Best The Honey Temple Podcasts (2023)

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New Books Network

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Kristin Semmens, "Under the Swastika in Nazi Germany" (Bloomsbury, 2023) 1:09:26

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Under the Swastika in Nazi Germany (Bloomsbury, 2023) begins in flames in 1933 with Adolf Hitler taking power and ends in the ashes of total defeat in 1945. Kristin Semmens tells that story from five different perspectives over five chronologically distinct phases in the Third Reich's lifespan. The book offers a much-needed integrated history of in…

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New Books in Critical Theory

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Philippe Huneman, "Why?: The Philosophy Behind the Question" (Stanford UP, 2023) 1:26:23

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Why did triceratops have horns? Why did World War I occur? Why does Romeo love Juliet? And, most importantly, why ask why? In Why?: The Philosophy Behind the Question (Stanford UP, 2023), philosopher Philippe Huneman describes the different meanings of "why," and how those meanings can, and should (or should not), be conflated. As Huneman outlines,…

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Adrian Chastain Weimer, "A Constitutional Culture: New England and the Struggle Against Arbitrary Rule in the Restoration Empire" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023) 37:05

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In A Constitutional Culture: New England and the Struggle Against Arbitrary Rule in the Restoration Empire (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023), Adrian Chastain Weimer uncovers the story of how, more than a hundred years before the American Revolution, colonists pledged their lives and livelihoods to the defense of local political institutions against arbi…

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Viet Thanh Nguyen, "A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, a History, a Memorial" (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2023) 55:09

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With insight, humor, formal invention, and lyricism, in A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, A History, A Memorial (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2023), Viet Thanh Nguyen rewinds the film of his own life. He expands the genre of personal memoir by acknowledging larger stories of refugeehood, colonization, and ideas about Vietnam and America, writing with his tr…

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Jody N. Polleck, "Facilitating Youth-Led Book Clubs As Transformative and Inclusive Spaces" (Teachers College Press, 2023) 59:59

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Facilitating Youth-Led Book Clubs as Transformative and Inclusive Spaces (Teachers College Press) teaches us how to integrate book clubs into secondary school communities for transformation and inclusion so as to enhance and nurture students’ literacies along with their social and emotional development. Using her extensive experiences with cultural…

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Taylor Lorenz, "Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet" (Simon & Schuster, 2023) 59:53

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Acclaimed Washington Post reporter Taylor Lorenz presents a groundbreaking social history of the internet—revealing how online influence and the creators who amass it have reshaped our world, online and off. For over a decade, Taylor Lorenz has been the authority on internet culture, documenting its far-reaching effects on all corners of our lives.…

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B. Pladek, "Dry Land" (U Wisconsin Press, 2023) 27:05

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Today I talked to Ben Pladek about his novel Dry Land (University of Wisconsin Press, 2023). Rand Brandt, a forester in the Northwoods of Wisconsin, discovers that his touch can grow any plant or tree. In this tale of Magical Realism, he dreams of using his gift to restore landscapes ruined by the lumber industry, but first needs to test his powers…

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Janet Somerville, "Yours, for Probably Always: Martha Gellhorn's Letters of Love and War 1930-1949" (Firefly Books, 2022) 51:26

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Before email, when long distance telephone calls were difficult and expensive, people wrote letters, often several each day. Today, those letters provide an intimate and revealing look at the lives and loves of the people who wrote them. When the author is a brilliant writer who lived an exciting, eventful life, the letters are especially interesti…

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Ronna Detrick, "Rewriting Eve: Claiming Women's Sacred Stories As Our Own" (She Writes Press, 2023) 53:51

11m ago53:51

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In Rewriting Eve: Rescuing Women’s Stories from the Bible and Reclaiming Them as Our Own (She Writes Press, 2023), Ronna Detrick invites us into the presence and power of ten sacred, biblical women, revealing the endlessly relevant ways in which they speak today and showing how they can heal, embolden, and transform our stories. Trapped in patriarc…

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Albert Welter, "The Future of China's Past: Reflections on the Meaning of China's Rise" (SUNY Press, 2023) 49:00

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Albert Welter's book The Future of China's Past: Reflections on the Meaning of China's Rise (SUNY Press, 2023) examines how China's traditional culture is being reinvented and manipulated for political purposes. Like no time before in its recent history, and certainly at no time in the history of the People's Republic, China is being shaped in term…

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Philippe Huneman, "Why?: The Philosophy Behind the Question" (Stanford UP, 2023) 1:26:23

11m ago1:26:23

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Why did triceratops have horns? Why did World War I occur? Why does Romeo love Juliet? And, most importantly, why ask why? In Why?: The Philosophy Behind the Question (Stanford UP, 2023), philosopher Philippe Huneman describes the different meanings of "why," and how those meanings can, and should (or should not), be conflated. As Huneman outlines,…

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New Books in Critical Theory

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Naisargi N. Davé, "Indifference: On the Praxis of Interspecies Being" (Duke UP, 2023) 1:12:38

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In Indifference: On the Praxis of Interspecies Being (Duke UP, 2023), Naisargi N. Davé examines the complex worlds of animalists and animalism in India. Through ethnographic fieldwork with animal healers, animal activists, farmers, laborers, transporters, and animals themselves, and moving across animal shelters and dairy farms to city streets and …

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Naisargi N. Davé, "Indifference: On the Praxis of Interspecies Being" (Duke UP, 2023) 1:12:38

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In Indifference: On the Praxis of Interspecies Being (Duke UP, 2023), Naisargi N. Davé examines the complex worlds of animalists and animalism in India. Through ethnographic fieldwork with animal healers, animal activists, farmers, laborers, transporters, and animals themselves, and moving across animal shelters and dairy farms to city streets and …

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Adolph L. Harstad, "Deuteronomy: Concordia Commentary" (Concordia Publishing House, 2022) 16:07

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The Book of Deuteronomy, the Fifth Book of Moses, is foundational for both Judaism and Christianity. What makes Deuteronomy so significant? How does one apply its message today? Tune in as we speak with Adolph Harstad about his recent Concordia Commentary on Deuteronomy. You’re listening to New Books in Biblical Studies, a channel of the New Books …

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Thula Simpson, "History of South Africa: From 1902 to the Present" (Oxford UP, 2022) 1:06:18

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South Africa was born in war, has been cursed by crises and ruptures, and today stands on a precipice once again. Thula Simpson's History of South Africa: From 1902 to the Present (Oxford UP, 2022) explores the country's tumultuous journey from the Second Anglo-Boer War to 2021. Drawing on diaries, letters, oral testimony and diplomatic reports, Th…

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Should We Be Optimistic About Global Governance? 30:45

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This week on International Horizons, RBI director John Torpey interviewed Richard Gowan, UN director of the International Crisis Group. Gowan discusses the different views of the UN on the occasion of the annual meeting of the General Assembly. The absence of a number of key figures was widely noted, but most major world leaders, such as Biden, Sch…

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Jeremy Black, "A Brief History of the Pacific: The Great Ocean" (Robinson, 2023) 46:36

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Jeremy Black's A Brief History of the Pacific: The Great Ocean (Robinson, 2023) succeeds in examining both the indigenous presence on ocean's islands and Western control or influence over the its islands and shores. There is a particular focus on the period from the 1530s to 1890 with its greater Western coastal and oceanic presence in the Pacific,…

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Claudine Chavannes-Mazel and Linda Ijpelaar, "The Green Middle Ages: The Depiction and Use of Plants in the Western World 600-1600" (Amsterdam UP, 2023) 35:49

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How 'green' were people in late antiquity and the Middle Ages? Unlike today, the nature around them was approached with faith, trust and care. The population size was many times smaller than today and human impact on nature not as extreme as it is now. People did not have to worry about issues like deforestation and sustainability. This book is abo…

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Boyd Cothran and Adrian Shubert, "The Edwin Fox: How an Ordinary Sailing Ship Connected the World in the Age of Globalization, 1850-1914" (UNC Press, 2024) 1:15:02

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It began as a small, slow, and unadorned sailing vessel—in a word, ordinary. Later, it was a weary workhorse in the age of steam. But the story of the Edwin Fox reveals how an everyday merchant ship drew together a changing world and its people in an extraordinary age of rising empires, sweeping economic transformation, and social change. The Edwin…

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Ben Whaley, "Toward a Gameic World: New Rules of Engagement from Japanese Video Games" (U Michigan Press, 2023) 47:21

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Ben Whaley’s Toward a Gameic World: New Rules of Engagement from Japanese Video Games (U Michigan Press 2023) examines the pathbreaking engagement strategies of four Japanese video games produced between 2002 and 2015. Each of these “persuasive games” deploys a distinct strategy of engagement to push players to engage with real-world social issues …

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New Books Network

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The Future of the EAST: A Discussion of Yasheng Huang 45:50

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Exams, autocracy, stability, and technology have been hallmarks of Chinese society for centuries — from ancient times through to the present. Is that set to continue and how well does it work today? Yasheng Huang's book The Rise and Fall of the EAST: How Exams, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology (Yale University Press, 2023) explains how these th…

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New Books Network

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Twenty Years After “The New Economy”: A Conversation with Doug Henwood 1:08:31

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Economic journalist and broadcaster Doug Henwood revisits his 2003 book, After the New Economy (New Press), with Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel. “The New Economy” was a catchphrase that became extremely popular with economists, politicians, pundits, and many others during Bill Clinton’s presidency. The phrase was thought to describe a new econom…

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New Books Network

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Rik Peels, "Life without God: An Outsider's Look at Atheism" (Cambridge UP, 2023) 43:06

5m ago43:06

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In Life without God: An Outsider's Look at Atheism (Cambridge UP, 2023), Rik Peels explores atheism from a new perspective that aims to go beyond the highly polarized debate about arguments for and against God's existence. Since our beliefs about the most important things in life are not usually based on arguments, we should look beyond atheistic a…

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New Books Network

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The Vanishing 24:44

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If you have seen Sluizer’s original 1988 thriller—not his 1993 American remake with Jeff Bridges and Kiefer Sutherland--you’ll know exactly why we are doing it as a companion piece to Rope. You’ll also nod along with us when we praise the film’s cold precision: it’s not surprising that Sluzier states in the opening clip that Stanley Kubrick admired…

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Kristin Semmens, "Under the Swastika in Nazi Germany" (Bloomsbury, 2023) 1:09:26

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Philippe Huneman, "Why?: The Philosophy Behind the Question" (Stanford UP, 2023) 1:26:23

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Adrian Chastain Weimer, "A Constitutional Culture: New England and the Struggle Against Arbitrary Rule in the Restoration Empire" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023) 37:05

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Viet Thanh Nguyen, "A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, a History, a Memorial" (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2023) 55:09

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Jody N. Polleck, "Facilitating Youth-Led Book Clubs As Transformative and Inclusive Spaces" (Teachers College Press, 2023) 59:59

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Taylor Lorenz, "Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet" (Simon & Schuster, 2023) 59:53

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B. Pladek, "Dry Land" (U Wisconsin Press, 2023) 27:05

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Janet Somerville, "Yours, for Probably Always: Martha Gellhorn's Letters of Love and War 1930-1949" (Firefly Books, 2022) 51:26

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Ronna Detrick, "Rewriting Eve: Claiming Women's Sacred Stories As Our Own" (She Writes Press, 2023) 53:51

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Albert Welter, "The Future of China's Past: Reflections on the Meaning of China's Rise" (SUNY Press, 2023) 49:00

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Philippe Huneman, "Why?: The Philosophy Behind the Question" (Stanford UP, 2023) 1:26:23

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Naisargi N. Davé, "Indifference: On the Praxis of Interspecies Being" (Duke UP, 2023) 1:12:38

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Naisargi N. Davé, "Indifference: On the Praxis of Interspecies Being" (Duke UP, 2023) 1:12:38

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Adolph L. Harstad, "Deuteronomy: Concordia Commentary" (Concordia Publishing House, 2022) 16:07

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Thula Simpson, "History of South Africa: From 1902 to the Present" (Oxford UP, 2022) 1:06:18

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Should We Be Optimistic About Global Governance? 30:45

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Jeremy Black, "A Brief History of the Pacific: The Great Ocean" (Robinson, 2023) 46:36

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Claudine Chavannes-Mazel and Linda Ijpelaar, "The Green Middle Ages: The Depiction and Use of Plants in the Western World 600-1600" (Amsterdam UP, 2023) 35:49

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Boyd Cothran and Adrian Shubert, "The Edwin Fox: How an Ordinary Sailing Ship Connected the World in the Age of Globalization, 1850-1914" (UNC Press, 2024) 1:15:02

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Ben Whaley, "Toward a Gameic World: New Rules of Engagement from Japanese Video Games" (U Michigan Press, 2023) 47:21

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The Future of the EAST: A Discussion of Yasheng Huang 45:50

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Twenty Years After “The New Economy”: A Conversation with Doug Henwood 1:08:31

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Rik Peels, "Life without God: An Outsider's Look at Atheism" (Cambridge UP, 2023) 43:06

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