Best News In Slow English Podcasts (2024)

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”Una de las decisiones más difíciles en sus 50 años de carrera política”: los detalles íntimos de cómo Biden resolvió ponerle fin a su candidatura presidencial 24:50

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Aislado en una casa en la playa con covid-19, el presidente de Estados Unidos tomó la decisión final el domingo por la mañana tras analizar el escenario político con su círculo de asesores más cercano.By Daily Easy Spanish

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El sencillo método japonés para organizar mejor tu refrigerador y reducir el desperdicio de comida 44:13

1h ago44:13

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Según los investigadores en Tokio, lo único que necesitas para empezar a despejar tu nevera atestada y reducir el desperdicio de comida es un poco cinta y un par de etiquetas adhesivas.By Daily Easy Spanish

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Gavriel D. Rosenfeld and Janet Ward, "Fascism in America: Past and Present" (Cambridge UP, 2023) 38:36

3h ago38:36

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Has fascism arrived in America? In Fascism in America: Past and Present (Cambridge UP, 2023), Gavriel D. Rosenfeld and Janet Ward have gathered experts to survey the history of fascism in the United States. Although the US established a staunch anti-fascist reputation by defeating the Axis powers in World War II, the unsettling truth is that fascis…

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Christian J. Collier, "Greater Ghost" (Four Way Books, 2024) 1:01:16

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In Christian Collier's debut poetry collection, Greater Ghost (Four Way Books, 2024), this extraordinary Black Southern poet precisely stitches the sutures of grief and gratitude together over our wounds. These pages move between elegies for private hauntings and public ones, the visceral bereavement of a miscarriage alongside the murder of a famil…

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Jams Bond 59:19

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In an unusual episode, we listen back to field recordings that co-host cris cheek made in 1987 and 1993 on the island of Madagascar. It’s a rich sonic travelogue, with incredible musicians appearing at seemingly every stop along the way. Mack interviews cris, who discusses the strangeness and surprises of listening back to the sounds of that other …

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David E. Kaiser, “The Road to Dallas: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy” (Harvard UP, 2008) 1:19:53

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There are some topics that historians know not to touch. They are just too hot (or too cold). The assassination of JFK is one of them. Most scholars would say either: (a) the topic has been done to death so nothing new can be said or (b) it’s been so thoroughly co-opted by nutty theorists that no sane discussion is possible. Thank goodness David Ka…

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A. Ricardo López-Pedreros and Lina Britto, "Histories of Solitude: Colombia, 1820s-1970s" (Routledge, 2024) 54:36

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By combining chronological coverage, analytical breadth, and interdisciplinary approaches, these two volumes—Histories of Solitude: Colombia, 1820s-1970s (Routledge, 2024) and Histories of Perplexity: Colombia, 1970s-2010s (Routledge, 2024)—study the histories of Colombia over the last two centuries as illustrations of the histories of democracy ac…

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Lisandro Perez, “Sugar, Cigars and Revolution: The Making of Cuban New York” (NYU Press, 2018) 38:34

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A new book reveals an incredible slice of Cuban-American history that’s been all but forgotten until now. Lisandro Perez‘s Sugar, Cigars and Revolution: The Making of Cuban New York (NYU Press, 2018) tells the story of a vibrant Cuban émigré community in 19th-century New York that ranged from wealthy sugar plantation owners investing their fortunes…

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Mark Letteney, "The Christianization of Knowledge in Late Antiquity: Intellectual and Material Transformations" (Cambridge UP, 2023) 1:15:09

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The Christianization of Knowledge in Late Antiquity: Intellectual and Material Transformations (Cambridge UP, 2023) traces the beginning of Late Antiquity from a new angle. Shifting the focus away from the Christianization of people or the transformation of institutions, Mark Letteney interrogates the creation of novel and durable structures of kno…

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Anton Howes, "Arts and Minds: How the Royal Society of Arts Changed a Nation" (Princeton UP, 2020) 1:10:57

3h ago1:10:57

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Over the past 300 years, The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce has tried to improve British life in every way imaginable. It has sought to influence education, commerce, music, art, architecture, communications, food, and every other corner of society. Arts and Minds: How the Royal Society of Arts Changed a Nati…

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The Graduate 29:20

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“Ladies and gentlemen, we are about to begin our descent into Los Angeles.” So begins The Graduate (1967), which everyone loves but which many of us loved for one reason when we were younger and one when we became a little more seasoned. “Plastics” is a great joke when you’re 20; how does it sound decades later? The movie hasn’t changed, but we hav…

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Qué implica la retirada electoral de Biden para Kamala Harris, los demócratas y Trump 24:05

17m ago24:05

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Con su retirada de la carrera por la reelección, Biden dio un vuelco al proceso hacia las elecciones del 5 de noviembre. Estos son los efectos que está ya teniendo la decisión.By Daily Easy Spanish

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71 No Longer Alone Pt 1 35:09

6h ago35:09

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During the darkest days of my career's "busy period", I thought I was the only IT guy in the world who was both ethical and competent. I am thrilled to report that I was wrong. Tonight's guest, Mike Cowan from McGyver Tech, is based in LA and heard me on a Pittsburgh talk show one morning in 2017. He called me up and said "Hey, we think the same wa…

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Qué pasa ahora con la candidatura demócrata a la presidencia de EE.UU. tras la retirada de Biden 22:46

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La retirada de Biden de la campaña a la reelección plantea para los demócratas el desafío de enfrentarse a una situación sin precedentes.By Daily Easy Spanish

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Monday 22nd July 2024. World News. Today: US Biden withdraws. Endorses Harris. World technology failure. Israel Houthis strike. Bangladesh 8:22

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World news in 7 minutes. Monday 22nd July 2024. Today: US Biden withdraws. Endorses Harris. World technology failure. Israel Houthis strike. Bangladesh riots. Haiti boat fire. Vietnam Trong dies. Spain tourism protests. Ukraine attacks. Zambia corruption board corruption. Mali kora continues. With Stephen Devincenzi SEND7 is supported by our amazin…

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”Mi intención es merecer y ganar la nominación para derrotar a Trump”: Kamala Harris agradece el respaldo de Biden para las elecciones en EE.UU. 12:03

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Tras la decisión de Biden de poner fin a su candidatura para la reelección, la vicepresidenta publicó una declaración escrita sobre su carrera electoral.By Daily Easy Spanish

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Quiénes podrían enfrentarse a Kamala Harris por la candidatura demócrata a la presidencia 33:45

6m ago33:45

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El anuncio de Joe Biden de retirar su campaña por la relección presidencial abre la puerta a una nueva carrera por la nominación demócrata. ¿Quiénes son los aspirantes?By Daily Easy Spanish

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Quién es Kamala Harris, la primera vicepresidenta de la historia y la favorita de Biden para sustituirlo como candidata a presidenta de EE.UU. 24:23

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Tras anunciar que baja su candidatura a la reelección, Joe Biden respalda a Kamala Harris como candidata a la presidencia de EE.UU. Aquí repasamos su historia personal y política.By Daily Easy Spanish

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David Badre, "On Task: How Our Brain Gets Things Done" (Princeton UP, 2020) 42:29

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On Task: How Our Brain Gets Things Done (Princeton UP, 2020) is a look at the extraordinary ways the brain turns thoughts into actions—and how this shapes our everyday lives. Why is it hard to text and drive at the same time? How do you resist eating that extra piece of cake? Why does staring at a tax form feel mentally exhausting? Why can your chi…

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”Si no es apto para ser candidato, no es apto para ser presidente y debe renunciar”: la reacción de Trump y los republicanos al fin de la campaña de reelección de Biden 8:28

2h ago8:28

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Los republicanos reclaman que si Biden no está en condiciones de ser el candidato, también debería renunciar a la presidencia.By Daily Easy Spanish

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”Es en el mejor interés de mi partido y el país que me retire”: la carta con la que Joe Biden retira su campaña por la reelección (y da su apoyo a la vicepresidenta Kamala Harris) 11:50

1h ago11:50

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El presidente informó a través de una carta su decisión de no buscar la reelección presidencial. Y en una publicación siguiente, pidió el apoyo a la vicepresidenta Kamala Harris para la candidatura demócrata.By Daily Easy Spanish

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Joe Biden pone fin a su campaña de reelección para los comicios presidenciales de noviembre en EE.UU. 2:04

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El presidente de Estados Unidos anunció que da por terminada su campaña de reelección.By Daily Easy Spanish

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Quien era Mildred Gillars, y por qué fue la mujer más odiada de EE.UU. después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial 44:21

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En 1949, Mildred Gillars se convirtió en la primera mujer en la historia de Estados Unidos en ser condenada por traición.By Daily Easy Spanish

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La mujer estadounidense que fue liberada tras 43 años en prisión por un crimen que no cometió 13:32

20m ago13:32

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Su condena fue anulada luego de que una organización demostrara su inocencia.By Daily Easy Spanish

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Por qué las Olimpiadas dejaron de celebrarse durante casi 15 siglos y qué papel jugó el ascenso del cristianismo 37:02

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El barón de Coubertin culpó de la desaparición de los juegos a las medidas religiosas adoptadas por el emperador Teodosio I en el siglo IV, pero expertos consultados por BBC Mundo creen que esto no fue así.By Daily Easy Spanish

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Cómo China logró evadir lo peor del apagón informático de Windows que afectó a gran parte del mundo 16:44

23m ago16:44

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Muy pocas organizaciones en China han comprado software de CrowdStrike, la compañía responsable del apagón, en parte por sus críticas contra Pekín.By Daily Easy Spanish

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Francine Banner, "Beyond Complicity: Why We Blame Each Other Instead of Systems" (U California Press, 2024) 55:32

8m ago55:32

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Beyond Complicity: Why We Blame Each Other Instead of Systems (University of California Press, 2024) by Dr. Francine Banner is a fascinating cultural diagnosis that identifies our obsession with complicity as a symptom of a deeply divided society. The questions surrounding what it means to be legally complicit are the same ones we may ask ourselves…

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Yanagawa Seigan, "The Same Moon Shines on All: The Lives and Selected Poems of Yanagawa Seigan and Kōran" (Columbia UP, 2024) 54:00

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Yanagawa Seigan (1789–1858) and his wife Kōran (1804–79) were two of the great poets of nineteenth-century Japan. They practiced the art of traditional Sinitic poetry—works written in literary Sinitic, or classical Chinese, a language of enduring importance far beyond China’s borders. Together, they led itinerant lives, traveling around Japan teach…

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Donald L. Miller, "Vicksburg: Grant’s Campaign that Broke the Confederacy" (Simon and Schuster, 2019) 1:27:45

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In Vicksburg: Grant’s Campaign that Broke the Confederacy (Simon & Schuster, 2019), Donald L. Miller explains in great detail how Grant ultimately succeeded in taking the city and turning the tide of the war in favor of the Union. Miller begins his tale with events in Cairo and leads the reader through all the important events that lead to success …

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Tiffany Gill, "To Turn the Whole World Over: Black Women and Internationalism" (U Illinois Press, 2019) 40:18

8m ago40:18

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Black women undertook an energetic and unprecedented engagement with internationalism from the late nineteenth century to the 1970s. In many cases, their work reflected a complex effort to merge internationalism with issues of women's rights and with feminist concerns. To Turn the Whole World Over: Black Women and Internationalism (U Illinois Press…

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Arang Keshavarzian, "Making Space for the Gulf: Histories of Regionalism and the Middle East" (Stanford UP, 2024) 1:04:04

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The Persian Gulf has long been a contested space--an object of imperial ambitions, national antagonisms, and migratory dreams. The roots of these contestations lie in the different ways the Gulf has been defined as a region, both by those who live there and those beyond its shore. Making Space for the Gulf: Histories of Regionalism and the Middle E…

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Lucia Hulsether, "Capitalist Humanitarianism" (Duke UP, 2023) 1:12:46

8m ago1:12:46

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The struggle against neoliberal order has gained momentum over the last five decades – to the point that economic elites have not only adapted to the Left's critiques but incorporated them for capitalist expansion. Venture funds expose their ties to slavery and pledge to invest in racial equity. Banks pitch microloans as a path to indigenous self-d…

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Steve Gillon, “The Kennedy Assassination: 24 Hours After” (Basic Books, 2009) 1:12:42

8m ago1:12:42

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You could fill a large library with books about JFK’s assassination. We’ve even touched on the subject here. The topic of the transfer of power from JFK to LBJ, however, has been neglected. I was under the impression that after JFK was pronounced dead, LBJ took an oath and that was that. As Steve Gillon points out in his terrific new The Kennedy As…

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Breanne Fahs, "Burn It Down: Feminist Manifestos for the Revolution" (Verso, 2020) 58:02

8m ago58:02

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Burn It Down: Feminist Manifestos for the Revolution (Verso, 2020), Breanne Fahs has curated a comprehensive collection of feminist manifestos from the nineteenth century to today. Fahs collected over seventy-five manifestos from around the world, calling on feminists to act, be defiant and show their rage. This thought-provoking and timely collect…

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Arie Perliger, "American Zealots: Inside Right-Wing Domestic Terrorism" (Columbia UP, 2020) 1:03:56

8m ago1:03:56

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In an unsettling time in American history, the outbreak of right-wing violence is among the most disturbing developments. In recent years, attacks originating from the far right of American politics have targeted religious and ethnic minorities, with a series of antigovernment militants, religious extremists, and lone-wolf mass shooters inspired by…

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¿Qué pasó con las mujeres que se enfrentaron al Talibán en Afganistán? 33:43

1h ago33:43

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Mujeres afganas le cuentan a la BBC que fueron golpeadas y torturadas por protestar contra los talibanes.By Daily Easy Spanish

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De luchar contra la falsificación de dólares a proteger a los presidentes y expresidentes: la historia del Servicio Secreto de EE.UU. 48:06

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El Servicio Secreto de EE.UU. cuenta con una historia de casi 125 años a la sombra de presidentes y expresidentes, pero es un cuerpo que nació con un cometido muy distinto.By Daily Easy Spanish

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Cómo una botánica resolvió uno de los casos criminales más famosos de Reino Unido analizando plantas y polen 41:56

1h ago41:56

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Patricia Wiltshire nunca imaginó que terminaría ayudando a resolver crímenes, pero lleva décadas contribuyendo a que se haga justicia.By Daily Easy Spanish

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Ujju Aggarwal, "Unsettling Choice: Race, Rights, and the Partitioning of Public Education" (U Minnesota Press, 2024) 39:31

5m ago39:31

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What do universal rights to public goods like education mean when codified as individual, private choices? Is the “problem” of school choice actually not about better choices for all but, rather, about the competition and exclusion that choice engenders—guaranteeing a system of winners and losers? Unsettling Choice: Race, Rights, and the Partitioni…

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Eric Reinders, "Reading Tolkien in Chinese: Religion, Fantasy and Translation" (Bloomsbury, 2024) 57:21

5m ago57:21

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Approaching translations of Tolkien's works as stories in their own right, Reading Tolkien in Chinese: Religion, Fantasy and Translation (Bloomsbury, 2024) reads multiple Chinese translations of Tolkien's writing to uncover the new and unique perspectives that enrich the meaning of the original texts. Exploring translations of The Lord of the Rings…

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Stephanie Balkwill, "The Women Who Ruled China: Buddhism, Multiculturalism, and Governance in the Sixth Century" (U California Press, 2024) 1:06:54

5m ago1:06:54

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In the late fifth century, a girl whose name has been forgotten by history was born at the edge of the Chinese empire. By the time of her death, she had transformed herself into Empress Dowager Ling, one of the most powerful politicians of her age and one of the first of many Buddhist women to wield incredible influence in dynastic East Asia. In th…

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Michael J. Douma, "The Slow Death of Slavery in Dutch New York: A Cultural, Economic, and Demographic History, 1700-1827" (Cambridge UP, 2024) 51:29

5m ago51:29

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Original and deeply researched, The Slow Death of Slavery in Dutch New York: A Cultural, Economic, and Demographic History, 1700-1827 (Cambridge University Press, 2024) provides a new interpretation of Dutch American slavery which challenges many of the traditional assumptions about slavery in New York. With an emphasis on demography and economics,…

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Matt Stoller, "Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy" (Simon & Schuster, 2020) 55:03

5m ago55:03

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In Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy (Simon & Schuster, 2019), Matt Stoller explains how authoritarianism and populism have returned to American politics for the first time in eighty years, as the outcome of the 2016 election shook our faith in democratic institutions. It has brought to the fore dangerous forces that ma…

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Pekka Hämäläinen, "Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power" (Yale UP, 2019) 40:02

5m ago40:02

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The names of Red Cloud, Sitting Bull, and Crazy Horse are often readily recognized among many Americans. Yet the longer, dynamic history of the Lakota - a history from which these three famous figures were created - remains largely untold. In Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power (Yale, 2019), historian Pekka Hämäläinen, author of The C…

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Krista E. Hughes et al., "Ecological Solidarities: Mobilizing Faith and Justice for an Entangled World" (Penn State UP, 2019) 1:27:27

5m ago1:27:27

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Operating on the premise that our failure to recognize our interconnected relationship to the rest of the cosmos is the origin of planetary peril, Ecological Solidarities: Mobilizing Faith and Justice for an Entangled World (Penn State University Press, 2019) presents academic, activist, and artistic perspectives on how to inspire reflection and mo…

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Frances Tanzer, "Vanishing Vienna: Modernism, Philosemitism, and Jews in a Postwar City" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024) 1:07:58

5m ago1:07:58

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In Vanishing Vienna: Modernism, Philosemitism, and Jews in a Postwar City (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024) historian Frances Tanzer traces the reconstruction of Viennese culture from the 1938 German annexation through the early 1960s. The book reveals continuity in Vienna's cultural history across this period and a framework for interpreting Viennese c…

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Anthony Kaldellis, "The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium" (Oxford UP, 2024) 1:02:45

5m ago1:02:45

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In recent decades, the study of the Eastern Roman Empire, also known as Byzantium, has been revolutionized by new approaches and more sophisticated models for how its society and state operated. No longer looked upon as a pale facsimile of classical Rome, Byzantium is now considered a vigorous state of its own, inheritor of many of Rome's features,…

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Stephen Harris, "Buddhist Ethics and the Bodhisattva Path: Santideva on Virtue and Well-Being" (Bloomsbury, 2023) 1:18:20

5m ago1:18:20

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An influential eighth-century Buddhist text, Śāntideva’s Bodhicaryāvatāra, or Guide to the Practices of Awakening, how to become a supremely virtuous person, a bodhisattva who desires to end the suffering of all sentient beings. Stephen Harris’s Buddhist Ethics and the Bodhisattva Path: Śāntideva on Virtue and Well-Being (Bloomsbury Academic, 2024)…

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Cómo se dividió Chipre, la isla del Mediterráneo que Grecia y Turquía se disputan desde hace 50 años 44:25

4h ago44:25

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Desde la invasión de Turquía a Chipre hace 50 años, la violencia ha parado pero las tensiones y la ausencia de una salida acordada del conflicto continúan.By Daily Easy Spanish

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Condenan en Rusia al periodista estadounidense Evan Gershkovich a 16 años de cárcel en un juicio calificado de ”farsa” en EE.UU. 12:52

2d ago12:52

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Los fiscales acusaron a Gershkovich de actuar "bajo instrucciones de la CIA" para recopilar "información secreta" sobre una fábrica que produce tanques.By Daily Easy Spanish

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