David Edmonds (Uehiro Centre, Oxford University) and Nigel Warburton (freelance philosopher/writer) interview top philosophers on a wide range of topics. Two books based on the series have been published by Oxford University Press. We are currently self-funding - donations very welcome via our website http://www.philosophybites.com
Every weekday, host Kai Ryssdal helps you make sense of the day’s business and economic news — no econ degree or finance background required. “Marketplace” takes you beyond the numbers, bringing you context. Our team of reporters all over the world speak with CEOs, policymakers and regular people just trying to get by.
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Self-Publishing Advice & Inspirations


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Self-Publishing Advice & Inspirations
Alliance of Independent Authors
Tune into our podcast twice weekly. The Self-Publishing Advice & Inspirations Podcast posts advice episodes on Fridays and inspirations on Sundays. The four advice streams are: Beginning Self-Publishing (with Melissa Addey and Dan Parsons), Member Q&A (with Michael La Ronn & Sacha Black), Latest News (with Dan Holloway and Howard Lovy) and Advanced Self-Publishing (with Joanna Penn and Orna Ross). The two inspiration streams: Inspirational Indie Authors in which Howard Lovy interviews an ins ...
A podcast featuring interviews with economists whose work appears in journals published by the American Economic Association.
Working Scientist is the Nature Careers podcast. It is produced by Nature Portfolio, publishers of the international science journal Nature. Working Scientist is a regular free audio show featuring advice and information from global industry experts with a strong focus on supporting early career researchers working in academia and other sectors. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Talks On Psychoanalysis shares topics published in the IPA Society Journals and Congress debates worldwide, brought to you in the voices of the original authors. This podcast is produced by International Psychoanalytical Association
True Hauntings & Scary Stories is a weekly podcast that alternates between lighthearted and spooky conversations/interviews and fictional short scary stories, written and read by published horror author, Cynthia Seer. Everyone loves a good ghost story! Join us to hear neat ghost stories, interviews with lots of different people in the paranormal field, and spooky bedtime style scary stories. The spooks are waiting....
How can we live well together? What gives life purpose? What about technology, education, faith, capitalism, work, family? Is another life possible? Plough editor Peter Mommsen and senior editor Susannah Black Roberts dig deeper into perspectives from a wide variety of writers and thinkers appearing in the pages of Plough.
The Kobo Writing Life Podcast features exciting interviews with bestselling authors, tips on the craft and business of writing, and advice for a successfully self-publishing career. Millions of readers are waiting to discover your book - publish today at www.kobo.com/writinglife.
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The Shit No One Tells You About Writing


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The Shit No One Tells You About Writing
Bianca Marais, Carly Watters and CeCe Lyra
This is a podcast for emerging writers who want to improve the quality of their work and learn more about the publishing industry. Your one host, Bianca Marais (the bestselling author of 'The Witches of Moonshyne Manor') interviews authors, agents, editors and just about anyone and everyone who's involved in bringing a book to market. She's joined by her cohosts, literary agents Carly Watters and CeCe Lyra from P.S. Literary Agency, who read and critique query letters as well as opening page ...
Programmed to Chill is a show about business, crime, parapolitics, and esoterica, hosted by @JimmyFalunGong graphics by harmless individual music by: theoutoflimits.bandcamp.com/
Created by underground hip-hop artist Blueprint, Super Duty Tough Work is the most infamous podcast on planet earth, focusing on hip-hop culture, personal-development, and humor. The results are comical, educational, and inspiring. No shuckin', no jivin', and no bulls#@t.
Take your writing from average to awesome, and learn tools of the trade from bestselling authors, master writing teachers, and publishing industry insiders. This podcast will give you tools and techniques to help you get those words on the page and your stories out into the world. Past guests include: Delia Ephron, John Sandford, Steve Berry, Jojo Moyes, Tana French, Guy Kawasaki, and more.
Welcome to We Don't PLAY, hosted by entrepreneur, artist, and CEO Favour Obasi-ike. This podcast is one of the top 10% most popular shows out of 2.7M podcasts global on ListenNotes.com. Are you looking for experienced advice & pro tips? We Don't PLAY is a great podcast to tune into with SEO, Pinterest marketing, content marketing, digital marketing, entrepreneurship tips, music reviews, LIVE! interviews, giveaways, hot and trending topics you will find interest in. Subscribe to this podcast ...
Joe Biel is the founder and CEO of Microcosm, a 25-year-old midlist publishing and distribution company that has sold millions of books. Elly Blue is the editorial and marketing director at Microcosm. Joe is also the author of A People’s Guide to Publishing, which distills what they’ve learned over the past 25 years in 416 pages. Together, they distill this knowledge for other publishers and people who simply want to understand the publishing industry. ************ Thank you for watching the ...
Interviews with Authors about their New Books Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network
Daily readings from the devotional classic entitled "Our Daily Time With God" published by Discovery Books department of Our Daily Bread and copyrighted in 1968
Former pro athlete, respected peak performance and self-help guide, and published author, Kevin Miller invites today's most important influencers and changemakers to grapple with their own wisdom and stories in an authentic, relatable conversation about self-help and what drives them. Each conversation is a three-part journey that distills the guests' greatest wisdom and methodologies into practical, transformative steps that anyone can use to create their own path to a life of freedom, grow ...
A podcast by 37signals about the better way to work and run your business. In Season 2, we're going through Rework (the book) chapter by chapter and talking with authors, Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson, about what's changed in the world of business over the last eleven years since the book was published.
A podcast that revisits the stories that have been published in BusinessWorld, the most trusted source of Philippines business news.
Interviews with Scholars of Psychoanalysis about their New Books Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/psychoanalysis
Chat, interviews, and banter by Onyx Path Publishing's in-house developers. Join Matthew, Dixie, and Eddy on the Onyx Pathcast!
Jackie’s Books is a podcast dedicated to the emerging artist, Jackie Adams. We will interview Jackie, who will tell us about the novels she has published, what she is working on, and her life as an author. Jackie will also recommend books for you to read, and bring in guests who can tell us about their life and work.
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Inside Independent Publishing (with IBPA)


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Inside Independent Publishing (with IBPA)
Christopher Locke
"Inside Independent Publishing (with IBPA)" wants to make you a smarter publisher by giving you access to powerful ideas, strategies, and tools for success. Our interview guests are independent publishers, author publishers, and hybrid publishers, as well as distributors, printers, reviewers, booksellers, marketers, visionaries, and opinion leaders from all sectors of the book publishing industry. We are sponsored and supported by the Independent Book Publishers Association, the largest book ...
Stereo Chemistry shares voices and stories from the world of chemistry. The show is created by the reporters and editors at Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN), an independent news outlet published by the American Chemical Society.
Conrad's Corner is a periodic collection of short poems and poetic excerpts, often seasonal in nature, culled by Lori Anne Gravley and David Lee Garrison. This podcast features works by poets from various times and places, along with local poets from Southwestern Ohio.Regarding Submissions: An important part of Conrad's Corner is hearing the voices and words of local poets. The poets we air are widely published in local and national literary journals, chapbooks, and books. The Corner is not ...
A weekly podcast hosted by Jon DiSavino. It celebrates the enduring and compact literary form known as - you guessed it - the short story. But more importantly, it gives listeners an opportunity to hear the work of some of the best emerging writers of today. Each episode begins with an interview with the week's guest author, and ends with a professional audiobook production of a story by that author.Jon DiSavino is an actor and stage director. In the last few years he has begun producing and ...
Two longtime gamers, one from America and the other England, discuss tabletop roleplaying games, with a focus on how story, setting, and system can work together, and how sometimes they don't. We talk about 2d20 games, 5e, review books and resources, and share advice from our years of gaming to help you strike the right balance between story, setting, and system. New episodes published every Wednesday. You can reach us on Facebook at Fluff N' Crunch or directly by email at fluffncrunchpodcas ...
This is a weekly podcast focused on developer productivity and the teams and leaders dedicated to improving it. Topics include in-depth interviews with Platform and DevEx teams, as well as the latest research and approaches on measuring developer productivity. The EE podcast is hosted by Abi Noda, the founder and CEO of DX (getdx.com) and published researcher focused on developing measurement methods to help organizations improve developer experience and productivity.
Inspired by the many beautiful stories of hope and joy and grace which readers have shared in the 15 years since The Jesus Storybook Bible was published, the podcast will be a platform where Sally invites people from of all walks of life to share about the life-transforming power of God’s love in their lives. We hope you will be as encouraged by these stories of hope and joy as we have been. And be reminded that God loves you—with a Never Stopping, Never Giving Up, Unbreaking, Always and For ...
Discussions with thought leaders about the importance of emotions in politics, culture and life Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/dan-hills-eq-spotlight
Evidence based hair is a weekly podcast hosted by Dr Jeff Donovan, a Canadian dermatologist and hair specialist. Each week, Dr. Donovan highlights recently published hair loss research from around the world.
International Teacher Podcast is hosted by Greg Lemoine, Matthew Judd, and Kent Arimura. New Episodes are published bi-weekly on Saturdays. Listen to first-hand experiences from across the globe about international schools, certified educators, teaching overseas, and living in other countries as American expatriates. We interview educators and administrators all over the world to discuss travel, teaching in their schools, overseas educator job fairs, taking your expat family internationally, ...
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Tower Junkies - A Stephen King Podcast


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Tower Junkies - A Stephen King Podcast
Obsessive Viewer Podcasts
Tower Junkies is a podcast celebrating the work of Stephen King hosted by two lifelong Constant Readers. We do non-spoiler and spoiler reviews of King's published work and take a critical look at his film and television adaptations as well. We also discuss the latest King news and check-in with each other on our ongoing King obsessions. It's the podcast where all things serve the King. Presented by ObsessiveViewer.com
THE BIBLIO FILE is a podcast about "the book," and an inquiry into the wider world of book culture. Hosted by Nigel Beale it features wide ranging, long-form conversations with authors, poets, book publishers, booksellers, book editors, book collectors, book makers, book scholars, book critics, book designers, book publicists, literary agents and many others inside the book trade and out - from writer to reader.
We dive into the gaming industry talking to professionals within their field to find out more about them. Looking closely at how they started in the industry and the path they took to bring the highest quality work to an ever growing roster of games published by Kwalee.
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The WorkSAFE Podcast | Workplace Safety Strategies


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The WorkSAFE Podcast | Workplace Safety Strategies
Missouri Employers Mutual
As a leader, the safety of your employees is your top priority. But we get it - you have a lot on your plate. We've got you covered with interviews and insights to help you build a safer workplace. Published monthly by Missouri Employers Mutual and Previsor Insurance.
Planted Not Buried is designed to motivate, inspire, and encourage you to live out your ultimate purpose and calling exactly where you have been PLANTED. Discover the deep roots of purpose that have been hidden beneath your darkest pain and trials. Find out how to REAP your life's biggest HARVEST by allowing the storms of life to wash over you for unfathomable growth and impact. Join international speaker, major league draft pick, and published author, Lance Thonvold as he shares power packe ...
Do you love tabletop gaming? Do you unplug and gather friends to play roleplaying games, board games, or miniature games? This is your podcast. Craig sits with designers, developers, artists, writers, and creators and learns how they approach their work. I try and understand their process, inspiration, and methods for crafting their creations. These are not your typical boring interviews – Craig digs deep into the actual work and uncovers your favorite tabletop games' origins and the creativ ...
True Stories of ordinary people who are written-off but not written of.My son Ashutosh Marathe has published a book called 'The Extra in Ordinary' which is a recipient of the Golden Book Awards 2023. The book contains short stories of ordinary people having extraordinary traits that are abundantly available but rarely noticed. This podcast in Marathi is to reach out to the Marathi speaking audience. Though the stories are written by Ashutosh Marathe, the Podcast will be presented by his 80 y ...
Name's Forrest. I'm a licensed Atlanta-based librarian, #blerd, and published poet. My love for reading fuels my passion to circulate Black and Queer History, and Literature. Celebrate reading with me! Reading can be a part of your healing, friend-- you are not alone. There is a book out there for you.
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The Craft Brewed Music Podcast
from Craft Brewed Music®, the music discovery app that streams music for serious listeners.
Music interviews for serious listeners. Drawn from and inspired by the boutique Craft Brewed Music® discovery app, some of the world's greatest and most off-the-beaten-path musicians discuss their work. Hosted by CBM founder Brian Horner and CBM artist Aaron Stayman, the podcast is published twice monthly. http://www.craftbrewedmusic.com
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Andrew Phemister, "Land and Liberalism: Henry George and the Irish Land War" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Andrew Phemister is Research Associate at Newcastle University. He has previously held postdoctoral positions in History at NUI Galway, the University of Oxford, and Edinburgh’s Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities. In this interview he discusses his new book, Land and Liberalism: Henry George and the Irish Land War (Cambridge Universit…
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Sisterhood with Your Mother's Inner Children
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Welcome back, Welcome back, Welcome back! Join Your Favorite Librarian for Episode I of Season II. After a long hiatus, follow Your Favorite for a discussion on Black mother-child relationships, the continuation of raising and caring for your inner child, addressing unhealed trauma along a journey of self discovery, and trusting the adult version o…
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Chrisanthi Giotis, "Borderland: Decolonizing the Words of War" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Every two seconds a person is displaced, caught in one of the more than 40 active conflicts around the world that show no sign of ending. Since 1994, there has been ongoing war in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which has uprooted millions of people and resulted in the deaths of millions more. In the West, we have entered a political era where ou…
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Daniel Heath Justice and Jean M. O'Brien, "Allotment Stories: Indigenous Land Relations Under Settler Siege" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
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Daniel Heath Justice and Jean M. O'Brien's book Allotment Stories: Indigenous Land Relations Under Settler Siege (U Minnesota Press, 2021) collects more than two dozen chronicles of white imperialism and Indigenous resistance. Ranging from the historical to the contemporary and grappling with Indigenous land struggles around the globe, these narrat…
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Rose Marshack, "Play Like a Man: My Life in Poster Children" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
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In Play Like a Man: My Life in Poster Children (University of Illinois Press, 2023), Poster Children bassist Rose Marshack details her life in the 80s and 90s as part of a heavily touring Indie Rock band. Using her Tour Reports from the 1990s, Marshack relates what life was like during the indie rock breakthrough while the advent of new digital tec…
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Liz Curran, "Better Law for a Better World: New Approaches to Law Practice and Education" (Routledge, 2021)
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In Better Law for a Better World: New Approaches to Law Practice and Education (Routledge, 2021) I spoke with Dr Liz Curran about the urgent need for innovation in law, legal practice, and legal education. In her book, she challenges the adversarial and hierarchical nature of the legal system, to uncover the harms that these processes and systems c…
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Brian Tokar and Tamra Gilbertson, "Climate Justice and Community Renewal: Resistance and Grassroots Solutions" (Routledge, 2020)
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Brian Tokar and Tamra Gilbertson's book Climate Justice and Community Renewal: Resistance and Grassroots Solutions (Routledge, 2020) brings together the voices of people from five continents who live, work, and research on the front lines of climate resistance and renewal. The many contributors to this volume explore the impacts of extreme weather …
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Alexis James, "Unsung: Not All Heroes Wear Kits" (Pitch Publishing, 2023)
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Unsung: Not all Heroes Wear Kits (Pitch Publishing, 2022) by Alexis James introduces the sports stars you don't know, telling the stories you can't miss. It shines a rare spotlight behind the scenes of professional sport, with overlooked heroes such as F1 mechanics, athletics starters, football chaplains, rugby medics and cycling moto pilots reveal…
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Melanie 0'Brien, "From Discrimination to Death: Genocide Process Through a Human Rights Lens" (Routledge, 2022)
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Melanie 0'Brien's book From Discrimination to Death: Genocide Process Through a Human Rights Lens (Routledge, 2022) studies the process of genocide through the human rights violations that occur during genocide. Using individual testimonies and in-depth field research from the Armenian Genocide, Holocaust and Cambodian Genocide, this book demonstra…
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Marissa A. Harrison, "Just as Deadly: The Psychology of Female Serial Killers" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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You've heard of Ted Bundy and John Wayne Gacy. But have you heard of Amy Archer-Gilligan? Or Belle Gunness? Or Nannie Doss? Women have committed some of the most disturbing serial killings ever seen in the United States. Yet scientific inquiry, criminal profiling, and public interest have focused more on their better-known male counterparts. As a r…
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Making digital platforms accessible for PWDs
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Many digital platforms today lack inclusive features, such as live captioning, screen reader access, and contrast themes, which would benefit persons with disabilities (PWDs). In this B-Side episode, Pauline B. Malabanan and Hazel Joy Borja from the Leonard Cheshire Disability Philippines Foundation, Inc., who respectively serve as an administratio…
Fans have frequently experienced the frustration of event tickets selling out in a matter of minutes and then being resold for twice as much or more. This combination of underpriced tickets in the primary market and rent-seeking speculation in the secondary market has long puzzled economists. In a paper in the American Economic Journal: Microeconom…
A recently published study has determined that it's incredibly difficult for people to learn about new music as they get older, a grim diagnosis for music lovers. In this episode, we break down the results of the study and what you can do to ensure you remain as passionate about music in your later years as you were when you were younger. Learn mor…
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Inspirational Indie Author Interview #126: Jess Lohmann. Author Shifts Career to Focus on Animal Rights, Ethical Marketing
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My guest this episode is Jess Lohmann, an author who draws attention to animal rights through her books for young adults. Also, for adults, she focuses her business on ethical marketing. Jess managed to take an uninspiring marketing career and change it to one that reflects her values. ALLi's Inspirational Indie Author Podcast stream is sponsored b…
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Tom Dunkel, "White Knights in the Black Orchestra: The Extraordinary Story of the Germans Who Resisted Hitler" (Hachette Books, 2021)
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They were a small group of conspirators who risked their lives by plotting relentlessly to obstruct and destroy the Third Reich from within. The Gestapo nicknamed this shadowy confederation of traitors the “Black Orchestra.” This is their tension-filled story. As the “Final Solution” unfolds, a loose network of German military officers, diplomats, …
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Nicholas Brown, "Autonomy: The Social Ontology of Art under Capitalism" (Duke UP, 2019)
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In Autonomy: The Social Ontology of Art under Capitalism (Duke University Press, 2019), Nicholas Brown offers a fresh perspective on aesthetic autonomy and its political value, one of the great debates of the twentieth century. The monograph illustrates the viability of the modernist project in the era after postmodernism while offering one illumin…
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Publishing Jewish Children's Books: A Chat with Joni Sussman
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Joni Sussman talks about her love for children's books and for everything Jewish and how she found her life's mission combining these passions as publisher of Kar-Ben, (part of Lerner Publishing Group), which is dedicated to creating great children's books related to Judaism for Jewish and non-Jewish children in North America and beyond. Now publis…
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Jessica Brantley, "Medieval English Manuscripts and Literary Forms" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
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Today’s guest is Jessica Brantley, Professor of English at Yale University. Professor Rosenberg is the author of the previous monograph, Reading in the Wilderness, published by the University of Chicago Press in 2007. Her articles have appeared in PMLA, Exemplaria, and the Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies. Professor Rosenberg’s new book…
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Valeriu Gafencu, "White Lilies: Letters, Conversations, and Poems from Prison" (STM Press, 2023)
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Valeriu Gafencu was born in 1921 in the Bessarabia region of Romania. In 1941, he was arrested and imprisoned, remaining so until his death in 1952. Two years into his incarceration, Gafencu was seized by the conviction that he had squandered God’s love and felt a fervent wish to repent. Fr. George Calciu—who had likewise been a prisoner in Romania…
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Chris Alden and Alvaro Mendez, "China and Latin America: Development, Agency and Geopolitics" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
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China's role as an economic powerhouse in Latin America is reshaping a region on the cusp of development and change. Since the turn of the century, bilateral trade between China and Latin America has increased massively, going from $12.17 billion in 2000 to $307.94 billion in 2019. From the pampas of Argentina and the vast Brazilian Amazon to Panam…
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Arya Aryan, "The Postmodern Representation of Reality in Peter Ackroyd's Chatterton" (Cambridge Scholars, 2022)
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Arya Aryan's book The Postmodern Representation of Reality in Peter Ackroyd's Chatterton (Cambridge Scholars, 2022) explores the postmodernist representation of reality and argues that historiographic metafictional texts, such as Peter Ackroyd’s Chatterton (1987), are hetero-referential in their creation of a heterocosm, as opposed to representatio…
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David Weiss, "The God Susanoo and Korea in Japan’s Cultural Memory: Ancient Myths and Modern Empire" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
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The God Susanoo and Korea in Japan’s Cultural Memory: Ancient Myths and Modern Empire (Bloomsbury, 2022) traces reiterations and reinterpretations of the deity Susanoo regarding his relationship with Korea vis-a-vis Japan. Through careful examination of mythological texts and other primary sources, David Weiss examines Susanoo’s role in the constru…
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Patrick L. Schmidt, "Harvard's Quixotic Pursuit of a New Science: The Rise and Fall of the Department of Social Relations" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2022)
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Harvard's Department of Social Relations made history in the 1950s and 1960s as the most ambitious program in social science in the United States. Dedicated to a synthesis of sociology, anthropology, psychology, and other disciplines, the scope of its ambitions were matched only by the scope of its failures. Patrick Schmidt's new volume Harvard's Q…
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From China's Lost Generation to American Private Equity Professor
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Having lived through both China’s Great Leap Forward during primary school, then the Cultural Revolution and the closing of schools for ten years, Beijing-born Weijian Shan, instead of a secondary school education spent six hard years in the Gobi Desert with the Army Construction Corps. Remarkably, the young Shan made it to a PhD program at UC Berk…
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ITP 48 - Richard Byrne, Tech Guru Helping Teachers
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Meet the Tech Guru that created freetech4teachers.com over almost two decades ago. Richard was freezing in Maine while we recorded this. He is a proud father, teacher, guest speaker, and technology whiz that empowers teachers world-wide. Take one of his online courses if you want to beef up your classroom tech skills. He focuses on a lot of free te…
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Michael Walzer, "The Struggle for a Decent Politics: On 'Liberal' As an Adjective" (Yale UP, 2023)
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The national purpose of the American state is to realize and then sustain the democracy and the equality that was the promise of our founding. I believe that requires perennial struggle and … groups like Black Lives Matter are an essential part of that struggle … Those are the social movements I hope to join, support, and that I hope will always be…
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Felicity Hwee-Hwa Chan, "Tensions in Diversity: Spaces for Collective Life in Los Angeles" (U Toronto Press, 2022)
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Urban landscapes are complex spaces of sociocultural diversity, characterized by narratives of both conviviality and conflict. As people with multiple ethnicities and nationalities find their common destinies in thriving globalizing cities, social cohesiveness becomes more precarious as different beliefs, practices, ambitions, values, and affiliati…
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Patricia L. Hudson, "Traces" (Fireside Industries, 2022)
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An early American adage proclaimed, "The frontier was heaven for men and dogs―hell for women and mules." Since the 1700s, when his name first appeared in print, Daniel Boone has been synonymous with America's westward expansion and life on the frontier. Traces (Fireside Industries, 2022) is a retelling of Boone's saga through the eyes of his wife, …
In this podcast, Claire MacDonald and Sarah Parry discuss the history of recording, the sharing of sound art between artists, how recording has shaped communities, the impact of technology on artists and their publics, and the artist's voice and the different genres it inhabits. About the Contributors: Claire MacDonald is a curator, writer, and edi…
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Ellin Bessner, "Double Threat: Canadian Jews, the Military, and World War II" (New Jewish Press, 2018)
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Today I talked to Ellin Bessner about her book Double Threat: Canadian Jews, the Military, and World War II (New Jewish Press, 2018). "He died so Jewry should suffer no more." These words on a Canadian Jewish soldier's tombstone in Normandy inspired the author to explore the role of Canadian Jews in the war effort. As PM Mackenzie King wrote in 194…
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Simon Parkin, "The Island of Extraordinary Captives: A Painter, a Poet, an Heiress, and a Spy in a World War II British Internment Camp" (Scribner, 2022)
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The Island of Extraordinary Captives: A Painter, a Poet, an Heiress, and a Spy in a World War II British Internment Camp (Scribner, 2022 is the “riveting…truly shocking” (The New York Times Book Review) story of a Jewish orphan who fled Nazi Germany for London, only to be arrested and sent to a British internment camp for suspected foreign agents o…
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Magdalena J. Zaborowska, "James Baldwin’s Turkish Decade: Erotics of Exile" (Duke UP, 2009)
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Between 1961 and 1971 James Baldwin spent extended periods of time in Turkey, where he worked on some of his most important books. In this first in-depth exploration of Baldwin’s “Turkish decade,” Magdalena J. Zaborowska reveals the significant role that Turkish locales, cultures, and friends played in Baldwin’s life and thought. Turkey was a nurtu…
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Kate Sylvester, "Women and Martial Art in Japan" (Routledge, 2022)
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Kate Sylvester’s Women and Martial Art in Japan (Routledge 2023) examines sport, gender, and society in Japan through the author’s extensive experience and ethnographic research as a kendo practitioner both at elite international levels and in Japan. Sylvester focuses on kendo as a university sport, placing her experiences as a veteran (foreign) co…
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The Challenge of AI to Publishing: A Discussion with Sally Wilson
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Sally Wilson, VP of Publishing at Emerald opens up about the challenges publishers are facing in contending with the onset of the mass adoption of AI tools including ChatGPT, and its ramifications for scholarly publishing. She also talks about the potential positive use cases for ChatGPT for reducing inequality in publishing. In addition, Sally dis…
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Giusi Russo, "Women, Empires, and Body Politics at the United Nations, 1946-1975" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
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In Women, Empires, and Body Politics at the United Nations, 1946–1975 (University of Nebraska Press, 2023), Giusi Russo focuses on the first decades of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) to examine gender politics in the postwar period. The Commission was comprised of a diverse group of women whose ideas about equality often…
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Maarten Prak and Jan Luiten van Zanden, "Pioneers of Capitalism: The Netherlands 1000–1800" (Princeton UP, 2022)
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During the Middle Ages, the Netherlands played a significant role in the emergence of capitalism, which led to the impressive Dutch Golden Age and paved the way for long-term economic growth across Europe. Pioneers of Capitalism: The Netherlands 1000-1800 (Princeton University Press, 2022)' by Maarten Prak and Jan Luiten van Zanden sheds light on t…
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Rethinking Community in Myanmar: Practices of We-Formation Among Muslims and Hindus in Urban Yangon
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Where does the concept of “community” come from? How does it shape the lives of Hindus and Muslims in metropolitan Yangon? And how do these people navigate between their ethno-religious and other cosmopolitan identities? In this episode, Prof. Judith Beyer, a Professor of Social and Political Anthropology at the University of Konstanz, joins Dr. Ma…
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Roy Schwartz, "Is Superman Circumcised?: The Complete Jewish History of the World’s Greatest Hero" (McFarland, 2021)
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Superman is the original superhero, an American icon, and arguably the most famous character in the world--and he's Jewish! Introduced in June 1938, the Man of Steel was created by two Jewish teens, Jerry Siegel, the son of immigrants from Eastern Europe, and Joe Shuster, an immigrant. They based their hero's origin story on Moses, his strength on …
Back in the ’30s, news of bank collapses traveled slowly. But in the early hours of Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse, the news spread like wildfire through startup messaging chains on WhatsApp, Slack, Signal and Telegram. Today, how rumors and anxiety contributed to SVB’s downfall. Plus, grocery bills bum consumers out more than banking meltdowns and…
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Unauthorized Biographies, Pre-Order Problems, Getting Reviews, and More Questions Answered by Michael La Ronn and Sacha Black in our Member Q&A Podcast
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What are the legal implications of publishing an unauthorized biography? That is one of the topics covered in this month's AskALLi Member Q&A with Michael La Ronn and Sacha Black. Other questions include: Help! Amazon canceled my preorder! How do I get reviews for my books? Are Scrivener or Jutoh suitable apps for indie authors? If my poems are pri…
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The brain science collaboration that offers hope to blind people
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An applied goal of Pieter Roelfsema’s lab at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience in Amsterdam is to create a visual brain prosthesis aimed at people who have lost their sight. To help achieve this goal, the lab partners with both neurosurgeons and artificial intelligence researchers. “We are knowledgeable about how to put electrodes in the b…
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The One Health Habit To Protect Above All Others | Functional Friday
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My great friend. My doctor. My co-host here on the Functional Friday episodes. Randy James. Medical Doctor and Functional Medicine expert. For the first years of knowing each other I pestered him with what the core pillars of health were and he’d always push back with the answer that…”It depends! What is core for one person may not be for another. …
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Annie Pfeifer, "To the Collector Belong the Spoils: Modernism and the Art of Appropriation" (Cornell UP, 2023)
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To the Collector Belong the Spoils: Modernism and the Art of Appropriation (Cornell UP, 2023) rethinks collecting as an artistic, revolutionary, and appropriative modernist practice, which flourishes beyond institutions like museums or archives. Through a constellation of three author-collectors—Henry James, Walter Benjamin, and Carl Einstein—Annie…
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Aaron Rock-Singer, "In the Shade of the Sunna: Salafi Piety in the Twentieth-Century Middle East" (U California Press, 2022)
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Who are the Salafis, and what are the roots of Salafism? What does it even mean to be Salafi? Why is Salafism concerned with ethics of visibility and bodily regulation? Why, when, and how did Salafism become significant? In his latest book, In the Shade of the Sunnah: Salafi Piety in the 20th Century Middle East (University of California Press, 202…
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Book Talk 58: Vivian Gornick on Emma Goldman
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What Is to Be Done? In her luminous biography Emma Goldman: Revolution as a Way of Life (Yale UP, 2011), Vivian Gornick brings us back to this question, originally made by Lenin after a novel which suggests that in order to achieve egalitarianism and sexual liberation, revolutionaries have to live “as though hunted:” no romance, no sex, no friends,…
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Rick de Villiers, "Eliot and Beckett's Low Modernism: Humility and Humiliation" (Edinburgh UP, 2021)
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Humility and humiliation have an awkward, often unacknowledged intimacy. Humility may be a queenly, cardinal or monkish virtue, while humiliation points to an affective state at the extreme end of shame. Yet a shared etymology links the words to lowliness and, further down, to the earth. As this study suggests, like the terms in question, T. S. Eli…
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Ian Rowen, "One China, Many Taiwans: The Geopolitics of Cross-Strait Tourism" (Cornell UP, 2023)
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One China, Many Taiwans: The Geopolitics of Cross-Strait Tourism (Cornell UP, 2023) shows how tourism performs and transforms territory. In 2008, as the People’s Republic of China pointed over a thousand missiles across the Taiwan Strait, it sent millions of tourists in the same direction with the encouragement of Taiwan’s politicians and businessp…