To give you the best possible experience, this site uses cookies. Review our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service to learn more. Entendi!

Podcasts sobre New Books

New Books público [search 0]
Mais
Download the App!
Get it on App Store Get it on Google Play
show episodes
 
Loading …
show series
 
Artwork

1
Lisa Sheryl Jacobson. "Intoxicating Pleasures: The Reinvention of Wine, Beer, and Whiskey After Prohibition" (U California Press, 2024) 1:33:04

Play Pause
1:33:04
Play Pause
  Mais Tarde
  Mais Tarde
  Listas
  Curtido
1:33:04
 
In popular memory the repeal of US Prohibition in 1933 signaled alcohol’s decisive triumph in a decades-long culture war. But as Dr. Lisa Jacobson reveals in Intoxicating Pleasures: The Reinvention of Wine, Beer, and Whiskey after Prohibition (University of California Press, 2024), alcohol’s respectability and mass market success were neither sudde…
…   continue reading
 
Artwork

1
Steven Mayoff, "The Island Gospel According to Samson Grief" (Radiant Press, 2023) 38:22

Play Pause
38:22
Play Pause
  Mais Tarde
  Mais Tarde
  Listas
  Curtido
38:22
 
PEI author Steven Mayoff's newest book, The Island Gospel According to Samson Grief (Radiant Press, 2023) masterfully disrupts the idyllic picture often painted of Prince Edward Island. This is a darkly funny and thrilling story of spiritual dissonance and cultural satire in Canada's most wholesome province. Samson Grief, a reclusive painter from P…
…   continue reading
 
Artwork

1
In Conversation: Enslaved Muslims in the Americas 54:36

Play Pause
54:36
Play Pause
  Mais Tarde
  Mais Tarde
  Listas
  Curtido
54:36
 
A conversation with Dr. Sylviane Diouf on enslaved Muslim in the Americas. Diouf is the author of Slavery's Exiles: The Story of the American Maroons (NYU Press, 2016). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/islamic-studies…
…   continue reading
 
Artwork

1
Larry S. Temkin, "Being Good in a World of Need" (Oxford UP, 2022) 1:39:48

Play Pause
1:39:48
Play Pause
  Mais Tarde
  Mais Tarde
  Listas
  Curtido
1:39:48
 
In a world filled with both enormous wealth and pockets of great devastation, how should the well-off respond to the world's needy? This is the urgent central question of Being Good in a World of Need (Oxford UP, 2024). Larry S. Temkin, one of the world's foremost ethicists, challenges common assumptions about philanthropy, his own prior beliefs, a…
…   continue reading
 
Artwork

1
Leah Downey, "Our Money: Monetary Policy as If Democracy Matters" (Princeton UP, 2024) 40:05

Play Pause
40:05
Play Pause
  Mais Tarde
  Mais Tarde
  Listas
  Curtido
40:05
 
How the creation of money and monetary policy can be more democratic. The power to create money is foundational to the state. In the United States, that power has been largely delegated to private banks governed by an independent central bank. Putting monetary policy in the hands of a set of insulated, nonelected experts has fueled the popular reje…
…   continue reading
 
Artwork

1
Markus Vinzent, "Christ's Torah: The Making of the New Testament in the Second Century" (Routledge, 2023) 1:02:12

Play Pause
1:02:12
Play Pause
  Mais Tarde
  Mais Tarde
  Listas
  Curtido
1:02:12
 
Christ's Torah: The Making of the New Testament in the Second Century (Routledge, 2023) explores the creation of the collection now known as the New Testament. While it is generally accepted that it did not emerge as a collection prior to the late second century CE, a more controversial question is how it came to be. How did the writings that make …
…   continue reading
 
Artwork

1
Johny Brown, "Corpse Flower" (Skill, 2024) 40:49

Play Pause
40:49
Play Pause
  Mais Tarde
  Mais Tarde
  Listas
  Curtido
40:49
 
From the frontman of Band of Holy Joy, Johny Brown, Corpse Flower (Skill, 2024), is a long-form prose poem that shares Brown's journey through one of the most challenging times in his life. Released as a multimedia project, Corpse Flower includes not only Brown's book but the music and reading that goes along with it. Moving from dark to light and …
…   continue reading
 
Artwork

1
Randy Fertel, "Winging It: Improv’s Power & Peril in the Time of AI & Trump" (Spring, 2024) 44:00

Play Pause
44:00
Play Pause
  Mais Tarde
  Mais Tarde
  Listas
  Curtido
44:00
 
Winging It: Improv’s Power & Peril in the Time of AI & Trump (Spring, 2024) is Randy Fertel’s third book, his second on improvisation. Creating something impromptu and without effort challenges our assumption that everything of value depends upon long study, tradition, and hard work. Improvisation comes to disrupt all that. The gesture all improvis…
…   continue reading
 
Artwork

1
Vincent Haddad, "The Detroit Genre: Race, Dispossession, and Resilience in American Literature and Film, 1967-2023" (Lever Press, 2024) 1:09:57

Play Pause
1:09:57
Play Pause
  Mais Tarde
  Mais Tarde
  Listas
  Curtido
1:09:57
 
Detroit has an essential relationship to genre in American literature and popular culture. The contemporary formations of the suburban sitcom, the post-apocalyptic genre, the sci-fi dystopia, crime fiction, the superhero genre, and contemporary horror would not exist in the way they do today without the aesthetic material and racial history of Detr…
…   continue reading
 
Artwork

1
Nick Couldry, "The Space of the World: Can Human Solidarity Survive Social Media and What If It Can't?" (Polity, 2024) 38:22

Play Pause
38:22
Play Pause
  Mais Tarde
  Mais Tarde
  Listas
  Curtido
38:22
 
Is human solidarity achievable in a world dominated by continuous digital connectivity and commercially managed platforms? And what if it’s not? Professor Nick Couldry explores these urgent questions in his latest book, The Space of the World: Can Human Solidarity Survive Social Media and What If It Can’t? (Polity, 2024), as discussed in a recent i…
…   continue reading
 
Artwork

1
Priyasha Mukhopadhyay, "Required Reading: The Life of Everyday Texts in the British Empire" (Princeton UP, 2024) 1:06:02

Play Pause
1:06:02
Play Pause
  Mais Tarde
  Mais Tarde
  Listas
  Curtido
1:06:02
 
In Required Reading: The Life of Everyday Texts in the British Empire (Princeton UP, 2024), Priyasha Mukhopadhyay offers a new and provocative history of reading that centers archives of everyday writing from the British empire. Mukhopadhyay rummages in the drawers of bureaucratic offices and the cupboards of publishers in search of how historical …
…   continue reading
 
Artwork

1
Maurice Casey, "Hotel Lux: An Intimate History of Communism's Forgotten Radicals" (Footnote Press, 2024) 39:32

Play Pause
39:32
Play Pause
  Mais Tarde
  Mais Tarde
  Listas
  Curtido
39:32
 
Sexy young revolutionaries, a queer romance, and international communism--what more could you ask for?! In his brilliant new book, Hotel Lux: An Intimate History of Communism’s Forgotten Radicals (Footnote Press, 2024), Maurice Casey delivers up an intriguing story of friendship, love, and revolution in a story spanning decades and continents. Foll…
…   continue reading
 
Artwork

1
Transatlantic Tensions: Trump’s Return and Europe’s Far-Right Resurgence 41:03

Play Pause
41:03
Play Pause
  Mais Tarde
  Mais Tarde
  Listas
  Curtido
41:03
 
In this episode of International Horizons, RBI director John Torpey interviews journalist Mattia Ferraresi about the implications of a potential second Trump presidency for European politics. Ferraresi discusses how Trump’s rhetoric and policies, including his stance on NATO and trade, might influence transatlantic relations. The conversation explo…
…   continue reading
 
Artwork

1
Paula Fredriksen, "Ancient Christianities: The First Five Hundred Years" (Princeton UP, 2024) 54:42

Play Pause
54:42
Play Pause
  Mais Tarde
  Mais Tarde
  Listas
  Curtido
54:42
 
The ancient Mediterranean teemed with gods. For centuries, a practical religious pluralism prevailed. How, then, did one particular god come to dominate the politics and piety of the late Roman Empire? In Ancient Christianities: The First Five Hundred Years (Princeton University Press, 2024), Dr. Paula Fredriksen traces the evolution of early Chris…
…   continue reading
 
Artwork

1
Emily Mitchell-Eaton, "New Destinations of Empire: Mobilities, Racial Geographies, and Citizenship in the Transpacific United States" (U Georgia Press, 2024) 1:14:59

Play Pause
1:14:59
Play Pause
  Mais Tarde
  Mais Tarde
  Listas
  Curtido
1:14:59
 
In 1986 the Compact of Free Association marked the formal end of U.S. colonialism in the Republic of the Marshall Islands, while simultaneously re-entrenching imperial power dynamics between the two countries. The U.S.-RMI Compact at once enshrined exclusive U.S. military access to the islands and established the right of “visa-free” migration to t…
…   continue reading
 
Artwork

1
Linda M. Clemmons, "Unrepentant Dakota Woman: Angelique Renville & the Struggle for Indigenous Identity, 1845-1876" (SDHS Press, 2023) 57:25

Play Pause
57:25
Play Pause
  Mais Tarde
  Mais Tarde
  Listas
  Curtido
57:25
 
For much of her life, Angelique Renville had decisions made for her. Where to live, who to live with, where to attend school, what to do with her land. That changed in 1863 when she made a plan and successfully hatched her plan to escape, living the end of her life on her own terms. This is the story Dr. Linda Clemmons tells in Unrepentant Dakota W…
…   continue reading
 
Artwork

1
Amy Helen Bell, "Under Cover of Darkness: Murders in Blackout London" (Yale UP, 2024) 25:26

Play Pause
25:26
Play Pause
  Mais Tarde
  Mais Tarde
  Listas
  Curtido
25:26
 
Fear was the unacknowledged spectre haunting the streets of London during the Second World War; fear not only of death from the German bombers circling above, but of violence at the hands of fellow Londoners in the streets below. Mass displacement, the anonymity of shelters, and the bomb-scarred landscape offered unprecedented opportunities for vio…
…   continue reading
 
Artwork

1
Melissa Johnston, "Building Peace, Rebuilding Patriarchy: The Failure of Gender Interventions in Timor-Leste" (Oxford UP, 2023) 1:01:48

Play Pause
1:01:48
Play Pause
  Mais Tarde
  Mais Tarde
  Listas
  Curtido
1:01:48
 
Over the two decades since the adoption of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security, peacebuilding interventions around the globe have increasingly incorporated gender perspectives. These initiatives have used both development programs and gender mainstreaming to advance women's empowerment, with the aim of makin…
…   continue reading
 
Artwork

1
Theresa Flanigan, "The Ponte Vecchio: Architecture, Politics, and Civic Identity in Late Medieval Florence" (Brepols, 2024) 49:43

Play Pause
49:43
Play Pause
  Mais Tarde
  Mais Tarde
  Listas
  Curtido
49:43
 
Famous today for the shops lining its sloped street, the Ponte Vecchio is the last premodern bridge spanning the Arno River at Florence and one of the few remaining examples of the once more prevalent urbanized bridge type. Drawing from early Florentine chronicles and previously unpublished archival documents, The Ponte Vecchio: Architecture, Polit…
…   continue reading
 
Artwork

1
Hartley Lachter, "Kabbalah and Catastrophe: Historical Memory in Premodern Jewish Mysticism" (Stanford UP, 2024) 45:29

Play Pause
45:29
Play Pause
  Mais Tarde
  Mais Tarde
  Listas
  Curtido
45:29
 
While premodern kabbalistic texts were not chronicles of historical events, they provided elaborate models for understanding the secret divine plan guiding human affairs. Hartley Lachter analyzes innovative kabbalistic doctrines, such as the idea of reincarnation and the notion of multiple successive universes, through which Jewish mystics sought t…
…   continue reading
 
Artwork

1
Chelsea Berry, "Poisoned Relations: Healing, Power, and Contested Knowledge in the Atlantic World" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024) 43:33

Play Pause
43:33
Play Pause
  Mais Tarde
  Mais Tarde
  Listas
  Curtido
43:33
 
By the time of the opening of the Atlantic world in the fifteenth century, Europeans and Atlantic Africans had developed significantly different cultural idioms for and understandings of poison. Europeans considered poison a gendered “weapon of the weak” while Africans viewed it as an abuse by the powerful. Though distinct, both idioms centered on …
…   continue reading
 
Artwork

1
Ege Selin Islekel, "Nightmare Remains: The Politics of Mourning and Epistemologies of Disappearance" (Northwestern UP, 2024) 1:06:44

Play Pause
1:06:44
Play Pause
  Mais Tarde
  Mais Tarde
  Listas
  Curtido
1:06:44
 
What does mourning have to do with politics? How do practices of forced disappearance and improper burial shape subjects, spaces, and what is intelligible? What are people doing in movements across the globe when they gather in public space and recount nightmares of their disappeared loved ones? In Nightmare Remains: The Politics of Mourning and Ep…
…   continue reading
 
Artwork

1
Christian Bailey, "German Jews in Love: A History" (Stanford UP, 2022) 1:13:18

Play Pause
1:13:18
Play Pause
  Mais Tarde
  Mais Tarde
  Listas
  Curtido
1:13:18
 
German Jews in Love: A History (Stanford UP, 2022) explores the dynamic role of love in German-Jewish lives, from the birth of the German Empire in the 1870s, to the 1970s, a generation after the Shoah. During a remarkably turbulent hundred-year period when German Jews experienced five political regimes, rapid urbanization, transformations in gende…
…   continue reading
 
Artwork

1
Jan Machielsen, "The Basque Witch-Hunt: A Secret History" (Bloomsbury, 2024) 50:04

Play Pause
50:04
Play Pause
  Mais Tarde
  Mais Tarde
  Listas
  Curtido
50:04
 
In June 1609, two judges left Bordeaux for a territory at the very edge of their jurisdiction, a Basque-speaking province on the Atlantic coast called the Pays de Labourd. In four months, they executed up to 80 women and men for the crime of witchcraft, causing a wave of suspects to flee into Spain and sparking terror there. Witnesses, many of them…
…   continue reading
 
Artwork

1
Academic Chat – From Academic Work to Social Impact: A Scholar’s Commitment to Raise Awareness on Migrant Experiences in Taiwan 53:45

Play Pause
53:45
Play Pause
  Mais Tarde
  Mais Tarde
  Listas
  Curtido
53:45
 
In this episode, our host Lara Momesso interviews Dr Isabelle Cockel, an academic based in the UK, to discuss the wider impact of her academic work. Isabelle’s extensive research on marriage and labour migrants in Taiwan has evolved into efforts to raise awareness of migrant issues beyond the academic sphere both in Asia and Europe. She has written…
…   continue reading
 
Artwork

1
Other Minds with Peter Godfrey-Smith (EF, JP) 50:09

Play Pause
50:09
Play Pause
  Mais Tarde
  Mais Tarde
  Listas
  Curtido
50:09
 
Peter Godfrey-Smith knows his cephalopods. Once of CUNY and now a professor of history and philosophy of science at University of Sydney, his truly capacious career includes books such as Theory and Reality (2003; 2nd edition in 2020), Darwinian Populations and Natural Selection (2009) and most recently Metazoa. RtB--including two Brandeis undergra…
…   continue reading
 
Artwork

1
Ariel Evan Mayse, "Laws of the Spirit: Ritual, Mysticism, and the Commandments in Early Hasidism" (Stanford UP, 2024) 1:16:00

Play Pause
1:16:00
Play Pause
  Mais Tarde
  Mais Tarde
  Listas
  Curtido
1:16:00
 
The compelling vision of religious life and practice found in Hasidic sources has made it the most enduring and successful Jewish movement of spiritual renewal of all time. In Laws of the Spirit: Ritual, Mysticism, and the Commandments in Early Hasidism (Stanford UP, 2024), Ariel Evan Mayse grapples with one of Hasidism's most vexing questions: how…
…   continue reading
 
Artwork

1
Nathan McGovern, "Holy Things: The Genealogy of the Sacred in Thai Religion" (Oxford UP, 2024) 1:07:20

Play Pause
1:07:20
Play Pause
  Mais Tarde
  Mais Tarde
  Listas
  Curtido
1:07:20
 
Scholars of religion have mostly abandoned the concept of "syncretism" in which certain apparent deviations from "standard" practice are believed to be the result of a mixture of religions. This is particularly relevant to Thailand, in which ordinary religious practice was seen by an earlier generation of scholars as a mixture of three religions: l…
…   continue reading
 
Artwork

1
Luci Pangrazio and Neil Selwyn, "Critical Data Literacies: Rethinking Data and Everyday Life" (MIT Press, 2023) 40:00

Play Pause
40:00
Play Pause
  Mais Tarde
  Mais Tarde
  Listas
  Curtido
40:00
 
Data has become a defining issue of current times. Our everyday lives are shaped by the data that is produced about us (and by us) through digital technologies. In Critical Data Literacies: Rethinking Data and Everyday Life (MIT Press, 2023), Luci Pangrazio and Neil Selwyn introduce readers to the central concepts, ideas, and arguments required to …
…   continue reading
 
Artwork

1
Erich Hatala Matthes, "What to Save and Why: Identity, Authenticity, and the Ethics of Conservation" (Oxford UP, 2024) 43:38

Play Pause
43:38
Play Pause
  Mais Tarde
  Mais Tarde
  Listas
  Curtido
43:38
 
Today I’m speaking with Erich Hatala Matthes, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Advisory Faculty for Environmental Studies at Wellesley College. We are discussing his Oxford University Press, What to Save and Why: Identity, Authenticity, and the Ethics of Conservation (Oxford University Press, 2024). Erich’s book explores the idea of conservati…
…   continue reading
 
Artwork

1
Nergis Ertürk, "Writing in Red: Literature and Revolution Across Turkey and the Soviet Union" (Columbia UP, 2024) 1:12:22

Play Pause
1:12:22
Play Pause
  Mais Tarde
  Mais Tarde
  Listas
  Curtido
1:12:22
 
Writing in Red: Literature and Revolution Across Turkey and the Soviet Union (Columbia UP, 2024) examines political relations and literary translations between Turkey and the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s through to the 1960s. By drawing on a wide range of texts – from erotic comedy, historical fiction and film, to socialist realist novels and th…
…   continue reading
 
Loading …

Guia rápido de referências

Principais podcasts
Quatro em Campo
Linha Avançada
CBN Esportes
ResumoCast | Livros para Empreendedores
Papo de Gordo
O Homem que Mordeu o Cão
RapaduraCast - Podcast de Cinema e Streaming
Braincast
Economia
Tecnocast
Mamilos
Xadrez Verbal
Paulo Vieira | o maior canal de inteligência emocional do mundo
Scicast
Dragões de Garagem
Eu tava lá
Projeto Humanos: O Piloto
Dr. Morte
Modus Operandi
Praia dos Ossos
Player FM logo
Ajuda/FAQ | Atualizar | Anunciar
Arte|Negócios|Comédia|Economia|Entretenimento|Notícias|Política|Religião
Ciência|Futebol|Desporto|Narração de histórias|Tecnologia|Crimes verdadeiros
Direitos autorais 2024 | Mapa do site | Política de Privacidade | Termos de serviço | | direito autoral
Episode being played series thumbnail
icon icon
Velocidade
Configurações da série
1x
1x
Volume
100%
icon
icon icon
/

Ver Player FM em ...
Player FM
Browser
Chrome
Safari
Firefox