |
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John Horgan, "Terrorist Minds: The Psychology of Violent Extremism from Al-Qaeda to the Far Right" ( Columbia UP, 2023)
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Feb 08, 2024 |
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Nick Romeo, "The Alternative: How to Build a Just Economy" (PublicAffairs, 2024)
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Feb 07, 2024 |
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Robert P. Kolker and Nathan Abrams, "Kubrick: An Odyssey" (Pegasus Books, 2024)
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Feb 06, 2024 |
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Nicholas Dames, "The Chapter: A Segmented History from Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century" (Princeton UP, 2023)
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Feb 05, 2024 |
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Courtney Brannon Donoghue, "The Value Gap: Female-Driven Films from Pitch to Premiere" (U Texas Press, 2023)
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Feb 04, 2024 |
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Beatrice Heuser, "War: A Genealogy of Western Ideas and Practices" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Feb 03, 2024 |
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Matthew D. Lassiter, "The Suburban Crisis: White America and the War on Drugs" (Princeton UP, 2023)
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Feb 02, 2024 |
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Lisa Herzog, "Citizen Knowledge: Markets, Experts, and the Infrastructure of Democracy" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Feb 01, 2024 |
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Alberto Toscano, "Late Fascism: Race, Capitalism and the Politics of Crisis" (Verso, 2023)
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Jan 31, 2024 |
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Hajar Yazdiha, "The Struggle for the People’s King: How Politics Transforms the Memory of the Civil Rights Movement" (Princeton UP, 2023)
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Jan 30, 2024 |
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David M. Henkin, "The Week: A History of the Unnatural Rhythms that Made Us who We are" (Yale UP, 2021)
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Jan 29, 2024 |
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Sandro Galea, "Within Reason: A Liberal Public Health for an Illiberal Time" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
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Jan 28, 2024 |
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Lee McIntyre, "On Disinformation: How to Fight for Truth and Protect Democracy" (MIT Press, 2023)
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Jan 27, 2024 |
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Ludovic Slimak, "The Naked Neanderthal: A New Understanding of the Human Creature" (Pegasus Books, 2023)
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Jan 26, 2024 |
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Adrian Goldsworthy, "Rome and Persia: The Seven Hundred Year Rivalry" (Basic Books, 2023)
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Jan 25, 2024 |
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Nicholas Radburn, "Traders in Men: Merchants and the Transformation of the Transatlantic Slave Trade" (Yale UP, 2023)
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Jan 24, 2024 |
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Daniel Peris, "The Ownership Dividend: The Coming Paradigm Shift in the U.S. Stock Market" (Routledge, 2024)
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Jan 23, 2024 |
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On Zionism and the Left: A Discussion with Author and Cultural Critic Susie Linfield
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Jan 22, 2024 |
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Jakob Norberg, "The Brothers Grimm and the Making of German Nationalism" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Jan 21, 2024 |
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Simon Shuster, "The Showman: The Inside Story of the Invasion That Shook the World and Made a Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky" (William Morrow, 2024)
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Jan 20, 2024 |
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Aniefiok Ekpoudom, "Where We Come From: Rap, Home & Hope in Modern Britain" (Faber and Faber, 2024)
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Jan 19, 2024 |
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Neall W. Pogue, "The Nature of the Religious Right: The Struggle between Conservative Evangelicals and the Environmental Movement" (Cornell UP, 2022)
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Jan 18, 2024 |
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The Future of Ireland: Kevin Meagher on Why a United Ireland is Inevitable
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Jan 17, 2024 |
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Geoffrey Levin, "Our Palestine Question: Israel and American Jewish Dissent, 1948-1978" (Yale UP, 2023)
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Jan 16, 2024 |
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Alexandra Filindra, "Race, Rights, and Rifles: The Origins of the NRA and Contemporary Gun Culture" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
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Jan 15, 2024 |
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Justine Nolan and Martijn Boersma, "Addressing Modern Slavery" (UNSW Press, 2019)
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Jan 14, 2024 |
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Jacob L. Wright, "Why the Bible Began: An Alternative History of Scripture and Its Origins" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Jan 13, 2024 |
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Sam Lebovic, "State of Silence: The Espionage Act and the Rise of America's Secrecy Regime" (Basic Book, 2023)
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Jan 12, 2024 |
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Thomas DeGloma, "Anonymous: The Performance of Hidden Identities" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
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Jan 11, 2024 |
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Krista K. Thomason, "Dancing with the Devil: Why Bad Feelings Make Life Good" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Jan 10, 2024 |
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Ofer Ashkenazi, "Anti-Heimat Cinema: The Jewish Invention of the German Landscape" (U Michigan Press, 2020)
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Jan 09, 2024 |
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Melanie Joy, "How to End Injustice Everywhere" (Lantern, 2023)
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Jan 08, 2024 |
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Emma Kuby, "Political Survivors: The Resistance, the Cold War, and the Fight against Concentration Camps After 1945" (Cornell UP, 2019)
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Jan 07, 2024 |
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Elizabeth Eva Leach, "Medieval Sex Lives: The Sounds of Courtly Intimacy on the Francophone Borders" (Cornell UP, 2023)
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Jan 06, 2024 |
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Martyn Whittock, "American Vikings: How the Norse Sailed into the Lands and Imaginations of America" (Pegasus Books, 2023)
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Jan 05, 2024 |
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Amanda Kennell, "Alice in Japanese Wonderlands: Translation, Adaptation, Mediation" (U Hawaii Press, 2023)
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Jan 04, 2024 |
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Abdullahi Ahmed An-Naim, "Decolonizing Human Rights" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
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Jan 03, 2024 |
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Stephen M. Engel and Timothy S. Lyle, "Disrupting Dignity: Rethinking Power and Progress in LGBTQ Lives" (NYU Press, 2021)
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Jan 02, 2024 |
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Adam Mestyan, "Modern Arab Kingship: Remaking the Ottoman Political Order in the Interwar Middle East" (Princeton UP, 2023)
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Jan 01, 2024 |
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Carolyn Birdsall, "Radiophilia" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
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Dec 31, 2023 |
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Erika Dyck, "Psychedelic Prophets: The Letters of Aldous Huxley and Humphry Osmond" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2018)
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Dec 30, 2023 |
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Kevin Hood Gary, "Why Boredom Matters: Education, Leisure, and the Quest for a Meaningful Life" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Dec 29, 2023 |
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Scott D. Seligman, "Murder in Manchuria: The True Story of a Jewish Virtuoso, Russian Fascists, a French Diplomat, and a Japanese Spy in Occupied China" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
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Dec 28, 2023 |
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Jeffrey Whyte, "The Birth of Psychological War: Propaganda, Espionage, and Military Violence from WWII to the Vietnam War" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Dec 27, 2023 |
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Jeremy Yellen, "The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere: When Total Empire Met Total War" (Cornell UP, 2019)
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Dec 26, 2023 |
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Timothy McCall, "Making the Renaissance Man: Masculinity in the Courts of Renaissance Italy" (Reaktion Books, 2023)
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Dec 25, 2023 |
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Ben Jacobsen and David Beer, "Social Media and the Automatic Production of Memory: Classification, Ranking and the Sorting of the Past" (Bristol UP, 2023)
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Dec 24, 2023 |
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Howie Singer and Bill Rosenblatt, "Key Changes: The Ten Times Technology Transformed the Music Industry" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Dec 23, 2023 |
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Anne E. Linton, "Unmaking Sex: The Gender Outlaws of Nineteenth-Century France" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Dec 22, 2023 |
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Christine Abely, "The Russia Sanctions: The Economic Response to Russia's Invasion of Ukraine" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
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Dec 21, 2023 |
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Emily Horowitz, "From Rage to Reason: Why We Need Sex Crime Laws Based on Facts, Not Fear" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
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Dec 20, 2023 |
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Tom Buitelaar, "Assisting International Justice: Cooperation Between UN Peace Operations and the International Criminal Court in the Democratic Republic of Congo" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Dec 19, 2023 |
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Michelle R. Scott, "T.O.B.A. Time: Black Vaudeville and the Theater Owners' Booking Association in Jazz-Age America" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
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Dec 18, 2023 |
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Jackson Lears, "Animal Spirits: The American Pursuit of Vitality from Camp Meeting to Wall Street" (FSG, 2023)
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Dec 17, 2023 |
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Randall Hansen, "War, Work, and Want: How the OPEC Oil Crisis Caused Mass Migration and Revolution" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Dec 16, 2023 |
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Peter Richardson, "Savage Journey: Hunter S. Thompson and the Weird Road to Gonzo" (U California Press, 2022)
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Dec 15, 2023 |
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Hugo Wong, "America's Lost Chinese: The Rise and Fall of a Migrant Family Dream" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Dec 14, 2023 |
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Kathy Stuart, "Suicide by Proxy in Early Modern Germany: Crime, Sin and Salvation" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
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Dec 13, 2023 |
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Julian Go, "Policing Empires: Militarization, Race, and the Imperial Boomerang in Britain and the US" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Dec 12, 2023 |
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Ervin Malakaj, "Anders als Die Andern" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2023)
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Dec 11, 2023 |
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Philip Goff, "Why? The Purpose of the Universe" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Dec 10, 2023 |
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The Future of Predictions: A Discussion with Christopher E. Mason
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Dec 09, 2023 |
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Katharine M. Millar, "Support the Troops: Military Obligation, Gender, and the Making of Political Community" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Dec 08, 2023 |
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Wendy S. Hesford, "Violent Exceptions: Children's Human Rights and Humanitarian Rhetorics" (Ohio State UP, 2021)
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Dec 07, 2023 |
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Guy Miron, "Space and Time Under Persecution: The German-Jewish Experience in the Third Reich" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
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Dec 06, 2023 |
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Simon Joyce, "LGBT Victorians: Sexuality and Gender in the Nineteenth-Century Archives" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Dec 05, 2023 |
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Andrew C. McKevitt, "Gun Country: Gun Capitalism, Culture, and Control in Cold War America" (UNC Press, 2023)
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Dec 04, 2023 |
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Anna M. Grzymała-Busse, "Sacred Foundations: The Religious and Medieval Roots of the European State" (Princeton UP, 2023)
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Dec 03, 2023 |
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J. Christopher Edwards, "Crucified: The Christian Invention of the Jewish Executioners of Jesus" (Fortress Press, 2023)
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Dec 02, 2023 |
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Rachel Stephens, "Hidden in Plain Sight: Concealing Enslavement in American Visual Culture" (U Arkansas Press, 2023)
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Dec 01, 2023 |
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Christian B. Miller, "Honesty: The Philosophy and Psychology of a Neglected Virtue" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Nov 30, 2023 |
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Charles S. Maier, "The Project-State and Its Rivals: A New History of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries" (Harvard UP, 2023)
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Nov 29, 2023 |
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Tony Spawforth, "What the Greeks Did for Us" (Yale UP, 2023)
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Nov 28, 2023 |
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Ran Zwigenberg, "Nuclear Minds: Cold War Psychological Science and the Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
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Nov 27, 2023 |
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Fae Garland and Mitchell Travis, "Intersex Embodiment: Legal Frameworks Beyond Identity and Patienthood" (Bristol UP, 2022)
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Nov 26, 2023 |
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Michael Rushton, "The Moral Foundations of Public Funding for the Arts" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
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Nov 25, 2023 |
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Tabitha Stanmore, "Love Spells and Lost Treasure: Service Magic in England from the Later Middle Ages to the Early Modern Era" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Nov 24, 2023 |
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Jessi Streib, "The Accidental Equalizer: How Luck Determines Pay After College" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
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Nov 23, 2023 |
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Anne Mendelson, "Spoiled: The Myth of Milk as Superfood" (Columbia UP, 2023)
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Nov 22, 2023 |
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Providence and Power: Rabbi Meir Soloveichik on Jewish Statesmanship from King David to David Ben Gurion
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Nov 21, 2023 |
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Greil Marcus, "Folk Music: A Bob Dylan Biography in Seven Songs" (Yale UP, 2022)
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Nov 20, 2023 |
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Erin Baggott Carter and Brett L. Carter, "Propaganda in Autocracies: Institutions, Information, and the Politics of Belief" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Nov 19, 2023 |
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Nicole Eaton, "German Blood, Slavic Soil: How Nazi Königsberg Became Soviet Kaliningrad" (Cornell UP, 2023)
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Nov 18, 2023 |
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Warren Zanes, "Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's 'Nebraska' (Crown, 2023)
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Nov 17, 2023 |
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Where Have All the Democrats Gone?
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Nov 16, 2023 |
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Martin Jay, "Immanent Critiques: The Frankfurt School under Pressure" (Verso, 2023)
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Nov 15, 2023 |
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Gary Tomlinson, "The Machines of Evolution and the Scope of Meaning" (Zone Books, 2023)
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Nov 14, 2023 |
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Musab Younis, "On the Scale of the World: The Formation of Black Anticolonial Thought" (U California Press, 2022)
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Nov 13, 2023 |
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Clive Young, "Unlocking Scots: The Secret Life of the Scots Language" (Luath Press, 2023)
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Nov 12, 2023 |
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Steven Simon, "Grand Delusion: The Rise and Fall of American Ambition in the Middle East" (Penguin, 2023)
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Nov 11, 2023 |
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Barry Reay and Nina Attwood, "Dirty Books: Erotic Fiction and the Avant-garde in Mid-century Paris and New York" (Manchester UP, 2023)
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Nov 10, 2023 |
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The Future of Crucial Materials: A Discussion with Ed Conway
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Nov 09, 2023 |
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Malcolm D. Evans, "Tackling Torture: Prevention in Practice" (Bristol UP, 2023)
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Nov 08, 2023 |
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Helen Fry, "Women in Intelligence: The Hidden History of Two World Wars" (Yale UP, 2023)
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Nov 07, 2023 |
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Dannagal Goldthwaite Young, "Wrong: How Media, Politics, and Identity Drive Our Appetite for Misinformation" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
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Nov 06, 2023 |
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Jeremy Howick, "The Power of Placebos: Unlocking Their Potential to Improve Health Care" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
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Nov 05, 2023 |
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Drew A. Swanson, "A Man of Bad Reputation: The Murder of John Stephens and the Contested Landscape of North Carolina Reconstruction" (UNC Press, 2023)
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Nov 04, 2023 |
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Nancy Lindisfarne and Jonathan Neale, "Why Men?: A Human History of Violence and Inequality" (Hurst, 2023)
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Nov 03, 2023 |
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Wendy H. Wong, "We, the Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age" (MIT Press, 2023)
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Nov 02, 2023 |
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The Future of Cancelling: A Conversation with Greg Lukianoff
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Nov 01, 2023 |
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Dara Z. Strolovitch, "When Bad Things Happen to Privileged People: Race, Gender, and What Makes a Crisis in America" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
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Oct 31, 2023 |
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Neil Cohn, "Who Understands Comics?: Questioning the Universality of Visual Language Comprehension" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
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Oct 30, 2023 |
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Marat Grinberg, "The Soviet Jewish Bookshelf: Jewish Culture and Identity Between the Lines" (Brandeis UP, 2023)
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Oct 29, 2023 |
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Norman Solomon, "War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine" (New Press, 2023)
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Oct 28, 2023 |
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Nicole Nguyen, "Terrorism on Trial: Political Violence and Abolitionist Futures" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
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Oct 27, 2023 |
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Linda Kinstler, "Come to This Court and Cry: How the Holocaust Ends" (PublicAffairs, 2023)
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Oct 26, 2023 |
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Itamar Rabinovich, "Middle Eastern Maze: Israel, the Arabs and the Region" (Brookings Institution Press, 2023)
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Oct 25, 2023 |
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Jeremy Nobel, "Project UnLonely: Healing Our Crisis of Disconnection" (Avery Publishing Group, 2023)
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Oct 24, 2023 |
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Trenton W. Holliday, "Cro-Magnon: The Story of the Last Ice Age People of Europe" (Columbia UP, 2023)
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Oct 23, 2023 |
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Philip Jenkins, "A Storm of Images: Iconoclasm and Religious Reformation in the Byzantine World" (Baylor UP, 2023)
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Oct 22, 2023 |
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Danielle N. Boaz, "Voodoo: The History of a Racial Slur" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Oct 21, 2023 |
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Stephen Robert Miller, "Over the Seawall: Tsunamis, Cyclones, Drought, and the Delusion of Controlling Nature" (Island Press, 2023)
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Oct 20, 2023 |
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The Unquiet Legacy of Jewish Radical Meir Kahane
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Oct 19, 2023 |
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The Future of Incarceration: A Discussion with Colleen P. Eren
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Oct 18, 2023 |
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Colin Dickey, "Under the Eye of Power: How Fear of Secret Societies Shapes American Democracy" (Viking, 2023)
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Oct 17, 2023 |
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Branko Milanovic, "Visions of Inequality: From the French Revolution to the End of the Cold War" (Harvard UP, 2023)
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Oct 16, 2023 |
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Jonathan Downs, "Discovery at Rosetta: Revealing Ancient Egypt" (American University in Cairo Press, 2020)
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Oct 15, 2023 |
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Margaret Hillenbrand, "On the Edge: Feeling Precarious in China" (Columbia UP, 2023)
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Oct 14, 2023 |
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Lucy Fulford, "The Exiled: Empire, Immigration and the Ugandan Asian Exodus" (Coronet, 2023)
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Oct 13, 2023 |
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Lainey Newman and Theda Skocpol, "Rust Belt Union Blues: Why Working-Class Voters Are Turning Away from the Democratic Party" (Columbia UP, 2023)
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Oct 12, 2023 |
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Rory Finnin, "Blood of Others: Stalin's Crimean Atrocity and the Poetics of Solidarity" (U Toronto Press, 2022)
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Oct 11, 2023 |
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Christopher M. Bellitto, "Humility: The Secret History of a Lost Virtue" (Georgetown UP, 2023)
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Oct 10, 2023 |
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John Arena, "Expelling Public Schools: How Antiracist Politics Enable School Privatization in Newark" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
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Oct 09, 2023 |
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Harriet E. H. Earle, "Comics, Trauma, and the New Art of War" (UP of Mississippi, 2017)
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Oct 08, 2023 |
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Joshua May, "Neuroethics: Agency in the Age of Brain Science" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Oct 07, 2023 |
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Benjamin Savill, "England and the Papacy in the Early Middle Ages: Papal Privileges in European Perspective, C. 680-1073" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Oct 06, 2023 |
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James N. Druckman and Elizabeth A. Sharrow, "Equality Unfulfilled: How Title IX's Policy Design Undermines Change to College Sports" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Oct 05, 2023 |
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Maxine Berg and Pat Hudson, "Slavery, Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution" (Polity, 2023)
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Oct 04, 2023 |
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Adrian Chastain Weimer, "A Constitutional Culture: New England and the Struggle Against Arbitrary Rule in the Restoration Empire" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)
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Oct 03, 2023 |
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Rik Peels, "Life without God: An Outsider's Look at Atheism" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Oct 02, 2023 |
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Isaac McKean Scarborough, "Moscow's Heavy Shadow: The Violent Collapse of the USSR" (Cornell UP, 2023)
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Oct 01, 2023 |
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Aaron Tang, "Supreme Hubris: How Overconfidence Is Destroying the Court--And How We Can Fix It" (Yale UP, 2023)
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Sep 30, 2023 |
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Michael D. Smith, "The Abundant University: Remaking Higher Education for a Digital World" (MIT Press, 2023)
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Sep 29, 2023 |
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Jared Davidson, "Blood and Dirt: Prison Labour and the Making of New Zealand" (Bridget Williams Books, 2023)
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Sep 28, 2023 |
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Karen Weingarten, "Pregnancy Test" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
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Sep 27, 2023 |
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Dylan C. Penningroth, "Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights" (Liveright, 2023)
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Sep 26, 2023 |
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Mark Thomas Edwards, "Walter Lippmann: American Skeptic, American Pastor" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Sep 25, 2023 |
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The Future of Ukraine: A Discussion with Christopher Miller
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Sep 24, 2023 |
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James Greenwood-Reeves, "Justifying Violent Protest: Law and Morality in Democratic States" (Routledge, 2023)
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Sep 23, 2023 |
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Jack Schneider and Ethan L. Hutt, "Off the Mark: How Grades, Ratings, and Rankings Undermine Learning (but Don't Have To)" (Harvard UP, 2023)
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Sep 22, 2023 |
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Jeffrey Angles, ed., "Godzilla and Godzilla Raids Again: The Original Novellas by Shigeru Kayama" (U Michigan Press, 2023)
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Sep 21, 2023 |
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Molly Ladd-Taylor, "Fixing the Poor: Eugenic Sterilization and Child Welfare in the Twentieth Century" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2020)
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Sep 20, 2023 |
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Maria Smilios, "The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis" (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2023)
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Sep 19, 2023 |
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Ian Patel, "We're Here Because You Were There: Immigration and the End of Empire" (Verso, 2021)
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Sep 18, 2023 |
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Rachel Chrastil, "Bismarck's War: The Franco-Prussian War and the Making of Modern Europe" (Basic Book, 2023)
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Sep 17, 2023 |
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Christopher F. Zurn, "Splitsville USA: A Democratic Argument for Breaking Up the United States" (Routledge, 2023)
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Sep 16, 2023 |
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Zachary Parolin, "Poverty in the Pandemic: Policy Lessons from COVID-19" (Russell Sage Foundation, 2023)
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Sep 15, 2023 |
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Gregory Cahill, "The Golden Voice: The Ballad of Cambodian Rock's Lost Queen" (Life Drawn, 2023)
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Sep 14, 2023 |
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Michèle Lamont, "Seeing Others: How Recognition Works-And How It Can Heal a Divided World" (Atria, 2023)
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Sep 13, 2023 |
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A Better Way to Buy Books
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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The Future of Secularization: A Discussion with Ryan Cragun
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Sep 11, 2023 |
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Sarah Ruden, "Vergil: The Poet's Life" (Yale UP, 2023)
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Sep 10, 2023 |
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Ryan Tucker Jones, "Red Leviathan: The Secret History of Soviet Whaling" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
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Sep 09, 2023 |
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Shai M. Dromi and Samuel D. Stabler, "Moral Minefields: How Sociologists Debate Good Science" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
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Sep 08, 2023 |
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Michael S. Roth, "The Student: A Short History" (Yale UP, 2023)
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Sep 07, 2023 |
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Stephen Ramsay, "On the Digital Humanities: Essays and Provocations" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
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Sep 06, 2023 |
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Mike Pesca, "Upon Further Review: The Greatest What-Ifs in Sports History" (Twelve, 2018)
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Sep 05, 2023 |
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Alexander Stille, "The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American Commune" (FSG, 2023)
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Sep 04, 2023 |
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John Szwed, "Cosmic Scholar: The Life and Times of Harry Smith" (FSG, 2023)
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Sep 03, 2023 |
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Ari Ezra Waldman, "Industry Unbound: The Inside Story of Privacy, Data, and Corporate Power" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
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Sep 02, 2023 |
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Kathryn J. Edin et al., "The Injustice of Place: Uncovering the Legacy of Poverty in America" (Mariner Books, 2023)
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Sep 01, 2023 |
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Sarah R. Coleman, "The Walls Within: The Politics of Immigration in Modern America" (Princeton UP, 2023)
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Aug 31, 2023 |
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Mikkel Dack, "Everyday Denazification in Postwar Germany: The Fragebogen Questionnaire and Political Screening During the Allied Occupation" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Aug 30, 2023 |
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On “Henry Kissinger and His World” with author Barry Gewen
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Aug 29, 2023 |
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David Waldstreicher, "The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet's Journeys Through American Slavery and Independence" (FSG, 2023)
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Aug 28, 2023 |
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Gary Smith, "Distrust: Big Data, Data-Torturing, and the Assault on Science" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Aug 27, 2023 |
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Chris Dietz, "Self-Declaration in the Legal Recognition of Gender" (Routledge, 2022)
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Aug 26, 2023 |
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Lawrence Goldman, "Victorians and Numbers: Statistics and Society in Nineteenth Century Britain" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Aug 25, 2023 |
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Jeffrey J. Cohen and Julian Yates, "Noah's Arkive" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
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Aug 24, 2023 |
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Cara Fitzpatrick, "The Death of Public School: How Conservatives Won the War Over Education in America" (Basic Books, 2023)
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Aug 23, 2023 |
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Postscript: Guns, Violence, and the Law: How Federal Courts are Trying to Figure Out the Second Amendment
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Aug 22, 2023 |
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Liran Einav and Amy Finkelstein, "We've Got You Covered: Rebooting American Health Care" (Penguin, 2023)
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Aug 21, 2023 |
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Peter Moore, "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness: Britain and the American Dream (1740–1776)" ( FSG, 2023)
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Aug 20, 2023 |
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Samuel Moyn, "Liberalism Against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times" (Yale UP, 2023)
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Aug 19, 2023 |
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The Future of Traditionalism: A Discussion with Mark J. Sedgwick
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Aug 18, 2023 |
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Don J. Wyatt, "Slavery in East Asia" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Aug 17, 2023 |
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Lauren S. Foley, "On the Basis of Race: How Higher Education Navigates Affirmative Action Policies" (NYU Press, 2023)
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Aug 16, 2023 |
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Benjamin Y. Fong, "Quick Fixes: Drugs in America from Prohibition to the 21st Century Binge" (Verso, 2023)
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Aug 15, 2023 |
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Nicholas Tochka, "Rocking in the Free World: Popular Music and the Politics of Freedom in Postwar America" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Aug 14, 2023 |
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Mark Edele, "Russia's War Against Ukraine: The Whole Story" (Melbourne University, 2023)
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Aug 13, 2023 |
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Kris Marsh, "The Love Jones Cohort: Single and Living Alone in the Black Middle Class" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Aug 12, 2023 |
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Michael Ruse, "Darwinism as Religion: What Literature Tells Us about Evolution" (Oxford UP, 2017)
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Aug 11, 2023 |
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Chris Wiggins and Matthew L Jones, "How Data Happened: A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms" (Norton, 2023)
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Aug 10, 2023 |
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Andrii Portnov, "Dnipro: An Entangled History of a European City" (Academic Studies Press, 2022)
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Aug 09, 2023 |
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Steven Press, "Blood and Diamonds: Germany's Imperial Ambitions in Africa" (Harvard UP, 2021)
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Aug 08, 2023 |
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Philip Roscoe, "How to Build a Stock Exchange: The Past, Present and Future of Finance" (Bristol UP, 2023)
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Aug 07, 2023 |
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Mike Rothschild, "Jewish Space Lasers: The Rothschilds and 200 Years of Conspiracy Theories" (Melville House, 2023)
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Aug 06, 2023 |
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The Future of Space Travel: A Discussion with Douglas C. Ligor
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Aug 05, 2023 |
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Wendell Nii Laryea Adjetey, "Cross-Border Cosmopolitans: The Making of a Pan-African North America" (UNC Press, 2023)
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Aug 04, 2023 |
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Rudi Matthee, "Angels Tapping at the Wine-Shop's Door: A History of Alcohol in the Islamic World" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Aug 03, 2023 |
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Colleen M. Grogan, "Grow and Hide: The History of America's Health Care State" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Aug 02, 2023 |
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D. J. Taylor, "Orwell: The New Life" (Pegasus Books, 2023)
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Aug 01, 2023 |
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Blair Kelley, "Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class" (LIveright, 2023)
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Jul 31, 2023 |
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Phil Klay, "Uncertain Ground: Citizenship in an Age of Endless, Invisible War" (Penguin, 2022)
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Jul 30, 2023 |
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Yonatan Adler, "The Origins of Judaism: An Archaeological-Historical Reappraisal" (Yale UP, 2022)
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Jul 29, 2023 |
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Stephen C. Taysom, "Like a Fiery Meteor: The Life of Joseph F. Smith" (U of Utah Press, 2023)
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Jul 28, 2023 |
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Petra Bueskens, "Modern Motherhood and Women’s Dual Identities: Rewriting the Sexual Contract" (Routledge, 2018)
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Jul 27, 2023 |
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Syed Ali and Margaret M. Chin, "The Peer Effect: How Your Peers Shape Who You Are and Who You Will Become" (NYU Press, 2023)
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Jul 26, 2023 |
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Vincanne Adams, "Glyphosate and the Swirl: An Agroindustrial Chemical on the Move" (Duke UP, 2023)
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Jul 25, 2023 |
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Kathleen Lubey, "What Pornography Knows: Sex and Social Protest Since the Eighteenth Century" (Stanford UP, 2022)
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Jul 24, 2023 |
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Sheila Miyoshi Jager, "The Other Great Game: The Opening of Korea and the Birth of Modern East Asia" (Harvard UP, 2023)
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Jul 23, 2023 |
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Stefan Rinke, "Conquistadors and Aztecs: A History of the Fall of Tenochtitlan" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Jul 22, 2023 |
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Scott A. Mitchell, "The Making of American Buddhism" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Jul 21, 2023 |
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Scott E. Simon, "Truly Human: Indigeneity and Indigenous Resurgence on Formosa" (U Toronto Press, 2023)
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Jul 20, 2023 |
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Monica Liu, "Seeking Western Men: Email-Order Brides Under China's Global Rise" (Stanford UP, 2022)
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Jul 19, 2023 |
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Anne Phillips, "Unconditional Equals" (Princeton UP, 2021)
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Jul 18, 2023 |
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Michele Meek, "Consent Culture and Teen Films: Adolescent Sexuality in US Movies" (Indiana UP, 2023)
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Jul 17, 2023 |
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Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris, "Nobody's Fool: Why We Get Taken in and What We Can Do about It" (Basic Books, 2023)
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Jul 16, 2023 |
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Stephen Bright and James Kwak, "The Fear of Too Much Justice: Race, Poverty, and the Persistence of Inequality in the Criminal Courts" (The New Press, 2023)
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Jul 15, 2023 |
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Jade McGlynn, "Memory Makers: The Politics of the Past in Putin's Russia" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
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Jul 14, 2023 |
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Marco Grasso, "From Big Oil to Big Green: Holding the Oil Industry to Account for the Climate Crisis" (MIT Press, 2022)
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Jul 13, 2023 |
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Randall Patnode, "The Synchronized Society: Time and Control From Broadcasting to the Internet" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
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Jul 12, 2023 |
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Eliot Borenstein, "Marvel Comics in The 1970s: The World Inside Your Head" (Cornell UP, 2023)
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Jul 11, 2023 |
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Katherine Giuffre, "Outrage: The Arts and the Creation of Modernity" (Stanford UP, 2023)
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Jul 10, 2023 |
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Robert Mills, "Seeing Sodomy in the Middle Ages" (U Chicago Press, 2015)
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Jul 09, 2023 |
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Marcos González Hernando and Gerry Mitchell, "Uncomfortably Off: Why Higher-Income Earners Should Care about Inequality" (Policy Press, 2023)
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Jul 08, 2023 |
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Andrew Harding, "A Small, Stubborn Town: Life, Death and Defiance in Ukraine" (Ithaka, 2023)
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Jul 07, 2023 |
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James Crossland, "The Rise of Devils: Fear and the Origins of Terrorism" (Manchester UP, 2023)
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Jul 06, 2023 |
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Sarah Banet-Weiser and Kathryn C. Higgins, "Believability: Sexual Violence, Media, and the Politics of Doubt" (Polity Press, 2023)
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Jul 05, 2023 |
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Jennifer Caplan, "Funny, You Don't Look Funny: Judaism and Humor from the Silent Generation to Millennials" (Wayne State UP, 2023)
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Jul 04, 2023 |
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Malcolm F. Purinton, "Globalization in a Glass: The Rise of Pilsner Beer through Technology, Taste and Empire" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
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Jul 03, 2023 |
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Peggy O'Donnell Heffington, "Without Children: The Long History of Not Being a Mother" (Seal Press, 2023)
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Jul 02, 2023 |
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Kevin J. Elliott, "Democracy for Busy People" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
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Jul 01, 2023 |
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Samuel Helfont, "Iraq Against the World: Saddam, America, and the Post-Cold War Order" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Jun 30, 2023 |
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Kaya Sahin, "Peerless Among Princes: The Life and Times of Sultan Süleyman" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Jun 29, 2023 |
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Daniel R. Smith, "The Fall and Rise of the English Upper Class: Houses, Kinship and Capital Since 1945" (Manchester UP, 2023)
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Jun 28, 2023 |
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David Wenham, "Jesus in Context: Making Sense of the Historical Figure" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
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Jun 27, 2023 |
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Stephen Vladeck, "The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic" (Basic Books, 2023)
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Jun 26, 2023 |
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Tom Higham, "The World Before Us: The New Science Behind Our Human Origins" (Yale UP, 2021)
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Jun 24, 2023 |
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Robert Falconer, "The Others Within Us: Internal Family Systems, Porous Mind, and Spirit Possession" (Great Mystery Press, 2023)
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Jun 23, 2023 |
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Anna Della Subin, "Accidental Gods: On Race, Empire, and Men Unwittingly Turned Divine" (Metropolitan Books, 2021)
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Jun 23, 2023 |
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James Hannam, "The Globe: How the Earth Became Round" (Reaktion Books, 2023)
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Jun 22, 2023 |
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Lisabeth During, "The Chastity Plot" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
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Jun 21, 2023 |
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The Future of Venture Capitalists: A Discussion with Sebastian Mallaby
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Jun 20, 2023 |
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The History of the American Shopping Mall and Its Cultures
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Jun 19, 2023 |
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Keith Tribe, "Constructing Economic Science: The Invention of a Discipline 1850-1950" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Jun 18, 2023 |
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Chris Manias, "The Age of Mammals: Nature, Development, and Paleontology in the Long Nineteenth Century" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2023)
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Jun 17, 2023 |
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Chris Impey, "Worlds Without End: Exoplanets, Habitability, and the Future of Humanity" (MIT Press, 2023)
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Jun 16, 2023 |
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Josh Milburn, "Food, Justice, and Animals: Feeding the World Respectfully" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Jun 15, 2023 |
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Peter Baldwin, "Athena Unbound: Why and How Scholarly Knowledge Should Be Free for All" (MIT Press, 2023)
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Jun 14, 2023 |
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The Future of Politicized Narratives: A Discussion with Andreas Krieg
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Jun 13, 2023 |
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Fredrik Albritton Jonsson and Carl Wennerlind, "Scarcity: A History from the Origins of Capitalism to the Climate Crisis" (Harvard UP, 2023)
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Jun 12, 2023 |
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R. T. Howard, "Spying on the Reich: The Cold War Against Hitler" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Jun 11, 2023 |
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Patrick J. Charles, "Vote Gun: How Gun Rights Became Politicized in the United States" (Columbia UP, 2023)
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Jun 10, 2023 |
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Amanda L. Van Lanen, "The Washington Apple: Orchards and the Development of Industrial Agriculture" (U Oklahoma Press, 2022)
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Jun 09, 2023 |
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Ann Komaromi, "Soviet Samizdat: Imagining a New Society" (Cornell UP, 2022)
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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Robin James, "The Future of Rock and Roll: 97X WOXY and the Fight for True Independence" (UNC Press, 2023)
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Jun 07, 2023 |
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Erik J. Dahl, "The COVID-19 Intelligence Failure: Why Warning Was Not Enough" (Georgetown UP, 2023)
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Jun 06, 2023 |
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Xiaomei Chen, "Performing the Socialist State: Modern Chinese Theater and Film Culture" (Columbia UP, 2023)
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Jun 05, 2023 |
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Gladys L. Mitchell-Walthour, "The Politics of Survival: Black Women Social Welfare Beneficiaries in Brazil and the United States" (Columbia UP, 2023)
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Jun 04, 2023 |
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The Future of Big Finance: A Discussion with Anastasia Nesvetailova
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Jun 03, 2023 |
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Patrick Jory, "A History of Manners and Civility in Thailand" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
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Jun 02, 2023 |
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Amber Knight and Joshua Miller, "Prenatal Genetic Testing, Abortion, and Disability Justice" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Jun 01, 2023 |
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Alex Prichard, "Anarchism: a Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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May 31, 2023 |
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Ashok Gopal, "A Part Apart: The Life and Thought of B. R. Ambedkar" (Navayana, 2023)
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May 30, 2023 |
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Jaime Green, "The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination and Our Vision of the Cosmos" (Hanover Square Press, 2023)
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May 29, 2023 |
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Bart D. Ehrman, "Armageddon: What the Bible Really Says about the End" (Simon and Schuster, 2023)
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May 28, 2023 |
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Naoíse Mac Sweeney, "The West: A New History of an Old Idea" (Dutton, 2023)
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May 27, 2023 |
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Evelyn Alsultany, "Broken: The Failed Promise of Muslim Inclusion" (NYU Press, 2022)
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May 26, 2023 |
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Robert F. Trager and Joslyn N. Barnhart, "The Suffragist Peace: How Women's Votes Lead to Fewer Wars" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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May 25, 2023 |
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Sarah Mellors Rodriguez, "Reproductive Realities in Modern China: Birth Control and Abortion, 1911-2021" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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May 24, 2023 |
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Rosamond McKitterick, "Rome and the Invention of the Papacy: The Liber Pontificalis" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
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May 23, 2023 |
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Rebecca Brückmann, "Massive Resistance and Southern Womanhood: White Women, Class, and Segregation" (U Georgia Press, 2021)
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May 22, 2023 |
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Stefan Lorenz Sorgner, "We Have Always Been Cyborgs: Digital Data, Gene Technologies, and an Ethics of Transhumanism" (Bristol UP, 2023)
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May 21, 2023 |
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Philip Pettit, "The State" (Princeton UP, 2023)
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May 20, 2023 |
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Kathryn J. McGarr, "City of Newsmen: Public Lies and Professional Secrets in Cold War Washington" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
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May 19, 2023 |
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Farah Godrej, "Freedom Inside?: Yoga and Meditation in the Carceral State" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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May 18, 2023 |
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Daniel A. Bell, "The Dean of Shandong: Confessions of a Minor Bureaucrat at a Chinese University" (Princeton UP, 2023)
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May 17, 2023 |
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Victoria Bateman, "Naked Feminism: Breaking the Cult of Female Modesty" (Polity Press, 2023)
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May 16, 2023 |
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Carol Graham, "The Power of Hope: How the Science of Well-Being Can Save Us from Despair" (Princeton UP, 2023)
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May 15, 2023 |
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Annabel L. Kim, "Cacaphonies: The Excremental Canon of French Literature" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
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May 14, 2023 |
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Bill Steigerwald, "30 Days a Black Man: The Forgotten Story That Exposed the Jim Crow South" (Lyons Press, 2017)
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May 13, 2023 |
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Serhii Plokhy, "The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History" (Norton, 2023)
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May 12, 2023 |
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Andrew R. Casper, "An Artful Relic: The Shroud of Turin in Baroque Italy" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2021)
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May 11, 2023 |
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Benjamin Balint, "Bruno Schulz: An Artist, a Murder, and the Hijacking of History" (Norton, 2023)
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May 10, 2023 |
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Karin Chenoweth, "Districts That Succeed: Breaking the Correlation Between Race, Poverty, and Achievement" (Harvard Education Press, 2021)
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May 09, 2023 |
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Ewelina U. Ochab and David Alton, "State Responses to Crimes of Genocide: What Went Wrong and How to Change It" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
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May 08, 2023 |
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Stephen G. Post, "Dignity for Deeply Forgetful People: How Caregivers Can Meet the Challenges of Alzheimer's Disease" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2022)
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May 07, 2023 |
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Stephen Roach, "Accidental Conflict: America, China, and the Clash of False Narratives" (Yale UP, 2022)
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May 06, 2023 |
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Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson, "Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity" (PublicAffairs, 2023)
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May 05, 2023 |
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Cedric Johnson, "After Black Lives Matter: Policing and Anti-Capitalist Struggle" (Verso, 2023)
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May 04, 2023 |
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Henrik Örnebring and Michael Karlsson, "Journalistic Autonomy: The Genealogy of a Concept" (U Missouri Press, 2022)
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May 03, 2023 |
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James Charney, "Madness at the Movies: Understanding Mental Illness through Film" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
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May 02, 2023 |
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Chandra Mallampalli, "South Asia's Christians: Between Hindu and Muslim" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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May 01, 2023 |
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Annie Zaleski, "Lady Gaga: Applause" (Palazzo Editions, 2022)
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Apr 30, 2023 |
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Craig Leonard, "Uncommon Sense: Aesthetics after Marcuse" (MIT Press, 2022)
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Apr 29, 2023 |
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The Future of Germs: A Discussion with Jonathan Kennedy
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Apr 28, 2023 |
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Elaine H. Ecklund and David R. Johnson, "Varieties of Atheism in Science" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Apr 27, 2023 |
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Alan Lightman, "The Transcendent Brain: Spirituality in the Age of Science" (Pantheon, 2023)
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Apr 26, 2023 |
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Beth Bailey, "An Army Afire: How the US Army Confronted Its Racial Crisis in the Vietnam Era" (UNC Press, 2023)
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Apr 25, 2023 |
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Paul A. Lombardo, "Three Generations, No Imbeciles: Eugenics, the Supreme Court, and Buck v. Bell" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2022)
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Apr 24, 2023 |
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Tom Hutton, "Hitler's Maladies and Their Impact on World War II" (Texas Tech UP, 2023)
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Apr 23, 2023 |
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The Future of Eastern Europe: A Discussion with Zsuzsanna Szelényi
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Apr 22, 2023 |
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Rachel Robison-Greene, "Edibility and in Vitro Meat: Ethical Considerations" (Lexington Books, 2022)
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Apr 21, 2023 |
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Michael K. Johnson, "Speculative Wests: Popular Representations of a Region and Genre" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
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Apr 20, 2023 |
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Kathryn Cornell Dolan, "Breakfast Cereal: A Global History" (Reaktion Books, 2023)
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Apr 19, 2023 |
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Dwayne Epstein, "Killin' Generals: The Making of The Dirty Dozen, the Most Iconic WW II Movie of All Time" (Citadel Press, 2023)
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Apr 18, 2023 |
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Quinn Slobodian, "Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy" (Metropolitan, 2023)
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Apr 17, 2023 |
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Piotr M. A. Cywiński, "Auschwitz: A Monograph on the Human" (Muzeum Auschwitz, 2022)
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Apr 16, 2023 |
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Harold James, "Seven Crashes: The Economic Crises That Shaped Globalization" (Yale UP, 2023)
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Apr 15, 2023 |
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Gregory J. Kaliss, "Beyond the Black Power Salute: Athlete Activism in an Era of Change" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
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Apr 14, 2023 |
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Christopher S. Celenza, "The Italian Renaissance and the Origin of the Humanities: An Intellectual History, 1400-1800" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
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Apr 13, 2023 |
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Lachlan McNamee, "Settling for Less: Why States Colonize and Why They Stop" (Princeton UP, 2023)
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Apr 12, 2023 |
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Michelle McSweeney, "OK" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
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Apr 11, 2023 |
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Celeste Day Moore, "Soundscapes of Liberation: African American Music in Postwar France" (Duke UP, 2021)
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Apr 10, 2023 |
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Howard Gillette, Jr., "The Paradox of Urban Revitalization: Progress and Poverty in America's Postindustrial Era" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
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Apr 09, 2023 |
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Simon Strange, "Blank Canvas: Art School Creativity and the Development of Punk, Post Punk and New Wave Music" (Intellect, 2023)
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Apr 08, 2023 |
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Jade McGlynn, "Russia's War" (Polity, 2023)
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Apr 07, 2023 |
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David I. Kertzer, "The Pope at War: The Secret History of Pius XII, Mussolini, and Hitler" (Random House, 2022)
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Apr 06, 2023 |
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Joseph Giacomelli, "Uncertain Climes: Debating Climate Change in Gilded Age America" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
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Apr 05, 2023 |
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David Rothenberg, "Whale Music: Thousand Mile Songs in a Sea of Sound" (Terra Nova Press, 2023)
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Apr 04, 2023 |
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Rhea Myers, "Proof of Work: Blockchain Provocations 2011-2021" (MIT Press, 2023)
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Apr 03, 2023 |
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Mike Jay, "Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind" (Yale UP, 2023)
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Apr 02, 2023 |
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Karen Frost-Arnold, "Who Should We Be Online?: A Social Epistemology for the Internet" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Apr 01, 2023 |
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Eric Alterman, "We Are Not One: A History of America's Fight Over Israel" (Basic Book, 2022)
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Mar 30, 2023 |
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Mark Robert Rank, "The Poverty Paradox: Understanding Economic Hardship Amid American Prosperity" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Mar 29, 2023 |
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Woodrow Hartzog, "Privacy's Blueprint: The Battle to Control the Design of New Technologies" (Harvard UP, 2018)
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Mar 28, 2023 |
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Larisa Grollemond and Bryan C. Keene, "The Fantasy of the Middle Ages: An Epic Journey through Imaginary Medieval Worlds" (Getty, 2022)
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Mar 27, 2023 |
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Kristin Hass, "Blunt Instruments: Recognizing Racist Cultural Infrastructure in Memorials, Museums, and Patriotic Practices" (Beacon Press, 2022)
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Mar 26, 2023 |
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Katherine S. Newman and Elisabeth S Jacobs, "Moving the Needle: What Tight Labor Markets Do for the Poor" (U California Press, 2023)
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Mar 25, 2023 |
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David J. Halperin, "Intimate Alien: The Hidden Story of the UFO" (Stanford UP, 2020)
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Mar 24, 2023 |
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Todd McGowan, "Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets" (Columbia UP, 2016)
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Mar 23, 2023 |
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Leigh Goodmark, "Imperfect Victims: Criminalized Survivors and the Promise of Abolition Feminism" (U California Press, 2023)
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Mar 22, 2023 |
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Nadia Abu El-Haj, "Combat Trauma: Imaginaries of War and Citizenship in Post-9/11 America" (Verso, 2022)
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Mar 21, 2023 |
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Alexis James, "Unsung: Not All Heroes Wear Kits" (Pitch Publishing, 2023)
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Mar 20, 2023 |
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Patrick L. Schmidt, "Harvard's Quixotic Pursuit of a New Science: The Rise and Fall of the Department of Social Relations" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2022)
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Mar 19, 2023 |
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Michael Walzer, "The Struggle for a Decent Politics: On 'Liberal' As an Adjective" (Yale UP, 2023)
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Mar 18, 2023 |
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Bleddyn E. Bowen, "Original Sin: Power, Technology and War in Outer Space" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Mar 17, 2023 |
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Mary Flanagan and Mikael Jakobsson, "Playing Oppression: The Legacy of Conquest and Empire in Colonialist Board Games" (MIT Press, 2023)
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Mar 16, 2023 |
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Bradford Vivian, "Campus Misinformation: The Real Threat to Free Speech in American Higher Education" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Mar 15, 2023 |
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Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Andrew S. Curran, "Who's Black and Why?: A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race" (Harvard UP, 2022)
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Mar 14, 2023 |
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Nicholas Carnes and Lilly J. Goren, "The Politics of the Marvel Cinematic Universe" (UP of Kansas, 2022)
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Mar 13, 2023 |
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Toby Green and Thomas Fazi, "The Covid Consensus: The Global Assault on Democracy and the Poor—A Critique from the Left" (Hurst, 2023)
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Mar 12, 2023 |
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Richard Thompson Ford, "Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History" (Simon & Schuster, 2021)
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Mar 11, 2023 |
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Ross Melnick, "Hollywood's Embassies: How Movie Theaters Projected American Power Around the World" (Columbia UP, 2022)
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Mar 10, 2023 |
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Xin Wen, "The King’s Road: Diplomacy and the Remaking of the Silk Road" (Princeton UP, 2023)
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Mar 09, 2023 |
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Miguel Sicart, "Playing Software: Homo Ludens in Computational Culture" (MIT Press, 2023)
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Mar 08, 2023 |
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Elizabeth Cobbs, "Fearless Women: Feminist Patriots from Abigail Adams to Beyoncé" (Harvard UP, 2023)
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Mar 07, 2023 |
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Rohit De, "A People's Constitution: The Everyday Life of Law in the Indian Republic" (Princeton UP, 2018)
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Mar 06, 2023 |
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Nicola Rollock, "The Racial Code: Tales of Resistance and Survival" (Penguin, 2022)
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Mar 05, 2023 |
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Jennie E. Burnet, "To Save Heaven and Earth: Rescue in the Rwandan Genocide" (Cornell UP, 2023)
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Mar 04, 2023 |
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Geoffrey Parker and Colin Martin, "Armada: The Spanish Enterprise and England's Deliverance In 1588" (Yale UP, 2022)
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Mar 03, 2023 |
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Elizabeth T. Hurren, "Hidden Histories of the Dead: Disputed Bodies in Modern British Medical Research" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
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Mar 02, 2023 |
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Thomas Kelly, "Bias: A Philosophical Study" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Mar 01, 2023 |
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Melvyn P. Leffler, "Confronting Saddam Hussein: George W. Bush and the Invasion of Iraq" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Feb 28, 2023 |
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Peter Hayes, "Why? Explaining the Holocaust" (Norton, 2017)
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Feb 27, 2023 |
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Stephen Bullivant, "Nonverts: The Making of Ex-Christian America" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Feb 26, 2023 |
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Philippe Schlenker, "What It All Means: Semantics for (Almost) Everything" (MIT Press, 2022)
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Feb 25, 2023 |
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Jeffrey S. Bachman, "The Politics of Genocide: From the Genocide Convention to the Responsibility to Protect" (Rutgers UP, 2022)
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Feb 24, 2023 |
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Frederick Schauer, "The Proof: Uses of Evidence in Law, Politics, and Everything Else" (Harvard UP, 2022)
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Feb 23, 2023 |
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Kevin Bryant, "Spies on the Sidelines: The High-Stakes World of NFL Espionage" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)
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Feb 22, 2023 |
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Pete Millwood, "Improbable Diplomats: How Ping-Pong Players, Musicians, and Scientists Remade US-China Relations" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Feb 21, 2023 |
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Azzan Yadin-Israel, "Temptation Transformed: The Story of How the Forbidden Fruit Became an Apple" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
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Feb 20, 2023 |
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Jonathan Herring, "The Right to Be Protected from Committing Suicide" (Hart Publishing, 2022)
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Feb 19, 2023 |
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Alan Meades, "Arcade Britannia: A Social History of the British Amusement Arcade" (MIT Press, 2022)
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Feb 18, 2023 |
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Joseph MacKay, "The Counterinsurgent Imagination: A New Intellectual History" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Feb 17, 2023 |
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Elisabeth Eittreim, "Teaching Empire: Native Americans, Filipinos, and Us Imperial Education 1879-1918" (UP of Kansas, 2019)
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Feb 16, 2023 |
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Rhiannon Graybill, "Texts After Terror: Rape, Sexual Violence, and the Hebrew Bible" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Feb 15, 2023 |
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Lisa Haushofer, "Wonder Foods: The Science and Commerce of Nutrition" (U California Press, 2022)
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Feb 14, 2023 |
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How Do We Treat Opioid Addiction?
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Feb 13, 2023 |
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M. Christhu Doss, "India after the 1857 Revolt: Decolonising the Mind" (Routledge, 2022)
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Feb 12, 2023 |
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Winston James, "Claude McKay: The Making of a Black Bolshevik" (Columbia UP, 2022)
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Feb 11, 2023 |
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Kate Masur, "Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction" (Norton, 2021)
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Feb 10, 2023 |
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Mary E. Sommar, "The Slaves of the Churches: A History" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Feb 09, 2023 |
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Bruce Kuklick, "Fascism Comes to America: A Century of Obsession in Politics and Culture" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
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Feb 08, 2023 |
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Ben Burgis, "Christopher Hitchens: What He Got Right, How He Went Wrong, and Why He Still Matters" (Zero Books, 2022)
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Feb 07, 2023 |
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Geoffrey Roberts, "Stalin's Library: A Dictator and His Books" (Yale UP, 2022)
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Feb 06, 2023 |
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Rowan Dorin, "No Return: Jews, Christian Usurers, and the Spread of Mass Expulsion in Medieval Europe" (Princeton UP, 2023)
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Feb 05, 2023 |
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The Future of Nuclear Fusion: A Discussion with Sharon Ann Holgate
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Feb 04, 2023 |
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Amy S. Bruckman, "Should You Believe Wikipedia?: Online Communities and the Construction of Knowledge" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Feb 03, 2023 |
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Nick Seaver, "Computing Taste: Algorithms and the Makers of Music Recommendation" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
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Feb 02, 2023 |
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Valerie Tiberius, "What Do You Want Out of Life?: A Philosophical Guide to Figuring Out What Matters" (Princeton UP, 2023)
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Feb 01, 2023 |
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David Newheiser, "The Varieties of Atheism: Connecting Religion and Its Critics" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
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Jan 31, 2023 |
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Matthew Galway, "The Emergence of Global Maoism: China's Red Evangelism and the Cambodian Communist Movement, 1949-1979" (Cornell UP, 2022)
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Jan 30, 2023 |
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Zachary Shore, "This Is Not Who We Are: America’s Struggle Between Vengeance and Virtue" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Jan 29, 2023 |
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Benedict Rogers, "The China Nexus: Thirty Years in and Around the Chinese Communist Party's Tyranny" (Optimum Publishing, 2022)
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Jan 28, 2023 |
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Elizabeth Kelly Gray, "Habit Forming: Drug Addiction in America, 1776-1914" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Jan 27, 2023 |
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Justin Gregg, "If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal: What Animal Intelligence Reveals About Human Stupidity" (Little, Brown, 2022)
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Jan 26, 2023 |
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Michael Fleming, "In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Poland, the United Nations War Crimes Commission, and the Search for Justice" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Jan 25, 2023 |
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Oline Eaton, "Finding Jackie: The Second Act of America's First Lady" (Diversion Books, 2023)
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Jan 24, 2023 |
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Rens Bod, "A New History of the Humanities: The Search for Principles and Patterns from Antiquity to the Present" (Oxford UP, 2014)
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Jan 23, 2023 |
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Dick Weissman, "Bob Dylan's New York: A Historic Guide" (SUNY Press, 2022)
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Jan 22, 2023 |
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Helen Anne Curry, "Endangered Maize: Industrial Agriculture and the Crisis of Extinction" (U California Press, 2022)
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Jan 21, 2023 |
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Richard Bradford, "Tough Guy: The Life of Norman Mailer" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
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Jan 20, 2023 |
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Patrick Bixby, "License to Travel: A Cultural History of the Passport" (U California Press, 2022)
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Jan 19, 2023 |
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Robert Ovetz, "We the Elites: Why the US Constitution Serves the Few" (Pluto Press, 2022)
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Jan 18, 2023 |
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Michael Joseph Roberto, "The Coming of the American Behemoth: The Origins of Fascism in the United States, 1920-1940" (Monthly Review Press, 2018)
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Jan 17, 2023 |
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Randle C. DeFalco, "Invisible Atrocities: The Aesthetic Biases of International Criminal Justice" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Jan 16, 2023 |
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Xiang Biao and Wu Qi, "Self as Method: Thinking Through China and the World" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
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Jan 15, 2023 |
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Tanya Katerí Hernández, "Racial Innocence: Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias and the Struggle for Equality" (Beacon Press, 2022)
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Jan 14, 2023 |
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Paul S. Landau, "Spear: Mandela and the Revolutionaries" (Ohio UP, 2022)
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Jan 13, 2023 |
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Jayita Sarkar, "Ploughshares and Swords: India's Nuclear Program in the Global Cold War" (Cornell UP, 2022)
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Jan 12, 2023 |
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Vincent Phillip Muñoz, "Religious Liberty and the American Founding: Natural Rights and the Original Meanings of the First Amendment Religion Clauses" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
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Jan 11, 2023 |
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Richard Wolin, "Heidegger in Ruins: Between Philosophy and Ideology" (Yale UP, 2023)
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Jan 10, 2023 |
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Christopher Loperena, "The Ends of Paradise: Race, Extraction, and the Struggle for Black Life in Honduras" (Stanford UP, 2022)
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Jan 09, 2023 |
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Philippe-Richard Marius, "The Unexceptional Case of Haiti: Race and Class Privilege in Postcolonial Bourgeois Society" (UP of Mississippi, 2022)
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Jan 08, 2023 |
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Albert Glinsky, "Switched On: Bob Moog and the Synthesizer Revolution" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Jan 07, 2023 |
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Franziska Exeler, "Ghosts of War: Nazi Occupation and Its Aftermath in Soviet Belarus" (Cornell UP, 2022)
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Jan 06, 2023 |
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Lorraine Daston Rules the World (EF, JP)
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Jan 05, 2023 |
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Siv B. Lie, "Django Generations: Hearing Ethnorace, Citizenship, and Jazz Manouche in France" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
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Jan 04, 2023 |
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Why are Insects so Scary? On Insects in Films.
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Jan 03, 2023 |
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Shakespeare's Life, World and Works 1: Why Read Shakespeare
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Jan 02, 2023 |
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Josiah Ober, "The Greeks and the Rational: The Discovery of Practical Reason" (U California Press, 2022)
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Jan 01, 2023 |
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Martha C. Nussbaum, "Justice for Animals: Our Collective Responsibility" (Simon & Schuster, 2022)
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Dec 31, 2022 |
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Tommie Shelby, "The Idea of Prison Abolition" (Princeton UP, 2022)
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Dec 30, 2022 |
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Abdul Alkalimat, "The Future of Black Studies" (Pluto Press, 2022)
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Dec 29, 2022 |
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Ed Cohen, "On Learning to Heal or, What Medicine Doesn't Know" (Duke UP, 2022)
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Dec 28, 2022 |
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Luke Munn, "Automation Is a Myth" (Stanford UP, 2022)
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Dec 27, 2022 |
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Mary M. Burke, "Race, Politics, and Irish America: A Gothic History" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Dec 26, 2022 |
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Stuart Klawans, "Crooked, But Never Common: The Films of Preston Sturges" (Columbia UP, 2023)
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Dec 25, 2022 |
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Kenneth B. Moss, "An Unchosen People: Jewish Political Reckoning in Interwar Poland" (Harvard UP, 2021)
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Dec 24, 2022 |
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Christopher M. Palmer, "Brain Energy: A Revolutionary Breakthrough in Understanding Mental Health" (Benbella Books, 2022)
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Dec 23, 2022 |
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Geert Lovink, "Sad by Design: On Platform Nihilism" (Pluto Press, 2019)
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Dec 22, 2022 |
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Heather Ford, "Writing the Revolution: Wikipedia and the Survival of Facts in the Digital Age" (MIT Press, 2022)
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Dec 21, 2022 |
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Tom McLeish, "The Poetry and Music of Science: Comparing Creativity in Science and Art" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Dec 20, 2022 |
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James D. Stein, "Seduced by Mathematics: The Enduring Fascination of Mathematics" (World Scientific, 2022) Math
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Dec 19, 2022 |
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Ben Pitcher, "Back to the Stone Age: Race and Prehistory in Contemporary Culture" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022)
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Dec 18, 2022 |
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Danielle Keats Citron, "The Fight for Privacy: Protecting Dignity, Identity, and Love in the Digital Age" (Norton, 2022)
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Dec 17, 2022 |
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Steven Levitsky and Lucan Way, "Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism" (Princeton UP, 2022)
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Dec 16, 2022 |
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Samuel J. Redman, "Bone Rooms: From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museums" (Harvard UP, 2022)
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Dec 15, 2022 |
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William Inboden, "The Peacemaker: Ronald Reagan, the Cold War, and the World on the Brink" (Dutton, 2022)
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Dec 14, 2022 |
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Michelle R. Boyd, "Becoming the Writer You Already Are" (Sage, 2022)
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Dec 13, 2022 |
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Jason Ananda Josephson Storm, "Metamodernism: The Future of Theory" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
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Dec 12, 2022 |
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Leigh T. I. Penman, "The Lost History of Cosmopolitanism: The Early Modern Origins of the Intellectual Ideal" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
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Dec 11, 2022 |
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Daniel Immerwahr, "The Galactic Vietnam: Technology, Modernization, and Empire in George Lucas’s Star Wars" (2022)
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Dec 10, 2022 |
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Julia Ticona, "Left to Our Own Devices: Coping with Insecure Work in a Digital Age" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Dec 09, 2022 |
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Timothy Shenk, "Realigners: Partisan Hacks, Political Visionaries, and the Struggle to Rule American Democracy" (FSG, 2022)
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Dec 08, 2022 |
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Ted Conover, "Cheap Land Colorado: Off-Gridders at America's Edge" (Knopf, 2022)
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Dec 07, 2022 |
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Margret Grebowicz, "Rescue Me: On Dogs and Their Humans" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
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Dec 06, 2022 |
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Nicholas Morton, "The Mongol Storm: Making and Breaking Empires in the Medieval Near East" (Basic Books, 2022)
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Dec 05, 2022 |
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Elizabeth Tandy Shermer, "Indentured Students: How Government-Guaranteed Loans Left Generations Drowning in College Debt" (Harvard UP, 2021)
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Dec 04, 2022 |
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Andrew Spria, "Foreshadowed: Malevich’s "Black Square" and Its Precursors" (Reaktion Books, 2022)
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Dec 03, 2022 |
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Gregory Shushan, "The Next World: Extraordinary Experiences of the Afterlife" (White Crow Books, 2022)
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Dec 02, 2022 |
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Jonathan R. Hunt, "The Nuclear Club: How America and the World Policed the Atom from Hiroshima to Vietnam" (Stanford UP, 2022)
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Dec 01, 2022 |
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The Future of Xi and China: A Discussion with Sue Lin Wong
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Nov 30, 2022 |
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Agathe Demarais, "Backfire: How Sanctions Reshape the World Against U.S. Interests" (Columbia UP, 2022)
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Nov 29, 2022 |
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Darra Goldstein, "The Kingdom of Rye: A Brief History of Russian Food" (U California Press, 2022)
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Nov 28, 2022 |
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Alexander Laban Hinton, "Anthropological Witness: Lessons from the Khmer Rouge Tribunal" (Cornell UP, 2022)
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Nov 25, 2022 |
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Ray Scott, "The NBA in Black and White: The Memoir of a Trailblazing NBA Player and Coach" (Seven Stories Press, 2022)
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Nov 24, 2022 |
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Gary Kates, "The Books that Made the European Enlightenment: A History in 12 Case Studies" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
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Nov 23, 2022 |
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Amy Gajda, "Seek and Hide: The Tangled History of the Right to Privacy" (Viking, 2022)
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Nov 22, 2022 |
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Jon Lewis, "The Godfather, Part II" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
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Nov 21, 2022 |
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Samuel J. Levine, "Was Yosef on the Spectrum?: Understanding Joseph Through Torah, Midrash, and Classical Jewish Sources" (Urim Publications, 2018)
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Nov 18, 2022 |
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Bradley Morgan, "U2's the Joshua Tree: Planting Roots in Mythic America" (Backbeat Books, 2021)
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Nov 17, 2022 |
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Adam Laats, "Creationism USA: Bridging the Impasse on Teaching Evolution" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Nov 16, 2022 |
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Jeffrey Bellin, "Mass Incarceration Nation: How the United States Became Addicted to Prisons and Jails and How it Can Recover" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Nov 15, 2022 |
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Francesca Stavrakopoulou, "God: An Anatomy" (Knopf, 2022)
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Nov 14, 2022 |
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Rachael Hanel, "Not the Camilla We Knew: One Woman's Life from Small-Town America to the Symbionese Liberation Army" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
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Nov 11, 2022 |
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Bradley Onishi, "Preparing for War: The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism--And What Comes Next" (Broadleaf Books, 2023)
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Nov 10, 2022 |
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Jianglin Li, "When the Iron Bird Flies: China's Secret War in Tibet" (Stanford UP, 2022)
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Nov 09, 2022 |
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Christopher Howard, "Who Cares: The Social Safety Net in America" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Nov 08, 2022 |
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Željka Matijasević, "The Borderline Culture: Intensity, Jouissance, and Death" (Lexington, 2021)
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Nov 07, 2022 |
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Abiodun Alao, "Rage and Carnage in the Name of God: Religious Violence in Nigeria" (Duke UP, 2022)
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Nov 04, 2022 |
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Jonathan Brunstedt, "The Soviet Myth of World War II: Patriotic Memory and the Russian Question in the USSR" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
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Nov 03, 2022 |
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David Kaiser, "Well, Doc, You're In: Freeman Dyson’s Journey through the Universe" (MIT Press, 2022)
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Nov 02, 2022 |
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Max H. Bazerman, "Complicit: How We Enable the Unethical and How to Stop" (Princeton UP, 2022)
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Nov 01, 2022 |
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John Stillwell, "The Story of Proof: Logic and the History of Mathematics" (Princeton UP, 2022)
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Oct 31, 2022 |
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Ross Cole, "The Folk: Music, Modernity, and the Political Imagination" (U California Press, 2021)
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Oct 28, 2022 |
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John Jeffries Martin, "A Beautiful Ending: The Apocalyptic Imagination and the Making of the Modern World" (Yale UP, 2022)
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Oct 27, 2022 |
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Ron E. Hassner, "Anatomy of Torture" (Cornell UP, 2022)
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Oct 26, 2022 |
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Adrian Hon, "You've Been Played: How Corporations, Governments, and Schools Use Games to Control Us All" (Basic Books, 2022)Adrian Hon, "You've Been Played: How Corporations, Governments, and Schools Use Games to Control Us All" (Basic Books, 2022)
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Oct 25, 2022 |
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Kwame Edwin Otu, "Amphibious Subjects: Sasso and the Contested Politics of Queer Self-Making in Neoliberal Ghana" (U California Press, 2022)
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Oct 24, 2022 |
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Michael Keevak, "On Saving Face: A Brief History of Western Appropriation" (Hong Kong UP, 2022)
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Oct 21, 2022 |
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Leah Kalmanson, "Cross-Cultural Existentialism: On the Meaning of Life in Asian and Western Thought" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
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Oct 20, 2022 |
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John Briscoe, "Crush: The Triumph of California Wine" (U Nevada Press, 2018)
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Oct 19, 2022 |
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David Weinfeld, "An American Friendship: Horace Kallen, Alain Locke, and the Development of Cultural Pluralism" (Cornell UP, 2022)
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Oct 18, 2022 |
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Kimberly Kay Hoang, "Spiderweb Capitalism: How Global Elites Exploit Frontier Markets" (Princeton UP, 2022)
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Oct 17, 2022 |
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Sherry Boschert, "37 Words: Title IX and Fifty Years of Fighting Sex Discrimination" (New Press, 2022)
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Oct 14, 2022 |
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Geert Lovink, "Stuck on the Platform: Reclaiming the Internet" (Valiz, 2022)
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Oct 13, 2022 |
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P. E. Caquet, "Opium's Orphans: The 200-Year History of the War on Drugs" (Reaktion Books, 2022)
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Oct 12, 2022 |
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Bruce Robbins, "Criticism and Politics: A Polemical Introduction" (Stanford UP, 2022)
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Oct 11, 2022 |
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Gabriel Levy, "Beyond Heaven and Earth: A Cognitive Theory of Religion" (MIT Press, 2022)
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Oct 10, 2022 |
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Joseph Blankholm, "The Secular Paradox: On the Religiosity of the Not Religious" (NYU Press, 2022)
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Oct 07, 2022 |
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Adam Adatto Sandel, "Happiness in Action: A Philosopher's Guide to the Good Life" (Harvard UP, 2022)
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Oct 06, 2022 |
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Mark Neocleous, "A Critical Theory of Police Power: The Fabrication of the Social Order" (Verso, 2021)
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Oct 05, 2022 |
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C. Thi Nguyen, "Games: Agency as Art" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Oct 04, 2022 |
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Christopher Goscha, "The Road to Dien Bien Phu: A History of the First War for Vietnam" (Princeton UP, 2022)
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Oct 03, 2022 |
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Noah Shusterman, "Armed Citizens: The Road from Ancient Rome to the Second Amendment" (U Virginia Press, 2020)
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Sep 30, 2022 |
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Michael Leese, "Making Money in Ancient Athens" (U Michigan Press, 2021)
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Sep 29, 2022 |
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Tripp Mickle, "After Steve: How Apple Became a Trillion-Dollar Company and Lost Its Soul" (William Morrow, 2022))
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Sep 28, 2022 |
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Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt, "Franz Boas: The Emergence of the Anthropologist" (U Nebraska Press, 2019)
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Sep 27, 2022 |
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Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra, "The Quantified Scholar: How Research Evaluations Transformed the British Social Sciences" (Columbia UP, 2022)
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Sep 26, 2022 |
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Olúfemi Táíwò, "Against Decolonization: Taking African Agency Seriously" (Hurst, 2022)
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Sep 22, 2022 |
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John Peter DiIulio, "Completely Free: The Moral and Political Vision of John Stuart Mill" (Princeton UP, 2022)
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Sep 21, 2022 |
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The Future of Nuclear Weapons: A Conversation with Fred Kaplan
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Sep 20, 2022 |
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Brian D. Bunk, "From Football to Soccer: The Early History of the Beautiful Game in the United States" (U Illinois Press, 2021)
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Sep 19, 2022 |
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Mrill Ingram, "Loving Orphaned Space: The Art and Science of Belonging to Earth" (Temple UP, 2022)
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Sep 16, 2022 |
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Eldritch Priest, "Earworm and Event: Music, Daydreams, and Other Imaginary Refrains" (Duke UP, 2022)
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Sep 15, 2022 |
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Amber M. Trotter, "Psychoanalysis as a Subversive Phenomenon: Social Change, Virtue Ethics, and Analytic Theory" (Lexington Books, 2020)
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Sep 14, 2022 |
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Nicholas Gamso, "Art After Liberalism" (Columbia UP, 2022)
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Sep 12, 2022 |
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Danielle J. Lindemann, "True Story: What Reality TV Says About Us" (FSG, 2022)
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Sep 12, 2022 |
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Joel Michael Reynolds, "The Life Worth Living: Disability, Pain, and Morality" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
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Sep 09, 2022 |
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4.1 “Sometimes I’m just a little disappointed in English”
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Sep 08, 2022 |
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Michael O'Hanlon, "The Art of War in an Age of Peace: U.S. Grand Strategy and Resolute Restraint" (Yale UP, 2021)
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Sep 07, 2022 |
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Liz Bucar, "Stealing My Religion: Not Just Any Cultural Appropriation" (Harvard UP, 2022)
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Sep 06, 2022 |
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Peter S. Alagona, "The Accidental Ecosystem: People and Wildlife in American Cities" (U California Press, 2022)
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Sep 05, 2022 |
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Mark Clague, "O Say Can You Hear?: A Cultural Biography of the Star-Spangled Banner" (Norton, 2022)
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Sep 02, 2022 |
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Philipp Felsch, "The Summer of Theory: History of a Rebellion, 1960-1990" (Polity Press, 2021)
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Sep 01, 2022 |
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Jillian Peterson and James Densley, "The Violence Project: How to Stop a Mass Shooting Epidemic" (Harry N. Abrams, 2021)
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Aug 31, 2022 |
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Sandra Eder, "How the Clinic Made Gender: The Medical History of a Transformative Idea" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
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Aug 30, 2022 |
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Wendy L. Rouse, "Public Faces, Secret Lives: A Queer History of the Women's Suffrage Movement" (NYU Press, 2022)
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Aug 29, 2022 |
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Michael Sidney Fosberg, "Nobody Wants to Talk about It: Race, Identity, and the Difficulties in Forging Meaningful Conversations" (Incognito, 2020)
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Aug 25, 2022 |
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Alfie Bown, "Dream Lovers: The Gamification of Relationships" (Pluto Press, 2022)
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Aug 24, 2022 |
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Ann Blair et al., "Information: A Historical Companion" (Princeton UP, 2021)
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Aug 23, 2022 |
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Simon Truwant, "Cassirer and Heidegger in Davos: The Philosophical Arguments" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Aug 22, 2022 |
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Síobhra Aiken, "Spiritual Wounds: Trauma, Testimony and the Irish Civil War" (Irish Academic Press, 2022)
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Aug 19, 2022 |
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Cynthia E. Orozco, "Pioneer of Mexican-American Civil Rights: Alonso S. Perales" (Arte Publico Press, 2020)
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Aug 18, 2022 |
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James Lacey, "Rome: Strategy of Empire" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Aug 17, 2022 |
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Ron Broglio, "Animal Revolution" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
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Aug 16, 2022 |
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Jordan Osserman, "Circumcision on the Couch: The Cultural, Psychological, and Gendered Dimensions of the World's Oldest Surgery" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
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Aug 15, 2022 |
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Roselyn Hsueh, "Micro-Institutional Foundations of Capitalism" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Aug 12, 2022 |
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Oliver Davis and Tim Dean, "Hatred of Sex" (U Nebraska Press, 2022)
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Aug 11, 2022 |
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Sara Farrington, "The Lost Conversation: Interviews with an Enduring Avant-Garde" (53rd State Press, 2021)
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Aug 10, 2022 |
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Jonathan Leader Maynard, "Ideology and Mass Killing: Radical Security Politics and the Infrastructure of Deadly Atrocities" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Aug 09, 2022 |
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Kim Haines-Eitzen, "Sonorous Desert: What Deep Listening Taught Early Christian Monks—and What It Can Teach Us" (Princeton UP, 2022)
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Aug 08, 2022 |
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John Callow, "The Last Witches of England: A Tragedy of Sorcery and Superstition" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
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Aug 05, 2022 |
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Corey Robin, "The Enigma of Clarence Thomas" (Metropolitan Books, 2019)
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Aug 04, 2022 |
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Charlie Jeffries, "Teenage Dreams: Girlhood Sexualities in the U.S. Culture Wars" (Rutgers UP, 2022)
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Aug 03, 2022 |
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Timothy Bewes, "Free Indirect: The Novel in a Postfictional Age" (Columbia UP, 2022)
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Aug 02, 2022 |
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Daniel Laurison, "Producing Politics: Inside the Exclusive Campaign World Where the Privileged Few Shape Politics for All of Us" (Beacon Press, 2022)
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Aug 01, 2022 |
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Hawa Allan, "Insurrection: Rebellion, Civil Rights, and the Paradoxical State of Black Citizenship" (Norton, 2022)
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Jul 29, 2022 |
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Michael John Witgen, "Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America" (UNC Press, 2021)
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Jul 28, 2022 |
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Alexandra Lohse, "Prevail until the Bitter End: Germans in the Waning Years of World War II" (Cornell UP, 2021)
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Jul 27, 2022 |
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Cole Roskam, "Designing Reform: Architecture in the People's Republic of China, 1970-1992" (Yale UP, 2021)
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Jul 26, 2022 |
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Maeve Ryan, "Humanitarian Governance and the British Antislavery World System" (Yale UP, 2022)
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Jul 25, 2022 |
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Wendy Fischman and Howard Gardner, "The Real World of College: What Higher Education Is and What It Can Be" (MIT Press, 2022)
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Jul 22, 2022 |
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Ryan Uytdewilligen, "Killing John Wayne: The Making of the Conqueror" (Lyons Press, 2021)
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Jul 21, 2022 |
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Alice Crary and Lori Gruen, "Animal Crisis: A New Critical Theory" (Polity, 2022)
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Jul 20, 2022 |
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The Future of War: A Discussion with Mark Galeotti
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Jul 19, 2022 |
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Siniša Malešević, "Why Humans Fight: The Social Dynamics of Close-Range Violence" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Jul 18, 2022 |
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Rachael Pells, "Genomics: How Genome Sequencing Will Change Healthcare" (Random House, 2022)
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Jul 15, 2022 |
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Hugh Ryan, "The Women's House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison" (Bold Type Books, 2022)
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Jul 14, 2022 |
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Jed Esty, "The Future of Decline: Anglo-American Culture at Its Limits" (Stanford Briefs, 2022)
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Jul 13, 2022 |
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David Silkenat, "Scars on the Land: An Environmental History of Slavery in the American South" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Jul 12, 2022 |
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Jamie Susskind, "The Digital Republic: On Freedom and Democracy in the 21st Century" (Pegasus Books, 2022)
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Jul 11, 2022 |
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Alison Macor, "Making The Best Years of Our Lives: The Hollywood Classic That Inspired a Nation" (U Texas Press, 2022)
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Jul 08, 2022 |
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Lucia M. Rafanelli, "Promoting Justice Across Borders: The Ethics of Reform Intervention" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Jul 07, 2022 |
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Frank Close, "Elusive: How Peter Higgs Solved the Mystery of Mass" (Basic Book, 2022)
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Jul 06, 2022 |
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Adrienne Buller, "The Value of a Whale: On the Illusions of Green Capitalism" (Manchester UP, 2022)
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Jul 05, 2022 |
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Peter Hughes, "A History of Love and Hate in 21 Statues" (Aurum Press, 2021)
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Jul 04, 2022 |
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David Hunter, "On Believing: Being Right in a World of Possibilities" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Jul 01, 2022 |
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Carla Power, "Home, Land, Security: Deradicalization and the Journey Back from Extremism" (One World, 2021)
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Jun 30, 2022 |
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Holly A. Pinheiro Jr., "The Families' Civil War: Black Soldiers and the Fight for Racial Justice" (U Georgia Press, 2022)
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Jun 29, 2022 |
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Archie T. Wright, "Satan and the Problem of Evil: From the Bible to the Early Church Fathers" (Fortress Press, 2022)
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Jun 28, 2022 |
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Frans de Waal, "Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist" (W. W. Norton, 2022)
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Jun 27, 2022 |
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Alan Lane, "The Club on the Edge of Town: A Pandemic Memoir" (Salamander Street, 2022)
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Jun 24, 2022 |
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Christopher Blattman, "Why We Fight: The Roots of War and the Paths to Peace" (Viking, 2022)
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Jun 23, 2022 |
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Agustín Fuentes, "Race, Monogamy, and Other Lies They Told You: Busting Myths about Human Nature" (Second Edition) (U California Press, 2022)
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Jun 22, 2022 |
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Ukrainian Nationalism in Historical Context
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Jun 21, 2022 |
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Joshua Prager, "The Family Roe: An American Story" (W. W. Norton, 2021)
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Jun 20, 2022 |
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Mikaela Rabinowitz, "Incarceration without Conviction: Pretrial Detention and the Erosion of Innocence in American Criminal Justice" (Routledge, 2021)
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Jun 17, 2022 |
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Matthew Specter, "The Atlantic Realists: Empire and International Political Thought Between Germany and the United States" (Stanford UP, 2022)
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Jun 16, 2022 |
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John Wills, "Gamer Nation: Video Games and American Culture" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2019)
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Jun 15, 2022 |
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Steven K. Green, "Separating Church and State: A History" (Cornell UP, 2022)
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Jun 14, 2022 |
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Sarah Deutsch, "Making a Modern U.S. West: The Contested Terrain of a Region and Its Borders, 1898-1940" (U Nebraska Press, 2022)
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Jun 13, 2022 |
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Mark Anthony Neal, "Black Ephemera: The Crisis and Challenge of the Musical Archive" (NYU Press, 2022)
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Jun 10, 2022 |
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Mark Koyama and Jared Rubin, "How the World Became Rich: The Historical Origins of Economic Growth" (Polity, 2022)
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Jun 09, 2022 |
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Mary Beth Willard, "Why It's Ok to Enjoy the Work of Immoral Artists" (Routledge, 2021)
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Jun 08, 2022 |
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Robin Goldstein and Daniel Sumner, "Can Legal Weed Win?: The Blunt Realities of Cannabis Economics" (U California Press, 2022)
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Jun 07, 2022 |
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Andy Hines, "Outside Literary Studies: Black Criticism and the University" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
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Jun 06, 2022 |
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Andrew Shortland and Patrick Degryse, "When Art Isn’t Real: The World's Most Controversial Objects under Investigation" (Leuven UP, 2022)
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Jun 03, 2022 |
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Rob Dunn, "A Natural History of the Future: What the Laws of Biology Tell Us about the Destiny of the Human Species" (Basic Book, 2021)
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Jun 02, 2022 |
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Jennifer Keishin Armstrong, "When Women Invented Television: The Untold Story of the Female Powerhouses Who Pioneered the Way We Watch Today" (Harper, 2021)
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Jun 01, 2022 |
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Charlie Eaton, "Bankers in the Ivory Tower: The Troubling Rise of Financiers in US Higher Education" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
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May 31, 2022 |
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Ilana M. Horwitz, "God, Grades, and Graduation: Religion's Surprising Impact on Academic Success" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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May 30, 2022 |
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Brandon T. Jett, "Race, Crime, and Policing in the Jim Crow South" (Louisiana State UP, 2021)
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May 27, 2022 |
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Mark Edmundson, "Song of Ourselves: Walt Whitman and the Fight for Democracy" (Harvard UP, 2021)
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May 26, 2022 |
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Paul Morland, "Tomorrow's People: The Future of Humanity in Ten Numbers" (Picador, 2022)
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May 25, 2022 |
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The Future of Neoliberalism: A Conversation with Gary Gerstle
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May 24, 2022 |
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Rana Siu Inboden, "China and the International Human Rights Regime: 1982–2017" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
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May 23, 2022 |
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Alice Dailey, "How to Do Things with Dead People: History, Technology, and Temporality from Shakespeare to Warhol" (Cornell UP, 2022)
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May 20, 2022 |
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Konden Smith Hansen, "Frontier Religion: The Mormon-American Contest for the Meaning of America, 1857-1907" (U Utah Press, 2019)
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May 19, 2022 |
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Ran Abramitzky and Leah Boustan, "Streets of Gold: America's Untold Story of Immigrant Success" (Public Affairs, 2022)
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May 18, 2022 |
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Donald A. Barclay, "Disinformation: The Nature of Facts and Lies in the Post-Truth Era" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2022)
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May 17, 2022 |
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Will Kinney, "An Infinity of Worlds: Cosmic Inflation and the Beginning of the Universe" (MIT Press, 2022)
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May 16, 2022 |
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Nigel Rothfels, "Elephant Trails: A History of Animals and Cultures" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021)
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May 13, 2022 |
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Michael G. Flaherty and K. C. Carceral, "The Cage of Days: Time and Temporal Experience in Prison" (Columbia UP, 2022)
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May 12, 2022 |
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Eve Ng, "Cancel Culture: A Critical Analysis" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
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May 11, 2022 |
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Louis Fishman, "Jews and Palestinians in the Late Ottoman Era, 1908-1914: Claiming the Homeland" (Edinburgh UP. 2021)
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May 10, 2022 |
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Piotr H. Kosicki, "Catholics on the Barricades: Poland, France, and 'Revolution,' 1891-1956" (Yale UP, 2018)
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May 09, 2022 |
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Katie Stallard, "Dancing on Bones: History and Power in China, Russia and North Korea" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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May 06, 2022 |
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, "Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (and Everything Else)" (Haymarket, 2022)
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May 05, 2022 |
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Aaron Cohen, "Move On Up: Chicago Soul Music and Black Cultural Power" (U Chicago Press, 2019)
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May 04, 2022 |
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Julian E. Zelizer, "The Presidency of Donald J. Trump: A First Historical Assessment" (Princeton UP, 2022)
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May 03, 2022 |
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Christian Dyogi Phillips, "Nowhere to Run: Race, Gender, and Immigration in American Elections" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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May 02, 2022 |
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Peter Mattis and Matthew Brazil, "Chinese Communist Espionage: An Intelligence Primer" (Naval Institute Press, 2019)
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Apr 29, 2022 |
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Emily Klancher Merchant, "Building the Population Bomb" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Apr 28, 2022 |
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Thomas Aiello, "Hoops: A Cultural History of Basketball in America" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2021)
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Apr 27, 2022 |
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The Future of Race: A Discussion with John McWhorter
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Apr 26, 2022 |
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Charles Alistair McCrary, "Sincerely Held: American Secularism and Its Believers" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
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Apr 25, 2022 |
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Susan Nance, "Rodeo: An Animal History" (U Oklahoma Press, 2020)
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Apr 22, 2022 |
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Thomas Piketty, "A Brief History of Equality" (Harvard UP, 2022)
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Apr 21, 2022 |
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Gavin Mueller, "Breaking Things at Work: The Luddites Are Right About Why You Hate Your Job" (Verso, 2021)
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Apr 20, 2022 |
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Jared N. Champion and Peter C. Kunze, "Taking a Stand: Contemporary US Stand-Up Comedians As Public Intellectuals" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)
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Apr 19, 2022 |
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Ruchika Tulshyan, "Inclusion on Purpose: An Intersectional Approach to Creating a Culture of Belonging at Work" (MIT Press, 2022)
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Apr 18, 2022 |
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Maia Szalavitz, "Undoing Drugs: The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and the Future of Addiction" (Hachette, 2021)
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Apr 15, 2022 |
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Jennifer Petersen, "How Machines Came to Speak: Media Technologies and Freedom of Speech" (Duke UP, 2022)
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Apr 14, 2022 |
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Owen Flanagan, "How to Do Things with Emotions: The Morality of Anger and Shame across Cultures" (Princeton UP, 2021)
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Apr 13, 2022 |
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James C. Klagge, "Wittgenstein's Artillery: Philosophy as Poetry" (MIT Press, 2021)
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Apr 12, 2022 |
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Vicki Squire, "Europe's Migration Crisis: Border Deaths and Human Dignity" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
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Apr 11, 2022 |
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Todd R. Clear and Natasha A. Frost, "The Punishment Imperative: The Rise and Failure of Mass Incarceration in America" (NYU Press, 2015)
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Apr 08, 2022 |
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78 Fantasy Then, Now, and Forever with Anna Vaninskaya
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Apr 07, 2022 |
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Pamela Kyle Crossley, "Hammer and Anvil: Nomad Rulers at the Forge of the Modern World" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2019)
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Apr 06, 2022 |
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Jennifer Egan, "The Candy House" (Scribner, 2022)
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Apr 05, 2022 |
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Michael J. Graetz and Ian Shapiro, "The Wolf at the Door: The Menace of Economic Insecurity and How to Fight It" (Harvard UP, 2020)
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Apr 04, 2022 |
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Nu-Anh Tran, "Disunion: Anticommunist Nationalism and the Making of the Republic of Vietnam" (U Hawaii Press, 2022)
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Apr 01, 2022 |
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Joseph Fishkin and William E. Forbath, "The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution: Reconstructing the Economic Foundations of American Democracy" (Harvard UP, 2022)
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Mar 31, 2022 |
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Erin L. Thompson, "Smashing Statues: The Rise and Fall of America's Public Monuments" (Norton, 2022)
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Mar 30, 2022 |
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Valerie A. Kivelson and Christine D. Worobec, "Witchcraft in Russia and Ukraine, 1000-1900: A Sourcebook" (Northern Illinois UP, 2020)
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Mar 29, 2022 |
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Lucy Cooke, "Bitch: On the Female of the Species" (Basic Books, 2022)
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Mar 28, 2022 |
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Emily J. Levine, "Allies and Rivals: German-American Exchange and the Rise of the Modern Research University" (UChicago Press, 2021)
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Mar 25, 2022 |
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Jeremy Friedman, "Ripe for Revolution: Building Socialism in the Third World" (Harvard UP, 2022)
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Mar 24, 2022 |
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N. J. Enfield, "Language Vs. Reality: Why Language Is Good for Lawyers and Bad for Scientists" (MIT Press, 2022)
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Mar 23, 2022 |
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Ian Tyrrell, "American Exceptionalism: A New History of an Old Idea" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
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Mar 22, 2022 |
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Joanna Mishtal, "The Politics of Morality: The Church, the State, and Reproductive Rights in Postsocialist Poland" (Ohio UP, 2015)
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Mar 21, 2022 |
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Richard A. Detweiler, "The Evidence Liberal Arts Needs: Lives of Consequence, Inquiry, and Accomplishment" (MIT Press, 2021)
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Mar 18, 2022 |
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E. James West, "Ebony Magazine and Lerone Bennett Jr.: Popular Black History in Postwar America" (U of Illinois Press, 2020)
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Mar 17, 2022 |
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Annie Berke, "Their Own Best Creations: Women Writers in Postwar Television" (U California Press, 2022)
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Mar 16, 2022 |
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Carter R. Johnson, "Partition and Peace in Civil Wars: Dividing Lands and Peoples to End Ethnic Conflict" (Routledge, 2021)
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Mar 15, 2022 |
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Paul Reitter and Chad Wellmon, "Permanent Crisis: The Humanities in a Disenchanted Age" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
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Mar 14, 2022 |
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Melvin I. Urofsky, "Dissent and the Supreme Court: Its Role in the Court's History and the Nation's Constitutional Dialogue" (Vintage, 2017)
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Mar 11, 2022 |
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David A. Harrisville, "The Virtuous Wehrmacht: Crafting the Myth of the German Soldier on the Eastern Front, 1941-1944" (Cornell UP, 2021)
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Mar 10, 2022 |
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Dana Stevens, "Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century" (Simon and Schuster, 2022)
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Mar 09, 2022 |
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Bill V. Mullen, "James Baldwin: Living in Fire" (Pluto Press, 2019)
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Mar 08, 2022 |
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Daniel Chirot, "You Say You Want a Revolution?: Radical Idealism and Its Tragic Consequences" (Princeton UP, 2020)
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Mar 07, 2022 |
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Sarah Brayne, "Predict and Surveil: Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Mar 04, 2022 |
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Konrad Schmid and Jens Schröter, "The Making of the Bible: From the First Fragments to Sacred Scripture" (Harvard UP, 2021)
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Mar 03, 2022 |
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Dennis Duncan, "Index, a History of The: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age" (W.W. Norton, 2022)
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Mar 02, 2022 |
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Mark Edele, "Stalinism at War: The Soviet Union in World War II" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
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Mar 01, 2022 |
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Kei Hiruta, "Hannah Arendt and Isaiah Berlin: Freedom, Politics and Humanity" (Princeton UP, 2021)
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Feb 28, 2022 |
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Erica Brown, "Esther: Power, Fate and Fragility in Exile" (Maggid, 2020)
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Feb 25, 2022 |
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William Sites, "Sun Ra's Chicago: Afrofuturism and the City" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
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Feb 24, 2022 |
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Albert Baiburin, "The Soviet Passport: The History, Nature and Uses of the Internal Passport in the USSR" (Polity Press, 2022)
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Feb 23, 2022 |
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The Future of the Apocalyptic Right in the U.S.: A Discussion with Benjamin R. Teitelbaum
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Feb 22, 2022 |
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Charles R. Shipan and Craig Volden, "Why Bad Policies Spread (and Good Ones Don't)" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
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Feb 21, 2022 |
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Sara Manning Peskin, "A Molecule Away from Madness: Tales of the Hijacked Brain" (Norton, 2022)
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Feb 18, 2022 |
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Michella M. Marino, "Roller Derby: The History of an American Sport" (U Texas Press, 2021)
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Feb 17, 2022 |
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Nicholas Orme, "Going to Church in Medieval England" (Yale UP, 2021)
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Feb 16, 2022 |
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Christopher Chávez, "The Sound of Exclusion: NPR and the Latinx Public" (U Arizona Press, 2021)
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Feb 15, 2022 |
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Nina Power, "What Do Men Want?: Masculinity and Its Discontents" (Penguin, 2022)
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Feb 14, 2022 |
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Stuart Elden, "The Early Foucault" (Polity Press, 2021)
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Feb 11, 2022 |
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Aubrey Clayton, "Bernoulli's Fallacy: Statistical Illogic and the Crisis of Modern Science" (Columbia UP, 2021)
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Feb 10, 2022 |
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Michele Alacevich, "Albert O. Hirschman: An Intellectual Biography" (Columbia UP, 2021)
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Feb 09, 2022 |
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Margaret M. Scull, "The Catholic Church and the Northern Ireland Troubles, 1968-1998" (Oxford UP, 2019)
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Feb 08, 2022 |
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Gregg Colburn and Clayton Page Aldern, "Homelessness is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns" (U California Press, 2022)
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Feb 07, 2022 |
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David L. Hoffmann, "The Memory of the Second World War in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia" (Routledge, 2021)
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Feb 04, 2022 |
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Peter Cappelli, "The Future of the Office: Work from Home, Remote Work, and the Hard Choices We All Face" (Wharton School Press, 2021)
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Feb 03, 2022 |
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Robin G. Isserles, "The Costs of Completion: Student Success in Community College" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021)
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Feb 02, 2022 |
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Isaac Butler, "The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
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Feb 01, 2022 |
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Neil J. Diamant, "Useful Bullshit: Constitutions in Chinese Politics and Society" (Cornell UP, 2022)
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Jan 31, 2022 |
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Tyler D. Parry, "Jumping the Broom: The Surprising Multicultural Origins of a Black Wedding Ritual" (UNC Press, 2020)
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Jan 28, 2022 |
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Christopher Kemp, "Dark and Magical Places: The Neuroscience of Navigation" (Norton, 2022)
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Jan 27, 2022 |
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Neil Vallelly, "Futilitarianism: Neoliberalism and the Production of Uselessness" (MIT Press, 2021)
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Jan 26, 2022 |
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Spencer Jakab, "The Revolution That Wasn't: GameStop, Reddit, and the Fleecing of Small Investors" (Penguin, 2022)
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Jan 25, 2022 |
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Jason Lustig, "A Time to Gather: Archives and the Control of Jewish Culture" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Jan 24, 2022 |
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Dana Polan, "Dreams of Flight: 'The Great Escape' in American Film and Culture" (U California Press, 2021)
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Jan 21, 2022 |
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Helga Nowotny, "In AI We Trust: Power, Illusion and Control of Predictive Algorithms" (Polity, 2021)
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Jan 20, 2022 |
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Matt Carlson et al., "News After Trump: Journalism's Crisis of Relevance in a Changed Media Culture" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Jan 19, 2022 |
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David Leupold, "Embattled Dreamlands: The Politics of Contesting Armenian, Kurdish and Turkish Memory" (Routledge, 2020)
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Jan 18, 2022 |
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Alexandra Cosima Budabin and Lisa Ann Richey, "Batman Saves the Congo: How Celebrities Disrupt the Politics of Development" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
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Jan 17, 2022 |
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Ronald Beiner, "Dangerous Minds: Nietzsche, Heidegger, and the Return of the Far Right" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2018)
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Jan 14, 2022 |
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Brendan Borrell, "The First Shots: The Epic Rivalries and Heroic Science Behind the Race to the Coronavirus Vaccine" (Mariner Books, 2021)
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Jan 13, 2022 |
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Anat Plocker, "The Expulsion of Jews from Communist Poland: Memory Wars and Homeland Anxieties" (Indiana UP, 2022)
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Jan 12, 2022 |
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Book Talk 50: John Waters on James Joyce's "Dubliners"
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Jan 11, 2022 |
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Philip J. Deloria, "Becoming Mary Sully: Toward an American Indian Abstract" (U Washington Press, 2019)
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Jan 10, 2022 |
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Keith Kahn-Harris, "The Babel Message: A Love Letter to Language" (Icon Books, 2021)
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Jan 07, 2022 |
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71 Jennifer Egan with Ivan Kreilkamp: Fiction as Streaming, Genre as Portal (Novel Dialogue crossover, JP)
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Jan 06, 2022 |
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Michael Muhammad Knight, "Metaphysical Africa: Truth and Blackness in the Ansaru Allah Community" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2020)
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Jan 05, 2022 |
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Robert W. Baloh and Robert E. Bartholomew, "Havana Syndrome: Mass Psychogenic Illness and the Real Story Behind the Embassy Mystery and Hysteria" (Copernicus, 2020)
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Jan 04, 2022 |
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Martin Conway, "Western Europe’s Democratic Age: 1945-1968" (Princeton UP, 2021)
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Jan 03, 2022 |
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Aro Velmet, "Pasteur's Empire: Bacteriology and Politics in France, Its Colonies, and the World" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Dec 31, 2021 |
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Carol Diehl, "Banksy: Completed" (MIT Press, 2021)
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Dec 30, 2021 |
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Isaac A. Kamola, "Making the World Global: U.S. Universities and the Production of the Global Imaginary" (Duke UP, 2019)
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Dec 29, 2021 |
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Bill Schutt, "Pump: A Natural History of the Heart" (Algonquin Books, 2021)
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Dec 28, 2021 |
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Joseph J. Ellis, "The Cause: The American Revolution and Its Discontents, 1773-1783" (Liveright, 2021)
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Dec 27, 2021 |
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Noah Weisbord, "The Crime of Aggression: The Quest for Justice in an Age of Drones, Cyberattacks, Insurgents, and Autocrats" (Princeton UP, 2019)
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Dec 24, 2021 |
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Ethan Blue, "The Deportation Express: A History of America Through Forced Removal" (U California Press, 2021)
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Dec 23, 2021 |
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Alan Allport, "Britain at Bay: The Epic Story of the Second World War, 1938-1941" (Knopf, 2020)
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Dec 22, 2021 |
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Sarah S. Richardson, "The Maternal Imprint: The Contested Science of Maternal-Fetal Effects" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
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Dec 21, 2021 |
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Stephen Vines, "Defying the Dragon: Hong Kong and the World’s Largest Dictatorship" (Hurst, 2021)
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Dec 20, 2021 |
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Julian E. Zelizer, "Abraham Joshua Heschel: A Life of Radical Amazement" (Yale UP, 2021)
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Dec 17, 2021 |
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Aaron Weinacht, "Nikolai Chernyshevskii and Ayn Rand: Russian Nihilism Travels to America" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2021)
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Dec 16, 2021 |
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Eike Exner, "Comics and the Origins of Manga: A Revisionist History" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
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Dec 15, 2021 |
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Craig Jones, "The War Lawyers: The United States, Israel, and Juridical Warfare" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Dec 14, 2021 |
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Davarian L Baldwin, "In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities" (Bold Type Press, 2021)
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Dec 13, 2021 |
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Fiona Hill, "There Is Nothing for You Here: Opportunity in an Age of Decline" (Mariner Books, 2021)
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Dec 09, 2021 |
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Lewis A. Grossman, "Choose Your Medicine: Freedom of Therapeutic Choice in America" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Dec 08, 2021 |
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J. Ryan Stackhouse, "Enemies of the People: Hitler's Critics and the Gestapo" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
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Dec 07, 2021 |
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Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz, "Figures of the Future: Latino Civil Rights and the Politics of Demographic Change" (Princeton UP, 2021)
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Dec 06, 2021 |
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Jeffrey S. Bachman, "Cultural Genocide: Law, Politics, and Global Manifestations" (Routledge, 2019)
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Dec 03, 2021 |
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Susan Wolf, “Meaningfulness” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Dec 02, 2021 |
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Shawn F. McHale, "The First Vietnam War: Violence, Sovereignty, and the Fracture of the South, 1945-1956" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
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Dec 01, 2021 |
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Paul Collier, "The Future of Capitalism: Facing the New Anxieties" (Harper, 2019)
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Nov 30, 2021 |
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Eva von Redecker, "Praxis and Revolution: A Theory of Social Transformation" (Columbia UP, 2021)
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Nov 29, 2021 |
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Clint Smith, "How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America" (Little, Brown and Company, 2021)
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Nov 26, 2021 |
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Marc Gallicchio, "Unconditional: The Japanese Surrender in World War II" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Nov 24, 2021 |
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Crawford Gribben, "The Rise and Fall of Christian Ireland" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Nov 23, 2021 |
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Michelle R. Nario-Redmond, "Ableism: The Causes and Consequences of Disability Prejudice" (John Wiley and Sons, 2019)
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Nov 22, 2021 |
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Scott Cunningham, "Causal Inference: The Mixtape" (Yale UP, 2021)
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Nov 19, 2021 |
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Jeff Miller, "Avocado: A Global History" (Reaktion Books, 2020)
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Nov 18, 2021 |
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Joel Whitebook, "Freud: An Intellectual Biography" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
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Nov 17, 2021 |
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Nora Krug and Timothy Snyder, "On Tyranny Graphic Edition: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century" (Ten Speed Press, 2021)
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Nov 16, 2021 |
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Alice Beban, "Unwritten Rule: State-Making through Land Reform in Cambodia" (Cornell UP, 2021)
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Nov 15, 2021 |
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Anne Meng, "Constraining Dictatorship: From Personalized Rule to Institutionalized Regimes" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
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Nov 12, 2021 |
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Efrén O. Pérez, "Diversity's Child: People of Color and the Politics of Identity" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
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Nov 11, 2021 |
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Samuel Moyn, "Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War" (FSG, 2021)
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Nov 10, 2021 |
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Theresa Keeley, "Reagan's Gun-Toting Nuns: The Catholic Conflict Over Cold War Human Rights Policy in Central America" (Cornell UP, 2020)
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Nov 09, 2021 |
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Bradley Alger, "Defense of the Scientific Hypothesis: From Reproducibility Crisis to Big Data" (Oxford UP, 2019)
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Nov 08, 2021 |
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Andrea Warner, "Buffy Sainte-Marie: The Authorized Biography" (Graystone Books, 2018)
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Nov 05, 2021 |
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Anthea Roberts and Nicolas Lamp, "Six Faces of Globalization: Who Wins, Who Loses, and Why It Matters" (Harvard UP, 2021)
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Nov 04, 2021 |
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Herman Cappelen and Josh Dever, "Making AI Intelligible: Philosophical Foundations" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Nov 03, 2021 |
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Matthew J. Holian, "Data and the American Dream: Contemporary Social Controversies and the American Community Survey" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
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Nov 02, 2021 |
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Peter S. Ungar, "Evolution's Bite: A Story of Teeth, Diet, and Human Origins" (Princeton UP, 2018)
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Nov 01, 2021 |
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Caitlin Ring Carlson, "Hate Speech" (MIT Press, 2021)
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Oct 29, 2021 |
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Kristy Nabhan-Warren, "Meatpacking America: How Migration, Work, and Faith Unite and Divide the Heartland" (UNC Press, 2021)
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Oct 28, 2021 |
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Scott Sumner, "The Money Illusion: Market Monetarism, the Great Recession, and the Future of Monetary Policy" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
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Oct 27, 2021 |
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Nicolette Hahn Niman, "Defending Beef: The Ecological and Nutritional Case for Meat" (Chelsea Green, 2021)
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Oct 26, 2021 |
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Emily Greble, "Muslims and the Making of Modern Europe" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Oct 25, 2021 |
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Robert McCrum, "Shakespearean: On Life and Language in Times of Disruption" (Simon and Schuster, 2021)
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Oct 22, 2021 |
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Esther De Dauw, "Hot Pants and Spandex Suits: Gender Representation in American Superhero Comic" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
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Oct 21, 2021 |
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Kant Patel and Mark E. Rushefsky, "The Opioid Epidemics in the United States: Missed Opportunities and Policy Failures" (Routledge, 2021)
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Oct 20, 2021 |
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Philip Dwyer and Mark Micale, "The Darker Angels of Our Nature: Refuting the Pinker Theory of History & Violence" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
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Oct 19, 2021 |
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Marco Dondi, "Outgrowing Capitalism: Rethinking Money to Reshape Society and Pursue Purpose" (Fast Company Press, 2021)
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Oct 18, 2021 |
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Claudia Goldin, "Career and Family: Women’s Century-Long Journey toward Equity" (Princeton UP, 2021)
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Oct 15, 2021 |
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Hannah Zeavin, "The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy" (MIT Press, 2021)
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Oct 14, 2021 |
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Kevin A. Sabet, "Smokescreen: What the Marijuana Industry Doesn't Want You to Know" (Forefront Books, 2021)
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Oct 13, 2021 |
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Jan Matti Dollbaum et al., "Navalny: Putin's Nemesis, Russia's Future?" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Oct 12, 2021 |
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Anne Pollock, "Sickening: Anti-Black Racism and Health Disparities in the United States" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
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Oct 11, 2021 |
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Michael Yudell, "Race Unmasked: Biology and Race in the Twentieth Century" (Columbia UP, 2018)
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Oct 08, 2021 |
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Ted Stolze, "Becoming Marxist: Studies in Philosophy, Struggle, and Endurance" (Haymarket, 2020)
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Oct 07, 2021 |
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Mark Atwood Lawrence, "The End of Ambition: The United States and the Third World in the Vietnam Era" (Princeton UP, 2021)
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Oct 06, 2021 |
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Alvin E. Roth, "Who Gets What--and Why: The New Economics of Matchmaking and Market Design" (HMH, 2015)
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Oct 05, 2021 |
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Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm, "Metamodernism: The Future of Theory" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
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Oct 04, 2021 |
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Gregory Jones-Katz, "Deconstruction: An American Institution" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
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Oct 01, 2021 |
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Sandro Galea, "The Contagion Next Time" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Sep 30, 2021 |
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Stephen Lee Naish, "Screen Captures: Film in the Age of Emergency" (New Star Books, 2021)
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Sep 29, 2021 |
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Shayna Maskell, "Politics as Sound: The Washington, DC, Hardcore Scene, 1978-1983" (U Illinois Press, 2021)
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Sep 28, 2021 |
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Dora Osborne, "What Remains: The Post-Holocaust Archive in German Memory Culture" (Camden House, 2020)
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Sep 27, 2021 |
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Allan V. Horwitz, "DSM: A History of Psychiatry's Bible" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021)
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Sep 24, 2021 |
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Rob Dunn and Monica Sanchez, "Delicious: The Evolution of Flavor and How It Made Us Human" (Princeton UP, 2021)
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Sep 23, 2021 |
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Jytte Klausen, "Western Jihadism: A Thirty Year History" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Sep 22, 2021 |
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Jennifer Kaufmann-Buhler, "Open Plan: A Design History of the American Office" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
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Sep 21, 2021 |
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Mathias Clasen, "A Very Nervous Person's Guide to Horror Movies" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Sep 20, 2021 |
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Robin Globus Veldman, "The Gospel of Climate Skepticism: Why Evangelical Christians Oppose Action on Climate Change" (U California Press, 2019)
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Sep 17, 2021 |
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Luke Epplin, "Our Team: The Epic Story of Four Men and the World Series That Changed Baseball" (Flatiron Books, 2021)
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Sep 16, 2021 |
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Sylvana Tomaselli, "Wollstonecraft: Philosophy, Passion, and Politics" (Princeton UP, 2020)
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Sep 15, 2021 |
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Richard W. Maass, "The Picky Eagle: How Democracy and Xenophobia Limited U. S. Territorial Expansion" (Cornell UP, 2020)
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Sep 14, 2021 |
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Postscript: The Changing Landscape of Abortion Politics
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Sep 13, 2021 |
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Caitlin Petre, "All the News That’s Fit to Click: How Metrics Are Transforming the Work of Journalists" (Princeton UP, 2021)
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Sep 10, 2021 |
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Ursula Hackett, "America's Voucher Politics: How Elites Learned to Hide the State" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
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Sep 09, 2021 |
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Stephen J. Pyne, "The Pyrocene: How We Created an Age of Fire, and What Happens Next" (U California Press, 2021)
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Sep 08, 2021 |
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Paul Werth, "1837: Russia's Quiet Revolution" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Sep 07, 2021 |
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H. Glenn Penny, "In Humboldt's Shadow: A Tragic History of German Ethnology" (Princeton UP, 2021)
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Sep 06, 2021 |
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Christopher R. Martin, "No Longer Newsworthy: How the Mainstream Media Abandoned the Working Class" (Cornell UP, 2019)
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Sep 03, 2021 |
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Anil Seth, "Being You: A New Science of Consciousness" (Dutton, 2020)
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Sep 02, 2021 |
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Nadieszda Kizenko, "Good for the Souls: A History of Confession in the Russian Empire" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Sep 01, 2021 |
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Thomas O. Haakenson, "Grotesque Visions: The Science of Berlin Dada" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
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Aug 31, 2021 |
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Josephine Ensign, "Skid Road: On the Frontier of Health and Homelessness in an American City" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021)
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Aug 30, 2021 |
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Stephen Biddle, "Nonstate Warfare: The Military Methods of Guerillas, Warlords, and Militias" (Princeton UP, 2021)
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Aug 27, 2021 |
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Benjamin Ho, "Why Trust Matters: An Economist's Guide to the Ties That Bind Us" (Columbia UP, 2021)
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Aug 26, 2021 |
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Victoria Basualdo et al., "Big Business and Dictatorships in Latin America: A Transnational History of Profits and Repression" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
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Aug 25, 2021 |
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Rohit Khanna, "Misunderstanding Health: Making Sense of America's Broken Health Care System" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021)
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Aug 24, 2021 |
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Michael Friendly and Howard Wainer, "A History of Data Visualization and Graphic Communication" (Harvard UP, 2021)
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Aug 23, 2021 |
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Joseph Stieb, "The Regime Change Consensus: Iraq in American Politics, 1990-2003" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
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Aug 20, 2021 |
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Barbara Fredrickson, “The Science of Emotions” (Open Agenda, 2020)
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Aug 19, 2021 |
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David E Campbell et al., "Secular Surge: A New Fault Line in American Politics" (Cambridge UP. 2020)
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Aug 18, 2021 |
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Lee McIntyre, "How to Talk to a Science Denier" (MIT Press, 2021)
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Aug 17, 2021 |
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Martha Few et al., "Baptism Through Incision: The Postmortem Cesarean Operation in the Spanish Empire" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2020)
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Aug 16, 2021 |
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Hannah Wohl, "Bound by Creativity: How Contemporary Art Is Created and Judged" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
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Aug 13, 2021 |
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Richard Alba, "The Great Demographic Illusion: Majority, Minority, and the Expanding American Mainstream" (Princeton UP, 2020)
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Aug 12, 2021 |
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Mark Farha, "Lebanon: The Rise and Fall of a Secular State under Siege" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
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Aug 11, 2021 |
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Ian Ona Johnson, "Faustian Bargain: The Soviet-German Partnership and the Origins of the Second World War" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Aug 10, 2021 |
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Cian T. McMahon, "The Coffin Ship: Life and Death at Sea during the Great Irish Famine" (NYU Press, 2021)
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Aug 09, 2021 |
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Patricia Bickers, "The Ends of Art Criticism" (Lund Humphries Publishers, 2021)
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Aug 06, 2021 |
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John Christopoulos, "Abortion in Early Modern Italy" (Harvard UP, 2021)
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Aug 05, 2021 |
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Robert Stickgold and Antonio Zadra, "When Brains Dream: Exploring the Science and Mystery of Sleep" (W. W. Norton, 2021)
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Aug 04, 2021 |
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Brian Masaru Hayashi, "Asian American Spies: How Asian Americans Helped Win the Allied Victory" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Aug 03, 2021 |
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Iris Berent, "The Blind Storyteller: How We Reason about Human Nature" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Aug 02, 2021 |
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James Ladyman and K. Wiesner, "What Is a Complex System?" (Yale UP, 2020)
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Jul 30, 2021 |
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Annemarie Mol, "Eating in Theory" (Duke UP, 2021)
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Jul 29, 2021 |
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David Veevers, "The Origins of the British Empire in Asia, 1600–1750" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
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Jul 28, 2021 |
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Alison K. Smith, "Cabbage and Caviar: A History of Food in Russia" (Reaktion Books, 2021)
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Jul 27, 2021 |
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Mia Bloom and Sophia Moskalenko, "Pastels and Pedophiles: Inside the Mind of QAnon" (Redwood Press, 2021)
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Jul 26, 2021 |
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Amy Kaufman and Paul Sturtevant, "Devil's Historians: How Modern Extremists Abuse the Medieval Past" (U Toronto Press, 2020)
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Jul 23, 2021 |
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Eugene T. Richardson, "Epidemic Illusions: On the Coloniality of Global Public Health" (MIT Press, 2020)
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Jul 22, 2021 |
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Deborah Willis, "The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship" (NYU Press, 2021)
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Jul 21, 2021 |
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Steven Klein, "The Work of Politics: Making a Democratic Welfare State" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
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Jul 20, 2021 |
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Mallory E. SoRelle, "Democracy Declined: The Failed Politics of Consumer Financial Protection" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
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Jul 19, 2021 |
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Anna Reser and Leila McNeill, "Forces of Nature: The Women who Changed Science" (Frances Lincoln, 2021)
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Jul 16, 2021 |
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Russell E. Martin, "The Tsar's Happy Occasion: Ritual and Dynasty in the Weddings of Russia's Rulers, 1495-1745" (Northern Illinois UP, 2021)
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Jul 15, 2021 |
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Eric C. Rath, "Oishii: The History of Sushi" (Reaktion Books, 2021)
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Jul 14, 2021 |
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Nima Arkani-Hamed, “The Power of Principles: Physics Revealed” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Jul 13, 2021 |
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Thomas D. Mullaney et al., "Your Computer Is on Fire" (MIT Press, 2021)
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Jul 09, 2021 |
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Sara Rushing, "The Virtues of Vulnerability: Humility, Autonomy, and Citizen-Subjectivity" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Jul 08, 2021 |
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Christopher Wood, "A History of Art History" (Princeton UP, 2019)
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Jul 07, 2021 |
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Erin R. Pineda, "Seeing Like an Activist: Civil Disobedience and the Civil Rights Movement" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Jul 07, 2021 |
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George J. Sánchez, "Boyle Heights: How a Los Angeles Neighborhood Became the Future of American Democracy" (U California Press, 2021)
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Jul 06, 2021 |
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Sergio Lopez-Pineiro, "A Glossary of Urban Voids" (Jovis Verlag, 2020)
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Jul 05, 2021 |
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Yanzhong Huang, "Toxic Politics: China's Environmental Health Crisis and its Challenge to the Chinese State" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
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Jul 02, 2021 |
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Heather Douglas, "Women, Intimate Partner Violence, and the Law" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Jul 01, 2021 |
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Van Gosse, "The First Reconstruction: Black Politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War" (UNC Press, 2021)
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Jun 30, 2021 |
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Marie Favereau, "The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World" (Harvard UP, 2021)
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Jun 29, 2021 |
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Margaret MacMillan, "War: How Conflict Shaped Us" (Random House, 2020)
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Jun 28, 2021 |
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Susan E. Kirtley, "Typical Girls: The Rhetoric of Womanhood in Comic Strips" (Ohio State UP, 2021)
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Jun 25, 2021 |
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Rocío Zambrana, "Colonial Debts: The Case of Puerto Rico" (Duke UP, 2021)
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Jun 24, 2021 |
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Sean McMeekin, "Stalin's War: A New History of World War II" (Basic Books, 2021)
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Jun 23, 2021 |
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Jane Ward, "The Tragedy of Heterosexuality" (NYU Press, 2020)
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Jun 22, 2021 |
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William G. Tierney, "Get Real: 49 Challenges Confronting Higher Education" (SUNY, 2020)
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Jun 21, 2021 |
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Lisa Z. Sigel, "The People's Porn: A History of Handmade Pornography in America" (Reaktion Books, 2020)
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Jun 18, 2021 |
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Wendy K. Z. Anderson, "Rebirthing a Nation: White Women, Identity Politics, and the Internet" (U Mississippi Press, 2021)
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Jun 17, 2021 |
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Claudrena N. Harold, "When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras" (U Illinois Press, 2020)
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Jun 16, 2021 |
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Jacob L. Nelson, "Imagined Audiences: How Journalists Perceive and Pursue the Public" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Jun 15, 2021 |
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Matthew Carl Strecher, "The Forbidden Worlds of Haruki Murakami" (U Minnesota Press, 2014)
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Jun 14, 2021 |
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Manon Garcia, "We Are Not Born Submissive: How Patriarchy Shapes Women's Lives" (Princeton UP, 2021)
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Jun 11, 2021 |
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Edward B. Westermann, "Drunk on Genocide: Alcohol and Mass Murder in Nazi Germany" (Cornell UP, 2021)
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Jun 10, 2021 |
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George Klosko, "Why Should We Obey the Law?" (Polity Press, 2018)
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Jun 09, 2021 |
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Tom Eisenmann, "Why Startups Fail: A New Roadmap for Entrepreneurial Success" (Currency, 2021)
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Jun 08, 2021 |
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Jonathan Rauch, "The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth" (Brookings, 2021)
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Jun 07, 2021 |
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James M. Banner Jr., "The Ever-Changing Past: Why All History Is Revisionist History" (Yale UP, 2021)
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Jun 04, 2021 |
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Andrei Znamenski, "Socialism As a Secular Creed" (Lexington Books, 2021)
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Jun 03, 2021 |
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Eva Rosen, "The Voucher Promise: 'Section 8' and the Fate of an American Neighborhood" (Princeton UP, 2020)
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Jun 02, 2021 |
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Gregg D. Caruso, "Rejecting Retributivism: Free Will, Punishment, and Criminal Justice" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
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Jun 01, 2021 |
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Ellen Peters, "Innumeracy in the Wild: Misunderstanding and Misusing Numbers" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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May 31, 2021 |
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Randolph M. Nesse, "Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry" (Dutton, 2019)
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May 28, 2021 |
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Zev Eleff, "Authentically Orthodox: A Tradition-Bound Faith in American Life" (Wayne State UP, 2020)
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May 27, 2021 |
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Linda Colley, "The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World" (Liveright, 2021)
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May 26, 2021 |
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Nicholas Freudenberg, "At What Cost: Modern Capitalism and the Future of Health" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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May 25, 2021 |
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Michael P. Winship, "Hot Protestants: A History of Puritanism in England and America" (Yale UP, 2019)
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May 24, 2021 |
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Ellen Helsper, "The Digital Disconnect: The Social Causes and Consequences of Digital Inequalities" (Sage, 2021)
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May 21, 2021 |
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Andrew L. Whitehead, "Taking America Back for God: Christian Nationalism in the United States" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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May 20, 2021 |
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David Monod, "Vaudeville and the Making of Modern Entertainment, 1890–1925" (UNC Press, 2020)
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May 19, 2021 |
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Matthew Clair, "Privilege and Punishment: How Race and Class Matter in Criminal Court" (Princeton UP, 2020)
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May 18, 2021 |
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Mary Pilon, "The Monopolists: Obsession, Fury, and the Scandal Behind the World's Favorite Board Game" (Bloomsbury, 2015)
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May 17, 2021 |
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Doron Taussig, "What We Mean by the American Dream: Stories We Tell about Meritocracy" (Cornell UP, 2021)
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May 14, 2021 |
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Kathleen Collins, "From Rabbit Ears to the Rabbit Hole: A Life with Television" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)
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May 13, 2021 |
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Michelle Nijhuis, "Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction" (Norton, 2021)
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May 12, 2021 |
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Can we Disagree Online Respectfully?: A Discussion with Ian Leslie
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May 11, 2021 |
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T. Sanders et al., "Paying for Sex in a Digital Age: US and UK Perspectives" (Routledge, 2020)
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May 10, 2021 |
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Tim Jackson, "Post Growth: Life after Capitalism" (Polity, 2021)
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May 07, 2021 |
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Jean Burgess and Nancy K. Baym, "Twitter: A Biography" (NYU Press, 2020)
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May 06, 2021 |
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Domenico Losurdo, "Nietzsche, the Aristocratic Rebel: Intellectual Biography and Critical Balance-Sheet" (Haymarket Books, 2021)
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May 05, 2021 |
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Robert Snyder, "All the Nations Under Heaven: Immigrants, Migrants, and the Making of New York" (Columbia UP, 2019)
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May 04, 2021 |
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Daniel Greene, "The Promise of Access: Technology, Inequality, and the Political Economy of Hope" (MIT Press, 2021)
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May 03, 2021 |
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Karlos K. Hill, "The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre: A Photographic History" (U Oklahoma Press, 2021)
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Apr 30, 2021 |
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Viet Thanh Nguyen, "The Committed" (Grove Press, 2021)
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Apr 29, 2021 |
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Erik Grimmer-Solem, "Learning Empire: Globalization and the German Quest for World Status, 1875-1919" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
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Apr 28, 2021 |
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Ritchie Robertson, "The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness, 1680-1790" (Harper, 2021)
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Apr 27, 2021 |
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Gary Saul Morson and Morton Schapiro, "Minds Wide Shut How the New Fundamentalisms Divide Us" (Princeton UP, 2021)
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Apr 26, 2021 |
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Leigh Calvez, "The Hidden Lives of Owls: The Science and Spirit of Nature's Most Elusive Birds" (Sasquatch Books, 2016)
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Apr 23, 2021 |
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Terri E. Givens, "Immigration in the 21st Century: The Comparative Politics of Immigration Policy" (Routledge, 2020)
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Apr 22, 2021 |
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Herbert Terrace, "Why Chimpanzees Can't Learn Language and Only Humans Can" (Columbia UP, 2019)
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Apr 21, 2021 |
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Joseph P. Laycock, "Speak of the Devil: How the Satanic Temple Is Changing the Way We Talk about Religion" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Apr 20, 2021 |
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Postscript: Biden's First 100 Days
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Apr 19, 2021 |
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Phillip Lopate, "The Golden Age of the American Essay: 1945-1970" (Anchor Books, 2021)
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Apr 16, 2021 |
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Charley E. Willison, "Ungoverned and Out of Sight: Public Health and the Political Crisis of Homelessness in the United States" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Apr 15, 2021 |
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Bruce Berglund, "The Fastest Game in the World: Hockey and the Globalization of Sports" (U California Press, 2020)
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Apr 14, 2021 |
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Karen Petrou, "Engine of Inequality: The Fed and the Future of Wealth in America" (Wiley, 2021)
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Apr 13, 2021 |
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Philip N. Howard, "Lie Machines: How to Save Democracy from Troll Armies, Deceitful Robots, Junk News Operations, and Political Operatives" (Yale UP, 2020)
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Apr 12, 2021 |
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Elyssa Ford, "Rodeo as Refuge, Rodeo as Rebellion: Race, Gender, and Identity in the American Rodeo" (UP of Kansas, 2020)
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Apr 09, 2021 |
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Danielle Fuentes Morgan, "Laughing to Keep from Dying: African American Satire in the 21st Century" (U Illinois Press, 2020)
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Apr 08, 2021 |
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Dennis McDougal, "Operation White Rabbit: LSD, the DEA, and the Fate of the Acid King" (Simon and Schuster, 2020)
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Apr 07, 2021 |
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Roundtable on Asian Migrant Sex Work
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Apr 06, 2021 |
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Arthur Koestler, "Darkness at Noon" (Scribner, 2019)
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Apr 05, 2021 |
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M. I. Devine, "Warhol's Mother's Pantry: Art, America, and the Mom in Pop" (Mad Creek Books, 2020)
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Apr 02, 2021 |
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Daniel C. Mattingly, "The Art of Political Control in China" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
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Apr 01, 2021 |
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Robert Beshara, "Freud and Said: Contrapuntal Psychoanalysis as Liberation Praxis" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2021)
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Mar 31, 2021 |
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W. Quinn and J. D. Turner, "Boom and Bust: A Global History of Financial Bubbles" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
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Mar 30, 2021 |
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Zach Sell, "Trouble of the World: Slavery and Empire in the Age of Capital" (UNC Press, 2021)
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Mar 29, 2021 |
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Chuck Collins, "The Wealth Hoarders: How Billionaires Pay Millions to Hide Trillions" (Polity, 2021)
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Mar 26, 2021 |
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Phil Zuckerman, "Society Without God: What the Least Religious Nations Can Tell Us about Contentment" (New York UP, 2020)
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Mar 25, 2021 |
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Sean R. Roberts, "The War on the Uyghurs: China's Internal Campaign Against a Muslim Minority" (Princeton UP, 2020)
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Mar 24, 2021 |
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Jelani Favors, "Shelter in A Time of Storm: How Black Colleges Fostered Generations of Leadership and Activism" (U of North Carolina Press, 2020)
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Mar 23, 2021 |
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Rick McIntyre, "The Reign of Wolf 21: In the Valley of the Druid King" (Greystone Books, 2020)
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Mar 22, 2021 |
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Carol J. Adams, "The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory" (Bloomsbury, 2015)
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Mar 19, 2021 |
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Steven Blush, "Bustin' Balls: World Team Tennis 1974-1978, Pro Sports, Pop Culture and Progressive Politics" (Feral Press, 2020)
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Mar 18, 2021 |
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Eric Hayot, "Humanist Reason: A History. An Argument. A Plan" (Columbia UP, 2021)
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Mar 17, 2021 |
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M. Fakhry Davids, "Internal Racism: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Race and Difference" (Red Globe, 2011)
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Mar 16, 2021 |
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Jonathan S. Holloway, "The Cause of Freedom: A Concise History of African Americans" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Mar 15, 2021 |
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Liat Ben-Moshe, "Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition" (U Minnesota Press, 2020)
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Mar 12, 2021 |
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Monica D. Fitzgerald, "Puritans Behaving Badly: Gender, Punishment, and Religion in Early America" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
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Mar 11, 2021 |
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Amanda Brickell Bellows, "American Slavery and Russian Serfdom in the Post-Emancipation Imagination" (UNC Press, 2020)
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Mar 10, 2021 |
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Xiaoping Fang, "China's Cholera Pandemic: Restructuring Society Under Mao" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2021)
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Mar 09, 2021 |
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Kate Lister, "A Curious History of Sex" (Unbound, 2020)
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Mar 08, 2021 |
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Evan Friss, "The Cycling City: Bicycles and Urban America in the 1890s" (U Chicago Press, 2015)
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Mar 05, 2021 |
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Mark R. Rank, "Poorly Understood: What America Gets Wrong about Poverty" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Mar 04, 2021 |
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Han Yu, "Mind Thief: The Story of Alzheimer's" (Columbia UP, 2021)
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Mar 03, 2021 |
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Robert Elder, "Calhoun: American Heretic" (Basic Books, 2021)
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Mar 02, 2021 |
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The Life of Geoffrey Chaucer: A Discussion with Marion Turner
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Mar 01, 2021 |
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Robert Darnton, "Pirating and Publishing: The Book Trade in the Age of Enlightenment" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Feb 26, 2021 |
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L. Cox Han and C. Heldman, "Madam President?: Gender and Politics on the Road to the White House" (Lynne Rienner, 2020)
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Feb 25, 2021 |
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John D. Wilsey, "God's Cold Warrior: The Life and Faith of John Foster Dulles" (Eardmans, 2021)
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Feb 24, 2021 |
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Stephanie McCurry, "Women's War: Fighting and Surviving the Civil War" (Harvard UP, 2019)
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Feb 23, 2021 |
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A. Hollis-Brusky and J. C. Wilson. "Separate But Faithful: The Christian Right's Radical Struggle to Transform Law and Legal Culture" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Feb 22, 2021 |
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Dan Moller, "The Way of Bach: Three Years with the Man, the Music, and the Piano" (Simon and Schuster, 2020)
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Feb 19, 2021 |
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Nicole Perlroth, "This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
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Feb 18, 2021 |
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David Badre, "On Task: How Our Brain Gets Things Done" (Princeton UP, 2020)
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Feb 17, 2021 |
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Alison Phipps, "Me, Not You: The Trouble with Mainstream Feminism" (Manchester UP, 2020)
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Feb 16, 2021 |
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Henry T. Greely, "CRISPR People: The Science and Ethics of Editing Humans" (The MIT Press, 2021)
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Feb 15, 2021 |
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Paul Ian Steinberg, "Psychoanalysis in Medicine: Applying Psychoanalytic Thought to Contemporary Medical Care" (Routledge, 2020)
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Feb 12, 2021 |
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R. Alan Covey, "Inca Apocalypse: The Spanish Conquest and the Transformation of the Andean World" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Feb 11, 2021 |
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Jack Price, "The Future of Brain Repair: A Realist's Guide to Stem Cell Therapy" (MIT Press, 2020)
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Feb 10, 2021 |
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Anthony Warner, "Ending Hunger: The Quest to Feed the World Without Destroying It" (Simon and Schuster, 2021)
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Feb 09, 2021 |
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Richard Kreitner, "Break It Up: Secession, Division, and the Secret History of America's Imperfect Union" (Little Brown, 2020)
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Feb 08, 2021 |
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Mical Raz, "Abusive Policies: How the American Child Welfare System Lost Its Way" (UNC Press, 2020)
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Feb 05, 2021 |
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Jonas Staal, "Propaganda Art in the 21st Century" (MIT Press, 2019)
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Feb 04, 2021 |
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Sheldon George, "Trauma and Race: A Lacanian Study of African American Racial Identity" (Baylor UP, 2016)
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Feb 03, 2021 |
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Richard Lachmann, "First Class Passengers on a Sinking Ship: Elite Politics and the Decline of Great Powers" (Verso, 2020)
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Feb 02, 2021 |
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Tyler Stovall, "White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea" (Princeton UP, 2021)
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Feb 01, 2021 |
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Sabrina Mittermeier, "A Cultural History of the Disneyland Theme Parks: Middle Class Kingdoms" (Intellect, 2020)
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Jan 29, 2021 |
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Ed Caesar, "The Moth and the Mountain: A True Story of Love, War, and Everest" (Avid Reader/Simon & Schuster, 2020)
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Jan 28, 2021 |
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Michael D. Bailey, "Origins of the Witches' Sabbath" (Penn State UP, 2021)
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Jan 27, 2021 |
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Simon Baron-Cohen, "The Pattern Seekers: A New Theory of Human Invention" (Allen Lane, 2020)
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Jan 26, 2021 |
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Emmanuel Kreike, "Scorched Earth: Environmental Warfare as a Crime Against Humanity and Nature" (Princeton UP, 2021)
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Jan 25, 2021 |
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Nicholas McDowell, "Poet of Revolution: The Making of John Milton" (Princeton UP, 2020)
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Jan 22, 2021 |
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Lara M. Brown, "Amateur Hour: Presidential Character and the Question of Leadership" (Routledge, 2020)
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Jan 21, 2021 |
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André Gregory, "This Is Not My Memoir" (FSG, 2020)
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Jan 20, 2021 |
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Andrew Jewett, "Science Under Fire: Challenges to Scientific Authority in Modern America" (Harvard UP, 2020)
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Jan 19, 2021 |
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Hilton L. Root, "Network Origins of the Global Economy: East vs. West in a Complex Systems Perspective" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
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Jan 18, 2021 |
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Matthew McManus, "A Critical Legal Examination of Liberalism and Liberal Rights" (Palgrave, 2020)
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Jan 15, 2021 |
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M. R. Michelson and B. F. Harrison, "Transforming Prejudice: Identity, Fear, and Transgender Rights" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Jan 14, 2021 |
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Rob DeSalle, "A Natural History of Color: The Science Behind What We See and How We See it" (Pegasus Books, 2020)
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Jan 13, 2021 |
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Gerry Smyth, "Sailor Song: The Shanties and Ballads of the High Seas" (U Washington Press, 2020)
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Jan 12, 2021 |
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Kyle Johannsen, "Wild Animal Ethics: The Moral and Political Problem of Wild Animal Suffering" (Routledge, 2020)
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Jan 11, 2021 |
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Michael J. Sandel, "The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?" (FSG, 2020)
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Jan 08, 2021 |
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Jeremy Pressman, "The Sword is Not Enough: Arabs, Israelis, and the Limits of Military Force" (Manchester UP, 2020)
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Jan 07, 2021 |
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Arie Perliger, "American Zealots: Inside Right-Wing Domestic Terrorism" (Columbia UP, 2020)
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Jan 06, 2021 |
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Jonathan Sadowsky, "The Empire of Depression: A New History" (Polity, 2020)
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Jan 05, 2021 |
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Beth Shapiro, "How to Clone a Mammoth: The Science of De-Extinction" (Princeton UP, 2020)
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Jan 04, 2021 |
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Erin Mayo-Adam, "Queer Alliances: How Power Shapes Political Movement Formation" (Stanford UP, 2020)
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Dec 31, 2020 |
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K. A. Young and M. Schwartz, "Levers of Power: How the 1% Rules and What the 99% Can Do About It" (Verso, 2020)
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Dec 30, 2020 |
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Monika Black, "A Demon-Haunted Land: Witches, Wonder Doctors, and the Ghosts of the Past in Post–WWII Germany" (Metropolitan, 2020)
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Dec 29, 2020 |
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Benjamin R. Teitelbaum, "War for Eternity: Inside Bannon's Far-right Circle of Global Power Brokers" (Dey Street Books, 2020)
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Dec 28, 2020 |
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Matt Christman, "The Chapo Guide to Revolution: A Manifesto Against Logic, Facts, and Reason" (Simon & Schuster, 2019)
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Dec 24, 2020 |
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Eben Kirksey, "The Mutant Project: Inside the Global Race to Genetically Modify Humans" (St. Martin's Press, 2020)
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Dec 23, 2020 |
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Dan Callahan, "The Camera Lies: Acting for Hitchcock" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Dec 22, 2020 |
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Ben Bland, "Man of Contradictions: Joko Widodo and the Struggle to Remake Indonesia" (Penguin, 2021)
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Dec 21, 2020 |
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Richard Ovenden, "Burning the Books: A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge" (Harvard UP, 2020)
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Dec 18, 2020 |
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Sharon Marcus, "The Drama of Celebrity" (Princeton UP, 2020)
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Dec 17, 2020 |
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Ian Ayres and Fredrick E. Vars, "Weapon of Choice: Fighting Gun Violence While Respecting Gun Rights" (Harvard UP, 2020)
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Dec 16, 2020 |
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Noel J. Pinnington, "A New History of Medieval Japanese Theatre: Noh and Kyōgen from 1300 to 1600" (Palgrave, 2019)
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Dec 15, 2020 |
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Adrian Wooldridge, "The Wake-Up Call: Why the Pandemic Has Exposed the Weakness of the West, and How to Fix It" (HarperVia, 2020)
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Dec 14, 2020 |
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Timothy Hampton, "Bob Dylan: How the Songs Work" (Zone Books, 2020)
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Dec 11, 2020 |
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Gemma Milne, "Smoke and Mirrors: How Hype Obscures the Future and How to See Past It" (Robinson, 2021)
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Dec 10, 2020 |
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Virginia Postrel, "The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World" (Basic Books, 2020)
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Dec 09, 2020 |
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Paul Donovan, "Profit and Prejudice: The Luddites of the Fourth Industrial Revolution" (Routledge, 2020)
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Dec 08, 2020 |
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Nicolas Petit, "Big Tech and the Digital Economy: The Moligopoly Scenario" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Dec 07, 2020 |
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E. Chemerinsky and H. Gillman, "The Religion Clauses: The Case for Separating Church and State" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Dec 04, 2020 |
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Peter Singer, "Why Vegan?: Eating Ethically" (Liveright, 2020)
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Dec 03, 2020 |
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Glenn Sauer, "Points of Contact: Science, Religion, and the Search for Truth" (Orbis Books, 2020)
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Dec 02, 2020 |
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Paul Morrow, "Unconscionable Crimes: How Norms Explain and Constrain Mass Atrocity" (MIT Press, 2020)
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Dec 01, 2020 |
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Tom Rastrelli, "Confessions of a Gay Priest: A Memoir of Sex, Love, Abuse, and Scandal in the Catholic Seminary" (U Iowa Press, 2020)
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Nov 30, 2020 |
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Jim Downs, "Stand by Me: The Forgotten History of Gay Liberation" (Basic Books, 2016)
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Nov 27, 2020 |
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Frederick Crews, "Freud: The Making of an Illusion" (Picador, 2018)
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Nov 25, 2020 |
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Jim Mason, "An Unnatural Order: The Roots of Our Destruction of Nature" (Latern Books, 2002)
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Nov 24, 2020 |
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Jeremy Black, "George III: Madness and Majesty" (Penguin, 2020)
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Nov 23, 2020 |
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Nicholas Guyatt, "Bind Us Apart: How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation" (Basic Books, 2016)
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Nov 20, 2020 |
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Michael C. Davis, "Making Hong Kong China: The Rollback of Human Rights and the Rule of Law" (Columbia UP, 2020)
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Nov 19, 2020 |
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Jimena Canales, "Bedeviled: A Shadow History of Demons in Science" (Princeton UP, 2020)
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Nov 18, 2020 |
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Joshua Gans, "The Pandemic Information Gap and the Brutal Economics of Covid-19" (MIT Press, 2020)
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Nov 17, 2020 |
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Conspiracy Theories are More Dangerous Than Ever: A Discussion with Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum
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Nov 16, 2020 |
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Katja M. Guenther, "The Lives and Deaths of Shelter Animals" (Stanford UP, 2020)
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Nov 13, 2020 |
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Daniel Deudney, "Dark Skies: Space Expansionism, Planetary Geopolitics, and the Ends of Humanity" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Nov 12, 2020 |
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Kevin Mattson, "We're Not Here to Entertain: Punk Rock, Ronald Reagan, and the Real Culture War of 1980s America" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Nov 11, 2020 |
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Robert Vitalis, "Oilcraft: The Myths of Scarcity and Security That Haunt U.S. Energy Policy" (Stanford UP, 2020)
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Nov 10, 2020 |
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Julia S. Charles, "That Middle World: Race, Performance, and the Politics of Passing" (UNC Press, 2020)
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Nov 09, 2020 |
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Chas Smith, "Cocaine and Surfing: A Sordid History of Surfing’s Greatest Love Affair" (Rare Bird, 2018)
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Nov 06, 2020 |
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Jamie Merisotis, "Human Work in the Age of Smart Machines" (RosettaBooks, 2020)
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Nov 05, 2020 |
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John Garrison Marks, "Black Freedom in the Age of Slavery: Race, Status, and Identity in the Urban Americas" (U of South Carolina Press, 2020)
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Nov 04, 2020 |
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K. A. Lieber and D. G. Press, "The Myth of the Nuclear Revolution: Power Politics in the Atomic Age" (Cornell UP, 2020)
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Nov 03, 2020 |
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Cynthia Miller-Idriss, "Hate in the Homeland: The New Global Far Right" (Princeton UP, 2020)
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Nov 02, 2020 |
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F. H. Buckley, "American Secession: The Looming Threat of a National Break-Up" (Encounter Books, 2020)
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Oct 30, 2020 |
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Thomas Abt, "Bleeding Out: The Devastating Consequences of Urban Violence" (Basic Books, 2019)
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Oct 29, 2020 |
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Victor Pickard, "Democracy Without Journalism?: Confronting the Misinformation Society" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Oct 28, 2020 |
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Gina Rippon, "Gender and Our Brains: How New Neuroscience Explodes the Myths of the Male and Female Minds" (Vintage, 2020)
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Oct 27, 2020 |
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Judith G. Coffin, "Sex, Love, and Letters: Writing Simone de Beauvoir" (Cornell UP, 2020)
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Oct 26, 2020 |
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William Germano, "Getting it Published: A Guide for Scholars and Anyone Else Serious about Serious Books" (U Chicago Press, 2016)
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Oct 23, 2020 |
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Robert Plomin, "Blueprint: How DNA Makes Us Who We Are" (MIT Press, 2019)
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Oct 22, 2020 |
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Philip Cunliffe, "The New Twenty Years' Crisis: A Critique of International Relations, 1999-2019" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2020)
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Oct 21, 2020 |
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Michael Walzer, "A Foreign Policy for the Left" (Yale UP, 2018)
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Oct 20, 2020 |
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Adam Knowles, "Heidegger’s Fascist Affinities: A Politics of Silence" (Stanford UP, 2019)
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Oct 19, 2020 |
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Paul Howe, "Teen Spirit: How Adolescence Transformed the Adult World" (Cornell UP, 2020)
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Oct 16, 2020 |
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Why are Blacks Democrats?: An Interview with Ismail K. White and Chryl N. Laird
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Oct 15, 2020 |
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Ian Haney López, "Merge Left: Fusing Race and Class, Winning Elections, and Saving America" (The New Press, 2019)
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Oct 14, 2020 |
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Joel Miller, "Memoir of a Roadie: Axl Said I made a Great Cup of Tea…" (2020)
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Oct 13, 2020 |
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Boel Berner, "Strange Blood: The Rise and Fall of Lamb Blood Transfusion in 19th-Century Medicine and Beyond" (Transcript Verlag, 2020)
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Oct 12, 2020 |
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Chris Heffer, "All Bullshit and Lies?: Insincerity, Irresponsibility, and the Judgment of Untruthfulness" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Oct 09, 2020 |
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Stephen Wall, "Reluctant European: Britain and the European Union from 1945 to Brexit" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Oct 08, 2020 |
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Hannah L. Walker, "Mobilized by Injustice: Criminal Justice Contact, Political Participation, and Race" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Eric Weiner, "The Geography of Genius: Lessons from the World’s Most Creative Places" (Simon and Schuster, 2016)
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Oct 06, 2020 |
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Jeremy England, "Every Life is on Fire: How Thermodynamics Explains the Origins of Living Things" (Basic Books, 2020)
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Oct 05, 2020 |
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Lea David, "The Past Can't Heal Us: The Dangers of Mandating Memory in the Name of Human Rights" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
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Oct 02, 2020 |
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Frans de Waal, "Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves" (Norton, 2019)
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Oct 01, 2020 |
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Michele Goodwin, "Policing the Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
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Sep 30, 2020 |
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Laura Briggs, "Taking Children: A History of American Terror" (U California Press 2020)
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Sep 29, 2020 |
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Gene Ludwig, "The Vanishing American Dream" (Disruption Books, 2020)
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Sep 28, 2020 |
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G. Smulewicz-Zucker and M. Thompson, "An Inheritance for Our Times: Principles and Politics of Democratic Socialism" (OR Books, 2020)
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Sep 25, 2020 |
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Jennifer Cobbina, "Hands Up, Don’t Shoot: Why the Protests in Ferguson and Baltimore Matter, and How They Changed America" (NYU Press, 2019)
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Sep 24, 2020 |
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Rachel M. Gillum, "Muslims in a Post-9/11 America" (U Michigan Press, 2018)
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Sep 23, 2020 |
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Diana Greene Foster, "The Turnaway Study: Ten Years, a Thousand Women, and the Consequences of Having—or Being Denied—an Abortion" (Scribner, 2020)
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Sep 22, 2020 |
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Christopher Robertson, "Exposed: Why Our Health Insurance is Incomplete and What can be Done About" (Harvard UP, 2019)
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Sep 21, 2020 |
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Alexander Keyssar, "Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College?" (Harvard UP, 2020)
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Sep 18, 2020 |
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Ben Burgis, "Give Them an Argument: Logic for the Left" (Zero Books, 2019)
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Sep 17, 2020 |
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M. Ramirez and D. Peterson, "Ignored Racism: White Animus Toward Latinos (Cambridge UP, 2020)
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Sep 16, 2020 |
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R. Pollin and N. Chomsky, "Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal: The Political Economy of Saving the Planet" (Verso, 2020
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Sep 15, 2020 |
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Postscript: A Discussion of Race, Anger and Citizenship in the USA
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Sep 14, 2020 |
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Iain Murray, "The Socialist Temptation" (Regnery Gateway, 2020)
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Sep 11, 2020 |
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Ann-Sophie Barwich, "Smellosophy: What the Nose Tells the Mind" (Harvard UP, 2020)
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Sep 10, 2020 |
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Joshua Greenberg, "Bank Notes and Shinplasters: The Rage for Paper Money in the Early Republic" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2020)
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Sep 09, 2020 |
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Matthew Yglesias, "One Billion Americans: The Case for Thinking Bigger" (Portfolio, 2020)
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Sep 08, 2020 |
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John Barton, "A History of the Bible: The Story of the World's Most Influential Book" (Viking, 2019)
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Sep 04, 2020 |
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Nathan J. Kelly, "America's Inequality Trap" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
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Sep 03, 2020 |
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Simon Hall, "Ten Days in Harlem: Fidel Castro and the Making of the 1960s" (Faber and Faber, 2020)
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Sep 02, 2020 |
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Lisa Bortolotti, "The Epistemic Innocence of Irrational Beliefs" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Sep 01, 2020 |
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Rafael Medoff, "The Jews Should Keep Quiet: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, and the Holocaust" (JPS, 2019)
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Aug 31, 2020 |
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Paul Moyer, "Detestable and Wicked Arts: New England and Witchcraft in the Early Modern Atlantic World" (Cornell UP, 2020)
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Aug 28, 2020 |
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Adam Rutherford, "How to Argue With a Racist" (The Experiment, 2020)
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Aug 27, 2020 |
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Lisa Selin Davis, "Tomboy: The Surprising History and Future of Girls Who Dare to Be Different" (Hachette Go, 2020)
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Aug 26, 2020 |
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Steven Shapin, "The Scientific Revolution" (U Chicago Press, 2018)
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Aug 25, 2020 |
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Bjorn Lomborg, "False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet" (Basic Books, 2020)
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Aug 24, 2020 |
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Guy Raffa, "Dante’s Bones: How a Poet Invented Italy" (Harvard UP, 2020)
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Aug 21, 2020 |
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John R. Hibbing, "The Securitarian Personality: What Really Motivates Trump’s Base and Why It Matters for the Post-Trump Era" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Aug 20, 2020 |
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Jered Rubin, "Rulers, Religion, and Riches: Why the West Got Rich and the Middle East Did Not" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
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Aug 19, 2020 |
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C. Besteman and H. Gusterson, "Life by Algorithms: How Roboprocesses Are Remaking Our World" (U Chicago Press, 2019)
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Aug 18, 2020 |
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Julia Rose Kraut, "Threat of Dissent: A History of Ideological Exclusion and Deportation in the United States" (Harvard UP, 2020)
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Aug 17, 2020 |
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John W. Compton, "The End of Empathy: Why White Protestants Stopped Loving their Neighbors" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Aug 14, 2020 |
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Satyan Devadoss, "Mage Merlin's Unsolved Mathematical Mysteries" (MIT Press, 2020)
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Aug 13, 2020 |
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Christopher Newfield, "The Great Mistake: How We Wrecked Public Universities and How We Can Fix Them" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2016)
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Aug 12, 2020 |
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Danielle Giffort, "Acid Revival: The Psychedelic Renaissance and the Quest for Medical Legitimacy" (U Minnesota Press, 2020)
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Aug 11, 2020 |
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Stuart Ritchie, "Science Fictions: Exposing Fraud, Bias, Negligence, and Hype in Science" (Penguin Books, 2020)
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Aug 10, 2020 |
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Kim Adrian, "Dear Knausgaard: Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle" (Fiction Advocate, 2020)
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Aug 07, 2020 |
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Thomas Borstelmann, "Just Like Us: The American Struggle to Understand Foreigners" (Columbia UP, 2020)
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Aug 06, 2020 |
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W. J. Perry and T. Z. Collina, "The Button: The New Nuclear Arms Race and Presidential Power from Truman to Trump" (BenBella Books, 2020)
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Aug 05, 2020 |
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Samuel Morris Brown, "Joseph Smith's Translation: The Words and Worlds of Early Mormonism" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Aug 04, 2020 |
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Paula Fredriksen, "When Christians Were Jews: The First Generation" (Yale UP, 2018)
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Aug 03, 2020 |
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Sarah B. Rodriguez, "The Love Surgeon: A Story of Trust, Harm, and the Limits of Medical Regulation" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
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Jul 31, 2020 |
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Solomon Goldstein-Rose, "The 100% Solution: A Plan for Solving Climate Change" (Melville House, 2020)
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Jul 29, 2020 |
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Theresa Kaminski, "Dr. Mary Walker's Civil War: One Woman's Journey to the Medal of Honor and the Fight for Women's Rights" (Lyons Press, 2020)
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Jul 28, 2020 |
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R. K. Jefferson and H. B. Johnson, "Shortlisted: Women in the Shadows of the Supreme Court" (NYU Press, 2020)
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Jul 27, 2020 |
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Justin Gomer, "White Balance: How Hollywood Shaped Colorblind Ideology and Undermined Civil Rights" (UNC Press, 2020)
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Jul 24, 2020 |
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Andrew S. Baer, "Beyond the Usual Beating" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
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Jul 23, 2020 |
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Jennifer Domino Rudolph, "Baseball as Mediated Latinidad: Race, Masculinity, Nationalism, and Performances of Identity" (Ohio State UP, 2020)
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Jul 22, 2020 |
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Marc Zimmer, "The State of Science" (Prometheus Books, 2020)
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Jul 21, 2020 |
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Christina Dunbar-Hester, "Hacking Diversity: The Politics of Inclusion in Open Technology Cultures" (Princeton UP, 2020)
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Jul 20, 2020 |