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We focus on moving from Here, wherever you are as an individual in your personal life, leadership, or church ministry, to There, the preferred future that God has for us. Each monthly episode features a conversation with someone in small groups ministry, authors, thought leaders, and pastors. We discuss topics that can be helpful, informative, or even powerful for you the listener. A monthly podcast by Carolyn Taketa. Here To There releases on the 2nd Wednesday of each month. Carolyn Taketa ...
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God's Design Bible Study Series

Small Group Network | Saddleback Church | Lumivoz

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The God's Design series is a 6 week series for small groups, families, and churches. Each season explores what the Bible has to say about God's design for you individually and as a community. This popular series goes through: 1. God's Design For Your Life 2. God's Design For Great Relationships 3. God's Design For Growing Spiritually 4. God's Design For Greatness 5. God's Design For Changing The World 6. God's Design For Authentic Worship Each episode includes free access to study guides and ...
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You have the same 24 hours in your day as the most accomplished and greatest men and women in the history of the world. Then why do you still feel like you don't have enough time to do what you want to do and be who you want to be? Between all the busyness of life it feels like we just don't have the time. But what if it was possible to make more time. I think we can. And I think I know how. Through a look at biblical precedent, and the value of community, and a few dad jokes, "Making Time" ...
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Exploring the Heart of the Parables Stories Jesus Told is a six week mini-series with teaching from author Daniel Fusco. Everyone loves a good story. Whether it’s a novel, film, or song, we are products of the narratives that have formed us—for good or bad. If you need fresh inspiration or are stuck living under the weight of a story you can’t shake off, consider this study of the parables of Jesus. Through six sessions, you’ll hear directly from Jesus through the Word. His parables not only ...
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We are a small group of friends starting a podcasts that stays up to date with entertainment topics. We are based in Holland MI and are passionate about comic books, superhero films, video games, pop culture and everything from a-z. Let us be your resource to all things geeky and nerdy.
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Welcome to the Jim's Group Podcast! Yes, Jim's does podcasting too! Join us each week as we bring you unfiltered and inspiring interviews with our franchisees, franchisors, and the man behind it all, Jim Penman. Experience the authentic journey of running a successful small business within the Jim's network. Our conversations are raw and unedited, giving you a genuine look into the challenges and triumphs of our community. Let the stories of our franchisees inspire and guide you towards maki ...
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The New Churches podcast offers practical answers to your real ministry questions. We aren’t going to provide lofty pie-in-the-sky theories. Instead, we are going to help you in your real ministry context, with your real thoughts, questions, and issues.
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The podcast authority for college sports bettors everywhere, BBOC is home to the Action Network's top-of-its-class college sports audio content. Leading the way are veteran analysts and podcast teammates Stuckey and Collin Wilson, two of the most seasoned and successful college handicappers in the betting world today. Since 2017 they've been breaking down all the angles for college football slates big and small, dissecting matchups and line movement from the Big Ten to the Big Sky and everyt ...
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The Illuminati - the infamous conspiratorial obsession - wasn't always that way. It was the work of one man that brought the illuminati from obscure to omnipresent - John Todd. In the 1970s, Todd burst into the public eye with tales of secret societies and dark rituals, claiming to be an ex-witch linked to human sacrifices among the elite. But as his tales spread and followers grew, his web of secrets unraveled, and ultimately - he vanished. 'Cover Up: The Conspiracy Tapes' exposes the twist ...
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Broadway Gives Back

Broadway Podcast Network

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Philanthropy unites Broadway stars like Lin-Manuel Miranda, Gloria Estefan, Judith Light, and more. The Broadway Gives Back Podcast spotlights Broadway actors, shows, and organizations in their pursuit of social impact and doing good. Our talented guests will share stories about their favorite charities, how they got involved, and the people and causes who have benefited from these philanthropic efforts. From stars to stagehands, cast members to front of house, and causes large and small, we ...
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Improve your resilience and readiness in a rapidly changing world. Jessica Beckendorf and Bob Bertsch host this exploration of personal and collective practices that empower us to work together to help each other, our families, and our communities improve our resilience and readiness.
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A weekly podcast recorded in Adelaide that puts South Australian passion on centre stage with a featured guest who joins us each week as a co-presenter to share how they're pursuing their passions. We venture across topics as diverse as history, wine, food, art, music, relationships, critical thinking, health, news, interviews, chat and quizzes. Every single interview, every single show, unlocks insights into what drives people to be doing what they're doing and what keeps them striving. The ...
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Florida Business Forum Podcast

Sam Yates, Yates & Associates, Public Relations & Marketing

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The Florida Business Forum Podcast is Florida's Number One Business Forum Podcast based on a random survey of Florida business owners. The Florida Business Forum Podcast is the only business forum podcast of its kind in Florida. Business minds know the Florida Business Forum Podcast is dedicated to giving small, medium, and large businesses and executives a forum to showcase their products and services to consumers and businesses throughout Florida and around the world. The Florida Business ...
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Yes! Marketing Works! is the talk radio show about the actions YOU need to make YOUR business succeed. With special guests and resources to support you in your business growth. Incredible leaders join Donna for fun and informative conversations about being a successful business leader.
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Join Doug Fields, Josh Griffin, Katie Edwards & Jason Carson in the longest-running youth ministry podcast on the planet. It's another weekly "team meeting." They dive into your youth ministry questions, take time to encourage you, discuss ministry, and laugh together. It is just enough youth ministry so you don't feel guilty for listening. Check out some of the amazing resources and fantastic youth worker community at: http://downloadyouthministry.com
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We navigate the world of live events. Whether you're putting together a large event with thousands of people, or a small mastermind group, we discuss how others have created live events and utilized them as a way to build their businesses.
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The Wolves 77 Club

Sport Social Podcast Network

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We bring you all the latest from Wolverhampton Wanderers every week, analysis of the last match, a preview of the next with Football Experts and other Podcasts in the Premier League. There's also The 77 Club Quiz, Harry's Funny Story, Legend's Slot and much, much more!
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This podcast is designed to train you in all things related to the ministry so that you can become a Ministry Ninja. To kill it in ministry today, you have to be organised, knowledgeable, bold, relevant, relatable, look after yourself physically, spiritually, mentally, and emotionally, have plenty of moxy, hustle, and guts. It also helps to be spiritually broken and bankrupt before the face of God. Join Peyton Jones, Andrea Jones, and Barry Waters, in the ministry dojo for a weekly dicussion ...
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Justin Knowles and Sean Lord (2 great friends and veterans in Youth Ministry) have open conversations with each other and great guests about real life hacks in youth ministry. They will talk about things they are doing in youth ministry, what is working, what is not, and have some friends join the conversation along the way. The goal is to share real life, helpful, time saving and efficient hacks to help you do ministry better.
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Justin and Rob tackle the most controversial topics in herpetoculture. The co-hosts or guests take one side of the issue and try to hold their own in a no-holds-barred contest of intellect. Who will win? You decide. Reptile Fight Club!
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The Core Business Show hosted by Tim Jacquet talks about how to finance, manage and market your start-up, small business in today's current business environment. We have experts from all over the North America giving free business advise in how to make your small business run more effectively and take your business to the name level. We broadcast daily at Noon CST M-F on the Blog Talk Radio Network, Live 365 and we are syndicated via several radio stations throughout North America.. You can ...
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Just a few of the folks that we’ve interviewed on Chicago’s Black Business RADIO Network: Reverend Wheeler Parker (Emmett Till’s Cousin), Tuskegee Airman (The Original), Actor and Producer Charles S. Dutton, Cook County Clerk Dorothy Brown, Mayoral Candidates William "Dock" Wall and Patricia Van Pelt-Watkins, Illinois Senator Donne Trotter, Ms. Chantay Bridges (Real Estate Agent to President Clinton), Turtel Onli (Father of da Black Age of Comics), and Ms. Khalilah Camacho Ali (Former wife o ...
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Welcome to the PodClass, a show where we at GoodLion.io gather a small group of students to study and discuss theology and the Christian life, and then we record our classes to share with all of you! Featuring teachers and students from all over the GoodLion Network. Never stop learning!
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Midwest Sports Network

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Midwest Sports Network is a group of individuals based out of Michigan, blogging, podcasting and streaming sports online. MWSN-TV and MWSN Radio covers high school and college sports via live streaming services and pre prepared professional content. MidwestSportsNet.Live features a full focus on athletics, from youth to professional, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. In short, it’s sports played by a wide range of athletes, covered by local professionals, and enjoyed by local fans. MWSN is seen ...
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Welcome to Colubrid Corner, the podcast that explores the diverse array of snakes we know as Colubrids. Together, Owen McIntyre and Riley Jimison dive into these reptiles one species at a time to shine a light on the largest group of snakes according to human classification. With global distribution, this group consists of obscure, common, large, small, colorful, bland, harmless, and venomous species of snakes. Each episode unpacks a particular species to bring the listener deeper into the b ...
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The Cyber Sentinel Podcast with host Alan Adcock CEO, Automated Solutions Consulting Group, Inc. Alan founded ASC Group as a technology services provider for the small-to-midsize business community. Over time, they have evolved to specialize in data reliability and security for schools, medical practices, and remote workforces. Their clients can rely on their infrastructure to provide business continuity and rely on his team of network experts to uphold ethical business practices and standar ...
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Start Build and Grow

Business Growth Coaches Network

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Start Build and Grow is a programme that supports founders and entrepreneurs during the early start-up phase of their businesses. This podcast aims to improve the success rate of start-up businesses by sharing knowledge, insights, and strategies from various expert guests featured in the Start Build and Grow programme. Join your host, Rob Lawrence, in this short series, and learn about different business models and ways to improve your business and relationships with practical help from expe ...
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We have created the GoPlayGo Provider Business Network to help connect providers large and small to meet other providers, share experiences, get advice and better understand what's going on in the wider market. ​ GoPlayGo Business Network is totally free and open to any provider and you don't need to be using GoPlayGo to join the network. ​ The Network is facilitated by Holly Woodford Co-Founder of GoPlayGo and creator of Move with Peppa Activity Programme. Once you have joined the group you ...
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Did SHE really do that? You Betcha She Did! Welcome to the podcast where we teach you to elevate your voice, grow your brand, and earn your worth. If you are a women entrepreneur, online business owner, coach, thought leader, or changemaker, you are in the right place! Get ready to embrace Midwest charm and CELEBRATE women who are forging their own paths. Hosted by Rayna Rokicki, a podcast coach for women entrepreneurs. As a former world traveler and international teacher turned Podcast and ...
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Cashflows with Cash Matthews

Cash Matthews, Kenneth Baucum

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Financial behavior, entrepreneurship, and the path to success in what we like to call the Good Life! Investment advisory services offered through Wealth Watch Advisors, an SEC registered investment advisor. Wealth Watch Advisors and The Solomon Group are independent of one another. Please note, registration with the SEC does not denote a specific skill level or guarantee the success of a particular investment strategy.
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From banks that can’t lend to small businesses, predatory payday lenders, high interest loan sharks, or social investors who just don’t support social enterprises - there’s plenty to criticise in the world of finance. But there’s a a strong and growing network of finance providers who are building resilient economies throughout the UK – offering a personal service, a supportive approach and a real alternative to traditional bank lenders and finance providers. Responsible Finance providers br ...
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Cover Story

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What can a billionaire get away with these days? A secret bat cave? A harem of women? An international spy operation? Stealing the soul of a small town in Montana? A Silicon Valley venture capitalist was accused of running a massive sex-trafficking operation by his best bro friend. And we unravel the truth about both of them - their business, their break-up, their lies, and their embarrassing text messages. The story of a billionaire with a hero complex, the ex-spy who turned his life inside ...
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Monetize Media

CBWG Media Group LLC

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The show for creators and new media founders who want to grow and monetize their audience. Featuring interviews with creators, influencers and new media founders about the tools and processes they use to scale an online content business. Hosted by veteran digital media entrepreneurs Jason Ziernicki and Kyle Scott, who sold their network of sports websites for $25 million. New Episodes Every Two Weeks
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If you have a new business, or are looking to grow and expand, tune in to our weekly podcast! Lesley Notton, Founder of Notton House Academy and several online courses teaches small business owners and entrepreneurs how to get to grips with their business from the inside out. Topics include marketing, mindset, growing your email list, blogging, sales tips and techniques and much more!
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Hustle Nation Podcast

Chris Burns & Dustin McClone

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Welcome to the Hustle Nation Podcast, a dynamic and transformative audio journey tailor-made for leaders, entrepreneurs, and anyone eager to unleash their fullest potential. This isn't just a podcast; it's a revolution in thought and action. Why Listen to Hustle Nation? Diverse Insights: We dive deep into the minds of exceptional individuals: CEOs, professional athletes, best-selling authors, groundbreaking podcasters, and relentless entrepreneurs. Their stories aren’t just narratives; they’ ...
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Originally uploaded April 11, re-edited June 30th.Jeffrey Mosher welcomes back Elaina Farnsworth, Speaker | Published Author | Agent for Change in Electrification & 21st Century Infrastructure, and since last summer Chief Executive Officer, SkillFusion, Rochester, MI.First of all, Elaina, welcome, I know along the way you've been recognized as a 20…
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Colleen Blake has just joined Jim's Dog Wash and already has a successful franchise! Colleen shares great insights about the flexibility it has provided her and her family. Colleen also shares advice about the training experience and how to manage your time effectively. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jimsgroup/…
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Ben Wright's Bonds of Salvation: How Christianity Inspired and Limited American Abolitionism (LSU Press, 2020) demonstrates how religion structured the possibilities and limitations of American abolitionism during the early years of the republic. From the American Revolution through the eruption of schisms in the three largest Protestant denominati…
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Childhood as lived during the French Third Republic was very different from childhood during the modern era. Working-class children laboured alongside adults in the home, on the streets, and in places of work. French authorities sought to change this and redefine childhood by means of government organizations, separate legal structures, and schools…
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We commonly think of trolls as anonymous online pranksters who hide behind clever avatars and screen names. In Trolling Ourselves to Death: Democracy in the Age of Social Media (Oxford UP, 2024), Jason Hannan reveals how the trolls have emerged from the cave and now walk in the clear light of day. Once limited to the darker corners of the internet,…
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Stringers and the Journalistic Field: Marginalities and Precarious News Labour in Small-Town India (Routledge, 2023) is one of the first ethnographic works on small-town stringers or informal news workers in Indian journalism. It explores existing practices and cultures in the field of local journalism and the roles and spaces stringers occupy. The…
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Between the 1920s and 1980s, the choices that Ghanaian women made regarding their reproductive health were defined by development policy and practice. Spanning the colonial and immediate postcolonial periods, Holly Ashford's book Development and Women's Reproductive Health in Ghana, 1920-1982 (Routledge, 2022) demonstrates that whilst the substance…
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In this Pandemic Perspectives Podcast, Ideas Roadshow founder and host Howard Burton talks to Michael Gordin, Rosengarten Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at Princeton University, about the differences between science and pseudoscience and how the COVID-19 Pandemic showed that most people don't realize that science is highly dynamic. Go…
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In Strolling in the Ruins: The Caribbean's Non-Sovereign Modern in the Early Twentieth Century (Duke UP, 2023), Faith Smith engages with a period in the history of the Anglophone Caribbean often overlooked as nondescript, quiet, and embarrassingly pro-imperial within the larger narrative of Jamaican and Trinidadian nationalism. Between the 1865 Mor…
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Rabbi Lance J. Sussman, Ph.D., has been a leading rabbi and scholar of the American Jewish experience throughout his long career. Now Rabbi Emeritus of Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel in Elkins Park, PA, he previously served as Rabbi of Temple Concord of Binghamton, NY, and Associate Professor of American Jewish History at Binghamton University…
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Balihar Sanghera and Elmira Satybaldieva’s Rentier Capitalism and Its Discontents: Power, Morality and Resistance in Central Asia (Palgrave MacMillan, 2021) evaluates today’s economic political, social and ecological crises through the lens of rentier capitalism and countermovements in Central Asia. Over the last three decades, the rich and powerfu…
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Asians on Demand: Mediating Race in Video Art and Activism (University of Minnesota Press, 2023) explores a multilingual archive of contemporary queer and feminist videos by Asian diasporans in North America, Europe, and East Asia. It grapples with the pressing question of how media representation can critique and advance social justice for raciali…
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A dramatized thought experiment like best episodes of Star Trek, Forbidden Planet (1956) is a wonderful reminder of how people in the past envisioned the future. Part prophecy—looking forward—and part analysis of the timeless human condition, the film wraps heavy ideas about the cost of knowledge and the ways we interact with our own creations into…
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In recent decades, Americans have purchased second homes at unprecedented rates. In Privileging Place: How Second Homeowners Transform Communities and Themselves (Princeton UP, 2024), Meaghan Stiman examines the experiences of predominantly upper-middle-class suburbanites who bought second homes in the city or the country. Drawing on interviews wit…
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To give up or not to give up? The question can feel inescapable but the answer is never simple. Giving up our supposed vices is one thing; giving up on life itself is quite another. One form of self-sacrifice feels positive, something to admire and aspire to, while the other is profoundly unsettling, if not actively undesirable. There are always, i…
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Listen to this interview of Redowan Mahmud, Lecturer in the School of Electrical Engineering, Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Curtin University, Australia; and, Mohammad Goudarzi, Lecturer at Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University, Australia. We talk about their paper iFogSim simulator for mobility, clustering, and microservice m…
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While there has been considerable research on digital cultures in the Indian Subcontinent, video games have received scant attention so far. Yet, they are hugely influential. Globally, India is perceived as a ‘sleeping giant’ of the video game industry with immense untapped potential, and Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Bhutan also have …
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This week, we examine the sounds humans make in order to monitor, repel, and control beasts. Author Mandy-Suzanne Wong’s Listen, We All Bleed is a creative nonfiction monograph that explores the human-animal relationship through animal-centered sound art. We’ll hear works by Robbie Judkins, Claude Matthews, and Colleen Plumb, interwoven with Wong’s…
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On Thursday, June 27th, President Joe Biden and Trump debated for 90 minutes without a live audience or the usually provided by the Commission on Presidential Debates. Instead, two CNN journalists – Dana Bash and Jake Tapper – asked the questions. Not only was the format a departure but the timing was unusually early for a presidential debate. Toda…
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Dr. Langmia's book Black 'Race' and the White Supremacy Saga (Anthem Press, 2024) examines the conundrum that has haunted the Black and White ancestry for ages on what supremacy actually means. Is it Black or White supremacy? Granted, the term "White supremacy" has occupied the sociopolitical, cultural and economic discourse for ages, but what does…
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Media studies is an emerging discipline that is quickly making an impact within the wider field of biblical scholarship. The Dead Sea Scrolls in Ancient Media Culture (Brill, 2023) is designed to evaluate the status quaestionis of the Dead Sea Scrolls as products of an ancient media culture, with leading scholars in the Dead Sea Scrolls and related…
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In political philosophy, “liberalism” is not the name of a particular social platform. Rather, it refers to a framework for thinking about politics. It is the way of thinking according to which the state, its laws, and its institutions all stand in need of justification, and that the justification of the state must be addressed to those who live wi…
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We live in a historical conjuncture characterized by the rise of a range of social movements that aim to challenge different forms of domination: capitalism, patriarchy, racism, settler colonialism, just to name a few. However, critical scholars remain divided about how to think about the relations between these different struggles. The political s…
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Shahmima Akhtar is a historian of race, migration and empire and an assistant professor of Black and Asian British History at the University of Birmingham. She previously worked at the Royal Historical Society to improve BME representation in UK History, whether working with schools and the curriculum, cultural institutions, community groups or oth…
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Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, teachers, administrators, and policymakers fashioned a system of industrial education that attempted to transform Black and Indigenous peoples and land. This form of teaching—what Bayley J. Marquez names plantation pedagogy—was built on the claim that slavery and land dispossession are fundamentall…
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Feminist Perspective on Russia’s War in Ukraine: Hear Our Voices came out with Lexington Books at the two-year’s mark of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, in February 2024. This volume undertakes an exploration of how gender norms have been transgressed and cultural expectations of womanhood and manhood evolved within the context of the war …
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What exactly is capitalism? How has the meaning of capitalism changed over time? And what’s at stake in our understanding or misunderstanding of it? In Capitalism: The Story Behind the Word (Princeton UP, 2022), Michael Sonenscher examines the history behind the concept and pieces together the range of subjects bound up with the word. Sonenscher sh…
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Friars are often overlooked in the picture of health care in late mediaeval England. Physicians, surgeons, apothecaries, barbers, midwives - these are the people we think of immediately as agents of healing; whilst we identify university teachers as authorities on medical writings. Yet from their first appearance in England in the 1220s to the disp…
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In this Pandemic Perspectives Podcast, Ideas Roadshow founder and host Howard Burton talks to Christopher Celenza, James B. Knapp Dean of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Johns Hopkins University. Christopher Celenza talks candidly about his research origins from his youthful interests in becoming a professional wrestler to the impact of di…
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In Professor Zietlyn's words, anthropology “has had enough of the big ideas already” -especially theories with a big ‘T’. In a discipline that seems to be constantly beset by ‘turns’, or agonising over its status and ‘commensurability’ across cultural differences, Professor Zietlyn in his latest book An Anthropological Toolkit: Sixty Useful Concept…
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In recent years, dozens of counties in North Carolina have partnered with federal law enforcement in the criminalization of immigration--what many have dubbed "crimmigration." Southern border enforcement still monopolizes the national immigration debate, but immigration enforcement has become common within the United States as well. While Immigrati…
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Examining how a civilian organization used the Civil War to advance their religious mission. Tabernacles in the Wilderness: The US Christian Commission on the Civil War Battlefront (Kent State UP, 2024) discusses the work of the United States Christian Commission (USCC), a civilian relief agency established by northern evangelical Protestants to mi…
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Originally uploaded April 15th, reedited June 28th.Chris Holman welcomes back Teri Sand, SHRM-CP, PHR, CBSP, CRP, Business Services Manager, Capital Area Michigan Works!, Lansing, MI,but serving Ingham Eaton, and Clinton Counties[THEME: Teri discusses Employer of the Day events, Weekly Hot Jobs Report and solutions for businesses who are hiring.] Q…
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Every protest movement has been dismissed as a mere ‘mindless mob,’ caught in a psychological frenzy. Where did this idea come from, and why does it last? Gustave Le Bon. This is episode one of Cited’s returning season, The Rationality Wars. This season tells stories of political and scholarly battles to define rationality and irrationality. For a …
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In contrast to scholarly belief that the author of the Epistle to the Hebrews envisions the transcendent, heavenly world as the eschatological inheritance of God's people, Jihye Lee argues that a version of an Urzeit-Endzeit eschatological framework - as observed in some Jewish apocalyptic texts - provides a plausible background against which the a…
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In recent years, scholars have rediscovered Hannah Arendt`s "boomerang thesis" – the "coming home" of European colonialism as genocide on European soil – as well as Raphael Lemkin`s work around his definition of genocide and the importance of its colonial dimensions. Germany and other European states are increasingly engaging in debates on comparin…
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In September 2006, Margo Jefferson spoke to the Institute about her book, On Michael Jackson (Vintage, 2007). Jefferson received the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for criticism when she was at the New York Times. Her 2015 book, Negroland: A Memoir, won the National Book Critics Circle Award. And in 2022, she published, Constructing a Nervous System, a memoir…
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The third edition of Women and the American Experience: A Concise History (Routledge, 2024) is a comprehensive survey of U.S. women’s history from the seventeenth century to the present that illuminates the diversity of women’s experience and underscores the roles that women have played as agents of change. Moving women’s lives from the margins of …
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Between the mid-19th century and the start of the twentieth century, the Northern Paiute people of the Great Basin went from a self-sufficient tribe well-adapted to living on the harsh desert homelands, to a people singled out by the Native activist Henry Roe Cloud for their dire social and economic position. The story of how this happened is told …
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In Jerusalem, as World War II was coming to an end, an extraordinary circle of friends began to meet at the bar of the King David Hotel. This group of aspiring artists, writers, and intellectuals—among them Wolfgang Hildesheimer, Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, Sally Kassab, Walid Khalidi, and Rasha Salam, some of whom would go on to become acclaimed authors,…
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Listen to this interview of Darja Smite, Professor of Software Engineering at Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden, and also research scientist at SINTEF; and, Jarle Hildrum, Director, Deloitte Consulting, Norway; and also, Daniel Mendez, Professor of Software Engineering at Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden, and as well, Senior Scientis…
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Swapnil Rai’s book Networked Bollywood: How Star Power Globalized Hindi Cinema (Cambridge UP, 2024) brilliantly navigates the intricate landscapes of stardom, shedding light on its diverse meanings amidst the ever-evolving new media industries and the demands of a globally interconnected audiences. With a keen focus on the global south, she masterf…
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Every Tudor Queen had ladies-in-waiting. They were her confidantes and her chaperones. Only the Queen's ladies had the right to enter her most private chambers, spending hours helping her to get dressed and undressed, caring for her clothes and jewels, listening to her secrets. But they also held a unique power. A quiet word behind the scenes, an a…
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Over the course of the Vietnam War, the United States dropped 500,000 tons of bombs over Cambodia—more than the combined weight of every man, woman, and child in the country. Fifty years after the last sortie, residents of rural Cambodia are still coping with the unexploded ordnance that covers their land. In When the Bombs Stopped: The Legacy of W…
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Life on Earth is facing a mass extinction event of our own making. Human activity is changing the biology and the meaning of extinction. What Is Extinction?: A Natural and Cultural History of Last Animals (Fordham UP, 2023) examines several key moments that have come to define the terms of extinction over the past two centuries, exploring instances…
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In 2012, to stave off the collapse of their currency union, Europe’s leaders sought to end the so-called “doom loop” between the solvency of their governments and their banking systems. Two years later, a banking union was born. Created as a crisis response, like the postwar coal and steel community, this ten-year-old union is another step in Europ…
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Christina M. García’s book, Corporeal Readings of Cuban Literature and Art: The Body, the Inhuman, and Ecological Thinking (University Press of Florida, 2024), looks at Cuban literature and art that challenge traditional assumptions about the body. García examines how writers and artists have depicted racial, gender, and species differences through…
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A landmark work that weaves captivating stories about the past, present, and personal into an inspiring vision for how America can educate immigrant students Setting out from her classroom, Jessica Lander takes the reader on a powerful and urgent journey to understand what it takes for immigrant students to become Americans. A compelling read for e…
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The Loneliness Room: A Creative Ethnography of Loneliness (Manchester University Press, 2024) by Dr. Sean Remond is a remarkably unique book takes the conceit of the loneliness room to show how everyday artistic practice opens up loneliness to new definitions and new understandings. Refusing to pathologise loneliness, the book draws on the creative…
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Drawing on literary texts, conversion manuals, and colonial correspondence from sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain and Peru, Forms of Relation: Composing Kinship in Colonial Spanish America (University of Virginia, 2023) shows the importance of textual, religious, and bureaucratic ties to struggles over colonial governance and identities. Dr.…
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