Melhores podcasts sobre University Press (2023)

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Yale University Press Podcast

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A Conversation with Julia Bryan-Wilson about Louise Nevelson 33:12

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We discuss the celebrated art historian’s new book Louise Nevelson’s Sculpture: Drag, Color, Join, Face.Por Yale University Press

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Off the Page: A Columbia University Press Podcast

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Robert B. Rakove, "Days of Opportunity: The United States and Afghanistan Before the Soviet Invasion" (Columbia UP, 2023) 1:21:05

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Long before the 1979 Soviet invasion, the United States was closely concerned with Afghanistan. For much of the twentieth century, American diplomats, policy makers, businesspeople, and experts took part in the Afghan struggle to modernize, delivered vital aid, and involved themselves in Kabul’s conflicts with its neighbors. For their own part, man…

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1869, the Cornell University Press Podcast

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1869, Ep. 142 w/ Eric Keenaghan & Rowena Kennedy-Epstein, editors of The Muriel Rukeyser Era 39:14

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Learn about the new book here (and use promo code 09POD to save 30%):https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501771750/the-muriel-rukeyser-era/#bookTabs=1Read the transcript here:https://otter.ai/u/XqLGFhSLcHCvbI8HZPT3omPq7w8?utm_source=copy_urlEric Keenaghan is Associate Professor and Chair in the Department of English at the University at A…

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University of Minnesota Press

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Cactus hunters and the illicit succulent trade. 51:05

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What inspires desire for plants? In The Cactus Hunters, Jared Margulies takes readers through the intriguing world of succulent collecting, where collectors and conservationists alike are animated by passions that sometimes exceed the limits of the law. His globe-spanning journey offers complex insight into the fields of botany and criminology, pol…

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Off the Page: A Columbia University Press Podcast

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The Future of Innovation: A Discussion with Min W. Jung 35:39

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Humans have been so dominant on Earth in large part because of their capacity to innovate – but how does that work exactly? Why can they innovate so much? That issue has been studied by Professor Min W. Jung from the Center for Synaptic Brain Dysfunctions at the Institute for Basic Science in South Korea. He is the author of A Brain for Innovation:…

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Off the Page: A Columbia University Press Podcast

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Daniel Shea and Nicholas F. Jacobs, "The Rural Voter: The Politics of Place and the Disuniting of America" (Columbia UP, 2023) 53:29

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The widening gulf between rural and urban America is becoming the most serious political divide of our day. Support for Democrats, up and down the ballot, has plummeted throughout the countryside, and the entire governing system is threatened by one-party dominance. After Donald Trump's surprising victories throughout rural America, pundits and jou…

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Yale University Press Podcast

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Do States Act Rationally? 48:03

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In this episode of the Yale University Press Podcast, we talk with John J. Mearsheimer and Sebastian Rosato about How States Think: The Rationality of Foreign Policy.Por Yale University Press

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Off the Page: A Columbia University Press Podcast

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Anne Mendelson, "Spoiled: The Myth of Milk as Superfood" (Columbia UP, 2023) 1:05:55

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Why is cows' milk, which few nonwhite people can digest, promoted as a science-backed dietary necessity in countries where the majority of the population is lactose-intolerant? Why are gigantic new dairy farms permitted to deplete the sparse water resources of desert ecosystems? Why do thousands of U.S. dairy farmers every year give up after strugg…

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Off the Page: A Columbia University Press Podcast

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The Future of the Rural-Urban Divide: A Discussion with Nicholas F. Jacobs and Daniel M. Shea 43:19

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The town/countryside split has always been a feature of democratic Western politics and has impacted party choice. The advent of rust belts may have added a layer of complexity and may help explain why the differences between rural and urban voters seem to be deepening in the US. Nicholas F. Jacobs and Daniel M. Shea are the authors of The Rural Vo…

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1869, the Cornell University Press Podcast

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1869, Ep. 141 with Amy Godine, author of The Black Woods 26:04

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Learn more about The Black Woods here (and use promo code 09POD to save 30%): https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501771682/the-black-woods/Read the transcript:https://otter.ai/u/bMcnVOvsG9riaiRRXpVI4fgaWf8?utm_source=copy_urlIn this episode, we speak with Amy Godine, author of the new book The Black Woods: Pursuing Racial Justice on the …

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Yale University Press Podcast

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Artists Remake the World 35:52

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Vid Simoniti discusses the potential of contemporary art to bring about political change.Por Yale University Press

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University of Minnesota Press

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Imagining a new—human and nonhuman—grammar of urban life. 56:27

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“There is always some moment when other-than-human life bursts into presence amid the clamor of urban routine.” —Maan Barua, Lively Cities One of the fundamental dimensions of urbanization is its radical transformation of nature. The book Lively Cities: Reconfiguring Urban Ecology departs from conventions of urban studies to argue that cities are l…

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University of Minnesota Press

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Political violence and abolitionist futures. 57:45

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Terrorism on Trial examines the contemporary role U.S. domestic courts play in the global war on terror. Author Nicole Nguyen advocates for a rethinking of popular understandings of political violence and its root causes, and exposes how dominant academic discourses, geographical imaginations, and social processes have shaped terrorism prosecutions…

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Yale University Press Podcast

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Why We Should Stop Designing Things (And Start Designing Experiences) 39:08

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Abraham Burickson on his New Book, Experience Design: A Participatory Manifesto.Por Yale University Press

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1869, the Cornell University Press Podcast

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1869, Ep. 140 with Benjamin Hegarty, author of The Made-Up State 29:21

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Learn more about the book:https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501766657/the-made-up-state/Read the transcript:https://otter.ai/u/O18-V2EdVKo5Rz5eblyrDU9DTM0?utm_source=copy_urlIn this episode, we speak with Benjamin Hegarty, author of The Made-Up State: Technology, Trans Femininity, and Citizenship in Indonesia. Benjamin Hegarty is McKenz…

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Off the Page: A Columbia University Press Podcast

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Mingwei Song, "Fear of Seeing: A Poetics of Chinese Science Fiction" (Columbia UP, 2023) 1:12:36

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I am talking today to Mingwei Song about his new book, Fear of Seeing: A Poetics of Chinese Science Fiction (Columbia UP, 2023). The book is a sweeping account of contemporary Chinese science fiction that begins by asking, has “anything new arrived with the new century that redefined contemporaneousness?” As listeners might guess, in Song’s account…

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Yale University Press Podcast

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The Intricacies of Marriage 44:57

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In this episode of the Yale University Press podcast, we talk with Devorah Baum about her new book, On Marriage.Por Yale University Press

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University of Minnesota Press

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Redefining extinction through thawing permafrost. 47:04

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In Earth, Ice, Bone, Blood, Charlotte Wrigley considers how permafrost—and its disappearance—redefines extinction to be a lack of continuity that affects both life and nonlife on earth. With a look at the coldest regions in the world, Wrigley examines the wild new economies and mitigation strategies responding to thawing permafrost, including such …

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Off the Page: A Columbia University Press Podcast

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William B. Eimicke et al., "Leveling the Learning Curve: Creating a More Inclusive and Connected University" (Columbia UP, 2023) 51:48

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Will the COVID-19 pandemic be remembered as a turning point in how universities deliver teaching and learning? How might the widespread use of digital tools change higher education? Leveling the Learning Curve: Creating a More Inclusive and Connected University (Columbia UP, 2023) explores the role of digital education at this crucial crossroads. B…

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Off the Page: A Columbia University Press Podcast

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The Future of Paying Attention: A Discussion with Carolyn Dicey Jennings 42:40

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Is it really harder to pay attention to something than it used to be? No doubt the world is getting faster, and social media platforms are so good at grabbing attention. But how real is the problem and in particular, does it impact our creativity? Carolyn Dicey Jennings is based at the University of California, Merced, and has just co-written a cha…

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Off the Page: A Columbia University Press Podcast

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Trenton W. Holliday, "Cro-Magnon: The Story of the Last Ice Age People of Europe" (Columbia UP, 2023) 42:33

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During the Last Ice Age, Europe was a cold, dry place teeming with mammoths, woolly rhinoceroses, reindeer, bison, cave bears, cave hyenas, and cave lions. It was also the home of people physically indistinguishable from humans today, commonly known as the Cro-Magnons. Our knowledge of them comes from either their skeletons or the tools, art, and d…

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Off the Page: A Columbia University Press Podcast

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David C. Atherton, "Writing Violence: The Politics of Form in Early Modern Japanese Literature" (Columbia UP, 2023) 51:48

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Edo-period Japan was a golden age for commercial literature. A host of new narrative genres cast their gaze across the social landscape, probed the realms of history and the fantastic, and breathed new life into literary tradition. But how to understand the politics of this body of literature remains contested, in part because the defining characte…

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Yale University Press Podcast

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Grimoires, Magic Books, and Spells 29:13

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A Conversation With Owen Davies About His Illustrated History of Magical TextsPor Yale University Press

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University of Minnesota Press

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Emergency response and its significant toll. 1:19:55

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From his first days as a rookie firefighter and emergency medical technician to his command of a company as a twenty-year veteran, Jeremy Norton has made regular, direct encounters with the sick, the dying, and the dead. In his memoir, Trauma Sponges: Dispatches from the Scarred Heart of Emergency Response, Norton documents the life of an emergency…

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Off the Page: A Columbia University Press Podcast

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Adam Blum et al., "Here I'm Alive: The Spirit of Music in Psychoanalysis" (Columbia UP, 2023) 1:37:44

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Today we have a group session (read: an hour and a half) with the authors Adam Blum, Peter Goldberg, and Michal Levin discussing their new book Here I’m Alive: The Spirit of Music in Psychoanalysis (Columbia University Press, 2023). Acknowledging that “We’re not the first to think about music in the clinical situation” the authors focused on the an…

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Off the Page: A Columbia University Press Podcast

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Margaret Hillenbrand, "On the Edge: Feeling Precarious in China" (Columbia UP, 2023) 46:19

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Margaret Hillenbrand’s On the Edge: Feeling Precarious in China (Columbia UP, 2023) examines the negative cultural forms that have emerged in response to China’s exclusionary contemporary socioeconomic system. Hillenbrand considers the social strain exerted on members of the “underclass,” the 300 million migrant workers whose toil has underwritten …

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Off the Page: A Columbia University Press Podcast

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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) 40:56

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In the heyday of American labor, the influence of local unions extended far beyond the workplace. Unions fostered tight-knit communities, touching nearly every aspect of the lives of members--mostly men--and their families and neighbors. They conveyed fundamental worldviews, making blue-collar unionists into loyal Democrats who saw the party as on …

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1869, the Cornell University Press Podcast

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1869, Ep. 139 with Paul Robinson, author of Russian Liberalism 27:52

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Learn more about the book (and save 30% with promo code 09POD)https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501772177/russian-liberalismRead the transcript:https://otter.ai/u/110CsGZ7M5iRsUm0ZhIMJ3FgzS8?utm_source=copy_urlPaul Robinson is a professor in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, at the University of Ottawa. He is the …

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Yale University Press Podcast

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Lisa Volpe on the 1955 Photographs of Robert Frank and Todd Webb 31:46

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A conversation with the curator of photography at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston about the book and exhibition America and Other Myths.Por Yale University Press

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Off the Page: A Columbia University Press Podcast

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Janet Chrzan and Kima Cargill, "Anxious Eaters: Why We Fall for Fad Diets" (Columbia UP, 2022) 1:04:07

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What makes fad diets so appealing to so many people? And how did these fads become so central to conversations about food and nutrition? Anxious Eaters: Why We Fall for Fad Diets (Columbia University Press, 2022) shows that fad diets are popular because they fulfill crucial social and psychological needs―which is also why they tend to fail. Authors…

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Off the Page: A Columbia University Press Podcast

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Angelina Chin, "Unsettling Exiles: Chinese Migrants in Hong Kong and the Southern Periphery During the Cold War" (Columbia UP, 2023) 1:34:31

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The conventional story of Hong Kong celebrates the people who fled the mainland in the wake of the establishment of the People’s Republic of China in 1949. In this telling, migrants thrived under British colonial rule, transforming Hong Kong into a cosmopolitan city and an industrial and financial hub. Unsettling Exiles: Chinese Migrants in Hong Ko…

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Off the Page: A Columbia University Press Podcast

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Alexandra Kaloyanides, "Baptizing Burma: Religious Change in the Last Buddhist Kingdom" (Columbia UP, 2023) 36:41

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Adoniram Judson was the 19th-century version of an American celebrity. Americans flocked to listen to his tales of being one of the first missionaries to enter the Kingdom of Burma. Americans wanted to hear of his mission in the Buddhist kingdom; Judson was reportedly uncomfortable with the attention. These missions to Burma flopped among the Buddh…

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University of Minnesota Press

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The New American War Film 57:31

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Unfolding amid an atmosphere of profound anxiety and disillusionment, the new American war film demonstrates a breakdown of the prevailing cultural narratives that had come to characterize conflict in the previous century. In the wake of 9/11, both the nature of military conflict and the symbolic frameworks that surround it have been dramatically r…

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Off the Page: A Columbia University Press Podcast

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Megan Bryson and Kevin Buckelew eds., "Buddhist Masculinities" (Columbia UP, 2023) 55:25

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While early Buddhists hailed their religion's founder for opening a path to enlightenment, they also exalted him as the paragon of masculinity. According to Buddhist scriptures, the Buddha's body boasts thirty-two physical features, including lionlike jaws, thighs like a royal stag, broad shoulders, and a deep, resonant voice, that distinguish him …

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Yale University Press Podcast

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A Global History of Wars 35:31

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In this episode of the Yale University Press Podcast, we talk with award-winning sociologist Michael Mann about his new book, On Wars.Por Yale University Press

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University of Minnesota Press

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Gramsci at Sea 38:51

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In Gramsci at Sea, author Sharad Chari asks how the environmental crisis of the oceans is linked to legacies of capitalism and imperialism across and within the oceans. Chari reads Antonio Gramsci as a thinker of the oceanic crisis, drawing on the philosopher’s prison notes and questions concerning waves of imperial power in the inter-war oceans of…

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1869, the Cornell University Press Podcast

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1869, Ep. 138 with Scott Meiners, author of Tree by Tree 32:11

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Learn more about the book (and save 30% with promo code 09POD)https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501771262Read the transcript:https://otter.ai/u/4zNwG4JyGYaMp0rhGC0XMtwN-xM?utm_source=copy_urlScott Meiners is Professor of Biological Sciences at Eastern Illinois University. His research interests generally revolve around factors that infl…

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Off the Page: A Columbia University Press Podcast

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Ravi Gupta and Kenneth Valpey, "The Bhagavata Purana: Sacred Text and Living Tradition" (Columbia UP, 2013) 53:40

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Today I talked to Ravi Gupta and Kenneth Valpey about The Bhagavata Purana: Sacred Text and Living Tradition (Columbia UP, 2013) A vibrant example of living literature, the Bhagavata Purana is a versatile Hindu sacred text written in Sanskrit verse. Finding its present form by the tenth century C.E., the work inspired several major north Indian dev…

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Off the Page: A Columbia University Press Podcast

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Marion Holmes Katz, "Wives and Work: Islamic Law and Ethics Before Modernity" (Columbia UP, 2022) 1:44:48

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In this interview, I speak with Marion Holmes Katz about her latest book Wives and Work: Islamic Law and Ethics Before Modernity (Columbia UP, 2022). This fascinating book explores the question of wives’ domestic responsibilities from a Sunni Islamic legal perspective, covering scholarship from the ninth to the fourteenth centuries. The book addres…

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Yale University Press Podcast

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The World’s First Media Celebrity 41:26

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In this episode of the Yale University Press Podcast, we talk with Sarah Ruden, author of Vergil: The Poet’s Life (Ancient Lives Series).Por Yale University Press

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Off the Page: A Columbia University Press Podcast

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Elaine Schattner, "From Whispers to Shouts: The Ways We Talk about Cancer" (Columbia UP, 2023) 52:17

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The “war on cancer” was launched during the Nixon Administration in 1971, but the term was part of the national dialog on cancer at least early as 1913. Pink ribbons have been ubiquitous symbols of breast cancer awareness and fund-raising promotions since the mid-1980s, but “cancer weeks” fostering awareness of the disease and gala fund-raisers sta…

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1869, the Cornell University Press Podcast

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1869, Special APSA Episode with Joan Tronto, 2023 Lippincott Award Winner 19:40

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Learn more about the hotel workers' strike:https://www.unitehere11.org/2023-contract-fight/Learn more about Joan Tronto:https://cla.umn.edu/polisci/news-events/news/professor-emerita-joan-tronto-receives-benjamin-e-lippincott-award-apsaLearn more about Who Cares?:https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501702747/who-cares/#bookTabs=1Read the …

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University of Minnesota Press

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On Nietzsche and posthumanist philosophy 47:46

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Focusing on Friedrich Nietzsche’s reception of the life sciences of his day (including concerns with insects and the emergent social properties they exhibit) and his reflections on technology—research areas as central to Nietzsche’s work as they are to posthumanism—Edgar Landgraf provides fresh readings of Nietzsche and a critique of posthumanist a…

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Off the Page: A Columbia University Press Podcast

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Nicholas Hoover Wilson, "Modernity's Corruption: Empire and Morality in the Making of British India" (Columbia UP, 2023) 46:15

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When Robert Clive, the man who established Company rule in India was hauled in front of Parliament to answer for crimes of corruption, he allegedly responded by saying, essentially, he could have been worse. Am I not rather deserving of praise for the moderation which marked my proceedings? Consider the situation in which the victory at Plassey had…

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University of Minnesota Press

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Ark thinking: Climate change and the Great Flood 49:03

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In Noah’s Arkive, Jeffrey J. Cohen and Julian Yates examine the long history of imagining endurance against climate change catastrophe—as well as alternative ways of creating refuge. Arguing that the biblical ark may well be the worst possible exemplar of human behavior, this book uncovers the startling afterlife of the Genesis narrative and survey…

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Yale University Press Podcast

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Dorothy Liebes, the “Mother of Modern Weaving” 40:25

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In Conversation with Susan Brown and Alexa Griffith Winton.Por Yale University Press

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Off the Page: A Columbia University Press Podcast

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Alejandro Portes and Ariel C. Armony, "Emerging Global Cities: Origin, Structure, and Significance" (Columbia UP, 2022) 59:08

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Certain cities—most famously New York, London, and Tokyo—have been identified as “global cities,” whose function in the world economy transcends national borders. Without the same fanfare, formerly peripheral and secondary cities have been growing in importance, emerging as global cities in their own right. The striking similarity of the skylines o…

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University of Minnesota Press

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Have we ever been civilian? On war’s expansion beyond the battlefield. 1:14:53

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As military and other forms of political violence become the planetary norm, On Posthuman War traces the expansion of war as manifest within humanity’s individual, sociocultural, and biological existence. Author Mike Hill identifies three human-focused disciplines newly turned against humanity (demography, anthropology, and neuroscience) and questi…

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Yale University Press Podcast

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What Do The Beatles and Measurement Have in Common? 42:01

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In this episode of the Yale University Press Podcast, we talk with renowned physicist Piero Martin about his new book, The Seven Measures of the World.”Por Yale University Press

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Off the Page: A Columbia University Press Podcast

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Lin Zhang, "The Labor of Reinvention: Entrepreneurship in the Chinese Digital Economy" (Columbia UP, 2023) 1:00:32

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Hello, world! This is the Global Media & Communication podcast series. In this episode, our host Jing Wang discusses the book The Labor of Reinvention: Entrepreneurship in the New Chinese Digital Economy (Columbia UP, 2023) by Lin Zhang. You’ll hear about: A history of the book and Zhang’s entry into the fieldwork through family stories; How to und…

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